Closest Capital City Pairs #1

Enter the nearest capital city to each capital city listed below.

Closest capital city of a different country

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First submitted	January 31, 2013
Times taken	75,454
Average score	70.0%
Rating	4.97

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Capital	Nearest other
Washington DC	Ottawa
Buenos Aires	Montevideo
London	Brussels
Helsinki	Tallinn
Athens	Skopje
Beijing	Pyongyang
New Delhi	Islamabad

Capital	Nearest other
Baghdad	Kuwait City
Rome	Vatican City
Panama City	San Jose
La Paz	Lima
Cairo	Jerusalem
Lisbon	Madrid
Copenhagen	Berlin

Capital	Nearest other
Moscow	Minsk
Reykjavík	Dublin
Tokyo	Seoul
Damascus	Beirut
Taipei	Manila
Kingston	Port-au-Prince

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66 Comments

Level 74

Nov 25, 2012

Interesting

Level 79

Sep 30, 2015

If you found this interesting you may enjoy this quiz I made:

Adjacent Capital Pair Superlatives

Level 79

Mar 31, 2022

cool

Level 13

Dec 11, 2012

very interesting quiz! 100%

Level 67

Jan 28, 2013

that was a great quiz!!! really had to use the brain. How about try nearest large city?? or nearest US capitals

Level 61

Jan 28, 2013

Very interesting.

Level 64

Jan 28, 2013

Much harder than I thought it would be and some unexpected answers!

Level 77

Jan 28, 2013

ageed. Quite difficult.

Level 79

Jan 28, 2013

I'd like to see another, bigger one of these. Including a few more difficult capitals might be good too.

Level 85

Jan 14, 2021

A sub-saharan Africa or Oceania one would definitely ratchet it up

Level 68

Jan 28, 2013

Brilliant, absolutely brilliant!

Level 31

Jan 30, 2013

Sucre, 435 miles is closer to La Paz than Lima, 680 miles.

There is nothing in the description that says they can't be from the same country.

+13

Level 40

Jan 31, 2013

Ye, I had avoided countries like that to avoid ambiguity exactly like this but this was added in by the admin guy after I submitted it.

Level 59

Feb 1, 2024

I was thinking the same thing!

Level 89

Jan 31, 2013

Loved this, but I could've used another minute or two! Great job.

Level 26

Feb 1, 2013

You should except Kuwait for Kuwait City.

Level 22

Feb 13, 2014

I'm with geoman2. Kuwait alone should be accepted as well.

Level 49

Mar 8, 2014

Yes, I tried that too..

Level 28

Aug 15, 2015

you seem to have my username

Level 15

Feb 2, 2013

Nice quiz! I think there should have been more time, though

Level 28

Apr 8, 2013

how didn't i think of vatican city! got all but that one! feel very stupid

Level 39

Mar 21, 2014

Very good, interesting consept!

Level 27

Apr 1, 2014

That Rome question almost tripped me up

Level 71

Jan 14, 2021

Same. For a long time I completely forgot Vatican City existed :P

Level 75

May 20, 2014

Very smart to forget about both Canada and the Vatican. I tried all of Balkans and North Africa for Rome. Should've tried Valletta too but didn't think of that one.

Level 70

Oct 24, 2014

Got them all with 00:05 left. It took me a long time to think about Taipei and Reykjavík ones.

Level 66

Sep 30, 2015

I was stuck on Rome forever...it was a tricky question

Level 70

Sep 30, 2015

how did i not get panama

Level 70

Oct 1, 2015

First try, no warm up.

Level 70

Oct 1, 2015

one of the funnest quizzes I've ever completely failed

Level 70

Apr 11, 2016

Good quiz, enjoyed that,........ By the way, if you find this quiz easy, try my........ 'Mal's European Closest Capitals Hopscotch' ..........quiz

Level 83

Sep 15, 2016

Totally blew the Rome one. I was guessing every capital and getting mad they were not working. Duh!

Level 70

Jun 15, 2017

Good quiz. It would make it much better if you could find the distances and get them to appear after the capital is guessed, so as not to give it away. Well done though.

Level 40

Jul 13, 2017

I liked this one got them in a good time as well well pleased

Level 81

Jan 20, 2018

On the next one, you should put 'Tel Aviv' as the clue and have the answer 'Jerusalem', that'd stir up the whole Israel and Palestine debate.

Level 24

Jan 20, 2018

You should have Kinshasa/Brazzaville, since that's the closest pair of capital cities in the world (they're right across a river from each other, you can literally see one from the other)

Level 72

Jan 20, 2018

What about Rome and the Vatican City? You can literally step from one to the other.

Level 48

May 13, 2022

Kinshasa/Brazzaville is not the closest pair, as Vatican city is 100% inside Rome

Level 51

Jan 20, 2018

I keep forgetting that Toronto is not the Capital of Canada........

Level 76

Oct 28, 2020

Lol we hear so much about Toronto, that often Canadians forget that too

Level 49

Jan 22, 2018

Not trying to be too political, but is there any reason why tel aviv is not recognised here as the capital despite it being recognised by most UN municipalities as the defacto capital until Israel-Palestine sort their desputes which will be never? I think it's only the US and Israel that consider it to be the capital yeah?

Level 79

Jan 22, 2018

It's not a de-facto capital at all. The official functioning capital of Israel is Jerusalem. The Knesset is in Jerusalem. Foreign embassies are in Tel Aviv, but the capital of a country, de facto or otherwise, is not defined as where foreign embassies are located. The only reason embassies are located in Tel Aviv is to avoid pissing off Muslim countries that don't want to recognize Israeli control over Jerusalem.

Level 80

Jan 22, 2018

Yeah, not sure why this is so hard. Israel gets to choose the location for their capital, not the UN and not anyone else. And it's in Jerusalem. Kalbahamut is 100% right that the embassy locations are all about pressure from Muslim countries.

Level 87

Mar 30, 2022

Quite a few countries have their embassy in Gatineau. An even larger number of countries don't have an embassy in Canada, but have an embassy in Washington, D.C. or a mission in New York City which covers Canada. I don't see any argument that the capital of Canada is actually Gatineau, Washington, or New York! Embassies have nothing to do with it. The capital is wherever the government is.

Level 69

Jan 22, 2018

Hey! What gives! None of these places is closest to Paris!.... Ohhh, sorry, title said "Closest Pairs."

Level 55

Dec 21, 2018

I always read Closest Capital City Paris

Level 59

Mar 30, 2022

Same here :D

Level 59

Jan 13, 2019

You should add more different spellings for Pyongyang. At least Pchyongyang and Pchjongjang and probably more, it's a difficult one to rewrite.

Level 80

Dec 13, 2019

I got Vatican City just as time expired, but not fast enough to type it in. Vatican City......the most obvious!

Level 65

Dec 26, 2019

Very easy quiz as I've been to most of those during my business and personal travels. #filthyrich

Level 41

Jan 14, 2021

Good job! This quiz is amazing.

Level 73

Jan 14, 2021

Good quiz and nice job getting featured second one!

Level 53

Jan 15, 2021

Omg i got them all. There needs to be #2 of this

Level 70

Jan 15, 2021

Great quiz, of the type I like where you actually have to use your brain to connect the dots.

Level 49

Jan 16, 2021

Agree, I love this quiz idea

Level 61

Feb 23, 2021

Love the quiz. Not enough Africa or Oceania though.

Level 52

Mar 25, 2021

for some reason i mixed lisbon the capital of portugal with beirut the capital of lebanon because lisbon and lebanon sound so similar

haha im so tired, oughta go to sleep now

Level 67

Jun 4, 2021

Cool knowledge:

Panama City is a city located in Northern Florida,too.

Level 39

Aug 16, 2021

Internationally recognised capital of Israel is Tel Aviv, not Jerusalem, otherwise 19/20

Level 87

Mar 30, 2022

Nope.

Level 68

Nov 6, 2022

You may like or not, but the capital of a country is their choice. Jerusalem is the capital choosen by the Israeli government. Other countries don't recognize Jerusalem and I won't say that's right or wrong but this doesn't change the fact that Jerusalem is Israel's capital.

Level 86

Jun 18, 2023

People should scroll through previous comments before making this inane statement.

Level 61

Oct 16, 2021

This is was pretty easy for me, just a couple ones I struggled with a little.

Level 64

Feb 1, 2024

..nice but too easy...

Level 51

Oct 24, 2025

should have less time. guessing shouldn't be a viable strategy (even if I used it)