Can you name the countries located partially on a continent with the capital on an island?

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The bonus answers have part of their capital on island(s), but the majority of the city today is connected to the mainland. The four other countries have the capital exclusively on an island.
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Continent Countries With Island Capitals Quiz

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Created by: bsd987 -
Contributed: January 29th, 2010
Category: Geography
Plays: 525

Tags: Continent Quizzes, Country Quizzes, Capital Quizzes, island, located, partially

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	bsd987:	Jan 30th, 2010 at 03:13 GMT	1 point
	I did independent research to figure these out. If I missed any capital, please let me know.

	thedpr:	Jan 30th, 2010 at 03:42 GMT	1 point
	I'm not sure how you're defining "partly on islands" for the bonuses (and I only found Sweden - what's the other?) but Paris has Ile St Louis and Ile de la Cite in the Seine (and there are governmental buildings on the latter, at least, so one could argue that part of the capital is on them). There are probably several other capitals that have river islands as well...

	joebobs:	Jan 30th, 2010 at 03:48 GMT	1 point
	Brazzaville in Republic of the Congo and Kinshasa in Dem. Rep. of Congo are (at least partially) located on islands in the Congo River.

	ddt:	Jan 30th, 2010 at 04:01 GMT	1 point
	@thedpr: actually, both Paris and Stockholm started out on those islands - they are the oldest part of those cities. Amsterdam/Netherlands should also count as a bonus, as it also has several islands.

	bsd987:	Jan 30th, 2010 at 05:37 GMT	1 point
	I wasn't sure what to do with Paris since it's an inland island, but I've added it as a bonus. I've added the others suggested as bonuses as well.

	toddsta:	Jan 30th, 2010 at 13:15 GMT	2 points
	Malabo, Equatorial Guinea is on the island of Bioko.

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	Grawk:	Jan 30th, 2010 at 16:02 GMT	2 points
	Great quiz, really original!

	otis89:	Jan 30th, 2010 at 16:15 GMT	1 point
	XTOCb, how does the UK having Gibraltar qualify it for this quiz? Did they move the capital from London to Gibraltar?

	bsd987:	Jan 30th, 2010 at 17:19 GMT	2 points
	@otis89 - Gibraltar is connected to the continent of Europe, so that's how it could. @xtocb - Sporcle has generally considered Gibraltar not to be an integral part of the UK (i.e. the only country UK touches is Ireland, etc.) so I don't think I'll include it as a bonus.

	nearlyextinct:	Jan 30th, 2010 at 17:23 GMT	2 points
	Isn't Mexico City on an island?

	bsd987:	Jan 30th, 2010 at 17:26 GMT	1 point
	@nearlyextinct - the original Aztec city was built on an island, but that was destroyed when the Spanish conquered it.

	thedpr:	Jan 30th, 2010 at 19:44 GMT	0 points
	DC, Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest all have islands. I think where you should draw the line on bonuses is, if those islands had never existed, would the city as we know it still exist? With Stockholm and Paris, the answer is no, with the rest the answer is yes. Kinshasa and Brazzaville barely have built onto any islands, btw, if you look at the Google satellite image.

	bsd987:	Jan 30th, 2010 at 20:09 GMT	1 point
	Yeah, that's why I skipped DC and Vienna (didn't know about the others). I couldn't find much about the two Congos so I added them. The other bonus, Guinea, has almost nothing on the island, but the city originally was formed on the island, so I included it. If anyone knows the history of Brazzaville and Kinshasa, that would be awesome.

	AtomicIce:	Jan 31st, 2010 at 00:01 GMT	1 point
	Are there more than 6 bonus answers? I always love to discover that there are bonus answers to a quiz.

	tstackmoney:	Dec 5th, 2010 at 18:38 GMT	1 point
	dhaka bangladesh? at least during the monsoon season lol

	wgisland:	May 9th, 2011 at 01:52 GMT	1 point
	There's also Yeouido in Seoul...