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European Capitals by Airport Code

Try to guess each capital city of Europe based on the 3-letter IATA code of their largest airport.
Answers must correspond to the yellow box
Excludes Andorra la Vella, Monaco, San Marino, Vaduz, and Vatican City which do not have their own airports (see comments for details)
Quiz by geoffers
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Code
City
AMS
Amsterdam
ARN
Stockholm
ATH
Athens
BEG
Belgrade
BER
Berlin
BRN
Bern
BRU
Brussels
BTS
Bratislava
BUD
Budapest
CDG
Paris
CPH
Copenhagen
DUB
Dublin
FCO
Rome
HEL
Helsinki
Code
City
KBP
Kyiv
KEF
Reykjavik
LHR
London
LIS
Lisbon
LJU
Ljubljana
LUX
Luxembourg
MAD
Madrid
MLA
Valletta
MSQ
Minsk
OSL
Oslo
OTP
Bucharest
PRG
Prague
PRN
Pristina
Code
City
RIX
Riga
RMO
Chisinau
SJJ
Sarajevo
SKP
Skopje
SOF
Sofia
SVO
Moscow
TGD
Podgorica
TIA
Tirana
TLL
Tallinn
VIE
Vienna
VNO
Vilnius
WAW
Warsaw
ZAG
Zagreb
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24 Comments
Crem
+5
Level 69
Jul 14, 2020
Very nice quiz! I would maybe shave off some time, I got the airports I knew the code of (30-ish) and still had 5 minutes left, at which point I could just guess random capitals
geoffers
+2
Level 85
Jul 14, 2020
Thanks! I wasn't sure about the time, have now reduced it to 6 minutes.
Fianchetto
+1
Level 77
Jul 17, 2024
Congrats on second feature!
geoffers
+1
Level 85
Jul 17, 2024
Thanks!
jeffography
+1
Level 93
Jul 17, 2024
Nice! Very tricky.
Emchupi
+1
Level 77
Jul 17, 2024
KBP: Kyiv

KEF: Reykjavik

KIV: Chisinau

LEU: Andorra la Vella

LHR: London

Ah yes, logic 👍🏻

geoffers
+9
Level 85
Jul 17, 2024
LHR for London Heathrow is fairly logical, but I can't explain the others!
eibi
+9
Level 80
Jul 17, 2024
It helps if you happen to know where the airports actually are... Keflavik (near Reykjavik), Borispol (near Kyiv)... and to remember the old name of Podgorica
mrputter
+1
Level 85
Aug 10, 2024
Chisinau is pronounced (something a bit like) "Kishinov" hence the (former) airport code of KIV.
TIWame
+1
Level 75
Aug 10, 2024
Actually, that is more akin to the Russian pronunciation of the city, hence why they recently changed the airport's IATA to RMO (Republica Moldova in Romanian). The way the city is pronounced in Romanian is very similar to the English pronunciation. The airport's former IATA, KIV, was still a remnant of the country's Soviet past, which they are trying to distance themselves from.
fadeaway6193
+1
Level 67
Aug 16, 2024
KEF in Reykjavik is for the nearby Keflavik town apparently, where the airport (I guess) is situated

KBP stands for Kyiv-Boryspil, same story - suburb of Kyiv

LHR - London Heathrow

Some airport codes don't actually coincide with the name of the city. How is Paris CDG? Because the airport is named after Charles de Gaulle

Anyway, whenever I see VNO, I always think about Vnukovo, another Moscow airport instead of Vilnius :)

JoesterToaster
+1
Level 82
Jul 17, 2024
Chisinau is RMO
geoffers
+7
Level 85
Jul 17, 2024
Thanks for pointing that out! I created this quiz four years ago, and the code seems to have changed from KIV to RMO in January 2024.

I have updated the quiz, pending approval.

Rade
+7
Level 92
Jul 18, 2024
Podgorica used to be called Titograd. Hence Code TGD.
Djilas
+2
Level 85
Aug 11, 2024
plenty of old names left in airport codes. LED St petersburg/Leningrad, FRU Bishkek/Frunze etc.
BastienCSL
+1
Level 68
Jul 18, 2024
Andorra have no airport
geoffers
+2
Level 85
Jul 18, 2024
Yes this is a marginal one. I included it because its name is Andorra–La Seu d'Urgell Airport and the Wikipedia page for Andorra la Vella says it is served by LEU.

I guess LEU comes from its original name of La Seu d'Urgell Airfield.

TheRatmeister
+1
Level 91
Aug 8, 2024
Andorra doesn't have its own airport. There is a nearby airport in Spain but if that's included then Rome FCO should be included for Vatican City, Rimini RMI should be included for San Marino, and St Gallen ACH for Lichtenstein.
geoffers
+7
Level 85
Aug 9, 2024
I took the view that having 'Andorra' in the airport's name was enough to include LEU for Andorra la Vella, but I now see that the same is true of RMI whose full name is 'Rimini and San Marino "Federico Fellini" International Airport'.

I have therefore revised the criteria to be:

- Airport must be in the same country as the capital.

- Wikipedia page for the airport must say it serves the capital.

On this basis I have removed Andorra la Vella.

Marli5
+1
Level 38
Aug 16, 2024
Can i translate it to german?
geoffers
+3
Level 85
Aug 17, 2024
Please feel free!
vermiciousknid
+2
Level 90
Aug 16, 2024
Good quiz! Nice mix of easy and more challenging answers. I learned some new things from the comments afterward, too :)
geoffers
+1
Level 85
Aug 17, 2024
Thanks! I have also learnt a lot.

I should probably review the other quizzes in the series to bring them up to the same standard . . .

Sifhraven
+1
Level 73
Apr 23, 2025
This was fun you could use a mixture of logic and knowledge :)
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