Can you name the Asian country from its capital?

Capital	Country
Riyadh
Baghdad
Beijing
Abu Dhabi
Beirut
San‘a’
Taipei
Manila
Phnom Penh
Yerevan
Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte
Thimphu
Islamabad
Baku
Ashgabat
Bandar Seri Begawan
Male
Jerusalem
Manama
Ankara
Naypyidaw
Astana
Singapore
Doha

Capital	Country
Kuwait City
Kabul
Muscat
Bangkok
Seoul
Tokyo
Hanoi
Pyongyang
Vientiane
Bishkek
Kathmandu
Amman
Damascus
Moscow
Tehran
Jakarta
Ulaanbaatar
Dushanbe
Tbilisi
Dhaka
Tashkent
Kuala Lumpur
New Delhi
Dili

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Asia by Capital Quiz

Rating:	Report a mistake
Published: September 22nd, 2009
Category: Geography
Plays: 142,553

Tags: Country Quizzes, Asia Quizzes, Capital Quizzes, asian, capitals pack

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	Victor2K:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 04:30 GMT	10 points
	Rangoon (Yangoon) isn't the capital do Myanmar anymore?

	clavinfield:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 04:36 GMT	38 points
	The military government moved the capital of Myanmar from Yangon to Naypyidaw in late 2005-early 2006.

	foreverfreebird:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 04:37 GMT	18 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 04:38 GMT	6 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 04:43 GMT	37 points
	Lots of people are doing very well on this quiz. Perhaps ten minutes is too leisurely?

	segacs:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 04:45 GMT	9 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 04:48 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 05:04 GMT	70 points
	bows his head for the 10+% who didn't get Singapore

	deej:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 05:05 GMT	-1 points
	@Pyrophorus: because. that's why.

	the_hamburglar:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 05:11 GMT	27 points
	Papua New Guinea might technically be a part of Oceania

	Anonymous42:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 05:12 GMT	28 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 05:31 GMT	21 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 05:57 GMT	0 points
	I agree - way too much time on this quiz.

	iceman1731:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 05:59 GMT	28 points
	Way more people missed Kuwait and Singapore then should have...

	livfred:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 06:32 GMT	5 points
	@Tebow: Why doesn't the USA have good relations with Kazakhstan?

	Niques:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 06:46 GMT	17 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 07:05 GMT	49 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 09:06 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 09:14 GMT	28 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 10:13 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 10:16 GMT	2 points
	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 10:28 GMT	22 points
	Oh man, I missed Oman.

	zalagreensbury:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 10:51 GMT	-2 points
	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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	buppyspek:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 12:57 GMT	-1 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 13:18 GMT	1 point
	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 14:14 GMT	7 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 14:14 GMT	7 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 14:39 GMT	12 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 16:04 GMT	4 points
	There are too many big heads here

	MistrSac:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 16:07 GMT	28 points
	Bandar Seri Begawan is probably the greatest city name ever.

	AEMC:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 16:09 GMT	8 points
	I love these kind of quizzes. Thank you Sporcle.

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	matto:	Sep 22nd, 2009 at 16:32 GMT	1 point
	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 16:49 GMT	3 points
	whacks self over head over inability to get baghdad!!!