October 28, 2026
A journey through worldly.academy
Worldly is a free site for learning the world one country at a time. Watch the whole of it in 51 seconds, or read on for the long way round, with a stop for every part of the site.
You can play all of it without an account. Signing up only saves your progress.
Stop 1
Pick any country
Every country on Worldly has a guide of its own. Japan’s opens on Mount Fuji, then gathers everything the site knows about Japan on one page.
Read the essentials first, then make them stick. Each guide leads on to the country’s facts course, its maps, the places worth visiting and a lesson in its language.
Stop 2
Learn its regions, cities and waters
Every country has maps drawn from the same files the rounds are played on. Japan’s show its 47 prefectures, its cities, and its rivers, lakes and seas.
Each map is a round. A place lights up, you find it, and the count climbs until you know the whole shape of the country.
Stop 3
A facts course on every country
Behind the maps sits a facts course on every country, ten topics deep. Most of it isn’t geography at all. Here the culture topic asks for the Japanese art of paper folding.
Each answer comes back with a card from Wikipedia, so you learn something whether you were right or not.
Stop 4
Language courses in more than 100 languages
Worldly teaches the basics of more than 100 languages, ten words at a time, with the pronunciation of every phrase spelled out. すみません (sumimasen) means excuse me, and in Japan it also does the work of sorry.
Each phrase has a note on when to use it and a button that says it aloud. These are the words you need to travel or live there.
Stop 5
A flag quiz for every country
The flag quiz shows one flag at a time with four countries to choose from. Get one right and it stays learned, so every round is built from the flags you still miss.
After each answer a map shows where that country is, so Laos stops being just a flag.
Stop 6
Challenge a friend to a duel
Start a duel, send a friend the code, and you both get the same questions live, each on your own phone.
In this one the question was Ghana. Maya found it first, and the tap on Niger landed too far north.
Stop 7
Host a game for the whole room
For a classroom or a party, put the game on one big screen. Everyone else joins on their phone with the four letter code or the QR code, up to 50 players, and nobody needs an account.
Faster right answers score more, and the standings come up after every question.
Stop 8
Map everywhere you’ve been
Worldly keeps your travel map too. Tap the countries you have been to and they turn green. Mark the ones you have lived in, and the ones still on your wishlist.
When you like how it looks, the share button turns it into a picture with your counts on it, ready to send to friends.
Stop 9
A new country every day
Every day a new country lands for everyone at once, with a short round of facts, words, maps and flags all about it.
It takes about five minutes, and there’s a streak waiting for you if you come back tomorrow.
That’s the whole journey
Today’s country is a good place to start.
Screens recorded on worldly.academy in October 2026. The photo of Mount Fuji from Lake Kawaguchi in Japan’s guide is by Midori, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.