Can you name the countries where the highest/lowest percentage of the population lives in the capital?

% of pop. in capital	Country	Capital
00.51%		Abuja (776,298)
00.66%		Islamabad (1,210,000)
00.77%		Dodoma (324,347)
00.95%		Yamoussoukro (200,659)
01.18%		New Delhi (13,850,507)
01.64%		Canberra (351,868)
01.65%		Beijing (22,000,000)
01.72%		Brasilia (3,451,549)
01.73%		Naypyidaw (925,000)
01.74%		Washington (5,400,000)
01.87%		Melekeok (391)
02.39%		Bujumbura (235,440)
02.47%		Porto-Novo (223,552)
03.35%		Ottawa (1,130,761)
04.25%		Kampala (1,420,200)

% of pop. in capital	Country	Capital
100%		Monaco (30,586)
100%		Singapore (4,701,069)
100%		Vatican City (826)
90.53%		Valletta (368,250)
85.33%		Kuwait City (2,380,000)
80.20%		Nassau (248,948)
69.87%		Bandar Seri Begawan (276,000)
65.34%		Reykjavik (201,847)
64.19%		Djibouti (475,332)
58.86%		Doha (998,651)
54.54%		Beirut (2,250,000)
51.28%		Montevideo (1,800,000)
50.37%		Seoul (24,500,000)
49.93%		Paramaribo (242,946)
49.53%		Riga (1,098,523)

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Country-Capital Ratios Quiz

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	Beatlezfann:	Oct 14th, 2011 at 04:35 GMT		21 points
	Wait! Hold on a second! New Delhi only has a population of approx. 200,000. the number listed here is for the Delhi metro area. Which is far larger. Please fix as soon as possible!

	Bobman1:	Oct 14th, 2011 at 04:40 GMT		14 points
	Woah, looks like I'm about 20 years out of date still thinking Lagos is the capital of Nigeria. How could they go and change without telling me?

	Pit_trout:	Oct 14th, 2011 at 04:53 GMT		7 points
	@Beatlezfann: as discussed in archived comments, this quiz uses metro area populations. New Delhi itself is small, but the metro area it's part of is huge.

	FreakyFlyBry:	Oct 14th, 2011 at 05:02 GMT		5 points
	Damn, Kyrgyzstan doesn't make either list... turns out only about a fifth of their population lives in Bishkek.

	pfrijiritr:	Oct 14th, 2011 at 05:47 GMT		5 points
	@FreakyFlyBry: which is basically smack dab in the middle. Still special! @Beatlezfann: There are many of these for which the metro area must have been used; I know that the largest city in Malta is Birkirkara, so the capital of Valetta can not possibly have more than 50% of the population.

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	confused:	Oct 14th, 2011 at 07:00 GMT		8 points
	@rjm264: Look again. The countries in the left column are the 15 with the lowest percentage of people in the capital. The right column lists the 15 countries with the highest percentage. The "middle" 166 countries aren't included.

	ImpromptuJ:	Oct 14th, 2011 at 07:13 GMT		5 points
	Incredible that a city with 22 million residents in its metro area could be considered ill-proportioned. But the numbers don't lie...

	cuccir:	Oct 14th, 2011 at 09:39 GMT		3 points
	Valetta city is very small, but its metro area is much larger.

	A_is_for_Addict:	Oct 14th, 2011 at 10:40 GMT		11 points
	The CIA World Factbook appears to consider Melekeok State as capital of Palau rather than Ngerulmud. This quiz has attributed the entire population of Melekeok State to what may be just the site of Palau's new capitol building! This quiz should remain consistent with its source.

	Tobsodan:	Oct 14th, 2011 at 11:09 GMT		16 points
	I really like the idea for this quiz but to be honest I disagree with using the metropolitan area populations. I think it would be more interesting to use the city proper populations, which would probably show to what extent a capital is specifically a capital (and has very few other functions). Also I am surprised that this does not go by the source nor sporcle convention as to the capital of Palau. On a last note, if you would go by metropolitan area, wouldn't the Vatican city population be that of the metropolitan area of which it is part, i.e. Rome? Then you would get a percentage of way above 100%...

	mykl:	Oct 14th, 2011 at 13:02 GMT		28 points
	I'm surprised San Marino and Liechtenstein don't make the list.