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Capital City
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Language
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Original Form
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Abu Dhabi
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Arabic
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أَبُو ظَبِي
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Abuja
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Hausa
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Abuja
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Accra
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Akan
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Nkran
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Addis Ababa
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Amharic
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አዲስ አበባ
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Algiers
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Arabic
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الجزائر
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Amman
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Ammonite
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𐤏𐤌𐤍
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Amsterdam
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Middle Dutch
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Aemstelredam
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Andorra la Vella
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Catalan
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Andorra la Vella
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Ankara
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Ancient Greek
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Ἄγκῡρα
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Antananarivo
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Malagasy
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Antananarivo
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Apia
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Samoan
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Apia
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Ashgabat
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Classical Persian (Possibly Parthian)
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عِشْقآبَاد (𐭀𐭓𐭔𐭊)
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Asmara
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Tigrinya
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ኣስመራ
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Astana
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Kazakh
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Астана
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Asunción
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Early Modern Spanish
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Asunción
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Athens
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Ancient Greek
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Ἀθῆναι
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Baghdad
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Middle Persian
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𐭡𐭢𐭣𐭲
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Baku
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Classical Persian
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باکو
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Bamako
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Bambara
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ߓߡߊ߬ߞߐ߬ / Bamakɔ
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Bandar Seri Begawan
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Sanskrit / Farsi
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श्री + भगवान् + بندر
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Bangkok / Krung Thep
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Thai
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บางกอก / กรุงเทพฯ
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Bangui
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Bobangi
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Ubangi / Oubangui
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Banjul
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Mandinka
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Bang Julo
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Basseterre
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French
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Basseterre
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Beijing
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Middle Mandarin
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北平
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Beirut
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Phoenician
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𐤁𐤀𐤓𐤕
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Belgrade
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Medieval Latin
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Belgradum / Belogradum
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Belmopan
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Spanish
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Belmopan
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Berlin
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Middle Low German
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Berlyn
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Bern
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Middle High German (Possibly Proto-Celtic)
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Bern (*berna/*branos)
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Bishkek
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Kyrgyz
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Бишкек
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Bissau
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Papel
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(b)uhlawʔ / (b)usawʔ
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Bloemfontein
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Dutch
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Bloemfontein
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Bogotá
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Chibcha
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Bacatá / Muyquytá
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Brasília
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Portuguese
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Brasília
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Bratislava
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Slovak
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Bratislava
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Brazzaville
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French
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Brazzaville
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Bridgetown
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English
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Bridgetown
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Brussels
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Old Dutch
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Bruocsella / Broekzele
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Bucharest
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Romanian
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București
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Budapest
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Hungarian
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Budapest
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Buenos Aires
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Aragonese / Sardinian / Spanish
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Buen Ayre / Bonaria / Buen Aire
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Cairo
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Arabic
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القاهرة
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Canberra
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Ngunnawal
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Kamberra / Kghambury / Nganbra / Gnabra
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Cape Town
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Dutch
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Kaapstad
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Caracas
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Spanish
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Caracas (named after a local tribe or flower)
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Castries
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French
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Castries
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Chișinău
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Romanian or Hungarian
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Chișla + Nouă or Kisjenő
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Conakry
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Susu
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Kɔnakiri Cona + Nakiri
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Copenhagen
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Old Danish
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Køpmannæhafn
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Cotonou
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Fon
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Kútɔ̀nú
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Dakar
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Wolof
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Daqaar / Ndakaaru
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Damascus
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Egyptian
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𓍘𓄟𓊃𓈎𓅱
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Dhaka
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Bengali
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ঢাক
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Dili
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Bunak
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Zili
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Djibouti
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Afar or Egyptian
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Gabouti or 𓅝𓏏𓏭𓀭
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Dodoma
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Cigogo
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Idodomya
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Doha
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Arabic
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الدوحة
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Dublin
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Middle Irish
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Dublind
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Dushanbe
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Classical Persian
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دُوشَنْبَه
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Freetown
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English
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Freetown
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Funafuti
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Tuvaluan
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Funafuti
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Gaborone
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Tswana
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Gaborone
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Georgetown
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English
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Georgetown
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Gitega
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Possibly Kirundi
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Possibly from igitega meaning plain
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Guatemala City
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Classical Nahuatl
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Cuauhtemallan
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Hanoi
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Vietnamese
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Hà Nội / 河內
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Harare
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chiShona
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Haráre / Haarari
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Havana
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Taíno
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Habaguanex
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Helsinki
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Old Swedish
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Hälsinge
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Honiara
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Gela–Guadalcanal language (any accepted)
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Nagho Ni Ara
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Islamabad
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Urdu / Classical Persian
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اسلامآباد / اسلامآباد
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Jakarta
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Sanskrit
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जयकर्ता
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Jerusalem
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Egyptian / West Semitic language
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𓄫𓅱𓆷𓄿𓅓𓅓𓈉 / 𓄫𓏲𓆷𓄿𓅓𓅓𓈉 / 𒌑𒊒𒊓𒅆𒆠 (Akkadian Spelling)
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Juba
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Bari
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Juba
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Kabul
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Sanskrit
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कुभा
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Kampala
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Luganda / English
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ke'Empala / Impala
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Kathmandu
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Sanskrit
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काष्ठमण्डप
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Khartoum
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Dinka or Nubian
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Khar-tuom or Ⲁⲅⲁⲣⲧⲟⲩⲙ (Agartoum)
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Kigali
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Kinyarwanda
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Kigali
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Kingston
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English
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Kingston
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Kingstown
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English
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Kingstown
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Kinshasa
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Kikongo
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Kinshasa
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Kuala Lumpur
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Malay
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Kuala Lumpur / کوالا لمڤور
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Kuwait City
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Arabic
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مدينة الكويت
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Kyiv
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Old East Slavic
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Кꙑѥвъ
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La Paz
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Spanish
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La Paz
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Libreville
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French
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Libreville
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Lilongwe
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Chichewa
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Lilongwe
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Lima
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Classical Quechua
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Limaq
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Lisbon
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Classical Latin or Phoenician
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Olisīpō / 𐤏𐤋𐤉𐤑 𐤏𐤁𐤀
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Ljubljana
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Slovene or MHG or Old Slavonic
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Ljubljána or Laibach or Ljubovid / *ľubъ
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Lomé
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Eʋegbe
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Alotimé
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London
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Classical Latin / Brittonic
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Londinium / Londinion
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Luanda
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Kimbundu
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Axiluanda / Axilwanda
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Lusaka
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Chilenje
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Lusaaka
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Luxembourg
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Old High German
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Lucilinburhuc
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Madrid
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Latin/Mozarabic or Arabic or Proto-Celtic
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Matrix/Matricis or مَجْرًى or Mageto-ɸritus
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Majuro
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Marshallese
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Mājro
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Malabo
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Bubi
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Malabo
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Malé
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Dhivehi
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މާލެ
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Managua
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Nahuatl or Mangue
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Mana-ahuac or Managua
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Manama
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Arabic
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الْمَنَامَة
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Manila
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Tagalog
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Maynilà / ᜋᜌ᜔ᜈᜒᜎ
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Maputo
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Possibly Tsonga
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Maputo from the river of the same name
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Maseru
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Sesotho
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Maseru
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Mbabane
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Swazi
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ÉMbábáne
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Mexico City
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Classical Nahuatl
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Mēxihco
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Minsk
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Old East Slavic
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Мѣньскъ
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Mogadishu
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Farsi or Somali
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مقعد شاه or Muuqdisho
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Monaco
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Ancient Greek / Ligurian
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Μόνοικος / Unknown Ligurian Word
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Monrovia
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English
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Monrovia
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Montevideo
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Spanish or Portuguese
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Montevideo or Monte vide eu
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Moroni
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Ngazidja Comorian
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Mroni
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Moscow
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Old East Slavic
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Московь
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Muscat
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Old Persian or Arabic
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مَسْقَط (Many different variations)
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N'Djamena
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Arabic
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نِجَامِينَا
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Nairobi
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Maasai
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Enkare Nyrobi
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Nassau
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German
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Nassau
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Naypyidaw
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Burmese
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နေပြည်တော်
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New Delhi
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Sanskrit or Hindi or Prakrit
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डिल्लि/डिल्ली or दिल्ली or 𑀠𑀺𑀮𑁆𑀮
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Ngerulmud
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Palauan
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Ngerulmud
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Niamey
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Possibly Zarma
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N/A
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Nicosia
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Byzantine Greek / Ancient Greek
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Λευκωσία / Λευτεῶν
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Nouakchott
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Berber Language or Zenaga
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Nawākšūṭ or in wakchodh
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Nukuʻalofa
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Tongan
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Nukuʻalofa
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Oslo
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Old Norse / Proto-Norse
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Ǫ́sló / ᚨᚾᛊᚢᛚᚨᚢᚺᚢ
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Ottawa
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Algonquin
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Adawe
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Ouagadougou
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Mòoré or Farefare
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Waogdgo or Wɔgdɔgɔ
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Palikir
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Pohnpeian
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Palikir
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Panama City
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Spanish
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Ciudad de Panamá
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Paramaribo
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Tupi–Guarani language
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Paramaribo
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Paris
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Latin / Gaulish / Proto-Celtic
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Parīsiī / *parios / *kʷaryos
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Phnom Penh
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Khmer
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ភ្នំពេញ
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Podgorica
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Serbo-Croatian
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По̀дгорица
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Port Louis
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French
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Port-Louis
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Port Moresby
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English
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Port Moresby
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Port Vila
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French
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Port-Vila
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Port-au-Prince
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French
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Port-au-Prince
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Port-of-Spain
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Spanish
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Puerto de España
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Porto-Novo
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Portuguese
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Porto-Novo
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Prague
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Old East Slavic / Old Czech
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Práh / Praga / Praha
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Praia
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Portuguese
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Praia
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Pretoria
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Dutch / Latin
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Pretoria / Pretorius
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Pristina
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(No non-theoretical source) Proto-Slavic or Proto-Albanian
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*Prišьčь / *pryščina or *pṛ-tu- + *stein
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Pyongyang
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Middle Korean
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부루나 / 平壤
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Quito
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Tsafiki
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quitso + to
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Rabat
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Arabic
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الرباط
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Reykjavík
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Old Norse
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Reykjavík
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Riga
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Livonian or German or Latin
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Ringa or Riege or Rigata
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Riyadh
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Arabic
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الرياض
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Rome
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Classical Latin or Etruscan or Ancient Greek
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Romulus (Legend) or 𐌓𐌖𐌌𐌀 or Ῥώμη/ῥέω
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Roseau
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French
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Roseau
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Saint George's
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English
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Saint George's
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Saint John's
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English
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Saint John's
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San José
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Spanish
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San José
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San Marino
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Late Latin or Vulgar Latin or Italian
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San Marino / Saint Marinus
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San Salvador
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Spanish
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San Salvador
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Sana'a
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Old South Arabian (Sabaic)
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𐩮𐩬𐩲𐩥
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Santiago
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Spanish
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Santiago
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Santo Domingo
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Spanish
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Santo Domingo
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São Tomé
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Portuguese
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São Tomé
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Sarajevo
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Serbo-Croatian / Ottoman Turkish
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Са̀рајево / Sàrajevo / سراي اوفاسي
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Seoul
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Korean
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서울
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Singapore
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Sanskrit
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सिंहपुर
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Skopje
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Ancient Greek / Classical Latin
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Σκοῦποι / Scupi
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Sofia
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Byzantine Greek / Ottoman Turkish
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Σοφίας / صوفيه
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South Tarawa
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Gilbertese
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Tarawa Teinainano
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Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
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Sinhala / Tamil
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ශ්රී ජයවර්ධනපුර කෝට්ටේ / ஶ்ரீ ஜெயவர்த்தனபுர கோட்டை
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Stockholm
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Swedish
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Stockholm
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Sucre
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Spanish
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Sucre
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Suva
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Fijian
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Suva
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Taipei
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Mandarin
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臺北
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Tallinn
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Old Estonian
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Taani-linna / Tanin lidna
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Tashkent
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Chagatai
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تاشکند
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Tbilisi
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Old Georgian
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ტფილისი
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Tegucigalpa
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Classical Nahuatl
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Tegucigalpa (Specific word unknown)
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Tehran
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Classical Persian
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تَهران / طَهْرَان
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Thimphu
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Dzongkha
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ཐིམ་ཕུ
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Tirana
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Latin or (Proto-)Albanian or Doric Greek
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Terrana or *Tūrsanā/Tiranë or Τυρσανοί
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Tokyo
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Japanese
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東京
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Tripoli
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Ancient Greek
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Τρίπολις
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Tunis
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Berber Language
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ⵜⵏⵙ
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Ulaanbaatar
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Mongolian
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Улаанбаатар
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Vaduz
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Old Romansch
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Auadutg / Faduzes
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Valletta
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French
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Valette
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Vatican City
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Classical Latin
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Vātī̆cānus
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Victoria
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English
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Victoria
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Vienna
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Old High German
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Wienna
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Vientiane
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Lao
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ວຽງຈັນ
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Vilnius
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Lithuanian
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Vìlnius
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Warsaw
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Old Polish
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Warszewa
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Washington D.C.
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English
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Washington D.C.
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Wellington
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English
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Wellington
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Windhoek
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Dutch / Afrikaans
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Windhoek
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Yamoussoukro
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Baoulé
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Yamoussoukro
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Yaoundé
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Ewondo
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Wondo / Jaundo
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Yaren
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Nauruan
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Yaren
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Yerevan
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Old Armenian / Urartian
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Երևան / 𒌷𒅕𒁍𒌑𒉌
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Zagreb
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Old Croatian / Old Hungarian / Medieval Latin
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*Zagrębъ / Zagrabiensem / Agranum/Zagrabia
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