WORLD CAPITAL CITIES
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| THIS WELSH CAPITAL WAS ONCE THE WORLD'S LARGEST COAL SHIPPER | show 🗑
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| show | AMSTERDAM
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| show | MOLINE
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| THIS BELGIAN CAPITAL WAS THE SITE OF THE 1958 WORLD'S FAIR | show 🗑
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| BECAUSE OF ITS ALTITUDE, THIS KENYAN CAPITAL RARELY EXCEEDS 80 DEGREES | show 🗑
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| A STATUE OF CZECH THEOLOGIAN JAN HUS STANDS IN FRONT OF THIS CAPITAL'S OLD TOWN HALL | show 🗑
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| THIS CENTRAL AMERICAN CAPITAL, WHOSE NAME MEANS "HOLY SAVIOR", HAS A TOWN CENTER LAID OUT IN THE FORM OF A CROSS | show 🗑
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| show | MINSK
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| AROUND 1050 HARALD HARDRADE FOUNDED THIS CITY ON A FJORD | show 🗑
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| THIS ASIAN CITY IS THE ONLY WORLD CAPITAL WHOSE NAME IN ENGLISH HAS 3 DOTTED LETTERS IN SUCCESSION | show 🗑
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| show | BEIJING
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| THE MILITARY & ADMINISTRATIVE CENTER OF THE AZTECS BECAME THIS CAPITAL OF THE COLONY OF NEW SPAIN | show 🗑
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| AN OASIS THAT WAS THE RESIDENCE OF THE IBN SAUD FAMILY, IT BECAME THE CAPITAL WHEN THE COUNTRY WAS FORMED IN 1932 | show 🗑
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| show | CAIRO
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| PROSPERING UNDER TATAR RULE & EXPANDING AS IT INTERSECTED TRADE ROUTES, THIS CITY BECAME A CAPITAL IN THE 15TH CENTURY | show 🗑
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| show | SEOUL
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| HANEDA AIRPORT SERVES THIS ASIAN CAPITAL | show 🗑
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| THIS NEW SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITAL WAS DEDICATED ON APRIL 21, 1960 | show 🗑
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| show | WELLINGTON
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| IN THE "SPRING" OF 1968, STUDENTS IN THIS CAPITAL WERE CLIMBING ON SOVIET TANKS AND YELLING, "USSR GO HOME!" | show 🗑
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| show | BELARUS
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| show | PARIS
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| show | LONDON
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| CLYDE CESSNA AND WALTER BEECH HELPED MAKE THIS KANSAS CITY THE "AIR CAPITAL OF THE WORLD" | show 🗑
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| IN 1920 AEROMARINE WEST INDIES AIRWAYS BEGAN THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL PASSENGER SERVICE, KEY WEST TO THIS WORLD CAPITAL | show 🗑
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| FOUNDED AS A PENAL COLONY IN 1824, THIS CAPITAL OF QUEENSLAND WAS THE SITE OF THE WORLD'S FAIR EXPO '88 | show 🗑
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| show | VIENNA
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| THIS WORLD CAPITAL IS LOCATED ABOUT 180 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MIAMI | show 🗑
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| THIS CAPITAL OF CANADA'S YUKON TERRITORY WAS ONCE HOME TO THE WORLD'S LARGEST TUNGSTEN RESERVE | show 🗑
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| THE TALLEST TWIN TOWERS IN THE WORLD, THE PETRONAS TOWERS ARE LOCATED IN THIS CAPITAL OF MALAYSIA | show 🗑
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| show | STOCKHOLM
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| "RUBBER CAPITAL OF THE WORLD" | show 🗑
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| THIS IS THE CAPITAL OF ROMANIA | show 🗑
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| THIS IS THE CAPITAL OF HUNGARY | show 🗑
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| LAID OUT IN 1874, THE BOTANICAL GARDENS IN THIS CAPITAL HAVE AN OBSERVATORY WITH A STATUE OF TYCHO BRAHE | show 🗑
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| THIS WORLD CAPITAL IS ON THE ISLAND OF JAVA | show 🗑
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| show | KUALA LAMPUR
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| show | BEIJING
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| ITS NAME IS HEBREW FOR "CITY OF PEACE" | show 🗑
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| THE FIRST WRITTEN MENTION OF THIS CAPITAL'S NAME WAS IN A 1459 DOCUMENT OF VLAD THE IMPALER | show 🗑
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| A CASTLE IN THIS WORLD CAPITAL WAS ONCE THE HOME OF THE KINGS OF BOHEMIA | show 🗑
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| show | BLOEMFONTEIN
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| show | GUADALCANAL
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| show | OAK RIDGE
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| THE BRANDENBURG GATE IS A FAMOUS SYMBOL OF THIS CITY | show 🗑
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| WHEN THE KHMER ROUGE CAME TO POWER IN 1975, IT FORCED MOST OF THIS CAPITAL'S PEOPLE TO EVACUATE | show 🗑
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| show | HAVANA
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| ONCE A CENTER OF JEWISH LEARNING, THIS CITY WAS KNOWN AS "THE JERUSALEM OF LITHUANIA" | show 🗑
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| show | MONROVIA, LIBERIA
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| CARLO MADERNO IS FAMED FOR HIS BAROQUE FACADE FOR THE CHURCH OF SANTA SUSANNA IN THIS WORLD CAPITAL | show 🗑
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| show | SALMON
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| MATTOON, ILLINOIS DECLARED ITSELF THE "BAGEL CAPITAL OF THE WORLD" AFTER THIS COMPANY OPENED A FACTORY THERE IN 1986 | show 🗑
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| show | ARIZONA
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| THIS PA TOWN IS THE "WEATHER CAPITAL OF THE WORLD" NOT JUST ON FEB. 2, BUT ALL YEAR LONG | show 🗑
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| ORLY AIRPORT SERVES THIS CITY | show 🗑
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| TEMPLEHOF AIRPORT SERVES THIS CITY | show 🗑
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| SCHIPHOL AIRPORT SERVES THIS CITY | show 🗑
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| show | HAVANA
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| SOFIA IS THE CAPITAL OF THIS COUNTRY | show 🗑
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| show | BHUTAN
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| show | AZERBAIJAN
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| show | EAST TIMOR
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| THIS SYRIAN CAPITAL IS ONLY ABOUT 50 MILES FROM BEIRUT | show 🗑
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| SINCE 1927 THIS CITY'S PROVINCE HAS GROWN FROM A POPULATION OF ABOUT 400,000 TO MORE THAN 4 MILLION | show 🗑
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| CHECK OUT THOR HEYERDAHL'S KON-TIKI RAFT IN THIS CITY | show 🗑
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| THE NAME OF THIS SOUTH AMERICAN CITY TRANSLATES TO "FAIR WINDS" | show 🗑
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| JUAN PERON DIED IN THIS CITY IN 1974 | show 🗑
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| show | BERN
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| show | KUALA LAMPUR
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| BELIZE CITY, A PORT, WAS BELIZE'S CAPITAL UNTIL A 1961 HURRICANE; THEN THE CAPITAL MOVED TO THIS INLAND CITY | show 🗑
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| show | BANGKOK
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| show | BALTIMORE
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| show | MANILA
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| show | PARIS
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| show | CAIRO
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| show | MOSCOW
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| BUILT ON THE SITE OF THE AZTECS' CAPITAL, IT LATER SERVED AS THE CAPITAL OF NEW SPAIN | show 🗑
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| show | AMSTERDAM
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| show | MOSCOW
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| show | LONDON
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| show | STOCKHOLM
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| show | PUTIN
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| show | MYANMAR (BURMA)
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| FOR FAMILY FUN, HEAD TO THE SCENIC DELLS OF THIS STATE; IT'S THE "WATERPARK CAPITAL OF THE WORLD" | show 🗑
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| show | REYKJAVIK
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| show | BUDAPEST
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| IT'S HOME TO THE HOLMENKOLLEN SKI JUMP | show 🗑
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| IT'S ON THE SURINAME RIVER | show 🗑
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| GUYANESE CAPITAL NAMED FOR A HANOVERIAN MONARCH | show 🗑
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| show | SCRANTON
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| "THE PHOTO CAPITAL OF THE WORLD", THIS CITY IN NY IS ALSO THE BIRTHPLACE OF AMERICAN SPIRITUALISM | show 🗑
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| THIS 2ND-LARGEST ARIZONA CITY IS CALLED "THE ASTRONOMY CAPITAL OF THE WORLD" DUE TO THE MANY TELESCOPES NEARBY | show 🗑
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| show | STOCKHOLM
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| show | ASUNCION
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| show | DUBLIN
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| show | REYKJAVIK
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| show | TEHRAN
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| OF ALL THE WORLD'S URBAN CENTERS EXCEEDING 1 MILLION IN POPULATION, THIS CAPITAL OF VICTORIA IS SOUTHERNMOST | show 🗑
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| THE CITY OF HIGH POINT IN THIS STATE IS A HIGH POINT FOR SHOPPERS; IT'S THE "HOME FURNISHINGS CAPITAL OF THE WORLD" | show 🗑
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| show | LONDON
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| FOUNDED AS A RAILWAY SETTLEMENT IN KENYA IN THE 1890S, ITS NAME COMES FROM THE MASAI FOR "COLD WATER" | show 🗑
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| BRITTANICA SAYS ITS 4,082 STREETS RANGE IN SIZE FROM 394'-WIDE AVENUE FOCH TO 8'-WIDE RUE DU CHAT-QUI-PECHE | show 🗑
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| IN 1861 IT BECAME THE CAPITAL OF THE UNITED PRINCIPALITIES OF WALACHIA AND MOLDAVIA | show 🗑
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| IN 1619 THE DUTCH EAST INDIA COMPANY TOOK IT OVER A ND BEGAN REBUILDING IT IN THE FORM OF A DUTCH CITY WITH MANY CANALS | show 🗑
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| ONE OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST PIPE ORGANS IS FOUND IN THE TABERNACLE IN THIS STATE CAPITAL | show 🗑
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| show | PARIS
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| AROUND 900 A.D., THE TOLTEC INDIANS SET UP AN EMPIRE CENTERED IN TULA, JUST NORTH OF THIS CURRENT WORLD CAPITAL | show 🗑
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| THIS CAPITAL OF VENEZUELA HAS A POPULATION OF ABOUT 3 MILLION | show 🗑
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| CALCUTTA WAS ONCE THE CAPITAL OF INDIA; THIS "NEW" CITY WAS MADE THE CAPITAL IN 1931 | show 🗑
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| IT'S THE NORTHERNMOST CAPITAL CITY IN MAINLAND NORTH AMERICA | show 🗑
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| show | PORT-AU-PRINCE OR SANTO DOMINGO
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| show | PRETORIA
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| BY POPULATION, IT'S THE LARGEST CAPITAL IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE | show 🗑
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| THIS CAPITAL IS LOCATED ON LUZON ISLAND | show 🗑
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| show | BOGOTA
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| THE WORLD'S LARGEST GOVERNMENT BUILDING AFTER THE PENTAGON IS THIS CITY'S PARLIAMENT PALACE, BUILT BY CEAUSESCU | show 🗑
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| show | BELMOPAN
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| THIS MASCULINE FIRST NAME, ALSO A WORLD CAPITAL, IS SPANISH FOR "SAINT JAMES" | show 🗑
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| show | HELSINKI
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| show | BUENOS AIRES
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| show | LONDON
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| show | MANAGUA
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| THIS CAPITAL IS SURROUNDED BY, BUT NOT PART OF, THE FLEMISH REGION OF BRABANT | show 🗑
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| UNTIL 1924, THIS MONGOLIAN CAPITAL WAS CALLED URGA | show 🗑
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| IT'S THE HOME OF BELARUSIAN STATE UNIVERSITY | show 🗑
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| show | MOGIDISHU
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| show | SEATTLE
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| show | LAS VEGAS
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| THIS NEW MEXICO CITY IS THE SELF-PROCLAIMED "UFO CAPITAL OF THE WORLD" | show 🗑
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| A LEADING MARKET FOR RACEHORSES, THIS KENTUCKY CITY IS THE "HORSE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD" | show 🗑
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| show | LONDON
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| show | VIENNA
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| HOME TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA SOONERS AND THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LAB, IT IS THE SEVERE WEATHER RESEARCH CAPITAL | show 🗑
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| show | MOSCOW
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| THIS JAMAICAN SEAPORT WAS FOUNDED IN THE 1690S AND BECAME THE CAPITAL IN 1872 | show 🗑
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| show | BRUSSELS
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| BRATISLAVA, ON THE LEFT BANK OF THE DANUBE, IS THE CAPITAL OF THIS COUNTRY | show 🗑
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| THE PRACA MARQUES DE POMBAL IS AT THE TOP OS THE AVENDIA DA LEBERDADE, A MAIN STREET IN THIS CITY | show 🗑
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| show | ADDIS ABABA
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| show | DUBLIN
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| show | HAVANA
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| IN 1873, 3 ADJOINING CITIES UNITED WITH MARGARET ISLAND TO FORM THIS CITY, NOW A WORLD CAPITAL | show 🗑
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| IT'S DIFFICULT, BUT TRY PICTURING GEORGE BERNARD SHAW AS A BABY WHEN YOU VISIT HIS BIRTHPLACE IN THIS WORLD CAPITAL | show 🗑
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| show | LA PAZ, BOLIVIA
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| show | SACRAMENTO
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| show | ISLAMABAD
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| show | BRANSON
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| THERE IS A JOHN F. KENNEDY PREP SCHOOL IN THIS WORLD CAPITAL WHERE JFK MADE A FAMOUS VISIT IN 1963 | show 🗑
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| show | VIENNA
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| WRITER CHRISTY BROWN IS BURIED IN THIS CITY | show 🗑
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| show | PARIS
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| "THE LIBERATOR" SIMONE BOLIVAR IS BURIED IN THIS CAPITAL CITY | show 🗑
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| show | MEXICO CITY
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| YOU CAN SEE THE BATHS OF CARACALLA IN THIS WORLD CAPITAL | show 🗑
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| THE NAME OF THIS WORLD CAPITAL PRECEDES "BEAUTY" IN THE NAME OF AN APPLE VARIETY THAT'S EXCELLENT FOR BAKING | show 🗑
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| show | MANITOBA
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| THE NAME OF THIS DELI MEAT THAT'S FOUND IN A REUBEN DOESN'T REFER TO MAIZE; IT MEANS CURED IN BRINE | show 🗑
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| SINCE 1869, THIS SODA BRAND, WITH FLAVORS INCLUDING CREAM SODA AND CEL-RAY, IS JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED | show 🗑
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| THIS DELI NAME FOR COLD-SMOKED SALMON REFERS TO A CANADIAN PROVINCE | show 🗑
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| show | BEIJING
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| HOST OF THE WORLD FAMOUS CHOPIN PIANO COMPETTION | show 🗑
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| WORLD CAPITAL CITY OCCUPIED BY SOVIET TROOPS FROM 1979 TO 1989 | show 🗑
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| AFTER THE KHMER ROUGE CAME TO POWER, THIS CITY'S POPULATION DROPPED FROM ABOUT 2 MILLION TO 20,000 | show 🗑
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| show | COPENHAGEN
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| show | REYKJAVIK
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| show | DUBLIN
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| show | DUBLIN
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| show | EDINBURGH
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| NOW JAMAICA'S CAPITAL, IT WAS FOUNDED IN 1693 TO REPLACE PORT ROYAL, WHICH WAS DESTROYED BY AN EARTHQUAKE | show 🗑
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| A LANDMARK OF THIS URUGUAYAN CAPITAL IS THE CERRO, OR HILL, FOR WHICH IT'S NAMED | show 🗑
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| IT RANKS AS THE SECOND-LARGEST CITY OF MOROCCO, AFTER CASABLANCA | show 🗑
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| SOVIET TANKS HELPED QUELL AN UPRISING IN THIS EASTERN EUROPEAN CAPITAL IN 1956 | show 🗑
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| HENRIK IBSEN IS WITH THIS FAMILY IN THE CEMETERY OF OUR SAVIOR IN THIS WORLD CAPITAL | show 🗑
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| show | WARSAW
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| "THE STEAK CAPITAL OF THE WORLD" | show 🗑
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| show | ST. PETERSBURG
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| I HOPE TO TRAIN AT GUY'S HOSPITAL IN THIS WORLD CAPITAL TO BECOME A BETTER DOCTOR...AND IT'S NEAR SOME GOOD PUBS | show 🗑
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| show | BRISBANE
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| THE HELLENIC STAR IS A LEADING NEWSPAPER IN THIS EUROPEAN CAPITAL | show 🗑
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| show | MEXICO CITY
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| IN MANDARIN, THIS CITY'S NAME MEANS "NORTHERN CAPITAL" | show 🗑
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| A PACENO IS RESIDENT OF THIS SOUTH AMERICAN CAPITAL | show 🗑
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| THIS BAJA CALIFORNIA PORT CITY IS KNOWN AS THE "YELLOWTAIL CAPITAL OF THE WORLD" | show 🗑
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| show | JOSEPH STALIN
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| TRUMMERFRAUEN, OR "RUBBLE WOMEN" WORKED IN THIS BOMBED CAPITAL IN THE AFTERMATH OF WWII | show 🗑
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| H.G. WELLS NOVEL "WAR OF THE WORLDS", INVADING MARTIANS ATTACK THIS CAPITAL CITY | show 🗑
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| THIS IS THE CAPITAL OF NORTH KOREA | show 🗑
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| show | ROME
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| show | BAGHDAD
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| THIS ECUADORIAN CAPITAL IS LOCATED NEAR THE FOOT OF THE VOLCANO PICHINCHA | show 🗑
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| show | PARIS
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| show | DODGE CITY
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| THE WORLD'S MOST PRODUCTIVE OIL FIELD WAS IN THE AREA OF THIS CITY, NOW THE CAPITAL OF AZERBAIJAN | show 🗑
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| THE MUNCH MUSEUM IS IN THIS WORLD CAPITAL | show 🗑
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| AFTER PARIS, THIS CAPITAL CITY OF THE CONGO HAS THE MOST FRENCH SPEAKERS OF ANY CITY IN THE WORLD | show 🗑
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| show | LONDON
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| THIS STATE CLAIMS TO BE "THE WORLD'S MOTOR CAPITAL" | show 🗑
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| show | NAIROBI, KENYA
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| show | POLAR BEARS
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| IT'S "THE KODAK CITY" AND "THE PHOTO CAPITAL OF THE WORLD" | show 🗑
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| WHEN BOBBY FISCHER BEAT BORIS SPASSKY IN 1972 FOR THE WORLD CHESS TITLE, THEY WERE IN THIS WORLD CAPITAL | show 🗑
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| show | SALT LAKE CITY
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| show | TEGUCIGALPA
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| THIS CAPITAL IS LINKED TO THE NORTH SEA VIA THE THAMES RIVER | show 🗑
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| INDIRA GANDHI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT LIES JUST OUTSIDE THIS CAPITAL | show 🗑
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| AS ITS NAME IMPLIES, THIS MIDDLE EASTERN CAPITAL WAS ONCE KNOWN FOR ITS DAMASCENED STEEL SWORD BLADES | show 🗑
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| show | BUDAPEST
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| 1 OF 2 CAPITALS ON SOUTH AMERICA'S RIO DE LA PLATA | show 🗑
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| THE WORLD-FAMOUS SPANISH RIDING SCHOOL IS FOUND IN THIS WORLD CAPITAL | show 🗑
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| show | CAIRO
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| show | WARSAW
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| THE ROYAL DANISH OPERA IS BASED IN THIS CITY | show 🗑
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| JAMES JOYCE'S NEPHEW SOMETIMES CONDUCTS TOURS OF THE JAMES JOYCE CULTURAL CENTER IN THIS CITY | show 🗑
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| show | PORT-AU-PRINCE
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| show | RABAT
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| THE KREMLIN SITS ATOP BRORVITSKY HILL IN THIS CAPITAL CITY | show 🗑
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| THE NAME OF THIS CAPITAL OF BELGIUM MIGHT REMIND YOU OF "SPROUTS" | show 🗑
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| TORONTO IS THE CAPITAL OF ONTARIO, BUT THIS OTHER ONTARIO CITY IS THE CAPITAL OF CANADA | show 🗑
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| show | BUENOS AIRES
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| show | STOCKHOLM
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| show | SOFIA
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| show | LISBON
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| show | NEW DELHI
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| show | SANTO DOMINGO
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| show | VIENNA
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| THE OAHE DAM NEAR THIS CAPITAL OF SOUTH DAKOTA IS ONE OF THE WORLD'S TEN LARGEST EARTH-FILL DAMS | show 🗑
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| THE BEAR IS THE HERALDIC SYMBOL OF THIS SWISS CAPITAL WHOSE NAME MEANS "BEAR" | show 🗑
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| HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALE LIFE ENDED IN THIS CAPITAL IN 1875 | show 🗑
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| show | SUCRE
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| THE BRIDGE OF PERFECT WISDOM IS A LANDMARK OF BEIHAI PARK IN THIS WORLD CAPITAL | show 🗑
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| THIS LARGEST DELAWARE CITY IS SOMETIMES CALLED THE CHEMICAL CAPITAL OF THE WORLD | show 🗑
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| MONTMARTRE ON THE RIGHT BANK IS THIS CITY'S HIGHEST NATURAL POINT | show 🗑
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| show | ATHENS
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| show | SAN JOSE
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| IT WAS CHOSEN IN 1394 AS THE CAPITAL OF THE KINGDOM OF CHOSON | show 🗑
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| show | LONDON
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| show | DELAWARE
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| THE STORY OF WORLD CURRENCY IS TOLD VIA EXHIBITS AT THE CURRENCY MUSEUM IN THIS CANADIAN CAPITAL | show 🗑
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| show | SANTO DOMINGO
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| show | ROME
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| THE TEMPLE OF THE RECLINING BUDDHA IS THE LARGEST TEMPLE IN THIS CAPITAL OF THAILAND | show 🗑
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| show | LONDON
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| show | BUDAPEST
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| SIMON BOLIVAR WAS BORN IN THIS CAPITAL CITY IN 1783 | show 🗑
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| IN LATE WINTER NORTHWESTERLY WINDS FROM THE GOBI DESERT SHROUD THIS CITY IN YELLOW DUST STORMS | show 🗑
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| show | ALGIERS
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| show | BEIJING
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| show | DAMASCUS
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| THIS CAPITAL HAS 2 DISTRICTS: KARKH ON THE WEST BANK OF THE TIGRIS AND RUSAFAH ON THE EAST | show 🗑
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| show | RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA
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| show | MEXICO CITY
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| show | KNOXVILLE
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| THIS COSTA RICAN CAPITAL IS NAMED FOR THE COUNTRY'S PATRON SAINT JOSEPH | show 🗑
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| show | MOSCOW
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| show | BRUSSELS
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| IT'S THE CAPITAL OF TAIWAN | show 🗑
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| show | VIENNA
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| show | REYKJAVIK
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| ONE OF THIS CITY'S TOP ATTRACTIONS IS THE MAUSUOLEUM OF KEMAL ATATURK | show 🗑
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| THE WORLD OF COCA-COLA IN THIS STATE CAPITAL HAS A 1930S VINTAGE SODA FOUNTAIN | show 🗑
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| show | EDINBURGH
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| show | CAPE TOWN
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| THE MAGYAR NEMZETI MUSEUM IN THIS CITY DISPLAYS FRANZ LISZT'S GOLD BATON AND ST. STEPHEN'S CROWN | show 🗑
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| TBLISI IS THE CAPITAL OF THIS COUNTRY | show 🗑
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| show | NEW DELHI
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| THE "OIL CAPITAL OF THE WORLD", IT'S ALSO OKLAHOMA'S SECOND-LARGEST CITY | show 🗑
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| show | HAVANA
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| show | PRAGUE
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| show | KABUL
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| show | CAIRO
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| "THE LIVE MUSIC CAPITAL OF THE WORLD" | show 🗑
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| show | BERN
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| THE NAME OF THIS CAPITAL OF BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINIA IS FROM THE TURKISH FOR "PALACE" | show 🗑
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| THE STREET THAT RUNS ALONG THIS CITY'S WESTERN DIKE IS KNOWN AS NIEUWENDIJK, OR NEW DIKE | show 🗑
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| DURING THE ROMAN & BYZANTINE EMPIRES, THIS JORDANIAN CAPITAL WAS KNOWN AS PHILADELPHIA | show 🗑
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| show | MONROVIA
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| THE SEARS TOWER WAS BESTED IN 1996; THE TALLEST BUILDING IN THE WORLD IS NOW IN THIS MALAYSIAN CAPITAL | show 🗑
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| THIS DUTCH CITY HAS MORE THAN 400 BRIDGES LINKING ITS APPROXIMATELY 90 ISLANDS | show 🗑
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| SITE OF THE CANADIAN MINT | show 🗑
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| show | BOGOTA, COLUMBIA
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| show | RIYADH
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| IN 1768 THE GURKHAS CAPTURED THIS CITY AND MADE IT THEIR CAPITAL | show 🗑
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| BUILT FOR THE ASIAN GAMES IN 1962, THE HOTEL INDONESIA WAS THIS CITY'S FIRST HIGH-RISE | show 🗑
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| show | VILNIUS
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| show | BUDAPEST
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| show | WARSAW
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| OTTAWA, THE CAPITAL OF CANADA, LIES IN THE SOUTHEASTERN PART OF THIS PROVINCE | show 🗑
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| show | COPENHAGEN
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| PORT MORESBY IS THE CAPITAL OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA AND PORT-AU-PRINCE IS THE CAPITAL OF THIS ISLAND NATION | show 🗑
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| show | BANGKOK
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| IN 1962 KAMPALA SUCCEEDED ENTEBBE AS THE CAPITAL OF THIS COUNTRY | show 🗑
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| show | DACCA
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| show | SAN SALVADOR
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| THIS LAKE ERIE PORT IN NW OHIO WAS ONCE CALLED THE "GLASS CAPITAL OF THE WORLD" | show 🗑
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| ALTHOUGH IN A PREDOMINANTLY FLEMISH REGION, MOST OF THIS CITY'S RESIDENTS SPEAK FRENCH | show 🗑
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| show | CARACAS
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| show | KABUL
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| show | COLUMBO
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| THIS WORLD CAPITAL IS LOCATED ON THE ISLAND OF JAVA | show 🗑
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| IT WAS FOUNDED BY THE GAULS AS A FISHING SETTLEMENT IN THE SEINE RIVER IN THE 3RD-C. B.C. | show 🗑
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| EVERY 4 YEARS, THIS CAPITAL HOSTS A FREDERIC CHOPIN INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION | show 🗑
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| show | NASSAU
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| show | DODGE CITY
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| show | BRUSSELS
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| THIS CITY WAS FOUNDED IN 1434 TO SUCCEED ANGKOR THOM AS CAPITAL OF THE KHMER EMPIRE | show 🗑
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| WINDHOEK IS THE CAPITAL AND LARGEST CITY OF THIS NEWLY INDEPENDENT FORMER MANDATE OF SOUTH AFRICA | show 🗑
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| show | PRAGUE
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| THIS CITY'S ROYAL PALACE WAS BUILT FOR PHILIP V ON THE SITE OF AN ANCIENT MOORISH FORTRESS | show 🗑
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| show | RIO DE JANEIRO
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| BELMOPAN TAKES ITS NAME FROM THIS CENTRAL AMERICAN COUNTRY AND A MAYAN INDIAN TRIBE | show 🗑
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| show | HELSINKI
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| THIS CARIBBEAN CAPITAL LIES NEAR THE FOOTHILLS OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS | show 🗑
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| show | COPENHAGEN
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| YARRALUMLA HOUSE IN THIS AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL IS THE RESIDENCE OF THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL | show 🗑
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| THE NAME OF MARTINIQUE'S CAPITAL INCLUDES THE NAME OF THIS COUNTRY WHICH COLONIZED IT | show 🗑
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| show | QUITO
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| show | ANKARA
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| ALMOST 1/3 OF NEW ZEALAND'S POPULATION LIVES WITHIN 100 MILES OF THIS CITY, THE NATION'S FIRST CAPITAL | show 🗑
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| THIS SUBURB OF MANILA WAS THE OFFICIAL CAPITAL OF THE PHILIPPINES FROM 1948-1976 | show 🗑
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| show | KABUL, AFGHANISTAN
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| THIS CENTRAL AMERICAN CAPITAL WAS DESTROYED BY EARTHQUAKES IN 1931 & 1972 | show 🗑
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| THE HOTEL ROSSIYA IN THIS FOREIGN CAPITAL HAS 3,200 BEDROOMS, THE MOST OF ANY HOTEL IN THE WORLD | show 🗑
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| "THE ROME OF THE NORTH" IS HOW FAMED SCULPTOR RODIN DESCRIBED THIS CZECH CAPITAL | show 🗑
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| show | SAUDI ARABIA
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| show | MEXICO & LIBYA
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| show | SANTO DOMINGO
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| CONSTRUCTION OF THIS PLANNED ASIAN CAPITAL BEGAN IN 1912; THE GOVERNMENT WAS MOVED THERE IN 1931 | show 🗑
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| show | EAST BERLIN
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| THE ONLY NATIONAL CAPITAL TO BEGIN WITH THE LETTER "Q" | show 🗑
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| WHILE PARIS IS ON THE SEINE, THIS OTHER CAPITAL IN ON THE SENNE | show 🗑
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| show | ZIMBABWE
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| 8TH MOST-POPULOUS CITY IN THE WORLD, IT WAS ONCE THE CAPITAL OF BRAZIL | show 🗑
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| show | TOKYO
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| show | BRUSSELS
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| show | JERUSALEM
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| show | ROME
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| show | DANUBE
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| show | REYKJAVIK
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| AS OF 2006, YOU CAN TAKE A 48-HOUR RIDE BETWEEN THESE 2 CITIES, WITH A STRETCH ON THE WORLD'S HIGHEST RAILROAD | show 🗑
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| STARTED IN 1988 FOR THIS CITY'S 75TH ANNIVERSARY, A SPRINGTIME FLOWER FESTIVAL IN SEPTEMBER SHOWS OFF ITS COMMONWEALTH PARK | show 🗑
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| show | TUNIS
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| show | ST. PETERSBURG
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| show | BAGHDAD
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| PIZARRO FOUNDED THIS CITY WHOSE PRESENT NAME IS FROM A QUECHUA WORD MEANING "TALKER" | show 🗑
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| THE "PLAYBOY RIOTS" TOOK PLACE IN THIS WORLD CAPITAL IN 1907 FOLLOWING A THEATRICAL PREMIERE | show 🗑
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| show | MONROVIA, LIBERIA
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| LUCIO COSTA DESIGNED THIS NEW CAPITAL IN 1957 TO HOLD 500,000 PEOPLE; TODAY IT HAS MORE THAN 3 TIMES THAT NUMBER | show 🗑
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| show | WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND
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| A LARGE BAY BEARING ITS NAME BORDERS THIS CAPITAL SETTLED BY THE SPANIARDS IN 1571 | show 🗑
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| ON MAY 2, 1936 "PETER AND THE WOLF" HAD ITS WORLD PREMIERE IN THIS CAPITAL CITY | show 🗑
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| show | TRIPOLI
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| show | HANOI
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| show | BUENOS AIRES
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| show | REYKJAVIK
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| show | REYKJAVIK
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| show | ZAGREB, CROATIA
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| THE JOSE MARTI MONUMENT IS A 450' TOWER IN THE PLAZA DE LA REVOLUCION IN THIS CAPITAL | show 🗑
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| THE CAPITAL OF ALBANIA IS NAMED FOR THIS OTHER WORLD CAPITAL | show 🗑
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| show | CONGO
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| show | VIENNA
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| FOUNDED IN 1875, THE INTERNATIONAL BUREAU OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES IS HEADQUARTERED IN SEVRES NEAR THIS CAPITAL | show 🗑
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| THIS CAPITAL'S AIRPORT IS VARIOUSLY CALLED TAOYUAN, ZHONGZHENG, AND CHIANG KAI-SHEK INTERNATIONAL | show 🗑
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| show | WINDSOR, ONTARIO
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| THIS CAPITAL IS SERVED BY KING KHALID INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, WHICH LIES ABOUT 20 MILES NORTH OF THE CITY | show 🗑
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| OF WELLINGTON, CANBERRA, OR JAKARTA, THE NATIONAL CAPITAL THAT IS THE NORTHERNMOST | show 🗑
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| IN 1857, QUEEN VICTORIA CHOSE IT AS A NORTH AMERICAN NATIONAL CAPITAL | show 🗑
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| UNTIL 1974, MUCH OF THE LAND IN THIS CAPITAL BELONGED TO HAILE SELASSIE'S FAMILY, MEMBERS OF THE NOBILTIY, AND THE NATIONAL CHURCH | show 🗑
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| show | REYKJAVIK
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| THE NEAREST NATIONAL CAPITAL TO THE HOLLYWOOD SIGN | show 🗑
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| THE NEAREST NATIONAL CAPITAL TO THE STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR | show 🗑
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| THE NEAREST NATIONAL CAPITAL TO THE CONTINENT OF ANTARCTICA | show 🗑
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| NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE IS HEADQUARTERED IN THIS NATIONAL CAPITAL | show 🗑
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| ASIAN NATIONAL CAPITAL WITH A 2-WORD NAME | show 🗑
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| show | LUSAKA
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| show | ESTONIA
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| VIKINGS FOUNDED THE FIRST PERMANENT SETTLEMENT IN THIS NATIONAL CAPITAL AROUND 874 | show 🗑
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| show | LITTLE ROCK
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| THE "PORT" CITY, A NATIONAL CAPITAL, LIES ON THE GULF OF PAPUA, AN INLET OF THE CORAL SEA | show 🗑
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| IT'S THE NATIONAL CAPITAL A SINOPHILE WOULD MOST LIKE TO VISIT | show 🗑
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| THE NILE RUNS THROUGH CAIRO AND THIS OTHER NATIONAL CAPITAL CITY | show 🗑
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| IN BYGONE DAYS THIS NORTH AMERICAN NATIONAL CAPITAL WAS BYTOWN | show 🗑
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| ITS CHOICE AS A NATIONAL CAPITAL IN 1949 WASN'T RECOGNIZED BY SOME COUNTRIES | show 🗑
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| LOGICALLY, THE ONLY INTERNATIONAL GATHERING OVER WHICH BISMARCK PRESIDED WAS THE 1878 CONGRESS OF THIS CAPITAL | show 🗑
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| HOME OF SUDAN'S NATIONAL MUSEUM | show 🗑
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| IT'S THE CLOSEST NATIONAL CAPITAL TO MOUNT EVEREST | show 🗑
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| THE 4 NATIONAL CAPITALS LOCATED ON THE DANUBE RIVER | show 🗑
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| show | MEXICO CITY (1847)
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| show | UGANDA
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| GOING CLOCKWISE AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN, IT'S THE NEXT NATIONAL CAPITAL AFTER TUNIS | show 🗑
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| show | SPRINGFIELD, IL
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| CAMBODIA'S ANGKOR NATIONAL PARK WAS CREATED TO PROTECT THE RUINS OF THIS EMPIRE'S FORMER CAPITAL | show 🗑
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| show | MILAN
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| show | BEIJING
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| A CRESTED CRANE IS THE NATIONAL BIRD OF THIS COUNTRY WHOSE CAPITAL IS KAMPALA | show 🗑
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| THE NATIONAL MUSEUM IN THIS SOMALI CAPITAL WAS BUILT IN THE 19TH-C. BY THE SULTAN OF ZANZIBAR | show 🗑
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| show | PARIS
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| show | JUNEAU, ALASKA
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| THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA IS IN THIS AUSTRALIAN CITY, CAPITAL OF THE STATE OF VICTORIA | show 🗑
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| IN 1957, THE U.N. SET UP THE INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY IN THIS AUSTRIAN CITY | show 🗑
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| show | UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
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| THE NATIONAL MUSEUM IN THIS NORTHERN EUROPEAN CAPITAL WAS CO-DESIGNED BY E. SAARINEN | show 🗑
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| show | JUNEAU
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| THIS CITY'S WEBSITE CALLS IT "THE LAST DIVIDED CAPITAL IN EUROPE" | show 🗑
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| show | ANKARA
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| show | OSLO & SARAJEVO
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| IT'S ASIA'S SOUTHERNMOST NATIONAL CAPITAL | show 🗑
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| show | MEXICO CITY
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| THE WORLD CAPITAL CITY CLOSEST TO LONDON... | show 🗑
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| THE WORLD CAPITAL CITY CLOSEST TO ROME | show 🗑
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| show | MINSK, BELARUS
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| THE WORLD CAPITAL CITY CLOSEST TO BEIJING | show 🗑
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| show | NASSAU, BAHAMAS
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| show | KUALA LAMPUR, MALAYSIA
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| EUROPEAN CAPITAL CITY KNOWN AS "ATHENS ON THE SPREE" | show 🗑
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