World Capitals — Europe flashcards
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Every European UN member state (including Russia, Türkiye, Cyprus and the Caucasus) plus Vatican City and Kosovo, one capital per card with a memorable hook, 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 Austria?ViennaWestern Europe
Wien in German; sits on the Danube and was the seat of the Habsburg court. -
What is the capital of Belgium?BrusselsWestern Europe
Also the de facto capital of the European Union, home to the European Commission. -
What is the capital of Denmark?CopenhagenNorthern Europe
København in Danish; linked to Sweden by the Øresund Bridge. -
What is the capital of Estonia?TallinnNorthern Europe
Walled medieval old town on the Gulf of Finland, a short ferry ride from Helsinki. -
What is the capital of Greece?AthensSouthern Europe
Shares its name with its patron goddess, Athena; people have lived on and around the Acropolis since Neolithic times. -
What is the capital of Belarus?MinskEastern Europe
Almost entirely rebuilt in Soviet style after its destruction in the Second World War. -
What is the capital of Albania?TiranaBalkans
Tiranë in Albanian; became the capital in 1920. -
What is the capital of Georgia (the country)?TbilisiCaucasus
The name comes from the Georgian word for "warm", after its hot sulphur springs; older sources spell it Tiflis. -
What is the capital of Andorra?Andorra la VellaMicrostates
At just over 1,000 m in the Pyrenees, it is usually called Europe's highest capital; Yerevan, filed here under the Caucasus, spans 900–1,200 m. -
What is the capital of Vatican City?Vatican CityObservers & others
A city-state enclosed by Rome; the Holy See holds UN permanent-observer status rather than membership.
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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), 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.
- World History Encyclopedia (worldhistory.org), consulted, not copied.
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