Where on Earth is this?

How to play

A satellite crop of a real placeappears at the top — and nothing on it is labelled. The only clues are the shape of the land and water: the curve of a coastline, the outline of an island, the fingerprint of a peninsula or inland sea. When you have a hunch, spin the blank globe below and tap where you think it is on Earth, then lock in your guess. A radar line snaps from your pin to the true location and you score by the real great-circle distance — a bullseye is worth the most, a wild miss the least. Do it 5 times for a final grade you can try to beat.

Stuck on one? A single optional hint reveals the broad region(a continent-level nudge) — but clearing all five with no hintsis the real flex. Every score is real distance math to each place’s true centre — no made-up numbers.

Two ways to play. Today’s Dailyis one shared set of five views — the same five for everyone, everywhere, that calendar day — so “I got today’s clean” actually means something. Finish it and you build a streak (come back every day to keep it alive) and get a spoiler-free result grid you can post to challenge a friend. Endless deals a fresh five whenever you want.

What you’re looking at

The imagery is NASA’s Blue Marble Next Generation— a single, cloud-free, true-colour composite of the whole Earth, stitched from satellite data and free of clouds so land and water read cleanly. Because it’s a fixed composite (not today’s live weather), the exact same view appears for everyone, every day— no passing cloud can hide a place or give the answer away. It’s public-domain NASA imagery, the same true-colour basemap the rest of LiveEarthViewer uses. The 40 places in the pool are all real and chosen to be recognisable from space by their shape alone.