Hottest Capital Cities with Exceptions

Jakarta is a very near miss.

No, Jamaica has over 2 million people. The instructions say "countries", not cities.

Just type Kotte next time, and it will work! ;)

Colombo also works for some reason.

"Sri Jaya" doesn't work like it does on every other quiz so I gave up on it.

The population of Brunei is only about 417,000, so it doesn't qualify in this quiz.

I don't know but maybe it's because Haiti is drier due to the mountains blocking the rains from the east. Haiti has also been deforested which might make a difference.

Ironically, the world's fastest man is from Jamaica.

When it is hot here I usually go cycling, to feel the breeze. Best way to "escape" the heat when even in the shadow it is uncomfortably hot.

As I learned on another Jetpunk quiz, it is one of the highest capital cities by elevation, which probably accounts for the cooler climate.

. . . and Port-au-Prince, Managua, Kingston, and Port Moresby.

Not that surprising that most would be - Asia is a lot bigger than any other continent, firstly. Beyond that Europe is waaaay too far north for its cities to make it, most of North America is taken up by just three countries and the only one with a sufficiently tropical capital has that capital sitting at over 2000 metres elevation. Much of the Caribbean is too small to make the list. Most of South America's capitals are either outside the tropics or located high in the Andes. Other than that most Oceanic countries are too small, Australia's capital gets quite hot, but also can get get down to -10, which balances it out. With Africa excluded by default, that pretty much leaves the Middle East, South Asia and Southeast Asia to rule supreme.

I think of nappy daw but with added y/j sound nyapyidaw, but apparently it starts with nay haha. So maybe a better way of thinking it would be Nay (no/not) pyi (pi/pie) daw (jackdaw/dawn/paw). So no pie before dawn or There's no pie Jackdaw :)

Given Delhi's AVERAGE summer high is about 40 degrees Celsius, I wouldn't be too sad you missed it. We only get occasional 40 degree days here in Brisbane and I'm not at all fond of them.

just type 'kotte' or 'sjk'

Most regulars on this site absolutely know Sri Jayawardenapure Kotte is the capital of Sri Lanka, just like we know Bandar Seri Begawan is the capital of Brunei or Ulaanbaatar is the capital of Mongolia. We also know shortcuts to type like SJK or Kotte to get credit for that knowledge. Why, at level 41, would that surprise you?

The Atacama Desert is a mild desert because of the cold Humboldt current coming from Antarctica. Lima is probably the coolest climate in the world at 12 degrees from the equator and sea level while also being very dry and cloudy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lima#Climate