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Closest Capital City Pairs #1

Enter the nearest capital city to each capital city listed below.

Closest capital city of a different country

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As the crow flies

Quiz by hardforgeography

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Last updated: February 12, 2019

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First submitted	January 31, 2013
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Capital	Nearest Other
Washington DC	Ottawa
Buenos Aires	Montevideo
London	Brussels
Helsinki	Tallinn
Athens	Skopje
Beijing	Pyongyang
New Delhi	Islamabad

Capital	Nearest Other
Baghdad	Kuwait City
Rome	Vatican City
Panama City	San Jose
La Paz	Lima
Cairo	Jerusalem
Lisbon	Madrid
Copenhagen	Berlin

Capital	Nearest Other
Moscow	Minsk
Reykjavík	Dublin
Tokyo	Seoul
Damascus	Beirut
Taipei	Manila
Kingston	Port-au-Prince

bluesdjben

level 70

Nov 25, 2012

Interesting

kalbahamut

level 78

Sep 30, 2015

If you found this interesting you may enjoy this quiz I made:

Adjacent Capital Pair Superlatives

animalas

level 16

Dec 11, 2012

very interesting quiz! 100%

inderweg

level 52

Jan 28, 2013

that was a great quiz!!! really had to use the brain. How about try nearest large city?? or nearest US capitals

zwizdan007

level 36

Jan 28, 2013

Very interesting.

mal

level 53

Jan 28, 2013

Much harder than I thought it would be and some unexpected answers!

Simsy84

level 70

Jan 28, 2013

ageed. Quite difficult.

Tramp

level 70

Jan 28, 2013

I'd like to see another, bigger one of these. Including a few more difficult capitals might be good too.

DobbyDies

level 17

Jan 28, 2013

London's only the capital of England, not Britain, so it should be closest to Cardiff.

hardforgeography

level 40

Jan 29, 2013

London is the capital of the UK. Also, this quiz deals with capitals of soverign states and Wales is not a soverign state.

switchcorked9

level 43

Apr 7, 2014

There's always one......

buck1017

level 73

Sep 3, 2014

actually there are usually about 3 or 4

Malbaby

level 68

Apr 11, 2016

Make that 6 or 7

lucd13

level 64

Nov 12, 2016

Well, despite most people being able to work it out, in DobbyDies' defence, the notes here do stipulate 'Closest capital city of a different country', not 'Closest capital city of a different sovereign state'. Here on Jetpunk, there have been many instances where the two have been clearly and separately defined.

ChipOtley

level 73

Oct 9, 2015

What about Winchester? That's even closer than Cardiff, and nothing says it has to still be the capital of a country which still exists

lvtharrison

level 60

Jan 20, 2018

I always thought of Wessex as a kingdom more than a country. It was when I lived there at least.

ruudsje

level 73

Jan 28, 2013

Brilliant, absolutely brilliant!

kal413

level 39

Jan 30, 2013

Sucre, 435 miles is closer to La Paz than Lima, 680 miles. There is nothing in the description that says they can't be from the same country.

hardforgeography

level 40

Jan 31, 2013

Ye, I had avoided countries like that to avoid ambiguity exactly like this but this was added in by the admin guy after I submitted it.

FentonsDad

level 79

Jan 31, 2013

Loved this, but I could've used another minute or two! Great job.

geoman2

level 31

Feb 1, 2013

You should except Kuwait for Kuwait City.

bearpeloso

level 25

Feb 13, 2014

I'm with geoman2. Kuwait alone should be accepted as well.

Mogysht

level 45

Mar 8, 2014

Yes, I tried that too..

geo24

level 31

Aug 15, 2015

you seem to have my username

vladi98

level 19

Feb 2, 2013

Nice quiz! I think there should have been more time, though

drowningmafiafish

level 32

Apr 8, 2013

how didn't i think of vatican city! got all but that one! feel very stupid

dragvold

level 43

Mar 21, 2014

Very good, interesting consept!

Brickster

level 36

Apr 1, 2014

That Rome question almost tripped me up

wiraputra

level 21

Apr 22, 2014

Reykjavik is really tricky!

rawe

level 63

Oct 24, 2014

Yeah, I tried writing all Scandinavian capitals at first and, no one was correct! Then I thought, what is wrong here?

sillie

level 83

May 20, 2014

Very smart to forget about both Canada and the Vatican. I tried all of Balkans and North Africa for Rome. Should've tried Valletta too but didn't think of that one.

rawe

level 63

Oct 24, 2014

Got them all with 00:05 left. It took me a long time to think about Taipei and Reykjavík ones.

Elan

level 62

Sep 30, 2015

I was stuck on Rome forever...it was a tricky question

stromae

level 65

Sep 30, 2015

how did i not get panama

Instrumental

level 50

Oct 1, 2015

First try, no warm up.

johnnybna

level 67

Oct 1, 2015

one of the funnest quizzes I've ever completely failed

Malbaby

level 68

Apr 11, 2016

Good quiz, enjoyed that,........ By the way, if you find this quiz easy, try my........ 'Mal's European Closest Capitals Hopscotch' ..........quiz

Walacama

level 73

Sep 15, 2016

Totally blew the Rome one. I was guessing every capital and getting mad they were not working. Duh!

Antofagasta

level 48

Jun 15, 2017

Good quiz. It would make it much better if you could find the distances and get them to appear after the capital is guessed, so as not to give it away. Well done though.

DonStar

level 44

Jul 13, 2017

I liked this one got them in a good time as well well pleased

lvtharrison

level 60

Jan 20, 2018

On the next one, you should put 'Tel Aviv' as the clue and have the answer 'Jerusalem', that'd stir up the whole Israel and Palestine debate.

CthulhuInc

level 22

Jan 20, 2018

You should have Kinshasa/Brazzaville, since that's the closest pair of capital cities in the world (they're right across a river from each other, you can literally see one from the other)

TWM03

level 58

Jan 20, 2018

What about Rome and the Vatican City? You can literally step from one to the other.

Cathal341

level 52

Jan 20, 2018

I keep forgetting that Toronto is not the Capital of Canada........

Fryzie

level 45

Jan 22, 2018

Not trying to be too political, but is there any reason why tel aviv is not recognised here as the capital despite it being recognised by most UN municipalities as the defacto capital until Israel-Palestine sort their desputes which will be never? I think it's only the US and Israel that consider it to be the capital yeah?

kalbahamut

level 78

Jan 22, 2018

It's not a de-facto capital at all. The official functioning capital of Israel is Jerusalem. The Knesset is in Jerusalem. Foreign embassies are in Tel Aviv, but the capital of a country, de facto or otherwise, is not defined as where foreign embassies are located. The only reason embassies are located in Tel Aviv is to avoid pissing off Muslim countries that don't want to recognize Israeli control over Jerusalem.

joeythelemur

level 81

Jan 22, 2018

Yeah, not sure why this is so hard. Israel gets to choose the location for their capital, not the UN and not anyone else. And it's in Jerusalem. Kalbahamut is 100% right that the embassy locations are all about pressure from Muslim countries.

boracay99

level 63

Jan 22, 2018

Hey! What gives! None of these places is closest to Paris!.... Ohhh, sorry, title said "Closest Pairs."

Giorgi94

level 56

Dec 21, 2018

I always read Closest Capital City Paris

FolgoreCZ

level 44

Jan 13, 2019

You should add more different spellings for Pyongyang. At least Pchyongyang and Pchjongjang and probably more, it's a difficult one to rewrite.