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Capitals of the world

The country appears, you type its capital. Or the other way round. As soon as the answer is complete, the next question arrives.

Direction
Region
Timer

Rules

How to play

Pick the direction, a region and a duration. Accents, capitals and hyphens don't matter, and common spellings are accepted: Peking or Beijing, Kiev or Kyiv. For countries with several capitals, each one is accepted. Enter skips to the next question and shows the answer.

The timer goes from 30 seconds to 5 minutes, or no limit. Esc pauses the game: the timer stops and the question is hidden. Your best score is saved on your device for each combination of settings.

In review mode, every missed answer must be copied out before you continue. When the timer ends, the missed questions come back in a loop until you get them all.

Did you know?

Two capitals for Bolivia

Sucre is the constitutional capital, La Paz the seat of government.

Three for South Africa

Pretoria for the government, Cape Town for Parliament, Bloemfontein for the judiciary.

Canberra, a compromise

The city was created from scratch to settle the rivalry between Sydney and Melbourne.

Bern, federal city

The Swiss Constitution names no capital. Bern holds the title of federal city.

Brasília, built from scratch

Brazil's capital was built in a few years and inaugurated in 1960.

The northernmost

Reykjavik is the northernmost capital of a sovereign state in the world.

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