Guess the Capital City Quiz

How to play

1. Each round shows a country’s name and flag, with four cities below it. Pick the city that is its capital.
2. A correct answer is revealed, adds one to your streak and brings up the next round automatically.
3. One wrong answer ends the run, and the right answer is highlighted. There is no timer; press Finish to end a run early.
4. The wrong answers are capitals of other countries on the same continent, never a city the country also counts as a capital. Countries whose capital contains their own name, such as Djibouti, Bissau and São Tomé, are not asked, because the answer would give itself away; the other 183 countries come up once each, in shuffled order, before any repeats.
5. Your result is saved in this browser. Once enough people have played a game, the results also show how your score ranks, and you can copy or share an image of your result, or replay.

Tips for playing

Rule out what you know first: if you can place three of the cities in other countries, the fourth is the answer. Many capitals are not their country’s largest city, such as Canberra, Ottawa, Ankara and Brasília.

Eliminate, then choose

1. Place the cities you know in their own countries first; each one you place is an option ruled out.
2. Countries with similar names are easy to swap: Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia and Ljubljana of Slovenia; Niamey of Niger and Abuja of Nigeria.
3. A capital is the city a country officially names as its capital. It is not always the biggest or best-known city, or even where the government sits: the Netherlands’ capital is Amsterdam, though its government meets in The Hague.

Sources

Source: mledoze/countries · Answers reviewed 2026-10-01

Country data is licensed under ODbL 1.0. We adapt the capital list with accepted alternative spellings and seats of government. Review date is an editorial check, not a claim that all capitals changed on that date.

• mledoze/countries
• Game answer dataset
• Open Database License