Can you name the African country from its capital? - sporcle

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Can you name the African country from its capital? Enter a country in the box below Correctly named countries will show up in the table below Click any empty Capital or Country to answer for that location Also try naming the capital by country You have 8 minutes to guess after you click the button below.	Search: Popular trivia games today 4 Letter Capitals 6211 Broadway Opening Lines 4108 TV Shows (U.S.) 4055 You Do Know Jack 1689 Lousy descriptions of Tom Hanks movies 1661 Same Last Name 1371 And more...
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Capital	Country
Yaounde
Tunis
Lomé
Lusaka
Malabo
Niamey
Dodoma (Dar es Salaam)
Bangui
Praia
Kinshasa
Bamako
Algiers
Addis Ababa
Moroni
Porto Novo
Dakar
Rabat
Djibouti
Kigali
Lilongwe
Abuja
N'Djamena
Gaborone
Asmara
Victoria
Port Louis
Maseru

Capital	Country
Harare
Kampala
Nairobi
Nouakchott
Maputo
Mbabane
Banjul
Cairo
Freetown
Khartoum
Monrovia
Luanda
Windhoek
Bujumbura
Pretoria
São Tomé
Ouagadougou
Accra
Libreville
Conakry
Brazzaville
Antananarivo
Mogadishu
Bissau
Tripoli
Yamoussoukro

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	XCivilWarGhost5X:	Sep 8th, 2009 at 08:41 GMT	14 points
	Awesome quiz! Very hard. Glad they are already coming out with the other continents

	jd1z:	Sep 8th, 2009 at 08:41 GMT	12 points
	Oh Lord. Africa, you are my Everest.

	zalagreensbury:	Sep 8th, 2009 at 08:43 GMT	-3 points
	As an african american I feel so ashamed that I could only name a handful of these capitals I really gotta brush up.

	fatbeard:	Sep 8th, 2009 at 08:43 GMT	19 points
	Ouagadougou remains one of my favorite names in geography (although all bets are off if I have to spell it)

	Unidentifiedkiwi:	Sep 8th, 2009 at 08:43 GMT	2 points
	I'm excited, this will no doubt be a huge help for the "capitals of Africa" quiz, having it all listed in a table like this.

	JohnJF:	Sep 8th, 2009 at 08:45 GMT	11 points
	Who ever said European capitals was easy? I want names and possibly addresses! Oh well, I reckon I should get back to "Colors of the Rainbow" before going to bed on this note...

	jd1z:	Sep 8th, 2009 at 08:49 GMT	6 points
	Also, ingeniously devious of Sporcle to change up the order on every try... No learning the order on the page, you have to actually learn the capitals. Blerg!

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	NoVan:	Sep 8th, 2009 at 08:59 GMT	17 points
	Can we have consistency on the Republic of the Congo, please? "rep congo" should suffice.

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	joshindc:	Sep 8th, 2009 at 09:08 GMT	22 points
	"The capital of Djibouti is Djiboutii. I've got a mind like a steel-trap!"

	Pat423:	Sep 8th, 2009 at 09:08 GMT	15 points
	I think we're all thinking the same thing here... And I have to agree. However hard this is, Antarctica by capital will be even WORSE.

	cigarette:	Sep 8th, 2009 at 09:19 GMT	9 points
	This quiz is entirely too Afro-centric.

	eshortstop2:	Sep 8th, 2009 at 09:20 GMT	2 points
	Don't lie. I know that everyone here took 5 seconds to make sure Ouagadougou wasn't a palindrome. And you just checked if you didn't already.

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	llewdor:	Sep 8th, 2009 at 10:21 GMT	13 points
	Ouagadougou was my favourite African capital even back when it was the capital of Upper Volta.

	lalalala:	Sep 8th, 2009 at 11:23 GMT	0 points
	why can't these quizzes go in order? the highlighted box jumping around is really distracting.

	Mtundu:	Sep 8th, 2009 at 11:30 GMT	0 points
	Finished with 45 seconds to spare, good quiz I'm certainly cleverer than I look, which is better than looking cleverer than I am I suppose!

	Boomhauer:	Sep 8th, 2009 at 11:57 GMT	9 points
	This quiz is really hard. But that was what Sporcle was invented for! So we could brush up on our general knowledge. Consequently, I think this is a really good quiz and YAY for Geography quizes!

	Speenatch:	Sep 8th, 2009 at 13:51 GMT	2 points
	I always get 100% on naming the capitals, but apparently it doesn't work both ways! Here's one more quiz I need to take obsessively until I get right.

	Speenatch:	Sep 8th, 2009 at 13:52 GMT	4 points
	@lalalala, if the boxes go in order then you're not remembering the answers by association, you're remembering from the order. Try just looking at the text box rather than the highlighted area.

Capital	Country
Harare
Kampala
Nairobi
Nouakchott
Maputo
Mbabane
Banjul
Cairo
Freetown
Khartoum
Monrovia
Luanda
Windhoek
Bujumbura
Pretoria
São Tomé
Ouagadougou
Accra
Libreville
Conakry
Brazzaville
Antananarivo
Mogadishu
Bissau
Tripoli
Yamoussoukro

	banutzu:	Sep 8th, 2009 at 15:09 GMT	-4 points
	probably needs a slightly shorter time, i got 4 extra through guessing at the end

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	OscilatingGibbon:	Sep 8th, 2009 at 16:21 GMT	0 points
	I accidentally skipped Djibouti and forgot to go back to it :-(

	motomoto:	Sep 8th, 2009 at 16:41 GMT	2 points
	I LOVE Africa! Thanks for this quiz!

	kingstony:	Sep 8th, 2009 at 16:53 GMT	1 point
	Love it, new one to learn

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	Mtundu:	Sep 8th, 2009 at 17:18 GMT	9 points
	HiddenPalace, have you ever been to Africa? You are spouting a load of testicles there I'm afraid...

	chikka2:	Sep 8th, 2009 at 17:58 GMT	2 points
	A great refresher and a hint to brush up not only on African capitals but on those in other continents...'cause if I guess right we're soon to see them. Keep the geog quizzes coming!

	thisisaname:	Sep 8th, 2009 at 18:46 GMT	1 point
	Nice quiz, Sporcle! The country names are much easier to spell than the city names, especially since acronyms are allowed for certain countries. And HiddenPalace, way to piss off 1/6 of the world's population. I suggest you stay away from a certain part of the world from here on.

	Ace_Rockolla:	Sep 8th, 2009 at 18:49 GMT	1 point
	I recently finished learning the African capitals from the traditional African capital quiz. This was a fun test to see if I could go backwards with them as well. Got em all.

	biggers:	Sep 8th, 2009 at 20:06 GMT	1 point
	loved this. i can do the countries of africa in about 4 mins but only managed 19 answers in 8 mins. Clearly need to do some revision - predict this quiz will be a frequent one for me. Well done to the 11% who got all correct

	Biscuit1978:	Sep 8th, 2009 at 22:07 GMT	1 point
	ALL 53 with 4:54 TO SPARE. I could not believe it. I love this quiz. I got more on this than on the Asian one. The time is probably about right thought

	eriechic:	Sep 8th, 2009 at 22:22 GMT	1 point
	holy. mother. of-god.

	GeoExpert:	Sep 9th, 2009 at 01:23 GMT	1 point
	Wow, I can do this quiz quite easily, but can never get a perfect score and the other AFRICA capital by country quiz.

	Djibouti:	Sep 9th, 2009 at 02:25 GMT	1 point
	I'm going to get blasted for saying this, but the time is way too long. It could be cut down by 3 minutes easy. Either you know it or you don't, and having enough time to guess several countries you don't know for every single answer kind of defeats the purpose.

	Chubcity:	Sep 9th, 2009 at 05:37 GMT	1 point
	I assume ouagadougou is pronounced "wagadoogoo" but I might be wrong.

	motomoto:	Sep 9th, 2009 at 06:10 GMT	1 point
	@chubcity - I'm pretty sure it's oo-ah-gah-doo-goo.

	Joshbuckler:	Sep 9th, 2009 at 06:24 GMT	0 points
	I really like this quiz for learning the capitals. It's a great one to move on to after you've mastered the countries of the world, but feel daunted by the various world cities quizzes.