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World Capitals Quiz

There are 196 nations on Earth. Can you name their capital cities?
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Last updated: August 17, 2024
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First submittedJuly 22, 2011
Times taken4,147,623
Average score54.6%
Rating5.00
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Europe
Albania
Tirana
Andorra
Andorra la Vella
Austria
Vienna
Belarus
Minsk
Belgium
Brussels
Bosnia &
Herzegovina
Sarajevo
Bulgaria
Sofia
Croatia
Zagreb
Czech Republic
Prague
Denmark
Copenhagen
Estonia
Tallinn
Finland
Helsinki
France
Paris
Germany
Berlin
Greece
Athens
Hungary
Budapest
Iceland
Reykjavík
Ireland
Dublin
Italy
Rome
Kosovo
Pristina
Latvia
Riga
Liechtenstein
Vaduz
Lithuania
Vilnius
Luxembourg
Luxembourg
Malta
Valletta
Moldova
Chișinău
Monaco
Monaco
Montenegro
Podgorica
Netherlands
Amsterdam
North Macedonia
Skopje
Norway
Oslo
Poland
Warsaw
Portugal
Lisbon
Romania
Bucharest
Russia
Moscow
San Marino
San Marino
Serbia
Belgrade
Slovakia
Bratislava
Slovenia
Ljubljana
Spain
Madrid
Sweden
Stockholm
Switzerland
Bern
Ukraine
Kyiv
United Kingdom
London
Vatican City
Vatican City
 
 
North America
Antigua &
Barbuda
Saint John's
Bahamas
Nassau
Barbados
Bridgetown
Belize
Belmopan
Canada
Ottawa
Costa Rica
San José
Cuba
Havana
Dominica
Roseau
Dominican
Republic
Santo Domingo
El Salvador
San Salvador
Grenada
Saint George's
Guatemala
Guatemala City
Haiti
Port-au-Prince
Honduras
Tegucigalpa
Jamaica
Kingston
Mexico
Mexico City
Nicaragua
Managua
Panama
Panama City
St. Kitts & Nevis
Basseterre
St. Lucia
Castries
St. Vincent & the
Grenadines
Kingstown
Trinidad &
Tobago
Port-of-Spain
United States
Washington D.C.
Asia
Afghanistan
Kabul
Armenia
Yerevan
Azerbaijan
Baku
Bahrain
Manama
Bangladesh
Dhaka
Bhutan
Thimphu
Brunei
Bandar Seri
Begawan
Cambodia
Phnom Penh
China
Beijing
Cyprus
Nicosia
East Timor
Dili
Georgia
Tbilisi
India
New Delhi
Indonesia
Jakarta
Iran
Tehran
Iraq
Baghdad
Israel
Jerusalem
Japan
Tokyo
Jordan
Amman
Kazakhstan
Astana
Kuwait
Kuwait City
Kyrgyzstan
Bishkek
Laos
Vientiane
Lebanon
Beirut
Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur
Maldives
Malé
Mongolia
Ulaanbaatar
Myanmar
Naypyidaw
Nepal
Kathmandu
North Korea
Pyongyang
Oman
Muscat
Pakistan
Islamabad
Philippines
Manila
Qatar
Doha
Saudi Arabia
Riyadh
Singapore
Singapore
South Korea
Seoul
Sri Lanka
Sri
Jayawardenepura
Kotte
Syria
Damascus
Taiwan
Taipei
Tajikistan
Dushanbe
Thailand
Bangkok
Turkey
Ankara
Turkmenistan
Ashgabat
United Arab
Emirates
Abu Dhabi
Uzbekistan
Tashkent
Vietnam
Hanoi
Yemen
Sana'a
 
 
Oceania
Australia
Canberra
Fiji
Suva
Kiribati
South Tarawa
Marshall Islands
Majuro
Micronesia
(Fed. States)
Palikir
Nauru
Yaren
New Zealand
Wellington
Palau
Ngerulmud
Papua New
Guinea
Port Moresby
Samoa
Apia
Solomon Islands
Honiara
Tonga
Nukuʻalofa
Tuvalu
Funafuti
Vanuatu
Port Vila
South America
Argentina
Buenos Aires
Bolivia
La Paz / Sucre
Brazil
Brasília
Chile
Santiago
Colombia
Bogotá
Ecuador
Quito
Guyana
Georgetown
Paraguay
Asunción
Peru
Lima
Suriname
Paramaribo
Uruguay
Montevideo
Venezuela
Caracas
 
 
Africa
Algeria
Algiers
Angola
Luanda
Benin
Porto-Novo /
Cotonou
Botswana
Gaborone
Burkina Faso
Ouagadougou
Burundi
Gitega
Cameroon
Yaoundé
Cape Verde
Praia
Central African
Republic
Bangui
Chad
N'Djamena
Comoros
Moroni
Congo
(Dem. Rep.)
Kinshasa
Congo
(Rep. of.)
Brazzaville
Djibouti
Djibouti
Egypt
Cairo
Equatorial
Guinea
Malabo
Eritrea
Asmara
Eswatini
Mbabane
Ethiopia
Addis Ababa
Gabon
Libreville
Gambia
Banjul
Ghana
Accra
Guinea
Conakry
Guinea-Bissau
Bissau
Ivory Coast
Yamoussoukro
Kenya
Nairobi
Lesotho
Maseru
Liberia
Monrovia
Libya
Tripoli
Madagascar
Antananarivo
Malawi
Lilongwe
Mali
Bamako
Mauritania
Nouakchott
Mauritius
Port Louis
Morocco
Rabat
Mozambique
Maputo
Namibia
Windhoek
Niger
Niamey
Nigeria
Abuja
Rwanda
Kigali
São Tomé &
Principe
São Tomé
Senegal
Dakar
Seychelles
Victoria
Sierra Leone
Freetown
Somalia
Mogadishu
South Africa
Pretoria / Cape Town
/ Bloemfontein
South Sudan
Juba
Sudan
Khartoum
Tanzania
Dodoma
Togo
Lomé
Tunisia
Tunis
Uganda
Kampala
Zambia
Lusaka
Zimbabwe
Harare
101 Recent Comments
+95
Level ∞
Aug 17, 2024
Nusantara is the new capital of Indonesia!!!! We'll gradually be updating all our quizzes.

Edit, the next morning:

Or is it... Information on the internet is scarce to non-existent. Wikipedia changed the capital to Nusantara so I followed suit. But maybe some key ceremony didn't take place? Because Wikipedia says that in the SAME ARTICLE where says that Nusantara is the capital. Which is it? Why are there no sources anywhere? We'll allow Jakarta as a type in for that answer for the time being. Hopefully this gets cleared up in the next few days. What a mess and I apologize.

Further edit:

We are reverting back to Jakarta. I should not have made the change and I apologize again. Wikipedia led me astray but I should have held out for official sources. If and when the official decree is made, I will change the quiz but no stats will be reset.

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Level 75
Jul 21, 2023
Wikipedia says the capital of Marshall Islands is now Delap-Uliga-Djarrit.
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Level 66
Mar 12, 2024
It does not say that.
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Level 47
Apr 11, 2024
Misinformation

Ðis, however made me look into ðe Marshallese language. It feels reaaaaaaaally hard. Nope

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Level 23
Jul 26, 2023
got palaus capital but not luxembourg
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Level 35
Jul 27, 2023
We need 1000 comments!
+4
Level 66
Mar 6, 2024
Seeing as how this quiz was first released in 2011 but the earliest comment on it is from 2019, I think it's safe to say that there have been ~1000 comments, but at some point (maybe multiple points) the comments have been reset.
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Level 20
Aug 28, 2023
I got a perfect score, from pure memory. It took days and days of effort to get all this in my head. Now, I'm going to work on the flags.
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Level 25
Sep 14, 2023
Kinda funny how i see changes of capitals i've never even seen before...
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Level 50
Sep 15, 2023
196/196 I'm 9

Lol

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Level 41
Aug 22, 2024
i don't care
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Level 53
Sep 17, 2023
Time Used

12:36

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Level 53
Oct 3, 2023
196/196, finally I remembered you, Honiara!
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Level 15
Oct 7, 2023
Glad to say I survived gang
+1
Level 15
Oct 7, 2023
I'm a 12 year old so pretty poor for this, but yesss lets go
+3
Level 15
Oct 7, 2023
As a white american this is truly a milestone
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Level 50
Oct 23, 2023
Best Time

4:12

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Level 49
Dec 4, 2023
I finally got them all 196 capitals, and in less than ten minutes. This was after many, many attempts, and lots of consultations on teh wikipedia "capitals of continent..." pages.

Thank you for the quizz. This is a great way to learn and remember stuff. Cheers!

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Level 56
Dec 5, 2023
please fix to take kiev, propper spelling instead of kyiv
+5
Level 47
Apr 11, 2024
No need to. It's not a bug but a feature
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Level 49
Dec 20, 2023
Finally! I did it! 196 out of 196!
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Level 67
Aug 17, 2024
Good job!
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Level 45
Jan 4, 2024
Eswatini and Sri Lanka have 2 capitals. Sri Lanka’s other is Colombo, and Eswatini’s other is Lobamba
+9
Level 66
Feb 1, 2024
First memorized it 9 years ago, came back today to find four had slipped from my brain. What am I going to do if I can't remember the capital of Antigua and Barbuda?? My life will fall apart!!
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Level 50
Feb 27, 2024
best time - 4:14
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Level 50
Feb 27, 2024
* 4:12
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Level 34
Mar 7, 2024
196/196 So easy, crazy how average score is that low.
+8
Level 66
Mar 12, 2024
"i'm only 2 years old and completed the countries of the world quiz in 3.5 seconds"
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Level 47
Aug 22, 2024
right, normal people should all get 196/196, otherwise they're dumba$$
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Level 55
Mar 10, 2024
149/196 I did terrible on the African ones. :(
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Level 46
Mar 14, 2024
Finally all 196! Oceania was tough!
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Level 20
Mar 14, 2024
fr
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Level 31
Mar 15, 2024
what is Arriving
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Level 26
Mar 20, 2024
this is really hard! If you're struggling too I suggest using the World Capitals by Map quiz it's much easier!
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Level 40
Mar 22, 2024
I got 167 correct without pausing or Google, lol
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Level 24
Mar 23, 2024
Bujumbura should be accepted for Burundi
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Level 47
Apr 11, 2024
why?
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Level 66
Apr 16, 2024
The capital used to be Bujumbura, but it's currently Gitega
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Level 25
Mar 31, 2024
the only struggles on this quiz is mainly african capitals and some asian ones otherwise they're pretty easy to remember (except honiara for me for whatever reason)
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Level 44
Apr 7, 2024
I typed "Accra" and "San Jose" and for some reason they weren't accepted. I thought I got it completely wrong.
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Level 47
Apr 11, 2024
GG. Did it while hiding the table and missed three, but had enough time to write them back
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Level 52
Apr 17, 2024
I tried to sing all of the capitals using yakko’s world instrumental (including the de-facto Cotonou with Bloemfontein and Cape Town)

I did it first try woo!

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Level 22
Apr 24, 2024
I love this quiz so much, even though i still struggle to crank up my number. Tel Aviv and Colombo for example are considered capitals in my country. I know the admin has some odd ideas at times, like adding Crimea to Russia instead of to Ukraine. This is a difficult quiz for non-Americans, what with different spelling and all. But fun to do.
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Level 43
Apr 24, 2024
nooooooo last three attempts 194 194 and 195 :( when can I get all of them
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Level 55
Apr 30, 2024
I finally got them all. I had to google Burundi's capital
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Level 29
May 6, 2024
Here's to Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego for upping my African capital game!
+1
Level 48
May 6, 2024
120/196, starting to get better, but need a bit more practice.
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Level 49
May 12, 2024
FINALLY ALL 196 YESSSSSS!!! Hopefully I still keep this score 5 years later xDD
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Level 47
May 23, 2024
178/196, not bad for an american :3 although palestine, western sahara, kurdistan, somaliland, and many others should be on this list... even if you're only adhering to the UN's recognized countries, palestine is more recognized than taiwan
+2
Level 83
Aug 18, 2024
Recognition is just one criterion to be a country. Population and territory control are also considered, though all this is of course arbitrary.
+1
Level 43
Sep 14, 2024
All quizzes are to Jetpunk standards, and the Jetpunk Countries of the World quiz does not include those
+1
Level 33
May 23, 2024
Damn it Kazakhstan, pick a capital city and stick with it!
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Level 50
May 29, 2024
Colombo should also count for Sri Lanka as it is an administrative capital, sort of like Cape Town, Pretoria and Bloemfointein for South Africa.
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Level 54
Jul 13, 2024
when this quiz gets updated for nusangara next month, can you please add a map. this quiz isnt much harder without a map, but its weird that it doesnt have it

edit: nevermind theres a featured quiz with a map

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Level 69
Jul 15, 2024
New high score of 177, incremental learning mode really helped I was able to raise it by over 10
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Level 67
Aug 2, 2024
Is there going to be a mass point reset for quizzes involving capitals on Aug 17 of this year once Indonesia changes its capital to Nusantara?
+1
Level ∞
Aug 17, 2024
Shoot. I said we weren't going to but we did. Sorry!
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Level 71
Aug 17, 2024
As I'm sure you've figured out by now, the capital has not been moved yet as the new city is still under construction (although I believe inaugurating the city was the original plan). They merely held a ceremony in Nusantara celebrating their independence day.
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Level 69
Aug 3, 2024
Just missed Yaren and Honiara this time. I thought of Yaren earlier but I decided to save it for later and not distract myself since I was trying to do them in order and I knew I was gonna forget it lol
+1
Level 15
Aug 5, 2024
Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can comment now cause I did the 15 levels.... yay
+4
Level 66
Aug 17, 2024
You're gonna be so sad to find out that the quiz was just reset today
+3
Level 66
Aug 17, 2024
My world is shattered
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Level 68
Aug 17, 2024
Over 200 takes, record time of just over 4 minutes... gone ... thanks a lot Nusantara!! 🙃
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Level 25
Aug 17, 2024
Nusantara is apparently some jungle turned urban city on Borneo contrary to Jakarta's location in the island of Java–I'm not ready to adjust to typing "Nusantara." I'm probably going to type Jakarta so many times mistaking it for Indonesia's capital.
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Level 56
Aug 17, 2024
Jakarta is still the capital of Indonesia...Nusantara is the future/planned capital, but not in effect yet, according to sources - so is it justified to not accept Jakarta anymore in the quiz?
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Level 25
Aug 17, 2024
It was scheduled to become the new capital at the start of August 17, 2024, Indonesian time. It has already become the capital.
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Level 74
Aug 17, 2024
It was scheduled, but was called off.

The change in capital was supposed to happen alongside the country's independence day celebrations in Nusantara. However, the independence day celebrations in Nusantara was downsized due to infrastructure-related concerns and was jointly hosted in Jakarta. The inauguration of Nusantara as the country's new capital did not take place either.

All things concerned, Jetpunk's decision to swap the capital quiz seems quite premature, when the presidential decree for the change of capital hasn't come into effect either.

+2
Level ∞
Aug 17, 2024
Which sources? Where are you guys getting any of this info?
+3
Level ∞
Aug 17, 2024
I finally found an AP News source that the schedule decree had not taken place. Why not, I wonder?

The English-language Wikipedia article for Indonesia still wrongly lists Nusantara as the capital.

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Level 55
Aug 17, 2024
That one person who has just stumbled across jetpunk capitals for the first time seeing the average score is 141 : 🤯🥴

Adios Jakarta 🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩

Hello Nusantara 🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩

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Level 66
Aug 17, 2024
I came to ask about the reset, "is this for Nusantara?"

Answer = yes. Thanks for the sticky comment at the top to tell me!

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Level 92
Aug 17, 2024
Not enough time.
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Level 88
Aug 17, 2024
I would accept both. Nusantara will be completed in 2045...
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Level 89
Aug 18, 2024
Damned optimist
+1
Level 85
Aug 17, 2024
3 minutes left
+6
Level 17
Aug 17, 2024
bruh
+8
Level 53
Aug 17, 2024
nusantara just doesn't hit like jakarta does 💔
+2
Level 54
Aug 17, 2024
Palestine capital is Ramallah and please accept Beograd as Belgrade
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Level 66
Aug 18, 2024
Palestine is not recognized by the Jetpunk community. If you have any complaints, ask Quizmaster. I doubt they will refer to your changes, though.
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Level 89
Aug 18, 2024
Palestine is recognised by plenty of people in the Jetpunk community. Myself included.
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Level 32
Aug 19, 2024
and where do you place its borders?
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Level 60
Aug 17, 2024
Isn't Nur-Sultan the capital of Kazakhstan?
+5
Level 87
Aug 17, 2024
It was changed back to Astana in 2022
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Level 43
Aug 17, 2024
I was never expecting Indonesia to change its capital.
+2
Level 39
Aug 18, 2024
What can i say? overpopulation, and dutch genes (if you know what i mean)
+2
Level 66
Aug 18, 2024
Also the land under Jakarta is sinking
+1
Level 50
Aug 17, 2024
YOU ADD AN UPDATE FOR NUSANTARA, BUT IT STILL DISPLAYS JAKARTA AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH
+2
Level 66
Aug 19, 2024
JAKARTAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH?
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Level 55
Aug 19, 2024
It seems Indonesia didn't change its capital.
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Level 38
Aug 18, 2024
Super confusing, Nusantara being the new capital for Indonesia...
+2
Level 85
Aug 18, 2024
From what I can see, it was scheduled to change over to Nusantara on the 17th, but has been delayed as the infrastructure is not ready yet.
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Level 77
Aug 25, 2024
According to Wikipedia (and other sources), the planned city of Nusantara is scheduled to be completed by 2045. Considering the project started only in 2022, it would indeed be way too early to make it the capital now.
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Level 79
Aug 18, 2024
I don't think you should accept Kingstown for the capital of Jamaica. I know it's close to Kingston, but it is different.
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Level 32
Aug 19, 2024
It's pretty annoying that entering Kingston would also input Kingstown.

It's two different spellings, two different cities, two different countries.

What's the point of robbing the victory from us?

Just leave it as a normal answer... which it is

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Level 47
Aug 20, 2024
change the capital of sri lanka to colombo, have mentioned it more than once
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Level 64
Aug 20, 2024
I could see adding Colombo as an option, but there's no reason to change it and remove Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte.
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Level 47
Aug 21, 2024
yep that's what i mean, adding colombo as an option, otherwise it makes no sense
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Level 45
Sep 1, 2024
195/196, didn’t know how to spell the Myanmar (Burma) capital!
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Level 43
Sep 14, 2024
I feel like whenever I take this quiz I miss something really obvious like ankara
+1
Level 66
Oct 1, 2024
Same, I missed South Africa which literally has 3 possible answers
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Level 66
Oct 1, 2024
Man I tried D'Jamena and N'Jamena and of course it was N'Djamena... I need to work on my spelling