Printable ScholarWorld Capitals Quiz
We name a capital city, you click its country on the map. Can you place all 194?
World Capitals Quiz
194 capitals. We name a capital, you click its country on the map. Three tries each. Tip: use + to zoom in on crowded areas.
For class: type your name, then take a screenshot of this card.
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 World map quiz.
The 194 countries and their capitals
Africa
- Algeria Algiers
- Egypt Cairo
- Libya Tripoli
- Morocco Rabat
- Sudan Khartoum
- Tunisia Tunis
- Benin Porto-Novo
- Burkina Faso Ouagadougou
- Cabo Verde Praia
- Côte d'Ivoire Yamoussoukro
- Gambia Banjul
- Ghana Accra
- Guinea Conakry
- Guinea-Bissau Bissau
- Liberia Monrovia
- Mali Bamako
- Mauritania Nouakchott
- Niger Niamey
- Nigeria Abuja
- Senegal Dakar
- Sierra Leone Freetown
- Togo Lomé
- Angola Luanda
- Cameroon Yaoundé
- Central African Republic Bangui
- Chad N'Djamena
- Democratic Republic of the Congo Kinshasa
- Equatorial Guinea Ciudad de la Paz
- Gabon Libreville
- Republic of the Congo Brazzaville
- São Tomé and Príncipe São Tomé
- Burundi Gitega
- Comoros Moroni
- Djibouti Djibouti
- Eritrea Asmara
- Ethiopia Addis Ababa
- Kenya Nairobi
- Madagascar Antananarivo
- Malawi Lilongwe
- Mauritius Port Louis
- Mozambique Maputo
- Rwanda Kigali
- Seychelles Victoria
- Somalia Mogadishu
- South Sudan Juba
- Tanzania Dodoma
- Uganda Kampala
- Zambia Lusaka
- Zimbabwe Harare
- Botswana Gaborone
- Eswatini Mbabane
- Lesotho Maseru
- Namibia Windhoek
- South Africa Pretoria
Asia
- Afghanistan Kabul
- Armenia Yerevan
- Azerbaijan Baku
- Bahrain Manama
- Bangladesh Dhaka
- Bhutan Thimphu
- Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan
- Cambodia Phnom Penh
- China Beijing
- Cyprus Nicosia
- Georgia Tbilisi
- India New Delhi
- Indonesia Jakarta
- Iran Tehran
- Iraq Baghdad
- Japan Tokyo
- Jordan Amman
- Kazakhstan Astana
- Kuwait Kuwait City
- Kyrgyzstan Bishkek
- Laos Vientiane
- Lebanon Beirut
- Malaysia Kuala Lumpur
- Maldives Malé
- Mongolia Ulaanbaatar
- Myanmar Naypyidaw
- Nepal Kathmandu
- North Korea Pyongyang
- Oman Muscat
- Pakistan Islamabad
- Philippines Manila
- Qatar Doha
- Russia Moscow
- Saudi Arabia Riyadh
- Singapore Singapore
- South Korea Seoul
- Sri Lanka Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
- Syria Damascus
- Taiwan Taipei
- Tajikistan Dushanbe
- Thailand Bangkok
- Timor-Leste Dili
- Turkey Ankara
- Turkmenistan Ashgabat
- United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi
- Uzbekistan Tashkent
- Vietnam Hanoi
- Yemen Sanaa
Europe
- Albania Tirana
- Andorra Andorra la Vella
- Austria Vienna
- Belarus Minsk
- Belgium Brussels
- Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo
- Bulgaria Sofia
- Croatia Zagreb
- Czechia Prague
- Denmark Copenhagen
- Estonia Tallinn
- Finland Helsinki
- France Paris
- Germany Berlin
- Greece Athens
- Hungary Budapest
- Iceland Reykjavik
- Ireland Dublin
- Italy Rome
- Kosovo Pristina
- Latvia Riga
- Liechtenstein Vaduz
- Lithuania Vilnius
- Luxembourg Luxembourg
- Malta Valletta
- Moldova Chisinau
- Monaco Monaco
- Montenegro Podgorica
- Netherlands Amsterdam
- North Macedonia Skopje
- Norway Oslo
- Poland Warsaw
- Portugal Lisbon
- Romania Bucharest
- San Marino San Marino
- Serbia Belgrade
- Slovakia Bratislava
- Slovenia Ljubljana
- Spain Madrid
- Sweden Stockholm
- Switzerland Bern
- Ukraine Kyiv
- United Kingdom London
- Vatican City Vatican City
North America
- Antigua and Barbuda St. John's
- Bahamas Nassau
- Barbados Bridgetown
- Belize Belmopan
- Canada Ottawa
- Costa Rica San José
- Cuba Havana
- Dominica Roseau
- Dominican Republic Santo Domingo
- El Salvador San Salvador
- Grenada St. George's
- Guatemala Guatemala City
- Haiti Port-au-Prince
- Honduras Tegucigalpa
- Jamaica Kingston
- Mexico Mexico City
- Nicaragua Managua
- Panama Panama City
- Saint Kitts and Nevis Basseterre
- Saint Lucia Castries
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Kingstown
- Trinidad and Tobago Port of Spain
- United States Washington, D.C.
South America
- Argentina Buenos Aires
- Bolivia Sucre
- Brazil Brasília
- Chile Santiago
- Colombia Bogotá
- Ecuador Quito
- Guyana Georgetown
- Paraguay Asunción
- Peru Lima
- Suriname Paramaribo
- Uruguay Montevideo
- Venezuela Caracas
Oceania
- Australia Canberra
- Fiji Suva
- Kiribati Tarawa
- Marshall Islands Majuro
- Micronesia Palikir
- New Zealand Wellington
- Palau Ngerulmud
- Papua New Guinea Port Moresby
- Samoa Apia
- Solomon Islands Honiara
- Tonga Nuku'alofa
- Tuvalu Funafuti
- Vanuatu Port Vila
Study on paper first
Print the labeled world map to study, then test yourself on the blank world map: write in every country you know, check it against the labeled map, and play again here.
Questions
How many capitals are in this quiz?
194, one for each country the quiz asks.
Which capitals do people get wrong?
The ones that are not the biggest city: Canberra (not Sydney), Ottawa (not Toronto), Ankara (not Istanbul), Brasília (not Rio de Janeiro), Abuja (not Lagos) and Bern (not Zurich). Equatorial Guinea moved its capital from Malabo to Ciudad de la Paz in January 2026.
Why are some countries grey?
Israel and Palestine both claim Jerusalem as their capital, Western Sahara is disputed and Nauru has no official capital, so this quiz leaves them out. They are all asked in the world 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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