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About This Quiz
Some of the most beautiful countries in the world are in Europe - and thanks to the strong cultural history of the continent, some of the most beautiful cities are too. Europe's cities have often been burned, sacked, bombed, rebuilt and then burned, sacked, bombed and rebuilt again. They've absorbed infusions of ideas and designs from different cultures, and taken some of those ideas to remake them in the style of their current dominant culture. Some of them - especially the ones with the dubious fortune of lying on the fault lines between the major powers of Europe - have changed hands between different governments, occasionally doing so frequently enough that a single person could be born in one city and move country multiple times during his or her lifetime without ever leaving their home!
All of this ongoing change means that keeping track of which country has what city as its capital can be surprisingly confusing. Sure, we can all name the capital of France or the United Kingdom - they're in every Hollywood movie set in Europe, after all - but how about Croatia, Belarus, or Kosovo? This quiz is your chance to prove that you really know your European capitals!
What is the capital of Ireland?
Dublin
Belfast is in the UK. Dublin is not. Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland.
Belfast
Edinburgh
Cork
What is the capital of Norway?
Helsinki
Stockholm
Bern
Oslo
Oslo is the capital of Norway and it's where the Nobel Prizes are awarded.
What is the capital of Spain?
Barcelona
Seville
Madrid
Madrid is the capital of Spain and is about 2000 feet above sea level.
Granada
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What is the capital of Slovenia?
Koper
Piran
Ljubljana
Ljubljana is a small city, but Slovenia is a small county. It was once trapped behind the Iron Curtain.
Kranj
What is the capital of Switzerland?
Geneva
Zermatt
Locarno
Bern
Bern is the capital of Switzerland, though it is not the biggest city in the nation.
What is the capital of Germany?
Munich
Berlin
Berlin spent nearly 30 years divided by the Berlin Wall, but now it is one of the great economic and cultural hubs of Europe.
Bonn
Koln
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What is the capital of Denmark?
Copenhagen
Copenhagen is a very important trading city with a lot of area that is under sea level, though parts of it are very hilly.
Aarhus
Odense
Esbjerg
What is the capital of Poland?
Sopot
Opole
Warsaw
Warsaw is the capital of a relatively small nation stuck between two Great Powers, meaning it gets invaded an awful lot.
Lviv
What is the capital of Moldova?
Cahul
Soroca
Chișinău
Chișinău is the capital of Moldova, which is another former Soviet state that is now a democracy.
Comrat
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What is the capital of Kosovo?
Peć
Pristina
Kosovo is one of the newest countries in Europe. It suffered invasion and genocide in the 1990s but NATO forces were able to secure it, and now it is peaceful and democratic.
Ferizaj
Gjakova
What is the capital of Italy?
Rome
Rome is not just capital of Italy, it's also home to Vatican City, which is an independent country.
Florence
Milan
Pisa
What is the capital of Austria?
Vienna
Vienna is noted for its opera, and also for its splendid Baroque architecture.
Villach
Wels
Hallstatt
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What is the capital of the Czech Republic?
Opava
Brno
Zlin
Prague
Prague is the capital of the landlocked Czech Republic and is noted for the St. Vitus Cathedral.
What is the capital of Slovakia?
Bratislava
Bratislava may be capital of a small country, but it sits in the third-richest region in the EU.
Martin
Zvolen
Tmava
What is the capital of Belgium?
Ixelles
Bruges
Brussels
Brussels is the capital of the EU, Belgium, and also the home to a lovely, much-maligned little cabbage that is delicious when fried in honey and balsamic vinegar.
Saint-Gilles
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What is the capital of Finland?
Helsinki
Helsinki is one of the nicest cities in the world, in one of the nicest countries. It's surprising we don't all try to move there.
Akaa
Forssa
Imatra
What is the capital of Estonia?
Riga
Vilnius
Talinn
Talinn is about 5,000 years old and was probably settled by the Danes under Valdemar II.
Vladivostok
What is the capital of Romania?
Cluj-Napoca
Bucharest
Romania's capital of Bucharest is the sixth-largest city in the EU, though it actually shrank in the last 10 years.
Iași
Baia Mare
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What is the capital of Latvia?
Riga
Riga is famous for beautiful art nouveau buildings. It is the biggest city in the Baltics.
Talinn
Helsinki
Lviv
What is the capital of Hungary?
Salzburg
Budapest
Budapest is on the Danube. Half of it has rolling hills, and the other half is flat.
Eger
Debrecen
What is the capital of Lithuania?
Alytus
Kaunas
Vilnius
Lithuania is the most southern of the three Baltic states and it is unique by virtue of having managed about 800 years of independent statehood.
Palanga
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What is the capital of Greece?
Crete
Athens
Athens is a very old city that was once capital of its own city-state. Athena was its patron, a daughter who sprang fully-formed from the brow of Zeus.
Sparta
Marathon
What is the capital of Turkey?
Ankara
Ankara is not the biggest city in Turkey. That is Istanbul, which was once Constantinople, capital of the Ottoman Empire.
Istanbul
Adana
Bursa
What is the capital of Montenegro?
Berane
Budva
Bar
Podgorica
Podgorica is near the biggest freshwater lake in Montenegro. About a third of the population of Montenegro lives there.
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What is the capital of Ukraine?
Kharkiv
Lviv
Kiev
Kiev is the capital of a nation under gross pressure from Russian invasion in the east. It is also the name of a lovely garlicky chicken dish.
Odessa
What is the capital of Bosnia?
Livno
Zenica
Tuzla
Sarajevo
Sarajevo was capital of Yugoslavia and suffered a terrible war on and off in the 1990s. It is now capital of a peaceful Bosnia.
What is the capital of Liechtenstein?
Luxembourg
San Marino
Vatican City
Vaduz
Vaduz is on the Rhine River and has about 5,000 residents.
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What is the capital of Portugal?
Lisbon
Lisbon is at least 2,700 years old and was part of the Roman Empire at one point.
Braga
Faro
Lagos
What is the capital of Malta?
Mdina
Bormla
Sliema
Birgu
Birgu has been part of almost every major empire to dominate the Mediterranean. It was also heavily bombed during World War II.
What is the capital of Macedonia?
Skopje
Skopje is one of only two cities in Macedonia that has more than 50,000 residents.
Bitola
Valandovo
Kratovo
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What is the capital of the Netherlands?
Amsterdam
Amsterdam is 800 years old and grew out of a fishing village. It is a city of canals and reclaimed land, and is very flat.
Rotterdam
The Hague
Brill
What is the capital of Andorra?
Andorra la Vella
Andorra la Vella is the capital of this tiny nation that is in the mountains, landlocked between Spain and France.
Canillo
Encamp
Les Escaldes
What is the capital of Albania?
Elbasan
Tirana
Tirana is not on the coast but it is high enough up to see the Adriatic Sea.
Fier
Berat
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What is the capital of the United Kingdom?
Edinburgh
Manchester
London
London is a very large and deceptively dense city that covers less land area than you'd think. It is noted for its mishmash of cultures that coexist very well.
Cardiff
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