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World capitals quiz

We name a capital and you tap it on the map: its dot or the country it’s in both count. Play 10, 20 or all 193, practice the ones you miss and challenge your class with a link.

World capitals

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The 193 capitals in the quiz

They’re 193 capitals: those of the UN members and Vatican City, except Nauru, which has no official capital. Tapping the dot or anywhere in the country both count.

How to play

In Point mode we name a capital and you tap it on the map; in Type mode one lights up and you type its name (accents don’t matter); and in Time trial you get 6 seconds per question. If you miss, we show you where it was, which way it lies and a hint drawn from the data: which country it belongs to and where in the world it is.

Each game has 10, 20 or all the questions, and at the end you can practice just the ones you missed. Your best score for each mode is saved in this browser only: neither we nor anyone else can see it, and there’s no sign-up.

The hardest ones

178 of the 193 don’t share the name of their country, and that’s where it gets tricky: Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), Abuja (Nigeria), Accra (Ghana), Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Algiers (Algeria), Amman (Jordan), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Ankara (Turkey), Antananarivo (Madagascar), and Apia (Samoa)….

And watch out for look-alike names: Kingston and Kingstown.

Tips to learn them

  • Learn them continent by continent: start with South America, which has only a few, and Europe, and leave Africa and Oceania, with more unfamiliar names, for last.
  • 15 of the 193 share (or nearly share) their country’s name: those come for free.

Playing in class

Play the countries first and their capitals afterward: that way each capital sticks to its place on the map.

With the Challenge your class link, everyone gets the same questions in the same order, with no accounts or passwords, and each student sees their own score, time and streak. To practice on paper, there’s a printable worksheet of the same map with an answer key.

List of all 193 capitals

  1. Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates
  2. Abuja Nigeria
  3. Accra Ghana
  4. Addis Ababa Ethiopia
  5. Algiers Algeria
  6. Amman Jordan
  7. Amsterdam Netherlands
  8. Andorra la Vella Andorra
  9. Ankara Turkey
  10. Antananarivo Madagascar
  11. Apia Samoa
  12. Ashgabat Turkmenistan
  13. Asmara Eritrea
  14. Astana Kazakhstan
  15. Asunción Paraguay
  16. Athens Greece
  17. Baghdad Iraq
  18. Baku Azerbaijan
  19. Bamako Mali
  20. Bandar Seri Begawan Brunei
  21. Bangkok Thailand
  22. Bangui Central African Republic
  23. Banjul Gambia
  24. Basseterre Saint Kitts and Nevis
  25. Beijing China
  26. Beirut Lebanon
  27. Belgrade Serbia
  28. Belmopan Belize
  29. Berlin Germany
  30. Bern Switzerland
  31. Bishkek Kyrgyzstan
  32. Bissau Guinea-Bissau
  33. Bogotá Colombia
  34. Brasília Brazil
  35. Bratislava Slovakia
  36. Brazzaville Republic of the Congo
  37. Bridgetown Barbados
  38. Brussels Belgium
  39. Bucharest Romania
  40. Budapest Hungary
  41. Buenos Aires Argentina
  42. Cairo Egypt
  43. Canberra Australia
  44. Caracas Venezuela
  45. Castries Saint Lucia
  46. Chișinău Moldova
  47. Colombo Sri Lanka
  48. Conakry Guinea
  49. Copenhagen Denmark
  50. Dakar Senegal
  51. Damascus Syria
  52. Dhaka Bangladesh
  53. Dili East Timor
  54. Djibouti Djibouti
  55. Dodoma Tanzania
  56. Doha Qatar
  57. Dublin Ireland
  58. Dushanbe Tajikistan
  59. Freetown Sierra Leone
  60. Funafuti Tuvalu
  61. Gaborone Botswana
  62. Georgetown Guyana
  63. Gitega Burundi
  64. Guatemala City Guatemala
  65. Hanoi Vietnam
  66. Harare Zimbabwe
  67. Havana Cuba
  68. Helsinki Finland
  69. Honiara Solomon Islands
  70. Islamabad Pakistan
  71. Jakarta Indonesia
  72. Jerusalem Israel
  73. Juba South Sudan
  74. Kabul Afghanistan
  75. Kampala Uganda
  76. Kathmandu Nepal
  77. Khartoum Sudan
  78. Kigali Rwanda
  79. Kingston Jamaica
  80. Kingstown Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  81. Kinshasa Democratic Republic of the Congo
  82. Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
  83. Kuwait City Kuwait
  84. Kyiv Ukraine
  85. Libreville Gabon
  86. Lilongwe Malawi
  87. Lima Peru
  88. Lisbon Portugal
  89. Ljubljana Slovenia
  90. Lomé Togo
  91. London United Kingdom
  92. Luanda Angola
  93. Lusaka Zambia
  94. Luxembourg Luxembourg
  95. Madrid Spain
  96. Majuro Marshall Islands
  97. Malabo Equatorial Guinea
  98. Malé Maldives
  99. Managua Nicaragua
  100. Manama Bahrain
  101. Manila Philippines
  102. Maputo Mozambique
  103. Maseru Lesotho
  104. Mbabane Eswatini
  105. Melekeok Palau
  106. Mexico City Mexico
  107. Minsk Belarus
  108. Mogadishu Somalia
  109. Monaco Monaco
  110. Monrovia Liberia
  111. Montevideo Uruguay
  112. Moroni Comoros
  113. Moscow Russia
  114. Muscat Oman
  115. N'Djamena Chad
  116. Nairobi Kenya
  117. Nassau Bahamas
  118. Naypyidaw Myanmar
  119. New Delhi India
  120. Niamey Niger
  121. Nicosia Cyprus
  122. Nouakchott Mauritania
  123. Nuku'alofa Tonga
  124. Oslo Norway
  125. Ottawa Canada
  126. Ouagadougou Burkina Faso
  127. Palikir Federated States of Micronesia
  128. Panama City Panama
  129. Paramaribo Suriname
  130. Paris France
  131. Phnom Penh Cambodia
  132. Podgorica Montenegro
  133. Port Louis Mauritius
  134. Port Moresby Papua New Guinea
  135. Port of Spain Trinidad and Tobago
  136. Port Vila Vanuatu
  137. Port-au-Prince Haiti
  138. Porto-Novo Benin
  139. Prague Czech Republic
  140. Praia Cape Verde
  141. Pretoria South Africa
  142. Pyongyang North Korea
  143. Quito Ecuador
  144. Rabat Morocco
  145. Reykjavík Iceland
  146. Riga Latvia
  147. Riyadh Saudi Arabia
  148. Rome Italy
  149. Roseau Dominica
  150. Saint John's Antigua and Barbuda
  151. San José Costa Rica
  152. San Marino San Marino
  153. San Salvador El Salvador
  154. Sanaa Yemen
  155. Santiago Chile
  156. Santo Domingo Dominican Republic
  157. São Tomé São Tomé and Príncipe
  158. Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina
  159. Seoul South Korea
  160. Singapore Singapore
  161. Skopje North Macedonia
  162. Sofia Bulgaria
  163. South Tarawa Kiribati
  164. St. George's Grenada
  165. Stockholm Sweden
  166. Sucre Bolivia
  167. Suva Fiji
  168. Tallinn Estonia
  169. Tashkent Uzbekistan
  170. Tbilisi Georgia
  171. Tegucigalpa Honduras
  172. Tehran Iran
  173. Thimphu Bhutan
  174. Tirana Albania
  175. Tokyo Japan
  176. Tripoli Libya
  177. Tunis Tunisia
  178. Ulaanbaatar Mongolia
  179. Vaduz Liechtenstein
  180. Valletta Malta
  181. Vatican City Vatican City
  182. Victoria Seychelles
  183. Vienna Austria
  184. Vientiane Laos
  185. Vilnius Lithuania
  186. Warsaw Poland
  187. Washington United States
  188. Wellington New Zealand
  189. Windhoek Namibia
  190. Yamoussoukro Ivory Coast
  191. Yaoundé Cameroon
  192. Yerevan Armenia
  193. Zagreb Croatia

Frequently asked questions

Which capital counts when a country has two?

We show the most widely accepted seat (Pretoria for South Africa, Dodoma for Tanzania), and when typing the others count too, such as Cape Town, Bloemfontein or Dar es Salaam. For Bolivia, both Sucre and La Paz count.

Can I learn where each country is first?

Yes: “Countries of the world”, on its own page. The Countries button in the quiz panel takes you there.

Where is my best score saved?

In this browser: your best score for each mode and number of questions. Neither we nor anyone else can see it; if you clear your browser data, it’s gone.

Is there a printable worksheet of the world?

Yes: a worksheet with the numbered map, three activities and an answer key. You’ll find it under Printable worksheets below, next to the blank map.

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