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Capitals of the Largest Countries by Area

Name the capital cities of the world's largest countries by land area.
When you guess the capital, the country will appear
Quiz by Quizzer6794
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Last updated: September 15, 2022
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First submittedOctober 4, 2015
Times taken85,224
Average score70.0%
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Country
Capital
Russia
Moscow
Canada
Ottawa
China
Beijing
United States
Washington, D.C.
Brazil
Brasilia
Australia
Canberra
India
New Delhi
Argentina
Buenos Aires
Kazakhstan
Astana
Algeria
Algiers
Country
Capital
D.R. Congo
Kinshasa
Saudi Arabia
Riyadh
Mexico
Mexico City
Indonesia
Jakarta
Sudan
Khartoum
Libya
Tripoli
Iran
Tehran
Mongolia
Ulaanbaatar
Peru
Lima
Chad
N'Djamena
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Level 20
Nov 23, 2015
16/20

Missed D.R (Forgot Capital)

Missed Iran (Couldn't Think)

Missed Mongolia (Couldn't Spell It)

Missed Chad (Didn't Know Capital

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Level 68
Mar 29, 2020
I got desperate and typed N'Djamena. Surprised it worked.
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Level 60
Jul 6, 2021
Forgot capital of Kazakhstan and Sudan, couldn’t remember Chad.
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Level 38
Mar 22, 2022
I missed Buenos Aires, Lima, and Astana (a.k.a Nur-Sultan)
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Level 77
Jun 14, 2016
Missed China. WTF?
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Level 79
Mar 7, 2019
WTF indeed.
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Level 74
Mar 7, 2019
Beijing actually :p
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Level 55
Apr 8, 2022
I missed the United States somehow???
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Level 59
Jul 17, 2016
Peru?! Hmmm...
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Level 57
Jul 26, 2016
Yes Peru. Deal with it.
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Level 51
Oct 29, 2017
Shots fired
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Level 79
Dec 18, 2020
It's Lima in case you forgot.
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Level 31
Jul 26, 2016
Dammit! Typed in Juba for Sudan instead.
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Level 73
Jul 26, 2016
Don't worry, this one will likely be no more in less than 10 years, if not less.
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Level 48
Dec 28, 2021
HOW DID YOU NOT KNOW JUBA WAS THE CAPITAL OF SOUTH SUDAN!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!
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Level 57
Mar 22, 2022
what-
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Level 67
Jul 26, 2016
If you include Alaska, which everyone should, U.S. beats China.
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Level 65
Jul 26, 2016
Some sources include the United States' ocean territory as part of its LAND area, which makes it completely biased.
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Level 82
Jul 26, 2016
I love it when people confidently assert something that is completely wrong or blindingly obvious. As you say, everyone should include Alaska and as it turns out, everyone does. This is not the source of the dispute over whether or not the US or China is the third-largest country. The dispute centres on the inclusion or otherwise of US coastal waters, which sources such as the CIA World Factbook do for the US, but not for other countries. Leaving out China's disputed claims (in the South China Sea, Taiwan and the Himalaya) and the US's coastal waters, China is indisputably the larger of the two countries, though they are nonetheless very close in size.
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Level 47
May 22, 2023
Because the CIA is patriotic! Yay! (that last part was sarcastic BTW)
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Level 79
Mar 7, 2019
ha
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Level 42
Dec 18, 2020
lmao they did include Alaska and if you DID NOT include Alaska Brazil would be bigger than USA.
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Level 38
Mar 22, 2022
It would be smaller than Australia as well :)
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Level 38
Mar 22, 2022
Manchuria, being bigger than Alaska: u stupid?
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Level 57
Sep 28, 2022
Are you dumb? Alaska is very much included.
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Level 67
Jul 26, 2016
And why would you not include water that is landlocked? The only reason not to do so would be to make China look bigger.
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Level 65
Jul 26, 2016
We do include water that is landlocked. Hence the Great Lakes.
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Level 82
Jul 26, 2016
Whether you include enclosed bodies of water or not, China is larger than the US. The US only becomes larger when you include oceanic waters in its figure. If you exclude enclosed bodies of water both the US and China leapfrog Canada, with China going to 2 in the world and the US to 3. It's difficult to find a like for like comparison that puts the US ahead of China in area.
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Level 43
Sep 7, 2020
Tbh if you didn't use inland waters China is actually 2nd, USA is 3rd and Canada is 4th
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Level 48
Dec 28, 2021
And Russia would be 1st by a large margin. Here are the top 5:

1. Russia (16,376,870 km squared)

2. China (9,388,211 km squared)

3. USA (9,147,420 km squared)

4. Canada (9,093,510 km squared)

5. Brazil (8,358,140 km squared)

6th-10th in land + water areas stay in their same spots, and #10, Algeria, is especially peculiar because they have 0% of their area in water.

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Level 53
Jul 27, 2016
i tried khartum and give up, then I tried djamena, njadema, njamena, njameda, and a few others i can't remember... all obviously wrong... =(
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Level 69
Jul 27, 2016
Nice series, thanks
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Level 65
Jul 27, 2016
Always, ru!
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Level 40
Aug 4, 2016
Why is Denmark not included in this list ? With Greenland and Faroe Islands, it overcomes Saudi Arabia in superficy.
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Level 74
Aug 6, 2016
Those quizzes mostly excluding territories, that are not integrated in the "main country", like oversea territories and similar stuff.
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Level 48
Dec 28, 2021
Greenland was integrated fully into Denmark in 1913. Although, it was an overseas region since the 1850s, so, yeah.
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Level 32
Mar 22, 2022
Not since 1953, it is now semi-autonomous and can pretty much go whenever time allows.
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Level 56
May 10, 2022
out of curiosity, i ask: does greenland just not count for anything in a quiz like this, even itself?
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Level 67
Jun 16, 2017
Great quiz, again.
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Level 65
Jun 16, 2017
Thank you :)
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Level 75
Sep 19, 2017
Greenland is a component country of the Danish crown just like Scotland is to the UK. Denmark should be included as a result.
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Level 59
Mar 7, 2019
Greenland does not have a comparable status as Scotland
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Level 79
Dec 19, 2020
A comparable territory to Greenland would be the Isle of Man/Channel Islands.
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Level 66
Apr 23, 2018
I typed, Ndjamena and I didn't get it. I thought jetpunk ignored punctuation. And I know I spelled it right, don't doubt me.
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Level 67
Dec 6, 2018
Same for me.
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Level 69
Mar 7, 2019
Size isn't everything.
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Level 65
Mar 13, 2023
OK, so?
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Level 48
Mar 7, 2019
Only missed Sudan and Chad, could've gotten Sudan too but I tried spelling it Khartum, without the O.
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Level 64
Mar 7, 2019
Consider Turkey and Pakistan. Greenland is claimed by Denmark and increases the spatial area when only considering Denmark’s mainland.
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Level 68
Mar 28, 2020
If you mean that Pakistan and Turkey were very close to being part of this quiz, that is not the case. Pakistan is the 33rd largest country by area and Turkey is 36th.
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Level 57
Sep 28, 2022
I'm sorry, Turkey?
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Level 65
Mar 13, 2023
What do you mean "consider"??? This isn't a list they made up of big countries, this is the actual list of the largest countries of the world by area! How do you "consider" making a country bigger than it actually is?!
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Level 60
Mar 7, 2019
Only missed New Delhi. Not disappointed, but happy.
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Level 29
Dec 29, 2020
Why happy? India is a big country.
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Level 55
Mar 7, 2019
I got N'djamena and forgot Washington...
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Level 45
Mar 8, 2019
Got everything except Riyadh...#slapmyforehead
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Level 21
Dec 18, 2020
I was so close 19 out of 20 missed Chad's capital typed in literally every other large african countries capital

Good quiz though.

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Level 61
Dec 18, 2020
20
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Level 71
Dec 21, 2020
Great quiz, makes you have to think.
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Level 28
Apr 19, 2021
Could you accept NDjamena without the apostrophe?
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Level 63
Apr 22, 2021
it does
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Level 49
Jul 4, 2021
I TRIED ULAANBAATAR
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Level 68
Mar 22, 2022
Copenhagen?
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Level 57
Sep 28, 2022
Denmark is tiny
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Level 65
Mar 13, 2023
And Greenland's not included.
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Level 53
Mar 22, 2022
Damn I didn't think about Indonesia and Iran but literally got everything else D:
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Level 76
Mar 22, 2022
I don't understand this site's complete exclusion of the area of Greenland. Whether it stands alone or as a part of the Kingdom of Denmark, it (Nuuk/Copenhagen) should come 12th on the list just after DR Congo at 2,166,086 km2 for just Greenland or 2,210,408 km2 for the entire Kingdom of Denmark.

Regardless, excluding it as a country because it's part of Denmark but not including it as a part of Denmark is incredibly confusing. It's nearly 1.5 percent of the world's total land area just completely missing

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Level 65
Mar 13, 2023
It's a gray area, and saying that Denmark is one of the largest countries in the entire world just bc of an autonomous area is a bit of a stretch, and saying that Greenland is a fully independent country is too.
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Level 54
Mar 22, 2022
Vatican city is missing
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Level 64
Mar 23, 2022
19/20. I missed Khartoum because I typed Sudan instead...
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Level 58
Mar 30, 2022
Almost missed Iran and India. Chad was a tough one as well but surprisingly got that one early on
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Level 44
Jul 13, 2022
Missed Denmark???

Denmark is 2.166 million km^2

Very bad

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Level 57
Sep 28, 2022
Greenland doesn't count.
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Level 36
Aug 8, 2022
Got all at 14
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Level 57
Sep 28, 2022
Astana is Nur-Sultan now
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Level 67
Oct 16, 2022
You are confusing the names. Astana was renamed Nur-Sultan some years ago but recently was renamed back to Astana.
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Level 67
Oct 16, 2022
I knew it was Chad the country I was missing the capital but didn't knew its name. Only got 19/20.
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Level 68
Dec 28, 2023
19/20, why did I forget Kinshasa?