Can you name the countries of the world whose capitals are not situated on a continental land mass?

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Capital on Island Quiz

by miyomiyo

Created Jan 6, 2010 in Geography
Featured Jan 8, 2013
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	OAKLAND_RAIDERS:	Jan 8th, 2013 at 20:44 GMT		1 point
	got 41/50 thought i'd done well. checked the stats to see i had missed the most guessed answer. facepalm

	Headers2304:	Jan 8th, 2013 at 21:08 GMT		15 points
	It's those mainland countries with islands that get you, like Eq. Guinea and Denmark, as I found out. Good quiz.

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	vcpavao:	Jan 8th, 2013 at 22:17 GMT		11 points
	Banjul is on an island?

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	WeaselKing1000:	Jan 8th, 2013 at 22:30 GMT		1 point
	Well, I thought that was the case but apparently you can make a case for Gambia as well.

	Rhys:	Jan 8th, 2013 at 22:49 GMT		11 points
	Abu Dhabi is a bit contentious. Only a small portion is an island, most of it is on the mainland.

	orn688:	Jan 8th, 2013 at 23:46 GMT		1 point
	@Rhys check Google Earth/Maps. I missed UAE, but it looks like most of the city actually IS on an island.

	Donn:	Jan 9th, 2013 at 00:37 GMT		-1 points
	@ Vc Pavao - Banjul is on an island @ The end of Gambia and is connected - Which is what I'm also wondering. This quiz is on island places like Indonesia - Java, Borneo. But Indonesia is not an island as it does border Brunei, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea. So this quiz is on countries whose capital is on an island. Not if the country is an island or not.

	Acid_Snow:	Jan 9th, 2013 at 01:58 GMT		1 point
	Eq. Guinea was the first one I got, actually, but it took much longer to guess the UAE and the Gambia. I'd seen maps of the central African area, for some reason or another.

	StupidBunny:	Jan 9th, 2013 at 03:41 GMT		1 point
	Abu Dhabi is separated from the mainland by a wee little canal, which of course counts, but it also calls into question whether all those associated neighborhoods on the mainland also count as part of Abu Dhabi or not. It's also pretty hard to tell whether what Banjul is on is actually an island, or whether there's some sort of sandbar or marsh or whatever connecting it to the mainland (and being colorblind doesn't make examining those satellite maps any easier.) In any case, not a bad idea for a quiz.

	bumpgrrl:	Jan 9th, 2013 at 15:17 GMT		-1 points
	aka, quick, name 92% of oceania. also, sporcle teaches yet again: I did not realize how much of malaysia (including kuala lumpur) was part of the indian subcontinent!

	ig53:	Jan 9th, 2013 at 22:41 GMT		4 points
	I was flying through this gleefully laughing as I named every island due to spoclitis until I hit 47 with three minutes to go and did not get a single one after that. I suppose it helps to know a country's geography in addition to a name... :(

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	zeppelinoid:	Jan 10th, 2013 at 22:22 GMT		3 points
	@bumpgrrl: None of Malaysia is remotely close to the India subcontinent. However, the whole of the Malayan Peninsula is on the Asian mainland

	vegan_alan:	Jan 11th, 2013 at 23:27 GMT		2 points
	I couldn't understand why it wasn't accepting sri jayawardenapura kotte. Then I saw that it accepted only kotte. Usually Sporcle asks for the full name. Good quiz.

	Bladselleri:	Jan 15th, 2013 at 10:01 GMT		1 point
	Fun quiz! Equatorial Guinea was the first one I got, due to a school project I made about it last year. I also got Copenhagen (Denmark) pretty quickly as I live there. Had no idea at all about The Gambia!

	Fusty:	Jan 16th, 2013 at 10:23 GMT		1 point
	I got europe quite quickly like uk and denmark. Then went to indian ocean, then pacific (missing nauru and palau), then caribbean. I got equatorial guinea and sao tome and principe too :)

	sequoia:	Jan 18th, 2013 at 02:48 GMT		1 point
	No Ile de la Cité for France?

	Xolotl123:	Apr 1st, 2013 at 15:34 GMT		1 point
	@sequoia Last time I checked, Paris was the capital of France, not Ile de la Cite, which is about 100 times smaller. If you included it, you could include every single capital with a large river, which is bound to have islands inside.

	randz89:	May 8th, 2013 at 13:33 GMT		1 point
	41/51--not bad