Can you name the world capitals closest to those listed below?

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Click any empty World Capital or Closest World Capital to answer for that location
Source: Distance Calculator
Note: Distance is calculated as the crow flies.
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World Capital	Closest World Capital	Distance
London		198 miles from London, United Kingdom
Washington
Quito		453 miles from Quito, Equador
Moscow		418 miles from Moscow, Russia
Bratislava		34 miles from Bratislava, Slovakia
Nouakchott		257 miles from Nouakchott, Mauritania
Canberra		1,442 miles from Canberra, Australia
Beijing		503 miles from Beijing, China

World Capital	Closest World Capital	Distance
San Jose		214 miles from San Jose, Costa Rica
Baku		278 miles from Baku, Azerbaijan
Rome		0 miles from Rome, Italy
Muscat		237 miles from Muscat, Oman
Havana		344 miles from Havana, Cuba
Monrovia		224 miles from Monrovia, Liberia
Vaduz		97 miles from Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Singapore		197 miles from Singapore, Singapore

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Closest World Capitals Quiz

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Created by: Booger -
Contributed: October 19th, 2009
Published: October 21st, 2009
Category: Geography
Plays: 71,803

Tags: World Quizzes, Capital Quizzes, listed, those, closest, distance, capitals pack

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	Baghdats:	Oct 21st, 2009 at 04:18 GMT	16 points
	the london one was really interesting... could've sworn it was dublin!

	zalagreensbury:	Oct 21st, 2009 at 04:19 GMT	27 points
	This another one of those quizes where I was eager to hit give up because I was really curious to get to the results. Cool concept.

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	Sneuticles:	Oct 21st, 2009 at 04:43 GMT	19 points
	You totally fooled me on Rome... and London took me a good eight or nine guesses.

	springmom:	Oct 21st, 2009 at 04:45 GMT	27 points
	MrsMcCartney1965 - when Wales becomes an independent country, then maybe, until then...it's part of the UK! Nice quiz - I would like to see a sequel.

	MrsMcCartney1965:	Oct 21st, 2009 at 04:52 GMT	4 points
	Thanks Springmom for the info I agree great quiz

	Westley:	Oct 21st, 2009 at 05:17 GMT	9 points
	Amazing quiz! But very tough. Would love to see the same one done for U.S. state capitols.

	Kauboj:	Oct 21st, 2009 at 05:47 GMT	2 points
	I expected that we would be asked to name pairs of capitals (both cities) that are shortest distance apart. Think of the "longest land borders" quiz - for example, Rome-Vatican City would definitely be the first answer there. I was already salivating with all the pairs of Balkan capitals... At the risk of being voted down, I have to admit that the level of difficulty of this was somewh...ah heck, I'll say it: quite a let-down... NHF Booger, I hope - not a bad quiz in its own right. But hey, maybe there's an idea for a new quiz - if I ever decide to start making them...

	Patteroast:	Oct 21st, 2009 at 06:08 GMT	2 points
	I was also thinking this was a quiz of the pairs of capitals closest to each other in the world. Still, fun. Even though I've spent so much damn time on Sporcle that I pretty much just rattled them off... yikes. I need to go outside.

	al_the_man73:	Oct 21st, 2009 at 06:09 GMT	1 point
	Very nice concept. It's a unique take on the cliche geography quiz!

	BluntDiplomat:	Oct 21st, 2009 at 07:49 GMT	9 points
	Very enlightening quiz. And I had no idea that the distance that separated the Austrian and Slovakian capitals is basically equal to the distance of my house from downtown LA. Oh Sporcle. Life was so empty before you....

	chikka2:	Oct 21st, 2009 at 08:14 GMT	1 point
	True test of whether we really know a country's location in relation to others, plus the names of the capitals. Brilliant quiz.

	Ildib:	Oct 21st, 2009 at 08:45 GMT	1 point
	This is a very nice quiz!!

	exackerly:	Oct 21st, 2009 at 09:06 GMT	0 points
	Can't believe I got 15 -- yay me! How about a quiz on what pairs of cities are due north/south from each other?

	ZeZapatiste:	Oct 21st, 2009 at 10:07 GMT	2 points
	I only missed the Havana one... I was pretty sure it was Kingston. I had to type 10 answers for finding Rome before a bulb lighted in my head !

	chicago:	Oct 21st, 2009 at 11:40 GMT	1 point
	Yeah Rome was a tricky one...pretty tough quiz!

	Yurian:	Oct 21st, 2009 at 11:54 GMT	0 points
	Awesome quiz 5/5, I got all the answers except one, and that Rome, Italy to 0 miles of Vatican City, Vatican City, you can only imagine missing something that close lol nice quiz!

	Bouchkilele:	Oct 21st, 2009 at 11:56 GMT	-4 points
	My stats say I've done the capitals of the world 12 times and countries of the world 16 times (a/k/a "ad nauseum") so this was a little easy for me, but still loved it and would like to also vote for a sequel. How about the furthest from one another? That way you're not just thinking of neighbouring countries. For instance, what is the furthest capital from Washington DC? Would it be Canberra? Beijing? Moscow? What's half a world away from USA?

	Booger:	Oct 21st, 2009 at 13:24 GMT	1 point
	@Bouchkiele: I made a short Furthest Capitals quiz a while back. It's available at http://www.sporcle.com/games/Booger/FurthestCaptials

	billytorbay:	Oct 21st, 2009 at 13:53 GMT	-1 points
	This was an excellent quiz, but the game should have accepted my spelling of "pyeongyang," which is technically correct. The 여 character in 벼양 is spelled "yeo" using the official romanization system.

	LTH:	Oct 21st, 2009 at 16:28 GMT	2 points
	Can anyone tell what the picture is accompanying this quiz? I think I see a tape measure...

	Sedrarto18:	Oct 21st, 2009 at 17:36 GMT	1 point
	I was shocked by London. i looked it up on a world map...its true!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!