You always have interesting ideas for quizzes. I got everything except Pretoria- I thought of South Africa while I was going through other countries in my mind, but I couldn't recall which of its three capitals had embassies and so I skipped it but then I forgot to come back.
Took it again, this time got everything but Ankara. Accidentally put Istanbul instead - d'oh! Noob mistake. >_< Glad to see you finally got your first featured quiz. You've made a bunch that are deserving.
This is a time when a like button would be so useful. I really enjoyed this quiz and I like that kalbahamut did his write-up. Given that he has had more than a few of his quizes published, I'm glad he gives encouragement to others.
With the UN, New York City should be on this list as these are separate embassies from the ones in Washington DC. I believe there are even nations with an embassy in NYC, but not one in DC.
Why would bleumarine22 go to the trouble of making a quiz – even listing the number of embassies for each city! – but randomly leave off New York? Also, why would you post this without taking the 15 seconds it took to Google and find out that NYC currently has a couple fewer than the last answer on this quiz, thus rightfully not making the list? // Yeah, I know I'm writing this 3 yrs after the fact, but the mind just *boggles*. Anywho… cool quiz, bleu!
The reason is the Diplomatic Missions to the Un in New York are not embassies. They are mostly consulates general. Only nine countries have full embassies in New York - hence the reason it is not on the list.
Just to further clarify, the definition of an embassy is the representative office of one sovereign country in another sovereign country - ie embassies represent a government to a government. This is why it's Washington that has embassies, not NYC, because if your function is to represent your country to the US government you want to be in the city where that govenrment is. In general, diplomatic missions outside capital cities are consulates or (as for NYC) diplomatic missions to multilateral organisations.
The exceptions in the Washington/NYC case are small countries for whom it makes economic sense to only run one diplomatic office, and who have chosen to run that office in NYC and accredit it as the embassy as well as their diplomatic mission to the UN.
(Also a side note - between Commonwealth countries the term used is High Commission, not Embassy - but it's the same function).
As capital of the European Union and with so many little micronations in Europe it picks up a bunch... I think there are five or six countries in Europe smaller than the US state of Rhode Island. Most of them have no need for an embassy in Washington but might open one up in Brussels, and similarly countries around the world that may want to do business with the EU would set up shop there, as well.
The Hague certainly is a city. The quiz asks for the cities in which the ambassies are, not for nearby cities that happen to be in the same metropolitan region (and Amsterdam is 50 km away, with lots of farmland and small villages in between).
After thinking longer about the ridiculous comment (like saying the US is not a country) I had a realisation. Maybe he was thinking about "randstad" but that is just a losely defined region of the west side of the Netherlands, where the population is higher and there is more industry than in the more rural east. (Not an administrative entity)
Vatican City is not Rome, but in such small territory they can't host the embassies and in fact all Embassies to the Vatican are in Rome's territory.
On the other hand, many country have one single embassy for Italy, Vatican and Sovereing Military Order of Malta. Plus, some also incorporate the Embassy to the UN in Rome.
On Wikipedia - indicated as source - it says: "the capital city of Rome hosts 141 embassies for Italy as well as some for the Holy See of Vatican City" which by 1 is in any case inconsistent with the number here (140)
This depends upon what is the sample space for embassies. For ex - The embassy of a commonwealth country in another commonwealth country is called a 'High Commission '. Therefore London and Delhi would have a lot more embassies if those are taken into consideration
The count for the number of embassies in The Hague (107) is wonderfully accurate. Wikipedia actually mentions 108 (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diplomatic_missions_in_the_Netherlands), but they include the embassy of the USA that recently moved to nearby Wassenaar (see https://nl.usembassy.gov/u-s-embassy-moving-wassenaar/). That happened after the last edit of the quiz, so I don't know how this number can be correct, but it is. :)
I probably wouldn't have known that Addis Ababa was capital of the African Union - or that such a thing existed - had I not accidentally walked past the organization's headquarters once.
The exceptions in the Washington/NYC case are small countries for whom it makes economic sense to only run one diplomatic office, and who have chosen to run that office in NYC and accredit it as the embassy as well as their diplomatic mission to the UN.
(Also a side note - between Commonwealth countries the term used is High Commission, not Embassy - but it's the same function).
kind of weird.
For example did this one get counted?
Polish Embassy in Roma, Vatican
Embassy of Poland in Vatican City
Via dei Delfini 16 int. 3 00186
On the other hand, many country have one single embassy for Italy, Vatican and Sovereing Military Order of Malta. Plus, some also incorporate the Embassy to the UN in Rome.
On Wikipedia - indicated as source - it says: "the capital city of Rome hosts 141 embassies for Italy as well as some for the Holy See of Vatican City" which by 1 is in any case inconsistent with the number here (140)
It should have counted.
Benin
Cyprus
Kiribati
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Nauru
Sweden
Tonga
North Korea
Taiwan