I had an idea for a small Korean geography study game, mostly because I wanted something nicer than flashcards for practicing place names.

So I took the community-made Ultimate Korean Geography Anki deck as a starting point and turned it into a browser game. It covers provinces, cities, Seoul and Gyeonggi districts, islands, mountains, rivers, seas, hanja, and pronunciation.

The game has a few modes:

  • identify places on a map
  • listen to Korean place names and match them
  • read hanja and pick the right name
  • browse everything in an atlas mode

Identify the highlighted region on the map

Before each round you pick which region groups to study, then run through ten questions.

Choose region groups, then start a round

It is built with Vite, React, and TypeScript. The maps come from Wikimedia Commons, the short facts are adapted from Wikipedia, and the pronunciation clips are generated with text-to-speech. I added a credits page with the source and licensing details.

It saves progress in your browser with localStorage. There is no account, no backend, and no pressure. Just a little study game.

You can play it here:

한반도를 측량하라 · Korea Field Survey

The source is on GitHub: TaylorMichaelHall/korean-geography-game.