CBS Commodities Society Mercatura
Mercatura · Commodity Geography

Where does the world's stuff come from?

Commodities are a geography problem: everything is produced where it isn't consumed. Three ways to test yourself - click the right spot on the map.

Society Day · 24 September

The challenge

Producers, chokepoints, ports and trade flows. Click the right spot on the map. Everyone gets the same questions, so the board is fair. 100 points per right answer, plus up to 99 for speed. Most points tops the board.

01

Producer Pin-Drop

Given a commodity, click the top producing / exporting countries. When there are several giants, you must find all of them.

02

Chokepoints

The ~9 straits and canals where seaborne trade - and price risk - actually lives. Click the location on the map.

03

Trade Flows

Origin is highlighted. Click where the cargo first ships to - a country, or a whole region for hub-processed goods (cocoa, LNG). Find every big corridor.

04

Ports

The terminals the trade funnels through. Given a port and its claim to fame, click where it sits - one shot, graded on how close you land.

9 major ports
05

Mixed Round

A shuffled mix of all three modes. The full commodity-geography workout.

everything, shuffled
Producer topics
Curated snapshot of production/trade leaders (~2023-24) - facts are editable in the DATA block at the top of this file. Hit-detection uses a real world map, so for small countries zoom in: +/− buttons or scroll on desktop, pinch on mobile (drag to pan).
Why it matters

Round complete