World Capitals By Letter - A

Finally this kind of quiz :)

I must be the world's worst geographer. I got 5. 58% of you know Madagascar's capital, 49% know Samoa's and Turkmenistan's and 47% know Eritrea's. Unless there's another explanation of how people could have written the correct answers while having access to the internet. LOL

Or that the sampling of people who have taken the quiz are regulars on a site which has a lot of geography quizzes?

Antananarivo is also one of those memorable capitals that I always get.

I thought this too, but apparently they switched it fully to Yamoussoukro in 1983.

Maybe it's not the only capital of Cote d'Ivoire but on this quiz site Yamoussoukro is the only legitimate capital of Cote d'Ivoire.

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how could i forget amsterdam. i live there......

Oh good lord. I thought of Antananarivo, but I didn't type it in because I was currently working on the Asian capitals. Then later when I moved on to Africa, it didn't come to mind. How dumb is that?

Astana was renamed Nursultan.

I can easily recite 95% of the world capitals but I go blank with these kind of quizzes. I got all Africa and missed Amsterdam and Athens.

On 23 March 2019, Kazakhstan's capital was renamed to Nur-Sultan following a unanimous vote by its parliament.

It's already accepted as a type-in in several quizzes. Not this one, I suppose, as Nursultan starts with a different letter.

Kazakhstan should get its act together. The capital used to be Alma-Ata, which got renamed to Almaty. Then the capital was moved to Akmola, which used to be called Tselinograd before, which before that was called Akmolinsk, which even before that was called Akmoly. But after becoming the capital its name was changed to Astana, and now it has been changed to Nur-Sultan. *sigh*

Well, with Nur-Sultan, the first change (Akmola -> Tselinograd) was due to the town becoming a city (and because it was during the Soviet times). Then it reverted back to Akmola after the fall of the USSR.
Then, in order to make notice that its was the new Kazakh capital, they renamed it simply as Astana, wich is Capital in Kazakh (This is nothing new, as Seoul falls on the same category).
However, this was seen by many as a placeholder, as they expected the city would be renamed for Nursultan Nazarbayev at some point. This finally happened after his 2 decades-long presidency ended.

Along with Seoul and Astana, Tokyo means "Eastern Capital".

I thought this was going to be really hard but I surprised myself and got them all.

same. Almost forgot Antananarivo

So, is The Hague not the capital of the Netherlands any more?

Looking at the Wikipedia page, I'm not sure it ever has been. It's been the seat of government for quite a while but never the capital.

RIP Astana

What about Astana?

Read the caveat.

I got 14 capitals in the first minute and spent the entire rest of the time trying to think of Asmara