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Countries, U.S. States, and Capitals by First Two Letters

In just two minutes, can you guess the first two letters of all the countries of the world, the states of the United States, and the capitals of both?
You'll have to type 320 characters, corresponding to 2.66 characters per second
In order not to overlap U.S. States, "United States" only highlights Puerto Rico
Quiz by scambigol
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Last updated: February 25, 2023
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First submittedNovember 7, 2016
Times taken365,505
Average score57.3%
Rating4.88
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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
Dem. 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
Federated States of
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
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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 J. 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
+66
Level 58
Nov 8, 2016
scambi you enlighten my days and darken my bosses'
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Level 31
Dec 19, 2020
high score is 358
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Level 50
Jul 18, 2022
High score is 402 and still it doesn’t score 5/5 points
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Level 72
Nov 8, 2022
My high score is 411... still not getting 5/5 :(
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Level 68
Sep 10, 2017
I am equal parts terrified and enthralled with this quiz...
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Level 55
Oct 16, 2020
^same
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Level 55
Oct 13, 2017
Maybe accept 'CO' for D.R.Congo and Rep of the Congo?
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Level 92
Sep 1, 2020
And consider DR for DR Congo?
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Level 72
Sep 5, 2020
No, but perhaps accept DE for Democratic Republic of the Congo. That would be more consistent.
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Level 60
Nov 17, 2021
@ing that's what's accepted already.
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Level 60
Oct 11, 2023
It's now fixed.
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Level 53
Oct 24, 2017
You should accept more type in for the likes of Micronesia and Congo though. Amazing quiz, each time I set a new goal, first 350 then 375, now 400.
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Level 50
Jul 18, 2022
Now I get why MI didn’t work for Micronesia, FEderated States Of Micronesia
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Level 31
Feb 4, 2018
this is so good
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Level 45
Apr 23, 2020
Great quiz! Nominated!
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Level 68
Apr 30, 2020
Great job Scambi, another nomination for you.
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Level 36
Jul 30, 2020
Why is this quiz not featured?
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Level 50
Jul 18, 2022
It is now
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Level 88
Sep 2, 2020
320 first try and still only got 1/5
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Level 88
May 3, 2023
old me sucks, I had 440 3rd try today (and got 5/5)
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Level 75
Sep 2, 2020
Funny how some of the capitals wondered into other states
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Level 84
Sep 2, 2020
That was fun, and good retake value. 346 on first try, 2/5. Nice work!
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Level 60
Sep 4, 2020
it’s actually faster to systematically list consonant-vowel and vowel-consonant pairs and then just type common double consonant starts of words like “sw”, “th”, etc until time runs out, than to think about which country/capital/state starts with what letters.
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Level 72
Sep 11, 2020
I think there should be a Jetpunk standard for Ivory Coast / Côte d'Ivoire. In some quizzes both are accepted, in some "Ivory Coast" shows up but not "Côte d'Ivoire". However, in this one "IV" doesn't work at all.
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Level 60
Feb 22, 2022
The standard is Ivory Coast but this quiz might have been made when the standard was the opposite. Most quizzes should accept either.
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Level 46
Sep 18, 2020
Maybe add 30 more seconds
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Level 79
Oct 16, 2020
437/495 first try 😬
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Level 65
Oct 16, 2020
437/495 on third try. Was sweating! Great quiz.
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Level 43
Oct 16, 2020
THAT’S AMAZING!
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Level 58
Oct 16, 2020
Swaziland??? Can you update this to Eswatini please?
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Level 79
Oct 17, 2020
I think most people still know it as Swaziland.
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Level 60
Oct 19, 2020
It shouldn't really matter what most people know it as, its official name is Eswatini.
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Level 75
Oct 16, 2020
This is the most terrifying quiz I have ever seen
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Level 42
Oct 17, 2020
great quiz Scambigol. Just accept Co for Sr. Colombo for Sri Jayawendpura Kotte
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Level 57
Oct 17, 2020
I just typed in consonants and went through the vowels. I got 67%.
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Level 65
Oct 21, 2020
would like an option for more time

there are many quizzes with loads of extra time but this would be better if there were three times to select from:

beginner, intermediate and the advanced one you have here

@6 min @4min crazy hard one @2min

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Level 68
Dec 15, 2020
finally got 495!!!
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Level 51
Dec 20, 2020
my high score is 392
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Level 27
Jan 22, 2021
i got 479
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Level 82
Feb 4, 2021
Got them all in 12 seconds. Piece of cake.
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Level 55
Mar 1, 2021
is there another quiz where you can do it in more time?
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Level 63
Mar 25, 2021
I got the exact average of 299 but it says that beats/equals 47.8% of test takers
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Level 65
Nov 21, 2021
The mean (average) is different than the median
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Level 60
Feb 10, 2023
You could have also tied with like 3%
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Level 61
Apr 21, 2021
Got 429/495 on like my 6th try, can't get 5/5 and it's annoying cos I beat or equal 93.8% of test takers and I'm still not getting 5/5
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Level 39
May 5, 2021
I got Funafuti, but not Netherlands.
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Level 40
Jul 1, 2021
I do ca ce ci co cu, ma me mi mo mu, na ne ni no nu, ta te ti to tu...
+4
Level 85
Aug 1, 2021
Why is Ngerulmud not the capital of Palau on this quiz?
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Level 40
Aug 6, 2021
yea weird
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Level 65
Sep 23, 2021
Very nice quiz, more time would be nice though. Maybe like 4 or 5 minutes instead of 2.
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Level 36
Sep 23, 2021
more time would be better
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Level 65
Nov 21, 2021
Finally got 5/5 with 458
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Level 60
Feb 22, 2022
JetPunk has Palau's capital as Ngerulmud, not Melekeok. Please update this for consistency.
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Level 32
Apr 2, 2022
Finally a quiz where the Georgias are together for their ultimate power.
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Level 53
Jan 10, 2023
where is ngerulmud???
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Level 65
Feb 21, 2023
more time

or different partial quizzes US States, Countries, then Capitals

or... ability to turn the time off in which case no points allocated until we can do it with time on

No point in putting an impossible quiz out there with no way to practice except literally studying rather practice on shorter quizzes by category or be able to turn the time off

I know al the countries, states and their capitals but still

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Level 60
Feb 25, 2023
untimed mode. looks like a clock, once you click it there are no time constraints but you won't get any points.
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Level 75
Feb 25, 2023
For those of us wondering where Ljubljana, N'Djamena, Ngerulmud and Mbabane are, they are all in the Czech Republic
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Level 80
Feb 25, 2023
I was going along nicely, but that's a tough time limit
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Level 80
Mar 1, 2023
And having had another go, I think the time limit should be increased - not that I mind a quiz I can't complete, but with a limit this short, the only way to score highly is to go mechanically through letter pairs (ba, be, bi, bo, br, bu, etc), whereas it's a more interesting quiz if you actually try to identify all the countries, states and capitals. I know you can always take it untimed, but a bit of time pressure is part of the fun.
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Level 94
Feb 27, 2023
Awesome quiz, just noticed Falklands, Isle of Man and parts of the Shetlands are not colored green with the rest of the UK..
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Level 56
Feb 27, 2023
Stop stealing my points.
+1
Level 33
Apr 12, 2023
Best is 489 :( Anyone completed it in time?
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Level 33
Apr 12, 2023
Finally! 496/496 with 7 seconds to spare!!!
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Level 33
Apr 19, 2023
12 seconds left!!!
+1
Level 33
Apr 24, 2023
19 seconds to spare!!
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Level 47
May 3, 2023
haha i got ngerulmud first try
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Level 76
May 4, 2023
not enough time for me
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Level 45
Sep 1, 2023
Anyone completed this with 30 seconds to spare?

(Just did it, that's why I'm asking)