World Capitals — Asia flashcards
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Every Asian UN member state from the Middle East to the Pacific, plus Palestine and Taiwan, one capital per card with a memorable hook, grouped by sub-region. Türkiye (Turkey), Cyprus and the Caucasus are in the Europe deck.
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 China?BeijingEast Asia
The name means "northern capital"; Nanjing, the "southern capital", held the role under the early Ming and the Republic. -
What is the capital of Japan?TokyoEast Asia
Means "eastern capital"; it was called Edo until the emperor moved there from Kyoto in 1868. -
What is the capital of Brunei?Bandar Seri BegawanSoutheast Asia
Formerly Brunei Town; renamed in 1970 in honour of Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien III, who took the title Seri Begawan. -
What is the capital of Cambodia?Phnom PenhSoutheast Asia
Stands where the Tonlé Sap joins the Mekong; phnom means "hill", and legend credits a Lady Penh with founding the hilltop temple. -
What is the capital of Afghanistan?KabulSouth Asia
Sits at about 1,800 m on a high plateau ringed by mountains, one of the world's highest capitals. -
What is the capital of Bangladesh?DhakaSouth Asia
On the Buriganga River; older sources spell it Dacca. -
What is the capital of Kazakhstan?AstanaCentral Asia
Replaced Almaty as capital in 1997; it was called Nur-Sultan from 2019 until the name Astana was restored in 2022. -
What is the capital of Kyrgyzstan?BishkekCentral Asia
Known as Frunze in Soviet times, after the Bolshevik commander Mikhail Frunze, who was born there. -
What is the capital of Bahrain?ManamaMiddle East & West Asia
On the main island of the Bahrain archipelago, linked to Saudi Arabia by the King Fahd Causeway. -
What is the capital of Palestine?East Jerusalem (claimed); Ramallah is the de facto administrative centreObservers & others
Palestine has held UN non-member observer-state status since 2012; the status of Jerusalem is disputed and unresolved.
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- 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.
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