Oceania 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.

Oceania

Oceania’s capitals range from Canberra, a planned city chosen as a compromise between Sydney and Melbourne, to small island towns. Wellington is the southernmost capital of any country in the world, and Ngerulmud in Palau, opened in 2006, is one of the smallest capitals of all.

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