Explore the United States by playing pointUSA!

Get the key information about every state of the USA in an instant!

Just point on a state in the map and get the key information about the selected state, e.g. position of the state displayed in the map, capital, area, population of the state, per capita income, the 50 biggest cities and with the current version pointUSA 1.2 also the nickname, the state bird and the state flower!

But pointUSA is not only a knowledge database for Palm OS devices, the quiz functionality guarantees also great edutainment for adults and kids. Every pointUSA quiz is generated out of hundreds of thousands possible questions.

• High and low resolution versions for all devices
• High quality color or grey graphics
• Animated flags of all US states
• For all US states the outline of the state and the position of its capital are indicated
• Two analog clocks realized in anti-aliasing technique
• For intuitive reading: Depending upon time of day the clocks are shown in different colors
• High score list

The USA knowledge database

Information you get about every single state with pointUSA

• position of the state displayed in the USA map
• two maps: one displays the states and the other one shows the 50 biggest cities
• animated flag
• capital
• total area
• total population
• state nickname
• state bird
• state flower
• per capita income
• poverty rate
• ethnic structure of the population
• time and date of your own time-zone
• time of the current selected state in the USA map

Compare the states of the USA with your home country

You see two pairs of bars for comparing surface and population with a second state or another country of the world as well as the rank list place of total area and total population of a state in the USA-wide comparison.

The Quiz

Learning all states of the USA, their capitals, flags, nicknames, state birds, state flowers, total area and total population is a tough task, but pointUSA makes it easy! Before you begin with the quiz, select the categories from which the questions will be chosen. You will be asked 10 multiple choice questions. If you answer all the questions correctly in the first try, you receive 10 more questions.

If you have answered one question, you can change into another area and continue the quiz later. In the new area the state to which the current question refers is automatically selected.

Check if you learned something by playing the pointUSA quiz!

Each game can be stored with result and be repeated with exactly the same questions at a later time.