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Test your knowledge of world capitals with this interactive quiz. Can you name the capitals of countries around the globe?

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World Capitals

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Name the capitals of the world. Countries will fill in when their capital is named. Use administrative capital if there are multiple. ‘Top’ categories on bottom right refer to the population of the capital city. Red markers are also added for Oceania/Caribbean countries whose outlines are difficult to see – the markers are near the country centroids, not necessarily right where the capital is. You do only start with 5 minutes, but there are time bonuses. Quiz may take a few moments to load.

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tendog

6 months ago

I like playing these in full-screen mode but the +1:00 bar blocks part of the word entry bar so I can’t see what I’m typing

EtzelPretzel

7 months ago

Yay! 8 minutes and 45 seconds! 🙂

beausg

2 years ago

San Juan for PR???

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darin

2 years ago

Reply to beausg

This is only countries of the world, not dependent territories.

subway13

10 years ago

Why do you only have to type “Sri J” for Sri Lanka? Not fair to those who can actually spell it…

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Fojin

10 years ago

I must admit that, even as a perennial quiz taker on Sporcle, I have never heard of Palau’s capital (just googled it). I suppose most quizzes just accept Melekeok?
Anyway, it didn’t show up in the “25 Missed”, instead it showed me “Djibouti” for whatever reason.

soundscape

10 years ago

Reply to Fojin

If you look at a map or do a Google Image search for the said capital you’ll notice that it’s not a proper city/town/whatever it’s basically just the ridiculously large and out of place capitol building of Palau. For a country with 17k inhabitants…

fusty

10 years ago

I’m amazed I got 196, well, 195 before I googled for Roseau. All this after I hadn’t looked at any capitals games in a while (like on Sporcle). I even remembered Palau’s ‘new’ capital.