Taiwan meets the Montevideo convention on the rights and duties of states, while some can argue that Palestine doesn't. With this definition for statehood, you don't need any country to recognize you in order to be a sovereign state. Idk if that's the reason but that's the only difference that I can think of. But I too think they should add Palestine. Especially because of recent events
I had mastered them all except africa and been able to do them just fine, including the map version tests for each area. I came here after doing Africa right for first time and wanted to see which ones I haven't mastered.
Albania and Parguay in west. Palikir and Majuro in Oceania. And randomly Bishkek and Beirut for Middle East/Stan. They're all the random ones I've had issues with before.
6 in Asia, Kualu, Dhaka, Phonom, Dili, Vientiane and Thimphu. There same old ones I've had issues remembering on site.
12 in Africa isn't too bad, cause only done Africa once, and haven't even done the map version yet.
I skipped all the ones I dont know and checked in at end, and its the same old culprits, some reason Bhutan and Thimphu are just impossible for me to memorize.
Its why mistakes are awesome, cause when you make same mistakes over and over, you remember last time messed up and randomly remember things you messed up. I remember Thimphu in end cause remembered its the word I always forget.
Weirdly enough, Thimphu and Dhaka are also the ones that I feel like I should know and don’t. Those and the twenty other ones I don’t know, including all of Oceania other than PNG, Australia, and New Zealand.
Jerusalem is the official capital that Israel claims but it is not universally recognized by other countries (the US recognized it just a few years ago during the Trump administration). The de facto capital is Tel Aviv. For the most part quizzes on this site use the official capital that is claimed by the country (the only exception I know of is Benin which accepts both Porto-Novo and Cotonou). I personally think the de facto capitals should be accepted as type ins at the very least, but its obviously not my call to make.
I would add more letters to this name to give it more of a dramatic effect, but an average of 22% of users get this answer correct, so I can't lie. How, though?
Correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t Mbabane and Lobamba both capitals of Eswatini? According to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobamba , the legislative capital including parliament, as well as the royalty are housed in Lobamba.
could you please accept Delap-Uliga-Djarrit as the capital of the Marshall Islands as no matter where you ask, you will always find people saying that Delap-Uliga-Djarrit is the capital and other people saying that Majuro is the capital; even wikipedia contradicts itself: Majuro's page says that Majuro is the capital and Delap-Uliga-Djarrit's page says that Delap-Uliga-Djarrit is the capital.
I think you may have misread the article. It says that Delap-Uliga-Djarrit is an urban area within Majuro, and Majuro is the capital of the Marshall Islands.
This isn't meant to be a criticism (especially not of this quiz), but sometimes I'm baffled by the "alternate spelling" of words that are accepted, and the ones that are not. In general, I'm the type of person that would say, "just learn how to spell the word right". However, when some fairly simple words are accepted when misspelled, but it takes me ten attempts to get "Ljubljana" correct because there is no room for even the slightest error in spelling on one of the more difficult words (waiting for someone to tell me how crazy easy it is to spell) I just find it a little bit odd.
Dites le tout de suite que c'est un quiz en anglais, car il n'accepte aucune tournure française, mais ça s'écrit en français. C'est frustrant. Le Cap, Alger, Cambera, Le Caire..., j'ai essayé plein de formes possibles mais je ne sais pas comment on dit en anglais!
Seeing as how this quiz was first released in 2011 but the earliest comment on it is from 2019, I think it's safe to say that there have been ~1000 comments, but at some point (maybe multiple points) the comments have been reset.
I finally got them all 196 capitals, and in less than ten minutes. This was after many, many attempts, and lots of consultations on teh wikipedia "capitals of continent..." pages.
Thank you for the quizz. This is a great way to learn and remember stuff. Cheers!
First memorized it 9 years ago, came back today to find four had slipped from my brain. What am I going to do if I can't remember the capital of Antigua and Barbuda?? My life will fall apart!!
the only struggles on this quiz is mainly african capitals and some asian ones otherwise they're pretty easy to remember (except honiara for me for whatever reason)
I love this quiz so much, even though i still struggle to crank up my number. Tel Aviv and Colombo for example are considered capitals in my country. I know the admin has some odd ideas at times, like adding Crimea to Russia instead of to Ukraine. This is a difficult quiz for non-Americans, what with different spelling and all. But fun to do.
"sri" "jay "awar" "dene" "pura" "kotte"
Albania and Parguay in west. Palikir and Majuro in Oceania. And randomly Bishkek and Beirut for Middle East/Stan. They're all the random ones I've had issues with before.
6 in Asia, Kualu, Dhaka, Phonom, Dili, Vientiane and Thimphu. There same old ones I've had issues remembering on site.
12 in Africa isn't too bad, cause only done Africa once, and haven't even done the map version yet.
Freaking Dhaka and Thimpu as always, I just cant remember them no matter what I do. Randomly forgot Asuncion which is one use to have problems with.
Shockingly I got everything in Africa except Juba.
I skipped all the ones I dont know and checked in at end, and its the same old culprits, some reason Bhutan and Thimphu are just impossible for me to memorize.
Its why mistakes are awesome, cause when you make same mistakes over and over, you remember last time messed up and randomly remember things you messed up. I remember Thimphu in end cause remembered its the word I always forget.
Finally i did it
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
I would add more letters to this name to give it more of a dramatic effect, but an average of 22% of users get this answer correct, so I can't lie. How, though?
38/196 lol, gonna check back in once i've learned them
Ðis, however made me look into ðe Marshallese language. It feels reaaaaaaaally hard. Nope
Lol
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Thank you for the quizz. This is a great way to learn and remember stuff. Cheers!
I did it first try woo!