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Two-Word Capital Cities

Which national capital cities have more than one word?
Names must be written in full
You are given the alternate spelling of Ulaanbaatar for free
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First submittedJanuary 29, 2015
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3 Word Capitals
Andorra la Vella
Bandar Seri Begawan
Port-au-Prince
Port-of-Spain
Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte
 
2 Word Capitals
Abu Dhabi
Addis Ababa
Buenos Aires
Cape Town
2 Word Capitals
Guatemala City
Kuala Lumpur
Kuwait City
La Paz
Mexico City
New Delhi
Panama City
Phnom Penh
Port Louis
Port Moresby
Port Vila
2 Word Capitals
Porto-Novo
St George's
St John's
San Jose
San Marino
San Salvador
Santo Domingo
São Tomé
South Tarawa
Ulan Bator
Vatican City
PeteBelmar
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Level 46
Jan 29, 2015
You should include Buenos Aires.
TenThousand
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Level 76
Jan 29, 2015
Done :)
scambigol
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Level 76
Jan 29, 2015
South Tarawa? What about N'Djamena, Sana'a, Nuku'alofa, are those 2 words or 1?

Don't know if it's deliberate or not but fortunately you can get away with typing just Srijayapura and not the full name ;)

scambigol
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Level 76
Jan 29, 2015
Abu Dhabi should be before Addis Ababa
TenThousand
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Level 76
Jan 29, 2015
Corrections made, thanks. We take names containing apostrophes to be single words, in the same way that don't is considered one word. Srijayapura no longer works, but quite a few alternate spellings of SJK are still accepted.
scambigol
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Level 76
Jan 29, 2015
OK thanks. By the way, I'm curious: what convinced you to put consider SJK a capital city?!
TenThousand
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Level 76
Jan 29, 2015
I don't consider SJK is a capital city! Parliament is located 9 km / 5 miles from downtown Colombo in the suburb of Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte, which in my book makes Colombo the capital. Several publications, including Britannica,

Lonely Planet and

Free Dictionary agree. But other publications say that Colombo and SJK are both capitals: SJK the legislative one, and Colombo the commercial, judicial and executive one, for example the CIA Factbook and Wikipedia. This quiz simply acknowledges that latter point of view.

cpgatbyu
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Level 85
Jan 29, 2015
What about New Delhi?
TenThousand
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Level 76
Jan 29, 2015
Yep!
Quizzer6794
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Level 65
Oct 11, 2015
Washington, D.C. is two words. When we visit, we hear local people calling it either "Washington, D.C" or the shortening, "D.C.". I've seen your comment about the capital being called "Washington" but that's incorrect. Washington can easily be confused with the State Washington, so people call the state "Washington State" and the city "Washington, D.C.". Just information from a person who goes to D.C. often :)
TenThousand
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Level 76
Oct 12, 2015
District of Columbia is the federal district bordered by Virginia and Maryland, and Washington is the city that wholly occupies that district. US Americans routinely describe their cities in the style of [cityname], [statename], thus Cheyenne, Wyoming; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Chicago. Illinois; and, in this case, Washington, DC. (Also, as an aside, District of Columbia is three words, not one)
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