Capital Cities with the Same Name as Their Country

Andorra's capital is Andorra la Vella, so if you allow Andorra, you should also allow Sao Tome for consistency's sake. Other than that, great quiz.

Or you guys can all realize it's translated to Andorra City (or village, town, something in that area).

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Yes, Vella is similar to our french "Ville", which means City. The funny thing is that, even in French, we mistranslate in "Andorre-la-Vieille".

English Wikipedia states something else now, but Catalan version stays and links to Catalan encyclopedia, so it seems to be correct. The issue is that Vella means old in modern Catalan, but not originally.

The problem is that Vella is not the foreign language equivalent of city (whatever meaning is placed on the word), so the instructions should be altered or Andorra should be removed. Maybe is should say foreign language/old forms of the foreign language. But even then, Vella more closely translates to village rather than city, even if it is understood that village in this case means city.

Currently Wikipedia states that it literally means "Andorra the Old"

The Catalan version of Viquipedia states:

"The nickname Old , ie the town , was later added to distinguish the town's namesake whole territory and perhaps also to underline their capital."

However you slice it, Vella is not the foreign language equivalent in modern Catalan. Understood that this may be a local nick name which people consider to mean city, however modern Catalan has an equivalent word for city, ciutat. You should change the instructions, or remove Andorra. Alternatively you could fill in Andorra.

Beautiful! I particularly like the reference that Andorra la Vella is a giant shopping mall.

I enjoy your quizzes, thanks for making them. However, this is still wrong. Vella = the old city = city, is not acceptable according to the instructions. You should gray out Andorra at the very least.

I have a basic understanding of the language. Friends of mine are professors in Barcelona that have a mastery of the language. I should have them comment on here. Someone else pointed out that the quiz says "add city to the name." Technically la Vella would also be adding the article "the." So it again does not qualify. You should gray it out and give that answer, IMO. Thanks again for the quizzes.

Wikipedia is not in any way an accurate source of information. If you would like, you could check to see if the swarms of common internet buffoons who write and overwrite each other on every article have footnoted a legitimate source. If so, THAT is the source, not the Wikipedia article that was written by literally anyone (more like multitudes of anyone) on Earth with an internet connection.

I think Andorra should be accepted as a type-in for Andorra la Vella

So, I was in Munich for a conference and met with a colleague who is a native Catalan speaker, lives in Barcelona, has family in Andorra, and visits Andorra at least once a year. I proposed our dilemma about the name Andorra la Vella. He said it is Andorra the Old, to distinguish it from the surrounding newer area. He claimed that only the city was originally considered Andorra, thus Andorra the Old refers to the old Andorra. There was a further history lesson, but I had too many beers to remember as we were in Munich. I should have recorded him. Wikipedia has changed a few times now and it now says it is Andorra the Town rather than City. I don't claim that my friend or Wiki are the absolute authority. I asked about the mistake Vila vs. Vella, he said Vella was added post 16th century when modern Catalan was already in use. There is conflicting information all over the interwebs on this subject.

yeah well what about brazil????

Oh dear.

Seals did 9/11?

Guinea-Bissau isn't really a near miss. They just appended the name of the capital onto the name of the country, to distinguish it from all the other countries named Guinea. If you included it, you'd have to also consider including, for example, Congo-Brazzaville.

For completionists sake, other a little bit further misses could be Belize/Belmopan (city is a merge of the name of the country and a river) and Maldives/Male (the country name means "isles of Male").

(And same for Sao Tome)

Certainly not useless in my opinion! You’ve definitely come a long way from then!