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GeographyWorld Capitals
Capitals are pure recall: there is no rule that derives them. Below: the handful that people get wrong most often, and a memory hook for each.
Choose your difficulty
Pick a level to start playing. You can switch at any time.
How to play
Read the country, then tap its capital.
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GeographyWhat you are actually practicing
Capitals are pure recall. There is no rule that derives them, no pattern that predicts them, and no shortcut that works for a country you have never seen on a map. That makes them a good test of honest memorisation — and it also means the game is only as good as the list behind it.
Where capitals do help is as anchors: knowing Ankara is the capital of Turkey is how you remember that Istanbul is not.
How the game works
You are shown a country and four capitals. Pick the right one. A wrong pick reveals it immediately, so a miss costs a point but teaches a fact.
Easy uses the capitals most people meet first. Medium widens the set. Hard uses the full list, including the countries whose largest city is not the capital.
The ones worth knowing
Largest city is not the capital: Turkey (Ankara, not Istanbul), Brazil (Brasília, not Rio), Canada (Ottawa, not Toronto), Australia (Canberra, not Sydney).
Recently built capitals: Brasília, Canberra and Ottawa were all purpose-built as capitals, which is exactly why they are not the famous city.
Easy confusions: Sweden (Stockholm) and Norway (Oslo); Portugal (Lisbon) and Spain (Madrid).
Strategies that actually raise your score
Reject by continent first. If three options sit on the wrong continent, the answer is settled without any recall at all. This works on most questions.
Use the "-ia" family as a check. Austria, Australia and Argentina are different continents; their capitals (Vienna, Canberra, Buenos Aires) sound nothing alike, which makes them easy to separate once you know the words.
Learn the four "not the biggest city" cases as a set. They account for more wrong answers than everything else combined, and they are memorable precisely because they are surprising.
Say the capital with its country. "Ankara, Turkey" sticks far better than "Ankara" alone, because the pair is what the question actually asks for.