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Monday 25 July 2011

Capital cities of the world

I've been playing Google's app "Beat The Buzz", and one of the challenges is to type as fast as possible, the Capital Cities of the World.

I've googled and found via http://geographyfieldwork.com/WorldCapitalCities.htm a list of 200.


Capital City Country
Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates
Abuja Nigeria
Accra Ghana
Addis Ababa Ethiopia
Algiers Algeria
Amman Jordan
Andorra la Vella Andorra
Ankara Turkey
Antananarivo Madagascar
Apia Samoa
Ashgabat Turkmenistan
Asmara Eritrea
Astana Kazakhstan
Asuncion Paraguay
Athens Greece
Baku Azerbaijan
Bandar Seri Begawan Brunei
Baghdad Iraq
Bamako Mali
Bangkok Thailand
Bangui Central African Republic
Banjul Gambia
Basseterre Saint Kitts and Nevis
Beijing China
Beirut Lebanon
Belgrade Serbia
Belmopan Belize
Belfast Northern Ireland
Berlin Germany
Bern Switzerland
Bishkek Kyrgyzstan
Bissau Guinea-Bissau
Bogota Colombia
Brasilia Brazil
Bratislava Slovakia
Brazzaville Congo, Republic of the
Bridgetown Barbados
Brussels Belgium
Budapest Hungary
Bucharest Romania
Buenos Aires Argentina
Bujumbura Burundi
Cairo Egypt
Canberra Australia
Caracas Venezuela
Cardiff Wales
Castries Saint Lucia
Cayenne French Guiana
Chisinau Moldova
Colombo Sri Lanka
Conakry Guinea
Copenhagen Denmark
Dakar Senegal
Damascus Syria
Dhaka Bangladesh
Dar es Salaam Tanzania
Dili East Timor
Djibouti Djibouti
Doha Qatar
Dublin Ireland
Dushanbe Tajikistan
Edinburgh Scotland
Freetown Sierra Leone
Gaborone Botswana
Georgetown Guyana
Guatemala City Guatemala
Hanoi Vietnam
Harare Zimbabwe
Havana Cuba
Helsinki Finland
Honiara Solomon Islands
Islamabad Pakistan
Jakarta Indonesia
Juba South Sudan
Kabul Afghanistan
Kathmandu Nepal
Kampala Uganda
Khartoum Sudan
Kiev Ukraine
Kigali Rwanda
Kingston Jamaica
Kingstown Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Kinshasa Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
Kuwait City Kuwait
La Paz Bolivia
Libreville Gabon
Lilongwe Malawi
Lima Peru
Lisbon Portugal
Ljubljana Slovenia
Lome Togo
London England
London United Kingdom
Luanda Angola
Lusaka Zambia
Luxembourg Luxembourg
Madrid Spain
Majuro Marshall Islands
Malabo Equatorial Guinea
Male Maldives
Managua Nicaragua
Manama Bahrain
Manila Philippines
Maputo Mozambique
Maseru Lesotho
Mbabana Swaziland
Melekeok Palau
Mexico City Mexico
Minsk Belarus
Mogadishu Somalia
Monaco Monaco
Monrovia Liberia
Montevideo Uruguay
Moroni Comoros
Moscow Russia
Muscat Oman
Nairobi Kenya
Nassau Bahamas
N'Djamena Chad
New Delhi India
Niamey Niger
Nicosia Cyprus
Nouakchott Mauritania
Nuku'alofa Tonga
Ouagadougou Burkina Faso
Oslo Norway
Ottawa Canada
Palikir Federated States of Micronesia
Panama City Panama
Paramaribo Suriname
Paris France
Phnom Penh Cambodia
Podgorica Montenegro
Port au Prince Haiti
Port Louis Mauritius
Port Moresby Papua New Guinea
Port of Spain Trinidad and Tobago
Port Vila Vanuatu
Porto Novo Benin
Prague Czech Republic
Praia Cape Verde
Pretoria South Africa
Pristina Kosovo
Pyongyang North Korea
Quito Ecuador
Rabat Morocco
Rangoon (Yangon) Myanmar (Burma)
Reykjavik Iceland
Riga Latvia
Riyadh Saudi Arabia
Rome Italy
Roseau Dominica
Saint George's Grenada
Saint John's Antigua and Barbuda
San Jose Costa Rica
San Marino San Marino
San Salvador El Salvador
Sanaa Yemen
Santiago Chile
Santo Domingo Dominican Republic
Sao Tome Sao Tome and Principe
Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina
Seoul South Korea
Singapore Singapore
Skopje Macedonia
Sofia Bulgaria
Stockholm Sweden
Suva Fiji
Taipei Taiwan
Tallinn Estonia
Tarawa Atoll Kiribati
Tashkent Uzbekistan
Tbilisi Georgia
Tegucigalpa Honduras
Tehran Iran
Tel Aviv Israel
Amsterdam Netherlands
Thimphu Bhutan
Tirane Albania
Tokyo Japan
Tripoli Libya
Tunis Tunisia
Ulaanbaatar Mongolia
Vaduz Liechtenstein
Vaiaku village Tuvalu
Valletta Malta
Vatican City Vatican City
Victoria Seychelles
Vienna Austria
Vientiane Laos
Vilnius Lithuania
Warsaw Poland
Washington D.C. United States
Wellington New Zealand
Windhoek Namibia
Yamoussoukro Cote d'Ivoire
Yaounde Cameroon
Yerevan Armenia
No official capital Nauru
Zagreb Croatia

To type out a few cities the quickest, it's probably best to type cities with the fewest number of letters...

Capital City Country
ApiaSamoa
BakuAzerbaijan
BernSwitzerland
DiliEast Timor
DohaQatar
JubaSouth Sudan
KievUkraine
LimaPeru
LomeTogo
MaleMaldives