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25 Closest Capital Pairs By Region

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Name the closest pairs of world capitals by region in which they are located. For ‘US’ it is state capitals. Enter capital pairs by entering one city after the other in either order, i.e. ‘washingtonparis’. For countries with multiple capitals I use the administrative.

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Hippa

1 year ago

Why do US states insteda of just the American continent? How many people actually know us state capitals?

silverfoxx

2 years ago

Bloemfontein and Maseru?

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darin

2 years ago

Reply to silverfoxx

added a note in description i’m just using administrative capitals for countries with multiple.

Ozlix

2 years ago

5 minutes is not enough. You have to get one every 2.4 seconds no way you can type that fast.

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darin

2 years ago

Reply to iojoij

I’ll bump the time on this up soon

Jarder

2 years ago

How fast do you guys type

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