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Random Capitals with Letters Missing

Every other letter of these 20 random capitals has been removed. Can you guess the correct capital?
Answer must correspond to highlighted box!
Some answers may have multiple capitals, and some capitals may appear more than once
Using names exactly as they appear on JetPunk's World Capitals Quiz
Quiz by Stewart
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Last updated: October 9, 2023
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First submittedApril 26, 2022
Times taken22,326
Average score50.0%
Rating4.19
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Hint
Capital
U_A_N_A_T_R
Ulaanbaatar
_I_G_P_R_
Singapore
_B_B_N_
Mbabane
C_N_E_R_
Canberra
O_T_W_
Ottawa
_A_E_U
Maseru
P_R_   L_U_S
Port Louis
_A_O_O_E
Gaborone
_S_G_B_T
Ashgabat
O_L_
Oslo
Hint
Capital
A_M_N
Amman
_R_S_L_A
Brasília
B_O_M_O_T_I_
Bloemfontein
_E_   D_L_I
New Delhi
P_R_   M_R_S_Y
Port Moresby
_R_D_E_O_N
Bridgetown
_A_A_A
Manama | Havana
_O_C_W
Moscow
_O_E
Rome
_U_A_U_I
Funafuti
44 Comments
+4
Level 63
May 4, 2022
It would have been funny if Palikir was on there. Nice quiz, funny to see how this stemmed from my comment!
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Level 86
Jul 27, 2022
My second attempt was weird. I got, back to back, _A_H_N_T_N _.C. and W_S_I_G_O_ D._. Then Gaborone appeared as both _A_O_O_E and G_B_R_N_, non-consecutively.
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Level 83
Jul 27, 2022
_O_E works for 2 capitals that I can think of
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Level 68
Jul 27, 2022
If you're thinking of Lomé, it has an accent ;)
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Level 63
Jun 24, 2023
I got both _O_E and _O_É in one round.
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Level 70
Apr 17, 2023
I got Santo Domingo twice in the same round. Once as _A_T_ D_M_N_O and then two lines below as S_N_O _O_I_G_
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Level 68
Apr 17, 2023
Yes, that is no problem
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Level 51
Apr 17, 2023
Cotonou is not a capital...
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Level 67
Apr 18, 2023
It is the de-facto administrative capital of Benin. If you check Jetpunk's World Capitals Quiz as cited above, it treats Porto-Novo / Cotonou the same way it treats La Paz / Sucre and Pretoria / Cape Town / Bloemfontein. Cotonou is not the only capital of Benin, but it is a capital of Benin.
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Level 67
Apr 18, 2023
Great quiz! I noticed _A_P_I_A_ had a correct answer percentage of 0% which is a rare sight; I wonder how many others have never been answered correctly.
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Level 68
Apr 19, 2023
Based on the Stats page, currently only 5 answers have never been guessed!
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Level 63
Jun 24, 2023
Now only _A_G_O_ hasn't been answered correctly.
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Level 63
Jun 24, 2023
It might be because all the quiztaker can think of is Apia...
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Level 65
Oct 9, 2023
Nur-Sultan is Astana again
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Level 68
Oct 9, 2023
Now fixed
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Level 89
Oct 9, 2023
Kathmandu was not taking for me
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Level 68
Oct 9, 2023
works fine for me, maybe the yellow box was not aligned?
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Level 35
Dec 3, 2023
That was surprisingly difficult and many I didn't know and a couple that I knew but just couldn't guess.
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Level 59
Jan 25, 2025
Thumbs up for that level of difficulty, love it
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Level 79
Jan 25, 2025
Dodoma could also be Bogota, just taken the quiz again and noticed the accent in Bogota, sorry!
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Level 67
Jan 25, 2025
_A_A_A Could as well be Panama or Tarawa
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Level 81
Jan 25, 2025
It's "Panama City" and "South Tarawa" so no.
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Level 81
Jan 25, 2025
World capitals quiz uses "Kyiv", not "Kiev".
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Level 82
Jan 26, 2025
Yes, the world capitals quiz could do with fixing...
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Level 81
Jan 26, 2025
Kyiv is correct. I'm saying this quiz needs to be fixed, since it uses Kiev instead. It specifically says "Using names exactly as they appear on the World Capitals Quiz."
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Level 68
Jan 29, 2025
This is now fixed and updated. Thanks
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Level 71
Jan 26, 2025
Antananarivo in twice? A low blow, quizsetter!
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Level 68
Jan 26, 2025
every capital is in there twice, once starting with _ and once starting with the actual letter
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Level 82
Jan 26, 2025
Any reason why Kingston came up twice? It wasn't Kingston for one and Kingstown for another. It was Kingston repeated.
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Level 68
Jan 26, 2025
read the comment right above yours
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Level 92
Jan 26, 2025
See above

Great quiz, very tricky

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Level 97
Jan 28, 2025
What about _O_O_A? I think it should accept both Bogota and Dodoma.
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Level 68
Jan 29, 2025
Bogotá has an accent on the final character, which means it cannot fit _O_O_A
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Level 74
Feb 1, 2025
Well, no, it can definitely fit _O_O_A since that's the pattern of how it's typed in when you answer any other quiz on this site. Same with Lome and Rome. Making _O_O_A an entry and not accepting the much better known capital that fits the pattern is cutesy pedantry.
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Level 68
Feb 1, 2025
It's about not butchering the official name. There is a separate entry for _O_O_Á and _O_O_A. Just because the typeins allow flexibility for those who cannot type with accents doesn't make it correct to say Bogotá is written Bogota (even in English).

And also, if i remove the answer to combine them, the stats will reset and several more people will complain about their scores being reset.

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Level 74
Feb 1, 2025
The point is that Bogota is an acceptable answer in basically all other quizzes and, while this site attracts plenty of language and geographic particularists, most people on this site are English speakers who generally do not use/remember diacritics when referring to cities/capitals in other places. So it's inconsistent with the rest of the website. I mean, if GM wants to change all other quizzes so that only Bogotá is accepted, then go for it.
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Level 67
Feb 19, 2025
I got Chisinau twice... is that supposed to happen?
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Level 62
Mar 3, 2025
bloemfontein isn't working?
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Level 68
Mar 3, 2025
Works fine for me, was the yellow box aligned correctly?
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Level 47
Mar 3, 2025
Two Tbilisi's, SNEAKY
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Level 43
Mar 3, 2025
I spent about a minute trying and failing to spell "Yamoussoukro" - then at the end of the quiz I noticed that it was in there twice! Very nasty quiz, I enjoyed it!
+3
Level 53
Mar 3, 2025
Couldn't "_A_A_" also be "Sanaa"?
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Level 64
Mar 3, 2025
I feel lied to. Nobody every told me Monaco was the capital of Monaco.
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Level 45
Mar 4, 2025
i've got Kotte twice in a run