Capital city etymologies

Give the capital city based on its name meaning or origin.
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Last updated: September 7, 2016
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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
3 Comments
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Level 78
Sep 7, 2016
Nice :)
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Level 74
Sep 8, 2016
Thanks! How do you get more people to see your quiz? This is one of my first.
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Level 57
Nov 19, 2020
Enjoyed that. About the right difficulty, I think - there were four I didn't get.