Capitals Named After a Person Quiz

There are roughly 32 capital cities named for a person/figure, can you name them all?

This does not include countries named after "people", such as "Russia" being named after the "Rus'".

This number is disputed, so please let me know if I'm missing any.

Source: https://list.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_national_capital_city_name_etymologies

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Hint	Capital
Named after Athena, the goddess of Wisdom	Athens
Named after the Sultan's late father Sir Omar Ali Saifuddien	Bandar Seri Begawan
Named after Prince Bräslav of Savia	Bratislava
Named after the Italian-French explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza	Brazzaville
Named after Charles Eugène Gabriel de La Croix, marquis de Castries	Castries
Named in honor of Chief Kgosi Gaborone of the BaTlokwa	Gaborone
Named for King George III	Georgetown
Named for Shona chieftain Neharawa	Harare
Possibly derived from Habaguanex, a native American chief who controlled that area	Havana
Named for the chief Mbabane Kunene	Mbabane
Named after US President James Monroe	Monrovia
Named by Dhillu or Dilu, a king of the Mauryan dynasty after himself	New Delhi
Taken from a legend about a nun named Penh and the hill where the temple is	Phnom Penh
Named after King Louis XV	Port Louis
Captain John Moresby named the city after his father Admiral Sir Fairfax Moresby	Port Moresby
Named in honor of Andries Pretorius, the father of the Voortrekker(s) leader Marthinus Pretorius	Pretoria
According to legend, after Romulus killed his brother Remus he named the city after himself	Rome
Named after Saint George	Saint George's
Named after Saint John	Saint John's
Named after Saint Joseph	San José
Named after Saint Marinus	San Marino
Name translates to "Holy Savior" from Spanish, referring to Jesus Christ of Nazareth	San Salvador
Named after Saint James	Santiago
Named after Saint Dominic	Santo Domingo
Named after Saint Thomas	São Tomé
Named after the revolutionary leader Antonio José de Sucre	Sucre
Named in honor of the Phoenician goddess Tanith	Tunis
Named in honor of the country's national hero Damdin Sükhbaatar	Ulaanbaatar
Named after Jean Parisot de la Valette who defended the country from invasion	Valletta
Named after US President George Washington	Washington, D.C.
Named after Arthur Wellesley, the first Duke of Wellington	Wellington
Named after Queen Yamoussou	Yamoussoukro