World capitals and US states flashcards

What's in it

Every deck follows the course outline, with tags you can study or suspend topic by topic. Open a deck to study its free sample right here.

Study guide

Topics covered

The decks follow the order of the course outline. Numbers are cards per topic.

• Northeast 14
• Southeast 15
• Midwest 14
• Southwest 4
• West 11
• Pacific & Non-contiguous 2
• North Africa 8
• West Africa 19
• Central Africa 11
• East Africa 17
• Southern Africa 6
• Indian Ocean Islands 4
• North America 5
• Central America 9
• Caribbean 15
• South America 15
• Australasia 3
• Melanesia 4
• Micronesia 5
• Polynesia 3
• East Asia 7
• Southeast Asia 13
• South Asia 10
• Central Asia 6
• Middle East & West Asia 15
• Observers & others 4
• Western Europe 9
• Northern Europe 12
• Southern Europe 9
• Eastern Europe 12
• Balkans 9
• Caucasus 3
• Microstates 4

A study plan

• 11 new cards a day covers everything in a month, leaving the last weeks for review.
• 6 new cards a day covers everything in two months, leaving the last weeks for review.
• 5 new cards a day covers everything in three months, leaving the last weeks for review.

Willys schedules reviews for you (FSRS spaced repetition), so the daily number above is only for new cards; reviews of what you have learned come back on their own. Study a topic's cards right after you meet it in class, suspend topics you have not reached yet, and use the app's quiz mode in the final two weeks.

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About these cards

Review status: Second-reader reviewed, with corrections applied.

Checked against:

• Checked against the US Census Bureau 2010 and 2020 census city counts, Vintage 2025 city population estimates (July 1, 2025) and Gazetteer coordinates, and the USPS two-letter state abbreviations (Publication 28, Appendix B); hooks verified against Encyclopaedia Britannica entries, National Park Service and US Naval Academy pages, state and local government pages, state historical society publications and state encyclopedias, USGS elevation and water data, NOAA's US Coast Pilot and Merriam-Webster.com. All wording original.
• Countries checked against the United Nations member-state list (un.org); capitals against the US Department of State's "Independent States in the World" (August 2026, public domain), national constitutions (Constitute Project) and, for Equatorial Guinea's 2026 decree, the World Bank's country overview; city sizes against UN DESA World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO) and Statistics South Africa's Census 2022; hooks against the UNESCO World Heritage List (CC BY-SA 4.0), national and city government pages, the Constitutive Act of the African Union, the Seychelles News Agency, the Library of Congress country studies, State Department background notes and its Office of the Historian, the UK PCGN toponymic factfiles, World Bank, African Development Bank, UN-Habitat and NASA Earth Observatory publications, the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oregon State University's Volcano World and the Bulletin of Volcanology, the Miller Center (University of Virginia), the Dakar Rally organiser's history page, Reindorf's History of the Gold Coast and Asante (1895), edited reference works (World Encyclopedia, the Worldmark and Junior Worldmark encyclopedias, Columbia Encyclopedia, Gale Encyclopedia of Science, Countries and Their Cultures, Cities of the World, Countries of the World and Their Leaders Yearbook, World Education Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia of Africa, Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa, the Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Place Names, A Dictionary of World History, Dictionary Plus Social Sciences) and the Merriam-Webster, Larousse and Priberam dictionaries. All wording original.
• World History Encyclopedia (worldhistory.org), consulted, not copied.
• Capitals checked against the United Nations member-state list (un.org), the US Department of State's "Independent States in the World" (August 2026, public domain) and national constitutions; city and country sizes against UN DESA World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO) and World Bank World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0); hooks against government sources (USGS, Papua New Guinea's Department of Prime Minister and NEC, Australia's Parliamentary Education Office), GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), the UNESCO World Heritage List, national and city government pages, NASA, the Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program, State Department background notes, edited reference works (World Encyclopedia, Worldmark, Cities of the World, Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, The Canadian Encyclopedia, the Columbia Encyclopedia) and the RAE, Merriam-Webster and Cambridge dictionaries. All wording original.
• Capitals checked against the United Nations member-state and observer-state lists (un.org), the US Department of State's "Independent States in the World" (August 2026, public domain) and national constitutions; city sizes against UN DESA World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO), World Bank population data and the Maldives Bureau of Statistics 2022 census; elevations and temperatures against NOAA station records (public domain), SMHI and Environment and Climate Change Canada normals; hooks against the UNESCO World Heritage List, national and city government pages, State Department background notes, Guinness World Records, a University of Wisconsin-Madison news release, Al Jazeera Media Network's own About page and its reporting on Yemen, the ANTARA news agency, the International IDEA Democracy Tracker, Encyclopaedia Iranica, Banglapedia, the National Library Board Singapore's Infopedia, edited reference works (World Encyclopedia, Worldmark, the Columbia Encyclopedia, Cities of the World, Countries and Their Cultures, Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa, Encyclopaedia Judaica, Encyclopedia of Russian History, Encyclopedia of India, Encyclopedia of World Biography, the Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, the Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions), Store norske leksikon and the dictionaries (Merriam-Webster, Random House and Collins via Dictionary.com, Steingass, the Standard Korean Dictionary, and the Headley and Chuon Nath Khmer dictionaries via the SEAlang Library). All wording original.
• Capitals checked against the United Nations member-state and observer-state lists (un.org), the US Department of State's "Independent States in the World" (August 2026, public domain), national constitutions and Germany's Unification Treaty; city sizes against national statistics offices (Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia, Statistics Lithuania, Liechtenstein Office of Statistics, San Marino statistics office); hooks against the UNESCO World Heritage List (CC BY-SA 4.0), EU institution pages (european-union.europa.eu, CC BY 4.0), the UN M49 standard, the Royal House of the Netherlands, official city, government and tourism sites (among them Vienna, Copenhagen, Bern, Belgrade, Ljubljana, Nicosia, Sofia, Baku, Monaco and Yerevan, and azerbaijan.az), the Historical Lexicon of Liechtenstein, Store norske leksikon, edited reference works on encyclopedia.com (World Encyclopedia, Worldmark, Encyclopaedia Judaica, Encyclopedia of Russian History, Oxford Companion to British History), the Comú d'Andorra la Vella and Merriam-Webster, Collins, Cambridge and Random House dictionaries. All wording original.
• Capitals checked against the United Nations member-state list (un.org), the US Department of State's "Independent States in the World" (August 2026, public domain) and national constitutions; US state abbreviations against USPS Publication 28; city sizes against the US Census Bureau's 2020 census counts and Vintage 2025 estimates, and UN DESA World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO); temperatures against NOAA GHCN-Daily station records (public domain); latitudes and longitudes against GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); hooks against official and intergovernmental sources (National Park Service, NOAA Coast Pilot, EU institution pages, the African Union, World Bank, UNESCO World Heritage List), The Canadian Encyclopedia, the Library of Congress, official city, government and tourism sites (among them Wellington City Council, the City of Belgrade, the Bratislava Tourist Board, Turismo de Lisboa, Bhutan's Department of Tourism, the Embassy of Vietnam, the Uganda Civil Aviation Authority and EUR-Lex), the Standard Korean Dictionary (National Institute of Korean Language), and edited reference works (Worldmark, World Encyclopedia, Cities of the World, Cities of the United States, Countries and Their Cultures, Countries of the World and Their Leaders Yearbook, the Dictionary of American History, Encyclopaedia Judaica, the Encyclopedia of Modern Europe, the Encyclopedia of Russian History, Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa, Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, the New Catholic Encyclopedia, the World Education Encyclopedia, the Columbia Encyclopedia, the Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions).
• Original questions written for this deck; no official, textbook, quiz-book or question-bank items were copied. All wording original.

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