Locate Countries in the World from Their Capitals

The 200 countries and territories — World

This list shows the full selection for this mode and region. The short starter round uses a subset of this list.

• AfghanistanKabul
• AlbaniaTirana
• AlgeriaAlgiers
• AndorraAndorra la Vella
• AngolaLuanda
• Antigua and BarbudaSaint John's
• ArgentinaBuenos Aires
• ArmeniaYerevan
• AustraliaCanberra
• AustriaVienna
• AzerbaijanBaku
• BahrainManama
• BangladeshDhaka
• BarbadosBridgetown
• BelarusMinsk
• BelgiumBrussels
• BelizeBelmopan
• BeninPorto-Novo
• BhutanThimphu
• BoliviaSucre
• Bosnia and HerzegovinaSarajevo
• BotswanaGaborone
• BrazilBrasília
• BruneiBandar Seri Begawan
• BulgariaSofia
• Burkina FasoOuagadougou
• BurundiGitega
• CambodiaPhnom Penh
• CameroonYaoundé
• CanadaOttawa
• Cape VerdePraia
• Central African RepublicBangui
• ChadN'Djamena
• ChileSantiago
• ChinaBeijing
• ColombiaBogotá
• ComorosMoroni
• Costa RicaSan José
• CroatiaZagreb
• CubaHavana
• CyprusNicosia
• Czech RepublicPrague
• Democratic Republic of the CongoKinshasa
• DenmarkCopenhagen
• DjiboutiDjibouti
• DominicaRoseau
• Dominican RepublicSanto Domingo
• East TimorDili
• EcuadorQuito
• EgyptCairo
• El SalvadorSan Salvador
• Equatorial GuineaCiudad de la Paz
• EritreaAsmara
• EstoniaTallinn
• EswatiniMbabane
• EthiopiaAddis Ababa
• Falkland IslandsStanley
• Federated States of MicronesiaPalikir
• FijiSuva
• FinlandHelsinki
• FranceParis
• GabonLibreville
• GeorgiaTbilisi
• GermanyBerlin
• GhanaAccra
• GreeceAthens
• GrenadaSt. George's
• GuatemalaGuatemala City
• GuineaConakry
• Guinea-BissauBissau
• GuyanaGeorgetown
• HaitiPort-au-Prince
• HondurasTegucigalpa
• HungaryBudapest
• IcelandReykjavik
• IndiaNew Delhi
• IndonesiaJakarta
• IranTehran
• IraqBaghdad
• IsraelJerusalem
• ItalyRome
• Ivory CoastYamoussoukro
• JamaicaKingston
• JapanTokyo
• JordanAmman
• KazakhstanAstana
• KenyaNairobi
• KiribatiSouth Tarawa
• KuwaitKuwait City
• KyrgyzstanBishkek
• LaosVientiane
• LatviaRiga
• LebanonBeirut
• LesothoMaseru
• LiberiaMonrovia
• LibyaTripoli
• LiechtensteinVaduz
• LithuaniaVilnius
• LuxembourgLuxembourg
• MadagascarAntananarivo
• MalawiLilongwe
• MalaysiaKuala Lumpur
• MaldivesMalé
• MaliBamako
• MaltaValletta
• Marshall IslandsMajuro
• MauritaniaNouakchott
• MexicoMexico City
• MoldovaChișinău
• MonacoMonaco
• MongoliaUlan Bator
• MontenegroPodgorica
• MoroccoRabat
• MozambiqueMaputo
• MyanmarNaypyidaw
• NamibiaWindhoek
• NauruYaren
• NepalKathmandu
• NetherlandsAmsterdam
• New ZealandWellington
• NicaraguaManagua
• NigerNiamey
• NigeriaAbuja
• North KoreaPyongyang
• North MacedoniaSkopje
• 🏴Northern CyprusNorth Nicosia
• NorwayOslo
• OmanMuscat
• PakistanIslamabad
• PalauNgerulmud
• PalestineRamallah
• PanamaPanama City
• Papua New GuineaPort Moresby
• ParaguayAsunción
• PeruLima
• PhilippinesManila
• PolandWarsaw
• PortugalLisbon
• QatarDoha
• Republic of IrelandDublin
• Republic of KosovoPristina
• Republic of the CongoBrazzaville
• RomaniaBucharest
• RussiaMoscow
• RwandaKigali
• Saint Kitts and NevisBasseterre
• Saint LuciaCastries
• Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesKingstown
• SamoaApia
• San MarinoCity of San Marino
• São Tomé and PríncipeSão Tomé
• Saudi ArabiaRiyadh
• SenegalDakar
• SerbiaBelgrade
• SeychellesVictoria
• Sierra LeoneFreetown
• SingaporeSingapore
• SlovakiaBratislava
• SloveniaLjubljana
• Solomon IslandsHoniara
• SomaliaMogadishu
• 🏴SomalilandHargeisa
• South AfricaPretoria
• South KoreaSeoul
• South SudanJuba
• SpainMadrid
• Sri LankaSri Jayawardenepura Kotte
• SudanKhartoum
• SurinameParamaribo
• SwedenStockholm
• SwitzerlandBern
• SyriaDamascus
• TaiwanTaipei
• TajikistanDushanbe
• TanzaniaDodoma
• ThailandBangkok
• The BahamasNassau
• The GambiaBanjul
• TogoLomé
• TongaNuku'alofa
• Trinidad and TobagoPort of Spain
• TunisiaTunis
• TurkeyAnkara
• TurkmenistanAshgabat
• TuvaluFunafuti
• UgandaKampala
• UkraineKyiv
• United Arab EmiratesAbu Dhabi
• United KingdomLondon
• United StatesWashington D.C.
• UruguayMontevideo
• UzbekistanTashkent
• VanuatuPort Vila
• Vatican CityVatican City
• VenezuelaCaracas
• VietnamHanoi
• Western SaharaEl Aaiún
• YemenSana'a
• ZambiaLusaka
• ZimbabweHarare

Tips to play better

• Practise capitals that differ from a familiar city

  Brasília–Brazil, Canberra–Australia, Wellington–New Zealand, Ottawa–Canada, Bern–Switzerland, Ankara–Turkey, Abuja–Nigeria, Astana–Kazakhstan, Naypyidaw–Myanmar and Yamoussoukro–Côte d’Ivoire are useful pairs. Recall the capital rather than substituting a better-known city.

• Multi-capital countries

  Some countries divide government functions between cities. This quiz nevertheless uses one capital value per country: Sucre for Bolivia and Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte for Sri Lanka. La Paz and Colombo are not alternative playable prompts.

• Use names that already contain a country clue

  Mexico City, Guatemala City, Panama City and Kuwait City include their country name. Monaco, San Marino and Vatican City share their capital and country labels. Use these specific links without assuming that every familiar city is a capital.

• Practise a regional group at a time

  Try separate regional capitals quizzes for Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania. Smaller groups let you practise capital-country links and territory locations before combining them in the world pool.

• Don't trust the largest city

  In dozens of countries, the political capital is not the largest city. India: New Delhi vs Mumbai. Pakistan: Islamabad vs Karachi. Morocco: Rabat vs Casablanca. United States: Washington D.C. vs New York. When one of these capitals appears, click its country rather than thinking of the largest city.

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