Africa Capitals Quiz

About this quiz

A capital is the city where a country’s government sits, and it is not always the biggest or the best known. Canberra, Ottawa and Brasília were chosen, or even built from scratch, as compromises between rival cities, and Sydney, Toronto and Istanbul are all larger than their country’s capital. A few countries share the role between cities: South Africa has three capitals, and this quiz uses Pretoria, where the government sits.

Each question names a country and gives four cities to choose from, all from the same part of the world. Countries whose capital has the same name, such as Singapore and Monaco, are left out, and so are a few whose capital is disputed. At the end you can see every capital you missed.

Africa

Several African countries moved their capital to the middle of the country. Nigeria moved its government from Lagos to the new city of Abuja in 1991, Ivory Coast made Yamoussoukro, the home town of its first president, its official capital in 1983, and Tanzania has been moving its government from Dar es Salaam to Dodoma.

Flag images: flag-icons by Panayiotis Lipiridis (MIT licence).