Two Bishops Country-Capital Challenge

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Note: The comments section contains spoilers! Once you've seen the answer you can't unsee it!

This is one of a series of puzzle challenges. Do have a go at the others in the series!

In this puzzle you must move around a chess board using bishops' moves to spell out the name of a country and capital city in sequence. You must determine the starting letter.

One bishop spells out the name of a country, and the other spells out the name of its capital. Use a knight's move to switch between the two.

Consider the following mini-example and its solution:





   SOLUTION: FRANCE - PARIS.


As you can see from the solution, the answer is FRANCE-PARIS, beginning with the F in the central cell and moving diagonally through the letters of FRANCE like a bishop. From the E at the end of FRANCE, a single knight's move takes you to the P of PARIS to begin the second sequence of bishop's moves on the alternate colored squares. From the S at the end of PARIS, a knight's move takes you back to the start of FRANCE. Thus, the country-capital sequence operates in a perpetual loop.

As a bishop, you may move as many squares as you wish, diagonally, in any direction.

Now for the real challenge. Find the country-capital loop contained in the following full-sized chess board. Give your solution in the comments below!

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Level 78
Aug 6, 2020
Nepal-Kathmandu ?
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Level 63
Aug 6, 2020
So quick, congratulations!
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Level 66
Aug 6, 2020
Nice series! These are a bit hard, how did you come up with them?
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Level 63
Aug 6, 2020
More creative time on my hands than usual during these times. Glad you're liking the series! And even though I often think "This is going to be hard" when I release the puzzle, there's always someone who solves it within 10 minutes ;-)
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Level 62
Aug 7, 2020
I have an idea: maybe you could format this in form of a quiz (using tile select)