Capital city etymologies

Give the capital city based on its name meaning or origin.

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Hint	Answer
named after 1st US president	Washington
named after 5th US president	Monrovia
named after Saint James	Santiago
named after the hero of the Battle of Waterloo	Wellington
Assumption (Spanish)	Asuncion
Low land (French)	Basse-Terre
Lion City (from the Sanskrit)	Singapore
White City ( in a Slavic language)	Belgrade
Smoky Bay (in a Germanic language)	Reykjavik
A dam on the Amstel River	Amsterdam
Abode of Islam	Islamabad
Three Cities (Greek)	Tripoli
Abode of Peace (Hebrew)	Jerusalem
Place of the Red Sandstone (Sesotho)	Maseru
Crocodile River (Bambara)	Bamako

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3 Comments

Level 81

Sep 7, 2016

Nice :)

Level 77

Sep 8, 2016

Thanks! How do you get more people to see your quiz? This is one of my first.

Level 61

Nov 19, 2020

Enjoyed that. About the right difficulty, I think - there were four I didn't get.