Lazy Man's Capital City Tour Quiz

Can you name the nearest capital cities?

created by Endasil

Enter a capital in the box below
Correctly named capitals will show up below
Click any empty Distance (Azimuth) or Capital to answer for that location
Source: CIA World Factbook
Start with "Panama City". Then name the closest capital to the last answer that has not yet been entered.
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Distance (Azimuth)	Capital	Country
Type 'Panama City' to Go!		Panama
510 km (WNW)		Costa Rica
343 km (NW)		Nicaragua
238 km (NNW)		Honduras
218 km (WSW)		El Salvador
174 km (NW)		Guatemala
346 km (NNE)		Belize
933 km (NE)		Cuba
553 km (ENE)		Bahamas
786 km (S)		Jamaica
475 km (E)		Haiti
257 km (E)		Dominican Republic
772 km (E)		Saint Kitts and Nevis
94 km (ESE)		Antigua and Barbuda
206 km (SSE)		Dominica
148 km (SSE)		Saint Lucia
99 km (SSW)		Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
134 km (SSW)		Grenada
156 km (S)		Trinidad and Tobago
341 km (NE)		Barbados
714 km (SSE)		Guyana
348 km (ESE)		Suriname
1395 km (WNW)		Venezuela
1023 km (SW)		Colombia
724 km (SW)		Ecuador
1318 km (S)		Peru
1078 km (ESE)		Bolivia
1458 km (SE)		Paraguay
1039 km (S)		Argetina
229 km (E)		Uruguay
1343 km (W)		Chile
3009 km (NE)		Brazil (S.A. complete!)
4327 km (NE)		Cape Verde
655 km (E)		Senegal
163 km (SE)		The Gambia
206 km (SSE)		Guinea-Bissau
327 km (SE)		Guinea
126 km (SSE)		Sierra Leone
363 km (SE)		Liberia
612 km (E)		Côte d'Ivoire
577 km (ESE)		Ghana
171 km (ENE)		Togo
159 km (ENE)		Benin
613 km (ENE)		Nigeria
605 km (SSE)		Equatorial Guinea
303 km (E)		Cameroon
448 km (SSW)		Gabon
312 km (W)		São Tomé and Príncipe
1078 km (ESE)		Republic of the Congo
7 km (SSE)		Democratic Republic of the Congo
549 km (SSW)		Angola
1574 km (SSE)		Namibia
932 km (ESE)		Botswana
254 km (ESE)		South Africa
296 km (ESE)		Swaziland
153 km (ENE)		Mozambique
626 km (SW)		Lesotho
1322 km (NNE)		Zimbabwe
398 km (NW)		Zambia
613 km (ENE)		Malawi
890 km (NNE)		Tanzania
553 km (NNE)		Kenya
520 km (WNW)		Uganda
362 km (SW)		Rwanda
175 km (SSW)		Burundi

Distance (Azimuth)	Capital	Country
1471 km (NW)		Central African Republic
940 km (NNW)		Chad
1410 km (W)		Niger
414 km (WSW)		Burkina Faso
705 km (W)		Mali
1053 km (NW)		Mauritania
1985 km (NNE)		Morocco
561 km (NNW)		Portugal
504 km (ENE)		Spain
493 km (ENE)		Andorra
499 km (ENE)		Monaco
357 km (N)		Switzerland
159 km (E)		Liechtenstein
372 km (NW)		Luxembourg
187 km (NW)		Belgium
176 km (NNE)		Netherlands
361 km (WSW)		United Kingdom
342 km (SSE)		France
777 km (NW)		Ireland
1242 km (ENE)		Denmark
354 km (S)		Germany
280 km (SSE)		Czech Republic
251 km (SE)		Austria
56 km (E)		Slovakia
164 km (ESE)		Hungary
302 km (SW)		Croatia
118 km (WNW)		Slovenia
287 km (SW)		San Marino
225 km (S)		Italy
0 km		Vatican
531 km (ENE)		Bosnia and Herzegovina
173 km (SSE)		Montenegro
132 km (SSE)		Albania
154 km (ENE)		Macedonia
77 km (NNW)		Kosovo
176 km (E)		Bulgaria
297 km (NE)		Romania
356 km (NE)		Moldova
400 km (NNE)		Ukraine
435 km (NNW)		Belarus
170 km (WNW)		Lithuania
263 km (NNW)		Latvia
278 km (N)		Estonia
82 km (N)		Finland
397 km (W)		Sweden
416 km (WNW)		Norway
1063 km (SE)		Poland
825 km (S)		Serbia
807 km (SSE)		Greece
820 km (ENE)		Turkey
530 km (S)		Cyprus
243 km (SE)		Lebanon
84 km (ESE)		Syria
175 km (SSW)		Jordan
69 km (WSW)		Israel
425 km (WSW)		Egypt
1296 km (E)		Iraq
556 km (SE)		Kuwait
431 km (SE)		Bahrain
143 km (SE)		Qatar
300 km (ESE)		United Arab Emirates
439 km (ESE)		Oman
1211 km (W)		Saudi Arabia
1060 km (SSW)		Yemen
431 km (SSW)		Djibouti

Distance (Azimuth)	Capital	Country
563 km (WSW)		Ethiopia
697 km (N)		Eritrea
687 km (W)		Sudan
2055 km (SE)		Somalia
1344 km (ESE)		Seychelles
1555 km (WSW)		Comoros
921 km (SSE)		Madagascar
1054 km (E)		Mauritius
3209 km (NE)		Maldives
767 km (ENE)		Sri Lanka
2172 km (NNE)		Bangladesh
424 km (N)		Bhutan
423 km (W)		Nepal
803 km (W)		India
683 km (NNW)		Pakistan
378 km (WNW)		Afghanistan
452 km (N)		Tajikistan
308 km (N)		Uzbekistan
470 km (ENE)		Kyrgyzstan
953 km (NNW)		Kazakhstan
1791 km (SW)		Turkmenistan
671 km (WSW)		Iran
540 km (NNW)		Azerbaijan
452 km (WNW)		Georgia
173 km (S)		Armenia
1805 km (NNW)		Russia
2817 km (SW)		Malta
354 km (SSW)		Libya
513 km (NNW)		Tunisia
636 km (W)		Algeria (Africa complete!)
3476 km (NNW)		Iceland (Europe complete!)
3871 km (S)		Canada
733 km (S)		United States of America
3028 km (SW)		Mexico (N.A. complete!)
8762 km (WSW)		Samoa
887 km (SSW)		Tonga
747 km (WNW)		Fiji
1069 km (N)		Tuvalu
1287 km (NNW)		Kiribati
663 km (NNW)		Marshall Islands
979 km (SSW)		Nauru
1250 km (SW)		Solomon Islands
1288 km (SE)		Vanuatu
2460 km (WNW)		Papua New Guinea
2186 km (NE)		Micronesia
2597 km (W)		Palau
1683 km (WNW)		Philippines
1159 km (N)		Taiwan
1480 km (NNE)		South Korea
195 km (NNW)		North Korea
811 km (W)		China
1167 km (NW)		Mongolia
2983 km (S)		Vietnam
481 km (SW)		Laos
517 km (SSW)		Thailand
536 km (ESE)		Cambodia
992 km (SSW)		Malaysia
317 km (SE)		Singapore
887 km (SSE)		Indonesia
1518 km (NE)		Brunei
1902 km (SE)		Timor-Leste
3810 km (SE)		Australia
2332 km (ESE)		New Zealand (Oceania complete!)
9263 km (NNW)		Japan
4606 km (W)		Myanmar (Asia complete!)

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Lazy Man's Capital City Tour Quiz

by Endasil

Created Jun 23, 2010 in Geography
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	Endasil:	Jun 24th, 2010 at 02:41 GMT	2 points
	For those of you who won't understand the premise, imagine a tourist from Panama City who wants to visit every capital city in the world. He has a unique travel pattern: each time he leaves a city he walks (/flies/sails) directly to the closest capital he hasn't yet visited. Your job is to figure out his route! Good luck; this won't be easy!

	alleyt1989:	Jun 24th, 2010 at 03:58 GMT	1 point
	gah i got stuck in the caribbean!

	sammyhain:	Jun 24th, 2010 at 04:02 GMT	0 points
	riyadh isn't west of muscat

	Endasil:	Jun 24th, 2010 at 04:10 GMT	4 points
	@sammyhain: The heading from Muscat to Riyadh is 278 degrees, which is closer to west (270 deg) than west-northwest (292.5 deg).

	SpeziFish:	Jun 24th, 2010 at 10:33 GMT	2 points
	Great quiz, one of the best. Must be hard work to create.

	OscilatingGibbon:	Jun 24th, 2010 at 11:48 GMT	2 points
	Devilishly hard but really good fun. About halfway down the last column I really started to get challenged. Great quiz!

	mbc:	Jun 24th, 2010 at 14:08 GMT	2 points
	Nice to see a quiz that punishes me for not knowing my way around Oceania or the Lesser Antilles.

	paulio_ham:	Jun 24th, 2010 at 15:19 GMT	1 point
	even using google maps this was fiendishly difficult! I think the next challenge should be to complete this journey yourself

	Endasil:	Jun 24th, 2010 at 16:05 GMT	1 point
	@paulio: That would be a good way to spend a few years! For those who don't want to stop the quiz because they get bogged down by one or two answers, I suggest Google Earth. The measure (line) tool gives you both distance and bearing, and I used it as a secondary source when I needed to do some double-checking.

	Josh8036:	Jun 24th, 2010 at 18:05 GMT	1 point
	Guessing it's a dateline issue, but Tarawa, Kiribati is NNE of Funafuti, Tuvalu not NNW. Great idea and great quiz though.

	Endasil:	Jun 24th, 2010 at 20:37 GMT	2 points
	@Josh: I thought you were right until I looked at it in Google Maps. The data presented is correct: ~1280 km NNW. Kiribati is dispersed over millions of square kilometres, and while many of the islands are northeast of Tuvalu, Tarawa isn't one of them.

	Josh8036:	Jun 25th, 2010 at 03:25 GMT	2 points
	@Endasil You're absolutely right. At the scale I was looking at on Google Maps Kiribati was labeled to the NE. Should have searched for Tarawa before commenting.

	TheBigE1980:	Jun 28th, 2010 at 23:37 GMT	5 points
	Best. Geography. Quiz. Ever!

	Forbsey:	Jun 29th, 2010 at 10:56 GMT	1 point
	why start at Panama - really shows someone like me up as i don't really know that part of the world

	TheBigE1980:	Jun 29th, 2010 at 19:16 GMT	3 points
	@Forbsey: The quiz had to start somewhere...

	Patteroast:	Jul 30th, 2010 at 16:44 GMT	2 points
	Wow. That was an outrageously epic geography quiz. The big jumps really give you pause. Well done! :)

	cw360:	Aug 3rd, 2010 at 20:40 GMT	1 point
	This was epic! First attempt I got to within 2 from the end when the time ran out, to get that close on a quiz that long is cool. Got it the second time but not easy at all. I just couldn't remember where I'd already been! Helped me learn the geography of the pacific and caribbean though. One of the best I have played. It would be so SO awesome if you could randomise the start point, but I think that'll need cleverer brains that I have. And probably a cleverer template than Sporcle allows!

	A_is_for_Addict:	Aug 9th, 2010 at 19:49 GMT	1 point
	Naypyidaw is South West of Tokyo, not just West.

	Endasil:	Aug 10th, 2010 at 15:08 GMT	0 points
	@A_is_for_Addict: My measurements put the bearing at 259.3 deg. Now that's far closer to West (270 deg) than Southwest (225 deg), and is in fact marginally closer to West than even West-Southwest (247.5 deg). I don't mind corrections, but it seems like a few people make these corrections without doing the research to validate them first. Remember, just because there's _some_ south in a western bearing doesn't make the bearing Southwest!

	skSK:	Aug 31st, 2010 at 15:19 GMT	2 points
	I made a mental note to remember Tokyo after it wasn't in the Seoul-Pyongyang-Beijing sequence, then subsequently forgot it in between Wellington and Naypyidaw. Seppuku for me!

	cuendillar:	Jan 8th, 2011 at 15:35 GMT	2 points
	It's weird that somehow, you go through Pretoria, Baghdad and all of Europe - while moving from Guatemala City to Mexico City!

	jacana:	May 15th, 2012 at 17:19 GMT	3 points
	Time to add Juba!

	Zak6009:	May 16th, 2012 at 18:40 GMT	1 point
	Wonder if Juba would make much difference in the path. It would probably screw this whole thing up considering Khartoum and all of northeast Africa isn't visited until LONG after Bangui.

	mouthforhire:	May 17th, 2012 at 10:54 GMT	1 point
	@Zak6009 I had the same thought but as far as I can tell it would go Bujumbura/Juba/Bangui, so no harm done.

	mouthforhire:	May 17th, 2012 at 10:55 GMT	1 point
	@Endasil, I believe you about Naypidaw and Tokyo, although it doesn't look that way on the map, but is Ottawa really W of Reykjavik?

	Endasil:	May 17th, 2012 at 13:01 GMT	1 point
	@jacana: I think I'll add a second quiz rather than try to recompute this quiz :-). Either way I need to find the program I wrote to generate this quiz in the first place. If it's as easy as @mouthforhire says I might amend this one.

	Endasil:	May 17th, 2012 at 13:10 GMT	1 point
	@mouthforhire: Not sure what happened there, the heading is actually about 263 degrees which is pretty much due south! (not surprising, almost everything is south of Iceland :-). I'm betting it's a nuance of the geodesic computation library I had pulled in to help me with this quiz. I've fixed the heading.