World Capitals Flashcards
$None ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Built about 50 years ago, it’s the only world capital to start with the letter “I”
Islamabad
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This African capital’s environs include Gezira & Roda, 2 islands in the Nile
Cairo
$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| In 1857 this city was chosen to be the capital of what was then the United Provinces of Canada
Ottawa
$1200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Montparnasse is one of this capital city’s Left Bank districts
Paris
$1600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The Ginza is this Asian capital’s shopping & entertainment center
Tokyo
$2000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This port city became the capital of Jamaica in 1872, succeeding Port Royal
Kingston
$200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This capital of Israel is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world
Jerusalem
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Its name ends in the same 3 letters as its country, Iran
Tehran
$600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It makes sense that this is the sea closest to Dublin
the Irish Sea
$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This capital of the Dominican Republic was founded by Columbus’ brother Bartolome
Santo Domingo
$1000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| In 1949 it became the seat of the Chinese nationalist government
Taipei
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The Sphinx stands less than 10 miles from the center of this capital
Cairo
$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This Philippine capital’s intramuros, or walled city, was built on the design of a medieval castle
Manila
$1200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This Colombian capital sits over 8,000 feet up in the Andes
Bogotá
$2600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This Scandinavian capital founded around 1050 lies at the head of a fjord
Oslo
$2000 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This Alpine city is the capital of a canton as well as the capital of a country, Switzerland
Bern
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It’s located about 30 miles south of the DMZ
Seoul
$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| Until 1918 & the collapse of the dynasty, it was home base for the Hapsburgs
Vienna
$1200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| It’s the largest English-speaking city in the Caribbean, mon
Kingston (Jamaica)
$1600 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This South American capital’s original longer name translated to “Saint Mary of the Fair Winds”
Buenos Aires
$7200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| On a plane trip to this capital, you’d likely land at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport
Jakarta
$400 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| The Biblioteca Nacional Venezuela is in this city
Caracas
$800 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| This Slovakian capital with “slav” in its name was occupied by the Slavs in the 8th century
Bratislava
$1200 ||| Category: WORLD CAPITALS ||| One of the 2 world capitals on the Rio de la Plata estuary
Montevideo & Buenos Aires