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Test your knowledge of world capitals with the Closest World Capital Pairs Quiz. Can you name the closest pairs of administrative capitals?

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Closest World Capital Pairs – Choose Number

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Enter ’25’, ’50’, ‘100’, or ‘All’ to begin. Then name up to the 250 closest pairs of world capitals (use administrative capitals). Distances in km shown. Name pairs by entering one capital after the other in either order i.e. ‘washingtontokyo’.

Enter number of pairs to begin ('25', '50', '100', or 'All').

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asotomeyerholz

7 months ago

5 minutes for 250 pairs of capitals cities is not enough

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darin

7 months ago

Reply to asotomeyerholz

Ah let me up that a bit.

dshukla

7 months ago

Reply to darin

30 minutes feels way too much. Can you make it so that the bonuses are x).5, or probably a total of 10 min?

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darin

7 months ago

Reply to dshukla

I’m going to leave as is. It’s only 15 min for non premium members.

Nassim

3 years ago

Which capital did you use for South Africa ? I feel Gaborone – Bloemfontein should have been accepted in the ’50’ version but it didn’t.

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darin

3 years ago

Reply to Nassim

Pretoria – per directions in countries with multiple capitals I chose the administrative.

soundscape

10 years ago

To keep consistency with the other capital quizzes on the site, Ramallah should be the capital of Palestine istead of East Jerusalem.

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darin

10 years ago

Reply to soundscape

i accept both – East Jerusalem is the one that happens to be displayed for this quiz.