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Can you name the Asian 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 You have 8 minutes to guess after you click the button below.	Search: Popular trivia games today 4 Letter Capitals 4973 TV Shows (U.S.) 3466 Broadway Opening Lines 3405 You Do Know Jack 1460 Lousy descriptions of Tom Hanks movies 1430 Same Last Name 1197 And more...
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Capital	Country
Muscat
Kuala Lumpur
Doha
Amman
Damascus
Yerevan
Tashkent
Bandar Seri Begawan
Singapore
Astana
Tbilisi
San‘a’
Ulaanbaatar
Islamabad
Seoul
Beirut
Bishkek
Abu Dhabi
Phnom Penh
Ashgabat
Colombo
Jakarta
Dili
New Delhi

Capital	Country
Naypyidaw
Taipei
Dhaka
Moscow
Dushanbe
Ankara
Baghdad
Male
Manila
Kuwait City
Riyadh
Vientiane
Tehran
Tokyo
Kabul
Kathmandu
Manama
Bangkok
Hanoi
Pyongyang
Beijing
Thimphu
Jerusalem
Baku

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	Victor2K:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 08:30 GMT	4 points
	Rangoon (Yangoon) isn't the capital do Myanmar anymore?

	clavinfield:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 08:36 GMT	27 points
	The military government moved the capital of Myanmar from Yangon to Naypyidaw in late 2005-early 2006.

	foreverfreebird:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 08:37 GMT	11 points
	Nope--in November 2005 the capital was moved to a planned city that is closer to the geographical center of the country.

	Tebow:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 08:38 GMT	8 points
	Lance Armstrong rode for Team Astana in this summer's Tour de France. Astana is also the name of the National Bank of Kazakhstan. Think it's weird that the USA's national hero, someone who once rode for the United States Postal Service and the Discovery Channel, was sponsored by the government-run bank of a country that we don't even have good relations with?

	RandallPinkston:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 08:43 GMT	25 points
	Lots of people are doing very well on this quiz. Perhaps ten minutes is too leisurely?

	segacs:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 08:45 GMT	7 points
	@RandallPinkston, I think we've all just done the world capitals quiz a few too many times. If you want to make this harder, maybe you could try limiting the number of wrong answers?

	Chromatos:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 08:48 GMT	9 points
	Yeah, there was way too much time here. I had enough time to do all the ones I knew then go through the others methodically and still have nearly 2 minutes left.

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	deej:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 09:04 GMT	51 points
	bows his head for the 10+% who didn't get Singapore

	deej:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 09:05 GMT	-2 points
	@Pyrophorus: because. that's why.

	the_hamburglar:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 09:11 GMT	22 points
	Papua New Guinea might technically be a part of Oceania

	Anonymous42:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 09:12 GMT	23 points
	@Pyrophorus: Papua New Guinea is generally considered to be part of Oceania. At least, that's how it's categorized on the continent quizzes.

	nhrafan:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 09:31 GMT	14 points
	ok, so i'm confused. world capitals uses kotte for sri lanka, but capitals of asia still uses colombo. now this quiz uses colombo as well. why is it that sri lanka has multiple capitals that are accepted on other quizzes but other countries, like south africa, only accept one? and how do the admins pick which to use?

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	springmom:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 09:57 GMT	-2 points
	I agree - way too much time on this quiz.

	iceman1731:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 09:59 GMT	23 points
	Way more people missed Kuwait and Singapore then should have...

	livfred:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 10:32 GMT	6 points
	@Tebow: Why doesn't the USA have good relations with Kazakhstan?

	Niques:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 10:46 GMT	9 points
	The fact that I can start typing Tajikistan despite having not consciously processed the capital yet points quite firmly to the idea that I've spent far too much time on Sporcle.

	cottb128:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 11:05 GMT	38 points
	There was an incident in 2006 involving two naked and angry Kazakhstani nationals fighting and running wild through an American hotel. Since then US/Kazakhstan relations have been shaky at best.

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	caramba:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 13:06 GMT	1 point
	@iceman1731 I assume that those who missed Singapore and Kuwait didn't get to them yet as they probably spent way too much time trying to spell the infinite variations of Kyrgystan, Turkemenistan and Tajikistan (like I almost did)

	Escaho:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 13:14 GMT	22 points
	Anyone else immensely proud that over 35% of people who took this quiz scored over 40/48? Keep teaching us, Sporcle! We're getting smarter!

	tigerschick:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 14:13 GMT	6 points
	I like this one way more than the one that's the other way 'round (given the country, name the capital) purely because of the spellings!! I can never remember how many As there are in Ulaanbaatar, for example! It's a good way to learn which pairs go together without worrying about spelling :o)

	tigerschick:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 14:16 GMT	1 point
	I would imagine that anyone who didn't get Singapore or Kuwait didn't get that far because they got all the -stans first and either ran out of time due to spelling issues or gave up and are currently lying down in a darkened room ;o)

	JoeGrzzly:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 14:28 GMT	18 points
	Oh man, I missed Oman.

	zalagreensbury:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 14:51 GMT	1 point
	My geography skills are so Eurocentric limited it's not even funny my sheer pronunciation of some of these capitals was downright poor but I squeezed by with 28/48 shrug Ironically enough I knew most of these cities from the what I remembered from the news...hmmm.

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	snowman888:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 16:38 GMT	-3 points
	I thought Russia is considered a country of Europe, because its capital, Moscow, and most of its population are west of the Urals. But, I still include it in Asia as well. Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan are usually considered part of Asia. about half of Kazakhstan is in Europe, but it is also considered a country of Asia.

	buppyspek:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 16:57 GMT	-2 points
	I think there was too much time. I was able to go through and guess after I got all the ones I knew.

	motomoto:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 17:18 GMT	-2 points
	How could you POSSIBLY miss Singapore? I'm hoping it's just the folks who gave up after a while and quit! Good gracious!

	rockgolf:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 18:14 GMT	6 points
	Singapore I can understand. If you don't know it's a city-state, you don't know... ...but Kuwait City???

	davidr:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 18:14 GMT	3 points
	@snowman: As far as I can see, Armenia is usually classed as being entirely within Asia; Georgia and Azerbaijan have small amounts of European territory but are mostly within Asia. But nothing like half of Kazakhstan is in Europe. Only the areas to the north and west of the Ural River are considered to be European and, eyeballing a map, I'd estimate that to be 5% of the territory at most. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Europe_map_kazakhstan.png

	mjenks:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 18:39 GMT	6 points
	I would like to thank my dedication to playing the Persians in Civilization III for my success on this quiz. You've really helped me out, Xerxes.

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	kingstony:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 20:04 GMT	1 point
	There are too many big heads here

	MistrSac:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 20:07 GMT	22 points
	Bandar Seri Begawan is probably the greatest city name ever.

	AEMC:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 20:09 GMT	6 points
	I love these kind of quizzes. Thank you Sporcle.

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	matto:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 20:32 GMT	-1 points
	sporcle has taught me that my knowledge of world capitals is not as impressive as i once thought (18% of us answered all correctly)

	Qazza2k9:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 20:49 GMT	2 points
	whacks self over head over inability to get baghdad!!!