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20 Continental Capitals Likely to be Closest to Random Point

You land on a random point on planet Earth. Which world capitals - excluding the ones on island countries - are most likely to be the closest one to you?
Used this to determine land and ocean points
Australia is considered an island for this quiz
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Last updated: May 23, 2024
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Capital
11.0%
Kuala Lumpur
10.8%
Mexico City
9.3%
Seoul
8.2%
Santiago
5.0%
Cape Town
4.2%
Ottawa
2.9%
Montevideo
2.6%
Maputo
2.2%
Brasília
2.1%
Lima
2.1%
Mogadishu
2.0%
Ulaanbaatar
1.7%
Phnom Penh
1.6%
Pyongyang
1.5%
Paramaribo
1.4%
Oslo
1.3%
Washington DC
1.1%
Monrovia
1.1%
Lisbon
0.9%
Astana
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4 Comments
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Level 54
May 23, 2024
No canberra? could you change "Washington" to "Washington D.C." since that is the standard and then the typein "DC" also works
scambigol
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Level 80
May 23, 2024
ok changed to dc and specified that australia is considered an island for this quiz. thanks!
Yoshimano
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Level 66
May 25, 2024
What makes a capital likelier than another, since the landing point can be anywhere? Shouldn't them be equiprobable against a random point?
WouterLauwe
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Level 75
Jul 15, 2024
Capitals that are not close to any other capital have a bigger chance of being closest to you, since they cover a larger part of the globe. Let's say each capital is a circle that all expand at the same time with the circles stopping when they touch each other; the area covered is where you are closest to that capital. The bigger the circle, the higher the likelihood of you landing there.

Hope that makes sense.

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