The 25th National Geographic Bee was held in Washington, D.C., on May 22, 2013, sponsored by the National Geographic Society. This was the final National Geographic Bee that Alex Trebek hosted--at the end of the event, Alex announced that Soledad O'Brien would be next year's moderator.
Twelve-year-old Sathwik Karnik, from Plainville, Massachusetts, won the competition, beating out 52 other competitors representing the 50 U.S. states, Pacific territories, and Department of Defense dependent schools.[1]
| State | Name | School | City/Town | Grade | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christopher Lough | Prattville Christian Academy | Prattville | 7th | ||
| Kenny Petrini | Central Middle School of Science | Anchorage | 8th | ||
| Cameron Danesh | Mountainside Middle School | Scottsdale | 6th | ||
| Christian Boekhout | Hot Springs Intermediate School | Hot Springs | 7th | ||
 Atlantic Territories | Leonides Diaz Fuster | Saint John's School | San Juan | 7th | |
| Tuvya Bergson-Michelson | Nueva School | San Ramon | 6th | 7th place | |
| Pranit Nanda | Aurora Quest K-8 | Aurora | 7th | 10th place | |
| Michael Borecki | Middlesex Middle School | Darien | 8th | ||
| Kevin Orzada | The Independence School | Newark | 8th | ||
| Department of Defense | Patrick Lewallen | Ryukyu Middle School | Japan | 7th | |
| Lars Nordquist | St. Albans School | District of Columbia | 5th | ||
| Walker Miller | Weldon Johnson Middle School | Jacksonville | 8th | ||
| Sanjeev "Ricky" Uppaluri | Fulton Sunshine Elementary | Alpharetta | 5th | 3rd place | |
| Andrew Anderton | Island School | Lihue | 8th | ||
| Amrit Singh | Grangeville Elementary/Middle School | Grangeville | 7th | ||
| Conrad Oberhaus | Daniel Wright Junior High School | Lincolnshire | 7th | 2nd place | |
| Sean Ives | Trinity Lutheran School | Crown Point | 7th | ||
| Jonathan Grunenwald | Ames Homeschool Assistance Program | Ames | 8th | ||
| Preneeta Nalluri | Overland Trail Middle School | Overland Park | 6th | ||
| Hunter Watkins | Calloway, Marshall, & McCracken Cty Homeschoolers | Farmington | 8th | ||
| Cècile Girard | Bishop Noland Episcopal Day School | Lake Charles | 7th | ||
| Archer Thomas | Bonny Eagle Middle School | Buxton | 8th | ||
| Abhinav Karthikeyan | Clearspring Elementary School | Damascus | 4th | ||
| Sathwik Karnik | King Philip Regional Middle School | Plainville | 7th | 1st place | |
| Neha Middela | Detroit | 6th | 9th place | ||
| Alexander Conrad | Valley View Middle School | Edina | 7th | ||
| Jun Chen | Margaret Green Junior High School | Cleveland | 8th | ||
| Aviral Misra | Academy Montessori Internationale | Kansas City | 5th | ||
| Grace Rembert | Morning Star Elementary | Bozeman | 5th | ||
| Theodore Jansen | Paddock Road Elementary | Omaha | 5th | ||
| Nick Vazeen | Challenger School – Summerlin Campus | Las Vegas | 8th | ||
| Neelam Sandhu | Ross A. Lurgio Middle School | Bedford | 8th | 7th place; went on to St. Petersburg, Russia for the International Competition Asha Jain (also a finalist this year) and Gopi Ramanathan of Minnesota from 2012 | |
| William DiGrande | Warren Middle School | Warren | 8th | ||
| Huy Tran | Albuquerque Academy | Albuquerque | 7th | ||
| Gabriel Straus | Collegiate School for Boys | Manhattan | 7th | ||
| Matthew Janson | Randolph Middle School | Charlotte | 8th | ||
| Luke Bowan | Jamestown Area Homeschoolers | Jamestown | 8th | ||
| Kyle Yu | Lee Burneson Middle School | Westlake | 7th | ||
| Matthew Armor | Whittier Middle School | Norman | 8th | ||
| Harish Palani | Stoller Middle School | Portland | 7th | 5th place | |
  Pacific Territories | Jacob Augelli | Cmd. William C. McCool Elem/Middle | Guam | 7th | |
| Sai Mahit Vaddadi | Eagle View Middle School | Mechanicsburg | 8th | ||
| Jacob Polatty | Rhode Island Home Educators | North Kingstown | 7th | ||
| Krish Patel | Pinewood Preparatory School | Summerville | 7th | ||
| Mark Vanderzee | George S. Mickelson Middle School | Brookings | 7th | ||
| Alexander Wilaniskis | East Ridge Middle School | Whitesburg | 7th | ||
| Chinmay Murthy | Paragon Preparatory School | Austin | 5th | ||
| Joshua Nkoy | Challenger School | Sandy | 8th | ||
| Tyler Jager | Manchester Elementary/Middle School | Manchester Center | 7th | ||
| Akhil Rekulapelli | Stone Hill Middle School | Ashburn | 7th | 4th Place | |
| Owen Benda | Open Window School | Bellevue | 7th | ||
| Andrew Christy | St. Francis Central Catholic School | Morgantown | 7th | ||
| Asha Jain | MHLT Elementary School | Minocqua | 7th | 6th Place; went on to St. Petersburg, Russia for the International Competition with Neelam Sandhu (also a finalist this year) and Gopi Ramanathan of Minnesota from 2012 | |
| Garrett Means | Snowy Range Academy | Laramie | 8th |