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World Capitals From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe

Name the capital of 192 UN member states from memory, region by region, plus the trick cases quiz books get wrong: two-capital countries, moved capitals and famous wrong answers.

6 modules

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What it teaches

The capital of every UN member state (192 of the 193; Yemen is left out while its capital situation changes), region by region in the UN’s own grouping (Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa, Oceania), plus the cases quiz books get wrong: countries with two or three capitals (South Africa, Bolivia, Eswatini, Sri Lanka), a capital that isn’t where the government sits (the Netherlands), capitals that moved (Equatorial Guinea in 2026, Myanmar, Nigeria, Brazil, Kazakhstan), and the famous wrong answers (Sydney, Istanbul, Rio). The AI asks 3 questions, places you, shows a short card per region, then names one country at a time and you type the capital from memory.

Not for maps, flags or borders.

How long

200 items (192 countries + 8 concepts). Every country has to be named at least once, so even a strong student needs about 200 rounds; a beginner 300-450 with the repeats, plus a 12-item final: 7-15 sessions of ~30 rounds (estimate, not timed with a real student). The tutor gives a one-line save code at the end of each session.

The modules

6 modules, drilled one item at a time.

  1. M0

    The basics

    How the course counts countries, and the special cases

  2. M1

    Europe

    Name the capital: 43 countries

  3. M2

    Americas

    Name the capital: 35 countries

  4. M3

    Asia

    Name the capital: 46 countries (Yemen left out)

  5. M4

    Africa

    Name the capital: 54 countries

  6. M5

    Oceania

    Name the capital: 14 countries

Before it teaches, it asks

  1. 1
    Why are you learning capitals (a quiz, school, travel, curiosity), and roughly how many do you know now?
  2. 2
    Capital of Australia?
  3. 3
    Capital of Türkiye (Turkey)?

What’s exact, and what isn’t

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Straight from the course’s own notes.

Two sources checked for every Key
Each capital is checked by a script against Wikidata’s “capital” statements AND the table on Wikipedia’s “List of national capitals” (both read 2026-10-11). For 179 countries both give one and the same city. The other 14 (two or three capitals, a separate seat of government, a planned capital, no official capital, a disputed capital) are written down one by one with what each source says, and the script fails if either source changes; 13 of them are drilled, Yemen is left out.
The member list and regions are the UN's
The 193 member states (un.org and Wikipedia’s member list) and the UN Statistics Division’s M49 regions and sub-regions.
Sourced
Every wrong-answer note (Sydney, The Hague, Lagos...) and every special-case line quotes Wikipedia’s list word for word (the few words around a quote are the course’s own); quotes matched on the live pages 2026-10-11.
Spelling
Accents and capitals don’t matter and one wrong letter still counts, except on 7 items where another name in the course (a capital or a country) is one letter away (Kingston / Kingstown, Rome / Lomé, Panama / Manama, Cuba / Juba, Mali / Malé): the script finds those.
Honest limits
Names only, from memory. Capitals change (one changed this year): the keys are as of 2026-10-11. Disputed places get only what the source says (the Israel item quotes the list’s note).
Not in it yet
Capital → country (the reverse direction), maps and locations, flags, territories and non-member states (Palestine, the Holy See, Taiwan, Kosovo), Yemen.