116 Capital City Trivia Questions and Answers
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Alofi
Niue is a self-governing island nation in free association with New Zealand, with a total population of only about 1,800 people. Alofi itself is home to just a few hundred residents, split between two small villages, Alofi North and Alofi South.
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What is the capital of Jordan?
Amman
The city was once called Philadelphia after the Macedonian Greek ruler of Egypt, Ptolemy II, who took control of it around 255 BC. A Roman theatre built into a hillside in the 2nd century AD still stands and seated some six thousand spectators in its day.
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What is the capital of the Netherlands?
Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the constitutional capital of the Netherlands.
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What is the capital of Samoa?
Apia
Apia is Samoa's capital on the island of Upolu.
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What is the capital of Eritrea?
Asmara
Its compact center is filled with Futurist, Art Deco and Rationalist buildings put up during Italian colonial rule in the 1930s. More than 4,000 of them survive, and UNESCO listed the city as a World Heritage Site in 2017.
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What is the capital of Kazakhstan?
Astana
The city became Kazakhstan's capital in 1997. It was renamed Nur-Sultan in 2019 to honor former president Nursultan Nazarbayev, then renamed back to Astana in 2022 after his political influence waned.
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What is the capital of Greece?
Athens
The city takes its name from Athena, goddess of wisdom, and has been continuously inhabited for more than 3,000 years. The Parthenon, its best known landmark on the Acropolis, was completed in 438 BC.
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What is the capital of the Cook Islands?
Avarua
Avarua is the Cook Islands' capital on Rarotonga.
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What is the capital of Iraq?
Baghdad
Baghdad is the capital of Iraq.
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What is the capital of Azerbaijan?
Baku
Baku is the capital of Azerbaijan.
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What is the capital of Brunei?
Bandar Seri Begawan
Bandar Seri Begawan is the capital of Brunei.
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What is the capital of the Central African Republic?
Bangui
Bangui is the capital of the Central African Republic.
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What is The capital of The Gambia?
Banjul
Banjul is the capital of The Gambia.
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What is the capital of China?
Beijing
Beijing is the capital of China.
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What is the capital of Lebanon?
Beirut
Beirut is the capital of Lebanon.
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What is the capital of Serbia?
Belgrade
Belgrade is the national capital of Serbia.
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What is the capital of Germany?
Berlin
Berlin is the national capital of Germany.
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What is the capital of Switzerland?
Bern
Bern is Switzerland's federal city and de facto capital.
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What is the capital of Kyrgyzstan?
Bishkek
Bishkek is the capital of Kyrgyzstan.
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What is the capital of the Republic of the Congo?
Brazzaville
Brazzaville is the capital of the Republic of the Congo.
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What is the capital of Belgium?
Brussels
Brussels is the national capital of Belgium.
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What is the capital of Romania?
Bucharest
Bucharest is Romania's capital and its largest city, out on the plain in the south of the country. Its centre is dominated by the Palace of the Parliament, the vast government building Nicolae Ceausescu raised in the 1980s.
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What is the capital of Hungary?
Budapest
Budapest is the national capital of Hungary.
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What is the capital of Argentina?
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires stands on the western shore of the Rio de la Plata. It is one of South America's major cultural and economic centers.
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What is the capital of Australia?
Canberra
Canberra was built to be the capital, chosen as a compromise between the rival claims of Sydney and Melbourne and laid out to a plan by the architects Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin.
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What is the capital of Brazil?
Brasília
Brasília has been Brazil's capital since 1960, when the capital moved inland from Rio de Janeiro.
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What is the capital of Canada?
Ottawa
Ottawa sits in Ontario on the Ottawa River, across the water from Gatineau in Quebec. Queen Victoria picked it in 1857, partly because it stood on the line between English- and French-speaking Canada and far enough inland to be defensible.
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What is the capital of Egypt?
Cairo
Cairo is Egypt's capital and largest metropolitan center, on the Nile.
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What is the capital of Iceland?
Reykjavik
Reykjavik is Iceland's coastal capital and the world's northernmost national capital. Geothermal energy supplies much of its heating.
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Nairobi
Nairobi is Kenya's capital and sits near the country's southern highlands. Nairobi National Park lies immediately south of the city.
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What is the capital of Mongolia?
Ulaanbaatar
Ulaanbaatar lies in the Tuul River valley in north-central Mongolia. It is the country's political and economic center and one of the world's coldest capitals.
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What is the capital of Morocco?
Rabat
Rabat is Morocco's political capital on the Atlantic coast. Casablanca is larger and more commercially prominent, but it is not the national capital.
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What is the capital of New Zealand?
Wellington
Wellington stands at the southern tip of the North Island, on a harbour at the edge of Cook Strait. It took the capital from Auckland in 1865, largely because South Island settlers could actually reach it.
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What is the capital of Nigeria?
Abuja
Abuja is Nigeria's capital; Lagos remains its largest city and a major economic centre.
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What is the capital of Portugal?
Lisbon
Lisbon sits on the Atlantic coast at the mouth of the Tagus River. It is one of western Europe's oldest capital cities.
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What is the capital of Thailand?
Bangkok
Bangkok lies on the Chao Phraya River near the Gulf of Thailand. Its official ceremonial name is one of the world's longest place names.
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What is the capital of Vietnam?
Hanoi
Hanoi is Vietnam's capital; Ho Chi Minh City is the country's largest city.
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What is the capital of Saint Lucia?
Castries
Castries sits around a deep natural harbour on Saint Lucia's northwest coast and is the island's main port, taking the cruise ships that dock beside the city centre.
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What is the capital of Moldova?
Chisinau
Long known by its Russian name Kishinev, the city sits on the Bic River. Wartime bombing and a major 1940 earthquake destroyed most of its old buildings, and the postwar rebuild gave it wide Soviet-style boulevards.
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What is the capital of Denmark?
Copenhagen
The city's name comes from Old Danish words meaning merchants' harbour, first written down in 1253. Since 2000 it has been linked to Sweden by the Oresund Bridge, a combined bridge and tunnel crossing.
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What is the capital of Bangladesh?
Dhaka
Dhaka, on the Buriganga River, is the capital and by far the largest city of Bangladesh, and one of the most densely populated cities on Earth.
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What is the capital of Tanzania?
Dodoma
In 1973 Tanzania's ruling party voted to move the seat of government from Dar es Salaam to the more centrally located Dodoma, though the shift took decades. Parliament didn't arrive until 1996, and most ministries only followed from 2016. Dar es Salaam remains the country's largest city and commercial hub.
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What is the capital of Qatar?
Doha
Doha is the capital of Qatar.
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What is the capital of Ireland?
Dublin
Dublin is the national capital of Ireland.
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What is the capital of Tajikistan?
Dushanbe
Dushanbe is the capital of Tajikistan.
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What is the capital of Tuvalu?
Funafuti
Funafuti is Tuvalu's capital atoll and main population center.
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What is the capital of Botswana?
Gaborone
Gaborone is the capital of Botswana.
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What is the capital of Finland?
Helsinki
Helsinki is the national capital of Finland.
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What is the capital of Solomon Islands?
Honiara
Honiara is the capital of Solomon Islands on Guadalcanal.
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What is the capital of Pakistan?
Islamabad
Islamabad was purpose-built in the 1960s to take over as capital from Karachi, and sits next to the much older city of Rawalpindi.
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What is the capital of South Sudan?
Juba
The city sits on the White Nile and had already served as a regional capital for decades before South Sudan's 2011 independence made it a national one. Plans to relocate the capital to the more centrally located Ramciel have been announced repeatedly but never completed.
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What is the capital of Afghanistan?
Kabul
Kabul sits in a narrow valley in eastern Afghanistan, high in the Hindu Kush. It replaced Kandahar as the capital in 1776.
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What is the capital of Uganda?
Kampala
The name comes from a Luganda phrase meaning 'hill of the impala,' after the antelope that once grazed here on land used as a royal hunting ground by the Buganda kingdom. Like Rome, the city is built across a series of hills.
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What is the capital of Nepal?
Kathmandu
Kathmandu is the capital of Nepal.
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What is the capital of Rwanda?
Kigali
Kigali is the capital of Rwanda.
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What is the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
Kinshasa
Kinshasa is the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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What is the capital of Gabon?
Libreville
Libreville is the capital of Gabon.
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What is the capital of Malawi?
Lilongwe
Zomba served as the capital until 1975, when the government relocated to the purpose-built Lilongwe. Blantyre remains the country's largest city and commercial hub.
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What is the capital of Slovenia?
Ljubljana
Ljubljana is the national capital of Slovenia.
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What is the capital of the United Kingdom?
London
London is the national capital of the United Kingdom.
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What is the capital of Angola?
Luanda
Luanda is the capital of Angola.
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What is the capital of Zambia?
Lusaka
Lusaka is the capital of Zambia.
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What is the capital of Spain?
Madrid
Madrid is the national capital of Spain.
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What is the capital of the Marshall Islands?
Majuro
Majuro is the capital of the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
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What is the capital of the Maldives?
Malé
Malé is the capital of the Maldives. Roughly a quarter of the country's population lives there, packed onto a single island of about two square kilometres, which makes it one of the most densely populated cities on Earth.
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What is the capital of Equatorial Guinea?
Malabo
Malabo is the capital of Equatorial Guinea.
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What is the capital of Bahrain?
Manama
Manama is the capital of Bahrain.
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What is the capital of the Philippines?
Manila
Manila is the capital of the Philippines.
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What is the capital of Mozambique?
Maputo
Maputo is the capital of Mozambique.
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What is the capital of Lesotho?
Maseru
Maseru is the capital of Lesotho.
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What is the capital of Somalia?
Mogadishu
Mogadishu is the capital of Somalia.
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What is the capital of Comoros?
Moroni
Moroni is the capital of Comoros.
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Muscat
Portuguese forces held the city as a fortified naval base from the early 1500s until Omani troops recaptured it in 1650, ending more than a century of occupation. Strict building codes still keep the city's structures low-rise and sand-coloured.
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What is the capital of Chad?
N'Djamena
N'Djamena is the capital of Chad.
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What is The capital of The Bahamas?
Nassau
Nassau is the capital of The Bahamas.
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What is the capital of Myanmar?
Naypyidaw
Naypyidaw has been Myanmar's capital since 2006, when the military government moved the seat of power there from Yangon with almost no warning. It is a purpose-built city of twenty-lane boulevards and ministry compounds, spread over an area many times what its population needs.
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New Delhi
New Delhi is India's capital, a planned city laid out alongside old Delhi under British rule and formally inaugurated in 1931. Mumbai is larger and is the country's financial centre, and Kolkata served as the capital of British India until 1911.
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Ngerulmud
Ngerulmud, in Melekeok State on the island of Babeldaob, became Palau's capital in 2006 when the government moved out of Koror. Only a few hundred people live there, making it one of the least populated national capitals in the world.
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What is the capital of Cyprus?
Nicosia
Nicosia has been the capital of Cyprus since the 10th century and is the last divided capital in Europe: a United Nations buffer zone known as the Green Line cuts through the middle of the city, separating the Republic of Cyprus from the Turkish-held north.
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What is the capital of Mauritania?
Nouakchott
Nouakchott is the capital of Mauritania.
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What is the capital of Tonga?
Nuku'alofa
Nuku'alofa is Tonga's capital on the island of Tongatapu.
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What is the capital of Norway?
Oslo
Oslo is the national capital of Norway.
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What is the capital of Burkina Faso?
Ouagadougou
According to tradition, the Mossi warrior Wubri renamed this settlement Wogdgo, meaning roughly 'come and be honored,' after conquering it in 1441. French colonizers later spelled that name Ouagadougou.
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What is the capital of France?
Paris
Paris is the national capital of France.
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What is the capital of Cambodia?
Phnom Penh
Phnom Penh is the capital of Cambodia.
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What is the capital of Montenegro?
Podgorica
Podgorica is the national capital of Montenegro.
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What is the capital of Mauritius?
Port Louis
Port Louis is the capital of Mauritius.
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What is the capital of Papua New Guinea?
Port Moresby
Port Moresby is Papua New Guinea's capital on the Gulf of Papua.
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What is the capital of Czechia?
Prague
Prague is the national capital of Czechia.
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What is the capital of Cabo Verde?
Praia
Praia is the capital of Cabo Verde.
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What is the capital of North Korea?
Pyongyang
Pyongyang is the capital of North Korea.
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What is the capital of Saudi Arabia?
Riyadh
Riyadh is the capital of Saudi Arabia.
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Rome
Vatican City, an independent state in its own right, sits entirely enclosed within Rome's city limits. Rome's founding is traditionally dated to 753 BC, though it only became Italy's capital in 1871, after the peninsula's unification.
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What is the capital of the Dominican Republic?
Santo Domingo
Santo Domingo is the capital of the Dominican Republic.
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What is the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina?
Sarajevo
Sarajevo is the national capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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What is the capital of North Macedonia?
Skopje
Skopje is the national capital of North Macedonia.
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What is the capital of Bulgaria?
Sofia
Sofia is the national capital of Bulgaria.
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What is the capital of Sweden?
Stockholm
Stockholm is the national capital of Sweden.
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What is the capital of Fiji?
Suva
Suva is Fiji's capital on the island of Viti Levu.
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What is the capital of the country of Georgia?
Tbilisi
Tbilisi sits in a narrow valley on the Kura River. Its name comes from the old Georgian word for warm, after the hot sulphur springs the city grew up around, and domed bathhouses still stand over them in the Abanotubani district.
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What is the capital of Iran?
Tehran
Tehran is the capital of Iran.
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What is the capital of Bhutan?
Thimphu
Thimphu is the capital of Bhutan.
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What is the capital of Albania?
Tirana
Tirana is the national capital of Albania.
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What is the capital of Japan?
Tokyo
Tokyo is the capital of Japan.
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What is the capital of Liechtenstein?
Vaduz
Vaduz is the national capital of Liechtenstein.
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What is the capital of Seychelles?
Victoria
Victoria is the capital of Seychelles.
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What is the capital of Austria?
Vienna
Vienna is the national capital of Austria.
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What is the capital of Laos?
Vientiane
Vientiane is the capital of Laos.
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What is the capital of Poland?
Warsaw
Warsaw is the national capital of Poland.
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What is the capital of the United States?
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., is the federal capital of the United States.
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What is the capital of Cote d'ivoire?
Yamoussoukro
The move from Abidjan became official in 1983, chosen because Yamoussoukro was the birthplace of President Felix Houphouet-Boigny; most government functions never actually relocated there. He also built the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace there, consecrated in 1990 and ranked by Guinness World Records as the largest church in the world.
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What is the capital of Cameroon?
Yaoundé
Yaoundé is the capital of Cameroon.
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What is the capital of Armenia?
Yerevan
Yerevan is the capital of Armenia.
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What is the capital of Croatia?
Zagreb
Zagreb is the national capital of Croatia.
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What is the capital of the Aztec Empire?
Tenochtitlan
Tenochtitlan was the Aztec capital, built on islands in Lake Texcoco. Spanish forces and their Indigenous allies captured it in 1521, and Mexico City was later built on the site.
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What is the capital of the Inca Empire?
Cusco
Cusco was the political and religious center of the Inca Empire in the Andes. The city was laid out in the shape of a puma in traditional accounts of Inca planning.
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