Can you name the Southernmost World Capitals (of independent sovereign nations)?

Rank	Capital	Latitude
1		41° 17' S
2		35° 18' S
3		34° 53' S
4		34° 36' S
5		33° 27' S
6		29° 18′ S
7		26° 19′ S
8		25° 58′ S
9		25° 43' S
10		25° 17' S
11		24° 39' S
12		22° 34' S
13		21° 10' S
14		20° 10' S
15		18° 55' S
16		18° 06' S

Rank	Capital	Latitude
17		17° 51' S
18		17° 45' S
19		16° 30' S
20		15° 48' S
21		15° 25' S
22		13° 59' S
23		13° 50' S
24		12° 02' S
25		11° 45' S
26		9° 27' S
27		9° 26' S
28		8° 50' S
29		8° 34' S
30		8° 31' S
31		6° 16' S
32		6° 10' S

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Southernmost World Capitals Quiz

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Created by: Booger -
Published: September 12th, 2009
Category: Geography
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Tags: World Quizzes, Capital Quizzes, rank, nation, sovereign, independent, latitude, southern, capitals pack

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	orbit:	Sep 11th, 2009 at 20:59 GMT	4 points
	Interesting how close they get to the Equator (5 degrees). Also glad to see ainaznaT's capital is fixed now.

	schumigt:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 00:23 GMT	2 points
	Very hard. Got the Top 5 and four others. I can name the most countries, but i don't know their capitals...

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	American:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 04:22 GMT	26 points
	what? no antarctica city?

	fm_:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 04:26 GMT	12 points
	This is a great quiz that I am embarrassingly bad at.

	kjd:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 04:26 GMT	13 points
	Great quiz, but for consistency's sake, Dar es Salaam should be acceptable for Tanzania.

	commprof:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 04:42 GMT	17 points
	I'm pretty sure Port Louis, the capital of Mauritius should be on here (20 degrees 10' S)

	nearlyextinct:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 04:42 GMT	1 point
	That would be an interesting variant to be able to name the country.

	GeoExpert:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 04:44 GMT	1 point
	There is a flaw in this quiz :-(. South Africa has three capitals: Pretoria, Cape Town, Bloementofein. Tanzania has two capitals: Dar es Salaam and Dodoma. And Bolivia has two capitals: La Paz and Sucre. Rather than pick and choosing just one, Booger should have included all the capitals for each country.

	commprof:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 04:50 GMT	10 points
	Also missing from the answers is Funafuti, Tuvalu (8,31' S),

	Doctor_Tom:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 04:54 GMT	3 points
	This was really hard considering I know zero African capitals.

	Ace_Rockolla:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 04:56 GMT	2 points
	Interesting and fun quiz. Missed four capitals in oceania, but managed to fire off enough southern capitals to hit the rest. If you just eyeball a map, it does seem like there are a few omissions.

	johnlk:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 05:09 GMT	7 points
	As Christian Norman says, what has happened to Port Louis?

	JohnJF:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 05:14 GMT	8 points
	Nothing like a good Saturday Sporcle quiz to make me realize the capital of New Zealand isn't Auckland.

	geowiz85:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 05:23 GMT	13 points
	as much as papua new guinea has become a running geography joke, i guess its fitting thats the only one i missed

	SporcleAdmin:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 05:24 GMT	25 points
	Thanks for the comments, we have made a couple corrections in an effort to keep the quiz from going (ahem) South.

	geowiz85:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 05:25 GMT	4 points
	@geoexpert, i agree, it would have made for a nice twist to this quiz

	BamaRainbow:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 05:50 GMT	1 point
	What's most interesting is that, as far as I can recall, there are only 7 cities that weren't included: 1 in Oceania, 1 in South America, and 5 in Africa. (The South American and Oceania capitals are practically ON the equator, but still just south enough to have qualified. At the very least, they should've been bonus answers.)

	Niques:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 06:43 GMT	4 points
	The two regions whose capitals I still have not mastered. That'll teach me for putting doing that off. I'd always had it in my head that Santiago was the southern-most capital - you learn something new!

	beatrixkiddo:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 06:48 GMT	-3 points
	i'm reading a book in the 'number 1 ladies detective agency' series and i still cannot spell the capital of that country ..... made me think that the number 9 answer was teh only one from that continent.

	AtomicIce:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 06:58 GMT	-4 points
	I got the last answer with 5 seconds on the clock, talk about just in under the wire.

	Onno:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 07:31 GMT	1 point
	Dodoma is more southern than Kinshasa? Interesting. I blanked out on Tonga's capital, annoying name to remember.

	Jen:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 10:14 GMT	7 points
	'Southerernmost' needs to be changed to 'Southernmost' - otherwise a great quiz. Western and eastern extremes would also be a nice addition to this set, perhaps ...

	motomoto:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 11:42 GMT	-1 points
	Darn it, Dili. 31/32.

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	segacs:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 13:46 GMT	-1 points
	32/32 on the first try... guess I've done the World Capitals quiz a few too many times. Interesting to see how few there are that are really south.

	GeoExpert:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 14:00 GMT	1 point
	Sporcle Admin- Please fix South Afr, Bolivia, and Tanzania. Include all of each of those country's capitals.

	RyanUR:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 14:12 GMT	3 points
	It's nearly impossible for me to memorize all the captials of the small Oceania countries.

	whatchucare:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 14:35 GMT	-2 points
	I agree with GeoExpert. My map clearly shows La Paz, Bolivia as being south of Lima, Peru.

	Peter:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 20:23 GMT	13 points
	@Tapestry, you could start by learning to spell the word capital....

	zalagreensbury:	Sep 13th, 2009 at 01:24 GMT	4 points
	Damn, tapestry you got pwned. anyways, yeah good quiz keep these ones coming.

	chikka2:	Sep 13th, 2009 at 02:23 GMT	4 points
	awesome quiz. I have learned more geography in a year on Sporcle than I learned in all the years at school

	chambers:	Sep 13th, 2009 at 11:46 GMT	1 point
	the pacific nations are further south than i thought. greeeeeeeeeeat quiz sporcle. east and west next?

	DRB:	Sep 13th, 2009 at 15:44 GMT	2 points
	Very interesting to see that Montevideo is the furthest south in South America, would have figured that Santiago and Buenos Aires were further south. You learn something new every day!

	Tommy_C:	Sep 14th, 2009 at 14:43 GMT	3 points
	You really need to know your world capitals first. The Southern hemisphere has many of the more obscure ones. If you know them, this is a challenge but very do-able.

	Tommy_C:	Sep 14th, 2009 at 14:54 GMT	-3 points
	I hope we'll see northernmost capitals soon. They won't get nearly as close to the equator. Mostly European after Ottawa.

	Sewelly:	Sep 14th, 2009 at 15:24 GMT	1 point
	I started this quiz then stopped when I realised it would be full of African and Pacific nations, I don't know their capitals! Shame on me.

	Gumpster:	Sep 14th, 2009 at 18:27 GMT	5 points
	@tommy_c: there is a northernmost capitals quiz and you are going to be very surprised when you see where ottawa comes in on the list

	EWilson:	Sep 15th, 2009 at 14:01 GMT	4 points
	Interesting quiz, particularly when you consider that Wellington (41°17'S), the southernmost capital, is closer to the equator than ALL 32 of the northernmost capitals--#32 is Belgrade at 44°50'N. Rome and Barcelona are farther from the equator than Wellington.

	Yurian:	Sep 16th, 2009 at 02:18 GMT	-1 points
	@Tapestry: YOU ARE SO INCORRECT! First of all, it's Capital, not Capitol, if this should be on grammer and spelling. Second, There is no language skills to this except spelling "Lilongwe" and other capitals. Plus, this is a quiz on Geographical places based on Geographics, not the Literature of how great Asuncion was established and became a southernmost capital. This quiz is AWESOME! But that sneaky sneaky Honiara....