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Asian Capitals Quiz

We name a capital city, you click its country on the map. Can you place all 47?

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Asian Capitals Quiz

47 capitals. We name a capital, you click its country on the map. Three tries each.

How to play

Press Start. The name of a capital city shows at the top of the map: click the country it belongs to. Right on the first try turns the country green; right after a miss turns it amber; after three misses it turns red and the quiz moves on. A wrong click shows the name of the country you clicked. To test just the capitals, point at a country to see its name, or tick Show country names to write the names on the map (zoom in for the small ones). A run with names shown says so on the result card and keeps its own best time. The smallest countries have a circle: click inside it. When you finish, practice just the capitals you missed, or learn the countries first in the Asia map quiz.

The 47 countries and their capitals

Western Asia

  • Armenia Yerevan
  • Azerbaijan Baku
  • Bahrain Manama
  • Georgia Tbilisi
  • Iraq Baghdad
  • Jordan Amman
  • Kuwait Kuwait City
  • Lebanon Beirut
  • Oman Muscat
  • Qatar Doha
  • Saudi Arabia Riyadh
  • Syria Damascus
  • Turkey Ankara
  • United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi
  • Yemen Sanaa

Central Asia

  • Kazakhstan Astana
  • Kyrgyzstan Bishkek
  • Tajikistan Dushanbe
  • Turkmenistan Ashgabat
  • Uzbekistan Tashkent

South Asia

  • Afghanistan Kabul
  • Bangladesh Dhaka
  • Bhutan Thimphu
  • India New Delhi
  • Iran Tehran
  • Maldives Malé
  • Nepal Kathmandu
  • Pakistan Islamabad
  • Sri Lanka Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte

East and North Asia

  • China Beijing
  • Japan Tokyo
  • Mongolia Ulaanbaatar
  • North Korea Pyongyang
  • Russia Moscow
  • South Korea Seoul
  • Taiwan Taipei

Southeast Asia

  • Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan
  • Cambodia Phnom Penh
  • Indonesia Jakarta
  • Laos Vientiane
  • Malaysia Kuala Lumpur
  • Myanmar Naypyidaw
  • Philippines Manila
  • Singapore Singapore
  • Thailand Bangkok
  • Timor-Leste Dili
  • Vietnam Hanoi

Study on paper first

Print the labeled map of Asia to study, then test yourself on the blank map of Asia: write in every country you know, check it against the labeled map, and play again here. There are closer maps of East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Middle East.

Questions

How many capitals are in this quiz?

47, one for each country the quiz asks.

Which Asian capitals do people get wrong?

Ankara (not Istanbul) in Turkey, Astana (not Almaty) in Kazakhstan, Naypyidaw (not Yangon) in Myanmar, Islamabad (not Karachi) in Pakistan and Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, next to Colombo, in Sri Lanka. Indonesia is building a new capital, Nusantara, but Jakarta is still the capital until the move is made official.

Why are Israel and Palestine grey?

Both claim Jerusalem as their capital and most countries do not settle the question, so this quiz leaves them out. They are asked in the Asia map quiz.

How is the score worked out?

Your score is the share of capitals you placed on the first try. A capital you place on the second or third try turns its country amber and does not count toward the score; after three misses the country turns red and the quiz moves on.

Can my class use this?

Yes, free, with no sign-up and no ads. At the end, students type their name and take a screenshot of the result card (map, score, time and date) to hand in.

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