World Capitals Memory Hooks

If you're like me, you have a hard time memorizing the capitals of the world. What helps me a lot is memory hooks! In this post, I am going to go over all my favorite ones. I won't go over all the countries because I, unfortunately, don't have any hooks for them.

Capitals with the same name as its country: Djibouti, Luxembourg, Monaco, San Marino, Singapore, Vatican City

Capitals with the word city added: Guatemala City, Kuwait City, Mexico City, Panama City

Algeria: Algiers sounds like Algeria

Andorra: Andorra la Vella sounds like Andorra the village. Andorra is tiny like a village.

Antigua and Barbuda:The Saint John('s) was antique and barbaric (Antigua and Barbuda)

Armenia: We are going to our men, yeah (Armenia) in a yellow van (Yerevan)

Azerbaijan: Back you (Baku) go to Azerbaijan

Bahamas: It's nice out(Nassau) in the Bahamas

Bahrain: Bah! Rain(Bahrain). I have to put on my man armour(Manama)

Barbados: Barbados is kind of like the bridge(Bridgetown) between the Caribbean and the Atlantic

Belgium: Eat your (Brussels) sprouts in Belgium

Belize: All Belizians have a bell, mop, pan(Belmopan)

Benin: People are benign(Benin) to the Port of Novo(Porto-Novo)

Bhutan: Smelling Tim's poo(Thimphu) gave me a blue tan(Bhutan)

Bolivia: I wouldn't believe ya(Bolivia) if you found a Lapis(La Paz) Lazuli covered in sugar(Sucre)

Botswana: All the bots wanna(Botswana) grab your own(Gaborone)

Brazil: Brasilia sounds like Brazil

Cape Verde: I made a prayer(Praia) that my cape worked(Cape Verde)

Cambodia: I found a phenomenal pen(Phnom Penh) in Cambodia

Central African Republic: They ban GUIs (Bangui) in cars (CAR)

Chile: Santa go(Santiago) to a chilly(Chile) place

Comoros: In Comoros, you get more macaroni(Moroni)

Cyprus: The Cyprus Tree is nice and cozy(Nicosia)

Denmark: The den marked(Denmark) a copper haven(Copenhagen)

Dominica: Dominate(Dominica) the rose(Roseau)

Dominican Republic: Santa the mini go(Santa Domingo) to the mini can(Dominican) Republic

Ecuador: I quit(Quito) when I got to the equator(Ecuador)

El Salvador: San Salvador, El Salvador

Equatorial Guinea: The equator's guinea(Equatorial Guinea) is malleable(Malabo)

Eritrea: I treat ya(Eritrea) to some ASMR(Asmara)

Estonia: I am tall in(Tallinn) Estonia

Ethiopia: What makes Ethiopia so successful? All they add is a baba(Addis Ababa)

Finland: In Fin's land(Finland), he won't floaty, instead he'll sinky(Helsinki)

Gambia: Don't gamble(Gambia) or they'll ban you(Banjul)

Georgia: George(Georgia) said to Bill: easy(Tbilisi)

Ghana: I'm gonna(Ghana) act right(Accra) now

Grenada: The Saint George(Saint George's) threw a grenadeGrenada

Guinea-Bissau: Guinea-Bissau ends in Bissau!

Guyana: The guy Ana(Guyana) is in George's town(Georgetown)

Haiti: The port of prince is hated(Haiti)

Honduras: You heard of the gucci cap hat(Tegucigalpa)?

Iran: I ran(Iran) and they ran(Tehran)

Iraq: I rock(Iraq) this bag, dad(Baghdad)

Ireland: The capital is doubling(Dublin)

Israel: The capital, Jerusalem, is real(Israel)

Jamaica: Jamaica is where the king's done(Kingston)

Jordan: Jordan is just a man(Amman)

Laos: I was feeling too lousy(Laos) to be inventing(Vientiane)

Lebanon: The Lebanon cedar tree has bare roots(Beirut)

Liechtenstein: Why does lichen stain? (Vaduz, Liehctenstein)

Malawi: Malawi is the long way(Lilongwe) geographicaally



Malta: You must have a valet(Valletta) to go to the mall(Malta)

Marshall Islands: The Marshall was also a major(Majuro) in the army

Moldova: Put mold over(Moldova) it and it will become cheesy now(Chisinau)

Montenegro: On the mountain of crow(Montenegro) there is a pod of gorillas(Podgorica)

Morocco: The maraca(Morocco) attracted a rabbit(Rabat)

Namibia: The wind hacked(Windhoek) at Namibia creating a panhandle



Nepal: The cat man do(Kathmandu) whatever he want in Nepal

Nicaragua: You drink Managua in Nicaragua

North Macedonia: If ever a mace don ya(Macedonia) then skip, hop and jump(Skopje) away

Norway: Life in Norway is so slow(Oslo)

Oman: Oh man(Oman), he has a musket(Muscat)

Pakistan: Pakistan is islamic(Islamabad)

Paraguay: If you have a paraglider(Paraguay), then you will get ascension(Ascunsion)

Philippines: King Philip of Pines(Philippines) requested a piece of Manila paper

Poland: I made a poll and(Poland) and most people said war is what they saw(Warsaw)

Romania: Romania is the place where the butcher rests(Bucharest)

Russia: He tried to mask how(Moscow) he was rushing(Russia)

Saint Lucia: Lucy(St. Lucia) made some pastries(Castries)

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: The saint Vincent(St. Vincent & the Grenadines) had the job of making the kings's town(Kingstown)

Sao Tome and Principe: Sao Tome and Principe starts with Sao Tome

Senegal: I decided to send a gal(Senegal) to into the car(Dakar)

Seychelles: Being the richest country in Africa, you could say Seychelles is pretty victorious(Victoria)

Slovakia: This brat islikelava(Bratislava). He is such a slow vacuumer(Slovakia)

Somalia: This plate is not a mega dish(Mogadishu), it is so small, ya?(Somalia)

South Korea: South korea is my heart and soul(Seoul)

Sweden: Don't stalk home(Stockholm) you are going to your sweet den(Sweden)

Syria: In Syria, they mask us(Damascus)

Tajikistan: You have to dust and bee(Dushanbe) the Taj(Tajikistan) Mahal to keep it clean

Tunisia: Tunis is the begininning of Tunisia

Turkmenistan: Turkish men(Turkmenistan) use ash bats(Ashgabat)

Tuvalu: Watching TV(Tuvalu) gave me the idea to make funfetti(Funafuti)

Uganda: It is compulsory(Kampala) to go to Uganda

Uruguay: You watch mountain videos(Montevideo) so you're a guy(Uruguay)

Uzbekistan: The tash Kent(Tashkent) had a pair of uzis(Uzbekistan)

Vietnam: If you say Viet's name(Vietnam), it will annoy(Hanoi) him

Yemen: Your men(Yemen) believe in santa(Sana'a)

Zimbabwe: To follow Simba's way(Zimbabwe) you can't steal her car, ay(Harare)


Thanks for reading. this took way too long to do and I hope I helped you in some way or just entertained you. Happy JetPunking!