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World Capitals

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From Europe to Oceania, match every country with its capital: the obvious ones, the classic traps (the capital is not always the biggest city) and the obscure ones that trip up the best.

14 quizzes in this collection

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European Capitals - Easy

The capital of France since Hugh Capet in 987, that of Italy since the unification of 1871, that of Germany since the reunification of 1990. 20 European capitals everyone should know, with the key dates behind each answer. Easy level.

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European Capitals - Medium

The Latvian capital and its UNESCO-listed Art Nouveau center, the Estonian capital that gave birth to Skype, the Slovenian capital named European Green Capital 2016: 20 capitals of Central, Baltic and Balkan Europe to get past the obvious ones. Medium level.

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European Capitals - Hard

One capital with its 5,700 inhabitants, another perched at 1,023 metres, and San Marino, a republic founded in 301. 20 capitals of micro-states and tricky Balkan countries (Tallinn, Ljubljana, Podgorica, Skopje, Sarajevo, Riga) for experts, plus Kosovo, independent since 2008.

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European Capitals - Expert

The official capital of the Netherlands is not the seat of government, one country has a 'federal city' rather than a capital, and one city was 85% rebuilt after 1944. 20 expert-level European capitals: capital of West Germany between 1949 and 1990, the former Polish capital before Warsaw, the year Ankara replaced Istanbul, and constitutional traps.

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African Capitals - Easy

The Egyptian capital on the banks of the Nile near the pyramids of Giza, the Tunisian capital next to the ruins of Carthage, the Ghanaian capital of the former Gold Coast: 20 African capitals to know, with the geographic context behind each city. Easy level.

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African Capitals - Medium

20 medium-level African capitals: Mali on the Niger River, Morocco and its official capital since 1912 (not the big economic city), Uganda on the shores of Lake Victoria, but also Zambia, Zimbabwe, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Mauritania, Eritrea, Malawi, Gambia, the Comoros, Cape Verde, Equatorial Guinea, South Sudan, Rwanda, Lesotho and Nigeria. Can you place Djibouti?

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African Capitals - Hard

20 tricky African capitals: recent transfers and dual capitals. Which city hosts the South African government? What has been Burundi's capital since 2019? And the official one of Benin (while the government sits elsewhere)? Also featured: Ivory Coast, Tanzania, Chad, Central African Republic, São Tomé and Príncipe, Eswatini, Botswana, Guinea-Bissau, Republic of the Congo, Mauritius, Seychelles, and several decoy cities that are NOT capitals.

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Asian Capitals - Easy

20 Asian capitals, easy level. Japan changed its capital in 1868, Indonesia is preparing a move to Borneo, and the Thai capital bears the longest city name in the world (169 letters). On the menu: South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Malaysia, Singapore, Cambodia, Laos, Bangladesh, Nepal, Taiwan, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, India and China.

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Asian Capitals - Medium

20 intermediate Asian capitals, between the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Which capital is nicknamed the Paris of the Middle East? Which one is built on seven hills like Rome? Which ranks among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world? Also featured: New Zealand, Yemen, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, North Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Vietnam, the Philippines and Turkey.

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Asian Capitals - Hard

20 obscure Asian capitals, expert level. One capital was renamed from 2019 to 2022 before reverting to its name, another has led an independent country since 2002, a third fits in barely 5 km². On the program: Bhutan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Mongolia, East Timor, Brunei, Maldives, the only capital shared between two countries, the country that moved from Rangoon to Naypyidaw in 2006, Sri Lanka's legislative capital, Palestine, the move away from Jakarta, Palau, Malaysia's administrative capital, Tonga, Fiji, the Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea and a micro-state on a Pacific atoll.

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Americas Capitals - Easy

20 capitals of the Americas, easy level. One was built in 4 years by Niemeyer and Costa to replace Rio in 1960, another was founded by Pizarro in 1535, and the U.S. federal capital has nothing to do with the state of the same name. On the program: United States, Mexico, Argentina, Peru, Colombia, Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, Uruguay, Paraguay, Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Bolivia, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago and Brazil.

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Americas Capitals - Medium

20 capitals of the Americas, intermediate level. One was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1857 as a compromise between English speakers and French speakers, another has no railway line at all, a third governs the largest country in Central America. Also on the program: Venezuela, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Belize, the Bahamas, Suriname, Barbados, Dominica, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, Antigua and Barbuda, French Guiana, a country with two capitals, and the capital of Canada.

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Americas Capitals - Hard

The capital of Belize moved after the 1961 hurricane, the world's highest administrative capital at 3,640 m, the oldest city founded by Europeans in the Americas. 20 tricky capitals: the only one on the Pacific in South America, two capitals facing each other across the Río de la Plata, the one built on the ruins of an Aztec city, the « Paris of the Antilles », and how many are named after a saint. Expert level.

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World Capitals - Expert

One country has three official capitals, another spans 11 time zones, and no capital straddles two continents today. 20 questions for specialists: the northernmost capital, the southernmost, the smallest by area, the one in South Africa where the government sits, the seat of Bolivia's government, and the capital of Sri Lanka.