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World Capitals & US States — Practice Questions flashcards

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Multiple-choice practice questions, one best answer each, on US state capitals and postal abbreviations and the national capitals of Africa, the Americas, Oceania, Asia and Europe.

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Practice 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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  1. What is the capital of New York State?

    A) Albany
    B) New York City
    C) Buffalo
    D) Syracuse
    A) Albany

    Albany, on the Hudson about 150 miles upstream of New York City, is the capital. New York City is the largest city, not the capital.
    Northeast
  2. What is the capital of Nigeria?

    A) Lagos
    B) Accra
    C) Abuja
    D) Niamey
    C) Abuja

    The planned capital Abuja took over in 1991. Lagos is Nigeria's largest city but no longer its capital.
    West Africa
  3. What is the capital of Canada?

    A) Calgary
    B) Vancouver
    C) Ottawa
    D) Montreal
    C) Ottawa

    Queen Victoria picked Ottawa in 1857 as a compromise between English and French Canada. Montreal, like Toronto, is a common wrong guess.
    North America
  4. By average annual temperature, which is the coldest national capital on Earth?

    A) Ulaanbaatar
    B) Ottawa
    C) Moscow
    D) Astana
    A) Ulaanbaatar

    Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia's capital, whose name means "red hero," is the coldest national capital by annual average.
    East Asia
  5. What is the capital of the United Arab Emirates?

    A) Abu Dhabi
    B) Manama
    C) Doha
    D) Muscat
    A) Abu Dhabi

    Abu Dhabi is the capital, not Dubai, the most populous city. Doha, Manama and Muscat are the capitals of Qatar, Bahrain and Oman.
    Middle East & West Asia
  6. Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in 1914 in which present-day national capital?

    A) Belgrade
    B) Zagreb
    C) Sarajevo
    D) Skopje
    C) Sarajevo

    Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, was the site of the assassination and later hosted the 1984 Winter Olympics.
    Balkans

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Checked against:

  • 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).
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