Learn the capitals of the World
The plan: 40 batches of five
How the pieces are shared out, five at a time and by area of the map (in brackets, the capital when its name differs). Each batch starts next to the last one.
- Batch 1: Washington, D.C. (United States), Mexico City (Mexico), Belmopan (Belize), Guatemala City (Guatemala), San Salvador (El Salvador)
- Batch 2: Tegucigalpa (Honduras), Managua (Nicaragua), San José (Costa Rica), Panama City (Panama), Kingston (Jamaica)
- Batch 3: Bogotá (Colombia), Caracas (Venezuela), Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago), St. George's (Grenada), Kingstown (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)
- Batch 4: Quito (Ecuador), Lima (Peru), Sucre & La Paz (Bolivia), Brasília (Brazil), Asunción (Paraguay)
- Batch 5: Montevideo (Uruguay), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Santiago (Chile), Paramaribo (Suriname), Georgetown (Guyana)
- Batch 6: Bridgetown (Barbados), Castries (Saint Lucia), Roseau (Dominica), Saint John (Antigua and Barbuda), Basseterre (Saint Kitts and Nevis)
- Batch 7: Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), Port-au-Prince (Haiti), Havana (Cuba), Nassau (Bahamas), Ottawa (Canada)
- Batch 8: Paris (France), Praia (Cape Verde), Banjul (Gambia), Dakar (Senegal), Bissau (Guinea-Bissau)
- Batch 9: Conakry (Guinea), Freetown (Sierra Leone), Monrovia (Liberia), Yamoussoukro (Ivory Coast), Accra (Ghana)
- Batch 10: Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), Porto-Novo (Benin), Lomé (Togo), Abuja (Nigeria), Yaoundé (Cameroon)
- Batch 11: Bamako (Mali), Nouakchott (Mauritania), Rabat (Morocco), Algiers (Algeria), Niamey (Niger)
- Batch 12: Tunis (Tunisia), Valletta (Malta), Rome (Italy), Vatican City, San Marino
- Batch 13: Ljubljana (Slovenia), Zagreb (Croatia), Vienna (Austria), Bratislava (Slovakia), Prague (Czechia)
- Batch 14: Vaduz (Liechtenstein), Bern (Switzerland), Luxembourg, Berlin (Germany), Brussels (Belgium)
- Batch 15: Amsterdam (Netherlands), London (United Kingdom), Moscow (Russia), Dublin (Ireland), Copenhagen (Denmark)
- Batch 16: Warsaw (Poland), Vilnius (Lithuania), Riga (Latvia), Tallinn (Estonia), Minsk (Belarus)
- Batch 17: Kyiv (Ukraine), Chișinău (Moldova), Bucharest (Romania), Sofia (Bulgaria), Belgrade (Serbia)
- Batch 18: Skopje (North Macedonia), Pristina (Kosovo), Tirana (Albania), Podgorica (Montenegro), Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- Batch 19: Athens (Greece), Nicosia (Cyprus), Ankara (Turkey), Beirut (Lebanon), Ramallah (Palestine)
- Batch 20: Jerusalem (Israel), Amman (Jordan), Damascus (Syria), Baghdad (Iraq), Yerevan (Armenia)
- Batch 21: Baku (Azerbaijan), Tbilisi (Georgia), Ashgabat (Turkmenistan), Tehran (Iran), Kuwait City (Kuwait)
- Batch 22: Tashkent (Uzbekistan), Astana (Kazakhstan), Dushanbe (Tajikistan), Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan), Kabul (Afghanistan)
- Batch 23: Islamabad (Pakistan), Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), Muscat (Oman), Doha (Qatar), Manama (Bahrain)
- Batch 24: Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), Sanaa (Yemen), Asmara (Eritrea), Djibouti, Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)
- Batch 25: Mogadishu (Somalia), Nairobi (Kenya), Kampala (Uganda), Kigali (Rwanda), Gitega (Burundi)
- Batch 26: Dodoma (Tanzania), Lilongwe (Malawi), Lusaka (Zambia), Maputo (Mozambique), Harare (Zimbabwe)
- Batch 27: Moroni (Comoros), Antananarivo (Madagascar), Port Louis (Mauritius), Victoria (Seychelles), Mbabane (Eswatini)
- Batch 28: Gaborone (Botswana), Windhoek (Namibia), Pretoria (South Africa), Maseru (Lesotho), Luanda (Angola)
- Batch 29: Kinshasa (DR Congo), Brazzaville (Republic of the Congo), Libreville (Gabon), Ciudad de la Paz (Equatorial Guinea), São Tomé (São Tomé and Príncipe)
- Batch 30: Bangui (Central African Republic), Juba (South Sudan), Khartoum (Sudan), N'Djamena (Chad), Cairo (Egypt)
- Batch 31: Tripoli (Libya), Monaco, Andorra la Vella (Andorra), Madrid (Spain), Budapest (Hungary)
- Batch 32: Lisbon (Portugal), Reykjavík (Iceland), Stockholm (Sweden), Oslo (Norway), Helsinki (Finland)
- Batch 33: Kathmandu (Nepal), Thimphu (Bhutan), Dhaka (Bangladesh), New Delhi (India), Naypyidaw (Myanmar)
- Batch 34: Beijing (China), Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia), Pyongyang (North Korea), Seoul (South Korea), Taipei (Taiwan)
- Batch 35: Vientiane (Laos), Hanoi (Vietnam), Phnom Penh (Cambodia), Bangkok (Thailand), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
- Batch 36: Singapore, Bandar Seri Begawan (Brunei), Jakarta (Indonesia), Manila (Philippines), Dili (Timor-Leste)
- Batch 37: Ngerulmud (Palau), Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea), Palikir (Micronesia), Honiara (Solomon Islands), Yaren (Nauru)
- Batch 38: Majuro (Marshall Islands), South Tarawa (Kiribati), Funafuti (Tuvalu), Suva (Fiji), Port Vila (Vanuatu)
- Batch 39: Wellington (New Zealand), Canberra (Australia), Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (Sri Lanka), Malé (Maldives), Tokyo (Japan)
- Batch 40: Apia (Samoa), Nukuʻalofa (Tonga)
Learn the capitals of the World at your own pace: we show you 197 capitals five at a time, each in its place on the map, and you go over the ones you miss until you know them. Free, no sign-up.
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What are the capitals of the World?
Afghanistan: Kabul; Albania: Tirana; Algeria: Algiers; Andorra: Andorra la Vella; Angola: Luanda; Antigua and Barbuda: Saint John; Argentina: Buenos Aires; Armenia: Yerevan; Australia: Canberra; Austria: Vienna; Azerbaijan: Baku; Bahamas: Nassau; Bahrain: Manama; Bangladesh: Dhaka; Barbados: Bridgetown; Belarus: Minsk; Belgium: Brussels; Belize: Belmopan; Benin: Porto-Novo; Bhutan: Thimphu; Bolivia: Sucre & La Paz; Bosnia and Herzegovina: Sarajevo; Botswana: Gaborone; Brazil: Brasília; Brunei: Bandar Seri Begawan; Bulgaria: Sofia; Burkina Faso: Ouagadougou; Burundi: Gitega; Cambodia: Phnom Penh; Cameroon: Yaoundé; Canada: Ottawa; Cape Verde: Praia; Central African Republic: Bangui; Chad: N'Djamena; Chile: Santiago; China: Beijing; Colombia: Bogotá; Comoros: Moroni; Costa Rica: San José; Croatia: Zagreb; Cuba: Havana; Cyprus: Nicosia; Czechia: Prague; Denmark: Copenhagen; Djibouti: Djibouti; Dominica: Roseau; Dominican Republic: Santo Domingo; DR Congo: Kinshasa; Ecuador: Quito; Egypt: Cairo; El Salvador: San Salvador; Equatorial Guinea: Ciudad de la Paz; Eritrea: Asmara; Estonia: Tallinn; Eswatini: Mbabane; Ethiopia: Addis Ababa; Fiji: Suva; Finland: Helsinki; France: Paris; Gabon: Libreville; Gambia: Banjul; Georgia: Tbilisi; Germany: Berlin; Ghana: Accra; Greece: Athens; Grenada: St. George's; Guatemala: Guatemala City; Guinea: Conakry; Guinea-Bissau: Bissau; Guyana: Georgetown; Haiti: Port-au-Prince; Honduras: Tegucigalpa; Hungary: Budapest; Iceland: Reykjavík; India: New Delhi; Indonesia: Jakarta; Iran: Tehran; Iraq: Baghdad; Ireland: Dublin; Israel: Jerusalem; Italy: Rome; Ivory Coast: Yamoussoukro; Jamaica: Kingston; Japan: Tokyo; Jordan: Amman; Kazakhstan: Astana; Kenya: Nairobi; Kiribati: South Tarawa; Kosovo: Pristina; Kuwait: Kuwait City; Kyrgyzstan: Bishkek; Laos: Vientiane; Latvia: Riga; Lebanon: Beirut; Lesotho: Maseru; Liberia: Monrovia; Libya: Tripoli; Liechtenstein: Vaduz; Lithuania: Vilnius; Luxembourg: Luxembourg; Madagascar: Antananarivo; Malawi: Lilongwe; Malaysia: Kuala Lumpur; Maldives: Malé; Mali: Bamako; Malta: Valletta; Marshall Islands: Majuro; Mauritania: Nouakchott; Mauritius: Port Louis; Mexico: Mexico City; Micronesia: Palikir; Moldova: Chișinău; Monaco: Monaco; Mongolia: Ulaanbaatar; Montenegro: Podgorica; Morocco: Rabat; Mozambique: Maputo; Myanmar: Naypyidaw; Namibia: Windhoek; Nauru: Yaren; Nepal: Kathmandu; Netherlands: Amsterdam; New Zealand: Wellington; Nicaragua: Managua; Niger: Niamey; Nigeria: Abuja; North Korea: Pyongyang; North Macedonia: Skopje; Norway: Oslo; Oman: Muscat; Pakistan: Islamabad; Palau: Ngerulmud; Palestine: Ramallah; Panama: Panama City; Papua New Guinea: Port Moresby; Paraguay: Asunción; Peru: Lima; Philippines: Manila; Poland: Warsaw; Portugal: Lisbon; Qatar: Doha; Republic of the Congo: Brazzaville; Romania: Bucharest; Russia: Moscow; Rwanda: Kigali; Saint Kitts and Nevis: Basseterre; Saint Lucia: Castries; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Kingstown; Samoa: Apia; San Marino: San Marino; São Tomé and Príncipe: São Tomé; Saudi Arabia: Riyadh; Senegal: Dakar; Serbia: Belgrade; Seychelles: Victoria; Sierra Leone: Freetown; Singapore: Singapore; Slovakia: Bratislava; Slovenia: Ljubljana; Solomon Islands: Honiara; Somalia: Mogadishu; South Africa: Pretoria; South Korea: Seoul; South Sudan: Juba; Spain: Madrid; Sri Lanka: Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte; Sudan: Khartoum; Suriname: Paramaribo; Sweden: Stockholm; Switzerland: Bern; Syria: Damascus; Taiwan: Taipei; Tajikistan: Dushanbe; Tanzania: Dodoma; Thailand: Bangkok; Timor-Leste: Dili; Togo: Lomé; Tonga: Nukuʻalofa; Trinidad and Tobago: Port of Spain; Tunisia: Tunis; Turkey: Ankara; Turkmenistan: Ashgabat; Tuvalu: Funafuti; Uganda: Kampala; Ukraine: Kyiv; United Arab Emirates: Abu Dhabi; United Kingdom: London; United States: Washington, D.C.; Uruguay: Montevideo; Uzbekistan: Tashkent; Vanuatu: Port Vila; Vatican City: Vatican City; Venezuela: Caracas; Vietnam: Hanoi; Yemen: Sanaa; Zambia: Lusaka; Zimbabwe: Harare.
What is the easiest way to learn the capitals of the World?
By area and in small groups: learn five neighbouring pieces, find them on the map with no rush, and go over the ones you miss a little later, then the next day. Reviewing just before you would forget is what makes them stick.
How long does it take to learn the capitals of the World?
There are 197 pieces in 40 batches of five: about a minute per batch to see them all, then short reviews over a few days so you don't forget them.