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Countries, U.S. States, and Capitals on the World Map

Try to name as many countries, U.S. states, world capitals, and U.S. state capitals as you can.
In order not to overlap US States, "United States" only highlights Puerto Rico
Quiz by scambigol
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Last updated: February 28, 2023
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First submittedOctober 22, 2017
Times taken83,689
Average score76.4%
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Abu Dhabi
Abuja
Accra
Addis Ababa
Afghanistan
Alabama
Alaska
Albania
Albany
Algeria
Algiers
Amman
Amsterdam
Andorra
Andorra la Vella
Angola
Ankara
Annapolis
Antananarivo
Antigua and Barbuda
Apia
Argentina
Arizona
Arkansas
Armenia
Ashgabat
Asmara
Astana
Asuncion
Athens
Atlanta
Augusta
Austin
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Baghdad
Bahamas
Bahrain
Baku
Bamako
Bandar Seri Begawan
Bangkok
Bangladesh
Bangui
Banjul
Barbados
Basseterre
Baton Rouge
Beijing
Beirut
Belarus
Belgium
Belgrade
Belize
Belmopan
Benin
Berlin
Bern
Bhutan
Bishkek
Bismarck
Bissau
Bloemfontein
Bogota
Boise
Bolivia
Bosnia and
Herzegovina
Boston
Botswana
Brasilia
Bratislava
Brazil
Brazzaville
Bridgetown
Brunei
Brussels
Bucharest
Budapest
Buenos Aires
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cairo
California
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Canberra
Cape Town
Cape Verde
Caracas
Carson City
Castries
Central African
Republic
Chad
Charleston
Cheyenne
Chile
China
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Chisinau
Colombia
Colorado
Columbia
Columbus
Comoros
Conakry
Concord
Connecticut
Copenhagen
Costa Rica
Cotonou
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Dakar
Damascus
Delaware
D. R Congo
Denmark
Denver
Des Moines
Dhaka
Dili
Djibouti
Djibouti
Dodoma
Doha
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Dover
Dublin
Dushanbe
East Timor
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia
F. S. Micronesia
Fiji
Finland
Florida
France
Frankfort
Freetown
Funafuti
Gabon
Gaborone
Gambia
Georgetown
Georgia
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Gitega
Greece
Grenada
Guatemala
Guatemala City
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Hanoi
Harare
Harrisburg
Hartford
Havana
Hawaii
Helena
Helsinki
Honduras
Honiara
Honolulu
Hungary
Iceland
Idaho
Illinois
India
Indiana
Indianapolis
Indonesia
Iowa
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Islamabad
Israel
Italy
Ivory Coast
Jackson
Jakarta
Jamaica
Japan
Jefferson City
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Jerusalem
Jordan
Juba
Juneau
Kabul
Kampala
Kansas
Kathmandu
Kazakhstan
Kentucky
Kenya
Khartoum
Kigali
Kingston
Kingstown
Kinshasa
Kiribati
Kosovo
Kuala Lumpur
Kuwait
Kuwait City
Kyiv
Kyrgyzstan
La Paz
Lansing
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libreville
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lilongwe
Lima
Lincoln
Lisbon
Lithuania
Little Rock
Ljubljana
Lome
London
Louisiana
Luanda
Lusaka
Luxembourg
Luxembourg
Madagascar
Madison
Madrid
Maine
Majuro
Malabo
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Male
Mali
Malta
Managua
Manama
Manila
Maputo
Marshall Islands
Maryland
Maseru
Massachusetts
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mbabane
Mexico
Mexico City
Michigan
Minnesota
Minsk
Mississippi
Missouri
Mogadishu
Moldova
Monaco
Monaco
Mongolia
Monrovia
Montana
Montenegro
Montevideo
Montgomery
Montpelier
Morocco
Moroni
Moscow
Mozambique
Muscat
Myanmar
N'Djamena
Nairobi
Namibia
Nashville
Nassau
Answer
Nauru
Naypyidaw
Nebraska
Nepal
Netherlands
Nevada
New Delhi
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
New Zealand
Ngerulmud
Niamey
Nicaragua
Nicosia
Niger
Nigeria
North Carolina
North Dakota
North Korea
North Macedonia
Norway
Nouakchott
Nukuʻalofa
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oklahoma City
Olympia
Oman
Oregon
Oslo
Ottawa
Ouagadougou
Pakistan
Palau
Palikir
Panama
Panama City
Papua New
Guinea
Paraguay
Paramaribo
Paris
Pennsylvania
Peru
Philippines
Phnom Penh
Phoenix
Pierre
Podgorica
Poland
Port Louis
Port Moresby
Port-au-Prince
Port-of-Spain
Port-Vila
Porto-Novo
Portugal
Prague
Praia
Pretoria
Pristina
Providence
Pyongyang
Qatar
Quito
Rabat
Raleigh
Rep. of the Congo
Reykjavik
Rhode Island
Richmond
Riga
Riyadh
Romania
Rome
Roseau
Russia
Rwanda
Sacramento
Saint George's
Saint John's
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Paul
Saint Vincent and
the Grenadines
Salem
Salt Lake City
Samoa
San Jose
San Marino
San Marino
San Salvador
Sana'a
Santa Fe
Santiago
Santo Domingo
Sao Tome
São Tomé and
Príncipe
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Sarajevo
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Seoul
Serbia
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Singapore
Skopje
Slovakia
Slovenia
Sofia
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa
South Carolina
South Dakota
South Korea
South Sudan
South Tarawa
Spain
Springfield
Sri
Jayawardenepura
Kotte
Sri Lanka
Stockholm
Sucre
Sudan
Suriname
Suva
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Taipei
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Tallahassee
Tallinn
Tanzania
Tashkent
Tbilisi
Tegucigalpa
Tehran
Tennessee
Texas
Thailand
Thimphu
Tirana
Togo
Tokyo
Tonga
Topeka
Trenton
Trinidad and Tobago
Tripoli
Tunis
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Uganda
Ukraine
Ulaanbaatar
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
Uruguay
Utah
Uzbekistan
Vaduz
Valletta
Vanuatu
Vatican City
Vatican City
Venezuela
Vermont
Victoria
Vienna
Vientiane
Vietnam
Vilnius
Virginia
Warsaw
Washington
Washington
Wellington
West Virginia
Windhoek
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Yamoussoukro
Yaounde
Yaren
Yemen
Yerevan
Zagreb
Zambia
Zimbabwe
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Level 68
Dec 30, 2021
I definitely need more time. For a European all these US states and especially capital cities are a disaster. I completed the rest of the world within the 20 minutes.
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Level 90
Sep 8, 2022
If you don't know them the time won't help you.
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Level 70
Feb 11, 2024
having the hint of where it fits in the overall alphabetical list is a good memory jogger though.
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Level 56
Dec 30, 2021
Great quiz but 5 more minutes of time would make it even better as it would be about knowledge instead of speedtyping.
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Level 55
Jan 20, 2022
Finally just hit 15:30 after a few months of some weekly attempts. I'm interested in anybody else's scores?
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Level 46
Apr 8, 2022
I know all the names/places. I'm just too slow on the keyboard! Only made 79% before time ran out.
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Level 58
Aug 17, 2023
Check this in case you're a desktop user.
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Level 57
Apr 12, 2022
I know all of them i just cant make it in time:(
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Level 57
Apr 13, 2022
Aw shiet i finally did it with 1:31 left. Jeez
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Level 68
Jun 4, 2022
So I finish everything but still have one left. What the heck could it be??? Oh!! USA!
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Level 84
Jun 4, 2022
Yeah. Didn't think I needed to type USA having already done every state.
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Level 63
Jun 4, 2022
update please
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Level 57
Jun 4, 2022
Dang, missed Pierre, Concord and Jefferson City! Almost perfect but oh well :P

Coolio quiz! (though it does need a few updates :D)

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Level 55
Jul 16, 2022
Been coming back to this quiz for a few years now to see if I can get faster times, I think its a great quiz and one that should and could be up there with the generic countries of the world and the US states. If the map of the US would align with the map underneath it and if some of the capitals were updated like Burundi's going to Gitega, apart from that I think this deserves all the nominations in the world as its one for the geo-veterans.
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Level 74
Sep 4, 2022
Swaziland should be Eswatini and Benin also has Cotonou as a capital, if you intend to have this quiz be in accordance with the Capitals of the World quiz.
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Level 63
Sep 4, 2022
I was stuck on 494/495 for a solid 2 minutes before I read the caveat in the description and realized how dumb I am...
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Level 63
Nov 23, 2022
A great quiz, I really enjoyed it!! But please, update it so Swaziland > Eswatini and Bujumbura > Gitega :)
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Level 65
Dec 7, 2022
not enough time to type this even you have every capital memorized even if you know all the USA

only if you memorize all the country capitals

so many languages maybe by continent first to learn

still pretty impossible

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Level 53
Dec 8, 2022
needs really an extra 5 minutes, i type sprinted for 20 minutes and i was still left with a few states, this quiz is rather about your typing speed than anything.
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Level 60
Dec 8, 2022
100% with 36 seconds left, phew just in time!
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Level 63
Dec 11, 2022
severely outdated, and also way too little time. Add about five minutes and update to current capitals.
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Level 80
Dec 20, 2022
More about typing speed than a quiz.

Otherwise I would enjoy it though it needs updating with current names/capitals

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Level 85
Feb 27, 2023
Completed in 15:14. Being a nerd sometimes could be useful
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Level 60
Feb 27, 2023
Haven't done this quiz in a while. Got em all with 40 mins left and I'm REALLY satisfied rn
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Level 87
Feb 27, 2023
finished in 21:23
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Level 71
Feb 27, 2023
Eswatini is still listed as Swaziland.
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Level 95
Feb 27, 2023
18:12. Let down by typing.
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Level 83
Feb 28, 2023
Falklands don’t turn green.
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Level 73
Feb 28, 2023
Neither do the Faroe islands.
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Level 80
Feb 28, 2023
Cotonou was sneaky. I had done Porto-Novo. Got to the end and had 1 missing. Zoomed in all over the map and couldn't find the missing one as Porto-Novo completely covered it! Suddenly came to me.

Great quiz though, now the time is increased.

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Level 95
Feb 28, 2023
I was right there with you. I scrolled down to look at the list and noticed it was a "C" country or capital missing and then it clicked and I got Cotonou.
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Level 75
Mar 6, 2023
I'm not sure it's sneaky so much as wrong?
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Level 86
Mar 10, 2023
This was an awesome quiz, but I had the same issues. I didn't think of Cotonou while looking at the list, and had a hard time seeing the circle on the map. The combination made finding that last spot challenging. I would recommend shrinking the circles when zoomed in if possible. That would help with identifying locations in the dense areas.
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Level 70
Feb 14, 2024
I'd like to see the dots disappear once guessed.
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Level 84
Feb 28, 2023
The Falklands, Isle of Man, and Shetlands don't highlight when you guess United Kingdom.
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Level 83
Feb 28, 2023
Completed all but 5 in 20 minutes, then spent another 10 minutes looking for the remaining 5. Can be hard to see missing countries under the capital bubbles. Loved it otherwise.
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Level 74
Feb 28, 2023
Got through the Americas...but I'm just too exhausted to continue. Yikes. I should be getting paid to work this hard!
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Level 73
Mar 1, 2023
took me less than half an hour. Yeh !
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Level 59
Mar 1, 2023
why do 50% of people know Cotonou
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Level 62
Aug 25, 2023
To be fair its based on the geography nerds ( like myself) that take these quizes. Most normal people would have never heard of it.
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Level 81
Mar 1, 2023
excellent
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Level 69
Mar 4, 2023
23 minutes! I blacked out and My fingers were like lightning. Very fun but I think this quiz deserves 15 points if u get em all. Shouldn’t be the same points for this quiz and JUST the countries of South America quiz.
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Level 71
Mar 4, 2023
A real challenge of a quiz. Thank you.
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Level 67
Mar 4, 2023
495/496 :(
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Level 68
Mar 6, 2023
No way

What was missing?

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Level 79
Mar 4, 2023
Got all in 12:45! (first try)
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Level 25
Mar 4, 2023
I just saw I had an hour and was like holy crap no way I'm gonna do an hour long quiz, so I only got 1/496.
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Level 59
Mar 4, 2023
it only took me 40 minutes but i guess thats still long
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Level 56
Mar 4, 2023
Completed in 22:52, except I didn't know Cotonou (won't miss that one again lol)!
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Level 63
Mar 4, 2023
What happened to Hudson Bay?
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Level 77
Mar 5, 2023
It's so encouraging to note that more people know Texas than know China.
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Level 71
Mar 5, 2023
Finished the quiz with 39 minutes to spare on my first try. Easy quiz
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Level 52
Mar 6, 2023
35 mins left 😛
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Level 60
Mar 6, 2023
I got all the way down to 495/496 with 36 mins to go and I could not for the life of me figure out what I had missed because the whole map was green... took me another 10 minutes to realise it was Rhode Island
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Level 78
Mar 6, 2023
I would try this quiz, but I know I would do quite 'well', only to find out that I'm in the 40th percentile with 1 point. No, I will leave this to you lot
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Level 62
Mar 6, 2023
Whew! 100%, time used: 25:35

That was a lot of work. I only forgot Annapolis, Maryland in the US (my own country, but it's crowded in that region).

One tip: do all the small countries/capitals first, so as to not forget them (Vatican City, San Marino, etc). Focusing on the ones that are difficult to see on the map helps, since you can't ignore the big ones.

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Level 61
Mar 7, 2023
anyone else nearly miss the United States?
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Level 53
Mar 7, 2023
I missed 4 countries and scored a 358/496. I missed the USA (sigh) because it was already highlighted by the states.
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Level 49
Mar 7, 2023
491/496 36 minutes left
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Level 59
Mar 7, 2023
Perfect score, 43 minutes remaining
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Level 71
Mar 10, 2023
This American got all the (easy for me) US states and capitals, did fair with international capitals, and got all the countries ... or so I thought. Read the instructions, including the tip about the USA highlighting Puerto Rico. And then ... didn't type it in. *facepalm*
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Level 59
Mar 15, 2023
I have expected it to be really hard but it was pretty easy, I got it in 20 minutes.
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Level 43
Mar 18, 2023
This is the ultimate geography quiz
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Level 50
Apr 12, 2023
Just finished it in 16:56. Mbabane almost made me quit at 495/496 but I remembered!
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Level 50
Aug 1, 2023
Random update but I have shaved off exactly a minute
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Level 67
Apr 22, 2023
I loved the quiz, but could you shrink the capital circles a little, at least when zoomed in on regions where there are a lot of capital cities
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Level 45
Apr 23, 2023
I completed it! I love, love love this quiz. The best one I have found. Thank you! Will try to lower my time.
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Level 63
Apr 28, 2023
Done in 19:47. Delaware, you sneaky little rascal.
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Level 63
Apr 28, 2023
Remove La Paz. La Paz is not a capital of Bolivia.
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Level 63
May 31, 2023
He said, confidently.

Just type Bolivia on Google, it’s a 3 seconds search.

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Level 65
Apr 29, 2023
no freaking little red dottee for Bahrain?? I searched and I searched and i searched.... 190/196
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Level 60
May 19, 2023
496/496 awesome, it was great to be given an appropriate amount of time. Most quizzes rush you with arbitrarily short time limits and it's harder to think then. Great quiz.
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Level 55
May 23, 2023
finished with 44 minutes left, pretty chill but I was confused with one left until I realized I hadn't typed USA yet
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Level 47
May 25, 2023
I want to try this if only it has no "US States" in it.
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Level 34
May 28, 2023
i finished with a little bit more than 30 minutes remaining. it would have been 33 minutes if i had found delaware.
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Level 20
May 28, 2023
Benin's capital is Porto-Novo. Thank you.
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Level 63
May 31, 2023
There are two capitals.
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Level 43
Jul 31, 2023
Finished in 57:35 hopefully I can get it under 45 minutes in the future
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Level 43
Aug 24, 2023
I did this in under 20 minutes and 5 of those were spent away from my keyboard...
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Level 66
Aug 25, 2023
The person who made the arrogant (and ungrammatical) comment on May 6 has a very offensive user name. Is this ok???
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Level ∞
Aug 26, 2023
No definitely not. That user has now been banned.
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Level 62
Aug 25, 2023
Did it in 28 minutes. That was fun!
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Level 71
Sep 13, 2023
Great quiz, but please add a feature allowing you to see places you're missing (some other quizzes have black dots, for example). The circles for the capitals are so large that they completely cover small countries like Kosovo and Montenegro, which made me miss them.
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Level 46
Sep 15, 2023
35:14 left 496/496 :D
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Level 53
Sep 19, 2023
Got 447/496, which definitely isn't bad for 14 year old on a school Chromebook :D
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Level 37
Sep 22, 2023
Colombo?
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Level 87
Oct 12, 2023
This
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Level 63
Sep 29, 2023
What happened to Quebec and James Bay?
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Level 68
Nov 9, 2023
Wasn't asked for.
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Level 68
Nov 9, 2023
This is just the quiz for nerds like myself, but...

There are definitely some issues with the visibility of small countries/states if the capital dot above is already green.

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Level 56
Nov 13, 2023
22:56... i think i did good for my first time
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Level 58
Dec 12, 2023
I think this quiz needs a *show remaining countries* option like the OG countries of the world quiz. With the circles for the capitals sometimes its very hard to see if you've hit a country even after zooming in.
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Level 55
Dec 19, 2023
I think you should reduce time by 10-15 mins (I used 19:46).

I do not understand why you have to also type Cotonou for Benin, while the capital city is Porto Novo

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Level 31
Dec 27, 2023
After learning all the countries, capitals, states, etc over 2 years ago now with some rehearsal since, I returned to this quiz.

I find if you want to complete the quiz at the hardest difficulty, don't use the map (zoom in to the bottom left corner).

I completed the quiz with 100% after 21 minutes 15 seconds with no map or using the answer chart.

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Level 79
Jan 23, 2024
This desperately needs a "show unanswered" map option.
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Level 40
Feb 7, 2024
Awesome quiz. With all this extra time added, it would be fun to add Canadian provinces and capitals!
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Level 70
Feb 11, 2024
Does anyone else have trouble seeing some of the smaller states and countries as they are obscured by the capital circles? I'd like a way to turn the cities on and off to see which areas are missing.
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Level 60
Feb 29, 2024
I got 494/496.... 4 Points. I will never forget Dominica and Kosovo ever again. Time is definitely not an issue, had 30 minutes to spare but couldn't be bothered to look for the ones I missed since they were covered by others
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Level 47
Mar 20, 2024
Cool quiz. 496/496, used 15:34 and had 44:26 remaining.
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Level 49
Mar 27, 2024
Quizmaster, is there a reason why you would accept 'Mexico', "Guatemala', 'Salt Lake', ... but not 'Oklahoma', 'Jefferson', ...?

I wouldn't mind a correction in either direction, but right now, it doesn't really make sense to me?

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Level ∞
Mar 27, 2024
Because the world doesn't conform to consistency expectations of trivia takers.

Salt Lake City is often called simply "Salt Lake". "I was in Salt Lake this weekend for a conference".

Oklahoma City is not generally called "Oklahoma".

When it comes to Mexico and Guatemala I was assured by people in those places that leaving "City" out was appropriate.