Can you name the North American country from its capital?

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North America by Capital Quiz

by Derek

Created Aug 26, 2009 in Geography
Featured Oct 6, 2009
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	raisingfear101:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 04:06 GMT	17 points
	I didn't even take the quiz yet, but I LOVE the caption!!

	JohnJF:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 04:08 GMT	16 points
	You just know somebody would have said it without the caption.

	bsd987:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 04:10 GMT	2 points
	Three minutes should suffice.

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	enough:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 04:13 GMT	137 points
	I memorized the capital of Mexico by remembering Mexico and adding City

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	brianmcp:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 04:15 GMT	16 points
	That's how i memorized Panama too! That's weird.

	Jeremy:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 04:16 GMT	17 points
	Please fix "Saint Vincent and the Grenadines" to accept "St. Vincent and the Grenadines". It goes up when you type St. Vincent but not if you already have "the Grenadines" typed in. I only found this because I spelled Vincent wrong and backpedaled to correct my typo.

	brazenchild:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 05:00 GMT	33 points
	How are so many people missing the answers for Guatemala City, Panama City, and Mexico City?

	kennechiwa87:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 05:09 GMT	11 points
	Please, we capital buffs eat this quiz for breakfast.

	TheBigE1980:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 05:50 GMT	-3 points
	I liked this quiz, although it was pretty easy.

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	BamaRainbow:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 06:19 GMT	0 points
	Those little West Indies countries have got to be the toughest of the bunch. (Why, oh why, did Britain allow them to be independent? It's not like any of them could've staged a successful war for independence if the UK didn't want to let them go. I suppose I should be thankful that the French and Dutch have been too stubborn to let their colonies go.)

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	cigarette:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 06:44 GMT	16 points
	@BamaRainbow: Why be disturbed? It might be a little weird if it was called USA City.

	pdu:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 07:50 GMT	-4 points
	Way too much time.

	davidr:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 08:34 GMT	18 points
	@BamaRainbow: We're holding onto Anguilla (capital, The Valley) Bermuda (Hamilton), the British Virgin Islands (Road Town), the Cayman Islands (George Town), Montserrat (formerly Plymouth, now Brades) and the Turks and Caicos Islands (Cockburn Town) — just for you!

	davidr:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 08:39 GMT	9 points
	@BamaRainbow and GJK: Presumably, people are missing those ones because they run out of time before they get to them.

	JoeGrzzly:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 10:17 GMT	52 points
	St. Vincent and the Grenadines sounds like a 60s rock band.

	Rackie:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 10:32 GMT	16 points
	You have to pity the 4.3% of people who didn't get Mexico.

	gracie:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 11:53 GMT	36 points
	it seems like jamaica and st. vincent and the grenadines really should have communicated a little bit better when they were coming up with capital names.

	shawnoc:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 12:15 GMT	10 points
	After I got the ones I knew (about 50%), there was still 2 minutes left. Enough time to take all of the North American countries I knew and try them in every blank space using copy/paste. The only reason I didn't get 100% was because I forgot 2 countries. My point? Maybe we should shorten up the time a little bit.

	melissa:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 13:03 GMT	20 points
	This isn't nearly as good a mnemonic as those for Mexico, Panama, and Guatemala, but it helps me with those islands to remember than none of the "St." capitals go with any of the "St." countries. For whatever reason. I guess they don't want dueling saints.

	Bouchkilele:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 13:13 GMT	13 points
	I love how our little West Indian islands always get poked fun at in the comments (LOL) like we swing in trees here (I'm in Trinidad)

	FishyInSpain:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 15:48 GMT	-3 points
	a lot harder than i had expected, still got em all though

	Sathington:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 17:03 GMT	1 point
	Did anyone else type in Newfoundland for St. John's....even though Newfoundland is not a country?

	DRB:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 18:29 GMT	7 points
	I was stuck on the last one for ages and ended up running out of time - I was thinking "I never knew that one of those little Caribbean nations has the same name for it's capital city as Canada, now which one is it?" I feel quite exceptionally dumb.

	Annie:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 21:00 GMT	3 points
	@JoeGrzzly: There is a musician who goes by St. Vincent, but the Grenadines are not included in her name.

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	kingstony:	Oct 6th, 2009 at 23:22 GMT	-2 points
	I didnt realize how many countries were in n america; time to learn again.

	Remmycool:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 03:18 GMT	10 points
	Some interesting stats. 95.1% of us knew Mexico City, 93.5% knew Panama City and 91.5% got Guatemala City. Since the test has been taken more than 27 000 times, this means that at least 491 people figured out that Mexico City might be in Mexico and Panama City might be in Panama, but they couldn't manage to place Guatemala City.

	cartophile:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 04:43 GMT	9 points
	Regarding the comment above about the "American capital", the "District of Colombia" is not the capital of the United States. The capital is Washington, and the District of Columbia (not Colombia) is the first-order administrative unit in which Washington is located and with which it is coterminous. It is certainly not incorrect to list the capital as "Washington, DC" (as the CIA World Factbook does). But to list it as "DC" or "District of Columbia" would be incorrect. An analogous situation occurs with the capital of Mexico - listed by the World Factbook as "Mexico (Distrito Federal)." Distrito Federal - or DF - is the first-order administrative unit in which Mexico City is located.

	jrosenbaum:	Nov 11th, 2009 at 23:29 GMT	-2 points
	i got all. good quiz

	joebobs:	Dec 4th, 2009 at 17:53 GMT	9 points
	Is it just me or does Belmopan sound like a commercial drug? 'Doctor my liver hurts!' 'You need to take two Belmopan twice a day.' xD Great quiz!

	briantravelman:	Dec 26th, 2009 at 22:02 GMT	-2 points
	Dude! Why do you have to type the whole name? Why not just accept Trinidad, St. Kitts, and Antigua? Other games do! And you accept St. Vincent, so why not accept the others?

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	JoAnBe:	Aug 20th, 2010 at 22:17 GMT	2 points
	@door depeneds on how you look at it physicaly they belong to north america cutrally most to south america and it also depeneds on how you were taught most people leave the US and canada as north america and the carribbean along with central and south america and mexico and salp latin america on it @joebobs it makes me hungary sometimes