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Asian Coastal Capitals

Name the national capitals of Asia whose city center is less than 10km from the sea.
Includes gulfs, bays, inlets, etc ...
Not including the Caspian Sea
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Last updated: June 11, 2019
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First submittedFebruary 17, 2017
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Abu Dhabi
Bandar Seri Begawan
Bangkok
Beirut
Dili
Doha
Jakarta
Kuwait City
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Manama
Manila
Muscat
Singapore
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
Taipei
Tokyo
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Level 62
Jun 11, 2019
Maybe change the description to say ocean or add a caveat excluding the Caspian Sea, I know the Caspian Sea isn't actually a sea but it is called one.
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Level 86
Jun 11, 2019
If it were my quiz, I would include Baku.
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Level 54
Feb 17, 2022
azerbaijan is landlocked, so it wouldn't be correct
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Level 64
Oct 5, 2023
If it were your quiz, you would be incorrect.
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Level 77
Jun 11, 2019
I would not have thought to include Baku or anything else on the Caspian sea either. I am just surprised Kuala Lumpur is so far from the sea. Cool quiz!
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Level 79
Jun 11, 2019
Agree entirely with this. If the description had said ocean rather than sea, I wouldn't have spent so much time wondering why Baku wasn't a correct answer.
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Level ∞
Jun 12, 2019
Added a caveat.
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Level 59
Jun 12, 2019
The transcontinental city of Istanbul?
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Level 77
Jun 12, 2019
The capital of Turkey is Ankara
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Level 88
Jun 14, 2019
F. Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte once and for all I say.
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Level 77
Aug 19, 2019
Yeah same haha
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Level 62
Aug 28, 2019
just type kotte
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Level 73
Sep 1, 2019
Well, every Sri Lankan friend I had replies that the capital of Sri Lanka is Colombo (I live in India so I see a lot of them) yet apparently jetpunk decides to keep such a name to 'amuse' and make everyone's lives worse?
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Level 75
Jan 10, 2021
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is the official capital and has been since 1948. Colombo was actually the capital of Sri Lanka before that from 1815-1948. Also SJK holds the national legislature. SJK is kind of like Sucre, while Colombo is like La Paz in Bolivia.
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Level 54
Feb 17, 2022
well la paz is the main capital of bolivia so that makes not too much sense.
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Level 76
Jan 27, 2023
Unless you live in these places, I really question the "official" capitals (La Paz/Sucre, Kotte/Colombo, Dodoma/Dar es Salaam, etc.). I had a classmate in college from Tanzania, who said the capital was Dar es Salaam. Either citizens don't know their own capital cities, or sources that determine official capital cities may be somewhat erroneous.
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Level 65
Aug 19, 2019
In practically every other quiz on this page Cyprus is considered Asia, why not for this one?
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Level 72
Aug 19, 2019
Nicosia is well over 10 kilometers away from the sea
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Level 56
Aug 19, 2019
And so the Cyprus debate erupts again, even where it wouldn't change a thing.
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Level ∞
Aug 19, 2019
On the NBA MVP quiz: "I missed Magic Johnson because I thought Cyprus was in Europe".
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Level 76
Jan 27, 2023
Well, it is, even if it wouldn't help on an NBA quiz.
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Level 75
Aug 19, 2019
Can you please accept Sri J for the Sri Lanka one?
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Level 47
Aug 19, 2019
You can type Kotte
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Level 73
Aug 20, 2019
I don't know why do Jetpunk favors Sri Jayawardenepura kotte over Colombo for the capital of Sri lanka. Sure, Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is the presidential and executive capital, but every single Sri Lankans I know replies that Colombo is their capital. Plus, if we're supposed to write the exact executive capital for every single case, we should be writing Putrajaya for Malaysian capital instead of Kuala Lumpur and Den Haag instead of Amsterdam for Netherlands. I just don't get the logic here... perhaps have some sort of continuity I guess?
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Level 54
Feb 17, 2022
then they're wrong
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Level 50
Aug 21, 2019
baku?
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Level 60
Jun 26, 2020
No.
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Level 58
Dec 4, 2020
See the caveat regarding the Caspian Sea.
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Level 67
Aug 28, 2019
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is an inland suburb within Colombo
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Level 22
Feb 14, 2020
Colombo is the de facto economic and legislative capitol of Sri Lanka. It should be accepted as an answer instead of just Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte. SJK is an inland neighborhood of the Colombo metropolitan area.
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Level 78
Oct 6, 2020
Nice quiz. Only missed one, and it was the top answer with 96% of people getting it.
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Level 43
Oct 7, 2020
A lot of comments here say that Colombo is the capital of Sri Lanka, and I agree. However, if Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is considered the capital of Sri Lanka, it should not be included in this list, as it does not border the sea (it is blocked by Colombo).
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Level 64
Oct 5, 2023
10 km away.
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Level 57
Oct 22, 2020
Wondering about Bangkok. I mean sure the city is close to the sea but it's city center is about 20-25km away which means it's not within the 10 km radius. Oh and the same goes for Taipei as well. The city center is about 20km from the sea (btw. I used Google Earth to figure that out so maybe I'm not 100% correct but I'm not that far off either).
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Level 65
Apr 25, 2021
Actually, Taipei City is not a coastal city, but New Taipei City is.
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Level 68
Jan 8, 2023
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is not costal, Colombo is. You can say Sri Kotte is in the metro area of Colombo for the answer but not really the other way around. So Its difficult to consider just Sri Kotte a costal city.