Geography Double Chain: Cities and Countries

Based on the clues, can you name these cities and the countries they are located in? The city and country columns are both chains, so the last letter of each answer is the first letter of the one below it.

Also try part 2!

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Last updated: November 12, 2021

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Clue	City	Country
Its Māori name is Tāmaki Makaurau	Auckland	New Zealand
African capital with the same name as its country	Djibouti	Djibouti
Home to the Shah Mosque at Naqsh-e Jahan Square	Isfahan	Iran
Capital on a river for which its country is named	Niamey	Niger
Named for Empress Catherine I	Yekaterinburg	Russia
Second in population to Yerevan	Gyumri	Armenia
Host of the 1964 and 1976 Winter Olympics	Innsbruck	Austria
Capital in the Hindu Kush	Kabul	Afghanistan
Birthplace of Rembrandt and home to its country's oldest university	Leiden	Netherlands
Cantonal capital whose name meant "new castle" in Old French	Neuchâtel	Switzerland
Its name is the grammatically singular form of a U.S. casino city	La Vega	Dominican Republic
Major seaport in the Atacama Desert	Antofagasta	Chile
Site of a great library in ancient times	Alexandria	Egypt
Holds a Guinness World Record for the highest density of white marble-clad buildings	Ashgabat	Turkmenistan
Fjordside city in Trøndelag at the mouth of the Nidelva	Trondheim	Norway
Red Sea port that gave its name to a coffee drink	Mocha	Yemen

Level 77

Jul 27, 2021

Clever quiz. How long did it take you to devise the questions?

Level 61

Jul 28, 2021

Thanks! It took quite a few drafts and dead ends over several days before I finally reached this arrangement. I'm working on a part 2, but I'm having to go pretty obscure to make it work, so we'll see how that one turns out!

Level 86

Aug 2, 2021

That's cool. The countries are easier than the cities ^^.

Oh, could you accept Leyden please?

Level 61

Aug 2, 2021

Sure, added Leyden as an accepted type-in!

Level 64

Aug 2, 2021

Once again, I would like to thank John Oliver for teaching me about Gurganguly Berdimuhamedow.

Level 76

Nov 11, 2021