World Capitals — Americas & Oceania flashcards
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All 35 UN member states of the Americas and all 14 of Oceania, one capital per card with a memorable hook and the classic traps (Ottawa, Brasília, Canberra, Wellington, Sucre/La Paz) called out, grouped by sub-region.
Learn deck · part of World capitals and US states · written against: 193 UN member states plus four observers/others; capitals as of 2026. Updated 2026-10-10.
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What is the capital of Canada?OttawaNorth America
Watch out: not Toronto or Montreal. Queen Victoria picked Ottawa in 1857 as a compromise between English and French Canada. -
What is the capital of the United States?Washington, D.C.North America
A federal district belonging to no state; "D.C." stands for District of Columbia. -
What is the capital of Belize?BelmopanCentral America
Built inland after Hurricane Hattie wrecked Belize City in 1961; one of the smallest capitals in the Americas. -
What is the capital of Costa Rica?San JoséCentral America
In the Central Valley; keep it apart from San José, California, and San Juan, Puerto Rico. -
What is the capital of Antigua and Barbuda?St. John'sCaribbean
On Antigua; a different St. John's is the capital of Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada. -
What is the capital of Argentina?Buenos AiresSouth America
"Fair winds"; on the Río de la Plata estuary, and its residents are called porteños, people of the port. -
What is the capital of Australia?CanberraAustralasia
Watch out: not Sydney or Melbourne. Canberra was planned as a compromise between the two rivals; Melbourne hosted parliament until 1927. -
What is the capital of Fiji?SuvaMelanesia
On the wetter south-eastern side of Viti Levu, the main island; the chief international airport is at Nadi. -
What is the capital of Kiribati?Tarawa (South Tarawa)Micronesia
The country's name is pronounced "KIR-i-bas"; the capital stretches along the southern islets of Tarawa atoll, with government offices at Bairiki. -
What is the capital of Samoa?ApiaPolynesia
On the island of Upolu; Robert Louis Stevenson spent his last years there and is buried on Mount Vaea above the town.
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- 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.
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