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World Capitals Flashcards
One card for each of the 193 UN member states plus the 2 observer states. Countries with two capitals, three capitals, or a disputed one say so on the card.
Free to play in your browser — no account, no install. The first 30 cards are free forever. The deck opens with Algeria, Angola, Benin and Botswana and runs to 195 cards in all.
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- Algeria
- Algiers
- Angola
- Luanda
- Benin
- Porto-Novo is the official capital; Cotonou is the seat of government
- Botswana
- Gaborone
- Burkina Faso
- Ouagadougou
- Burundi
- Gitega is the political capital; Bujumbura is the economic capital
- Cabo Verde
- Praia
- Cameroon
- Yaoundé
- Central African Republic
- Bangui
- Chad
- N'Djamena
- Comoros
- Moroni
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Kinshasa
- Republic of the Congo
- Brazzaville
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Yamoussoukro is the official capital; Abidjan is the seat of government
- Djibouti
- Djibouti City
- Egypt
- Cairo
- Equatorial Guinea
- Malabo
- Eritrea
- Asmara
- Eswatini
- Mbabane is the administrative capital; Lobamba is the royal and legislative seat
- Ethiopia
- Addis Ababa
- Gabon
- Libreville
- The Gambia
- Banjul
- Ghana
- Accra
- Guinea
- Conakry
- Guinea-Bissau
- Bissau
- Kenya
- Nairobi
- Lesotho
- Maseru
- Liberia
- Monrovia
- Libya
- Tripoli
- Madagascar
- Antananarivo
World Capitals flashcards — questions people ask
- How many cards are in the World Capitals flashcard deck?
- The World Capitals deck on PuzzlePage has 195 cards. The first 30 are free to play and free to download with no account; the remaining 165 unlock for $2.99 as a one-time payment, or with the $11.99-a-month Study Pack that covers every deck on the site.
- What is on the world capitals flashcards?
- One card for each of the 193 UN member states plus the 2 observer states. Countries with two capitals, three capitals, or a disputed one say so on the card. Cards look like this: Algeria → Algiers; Angola → Luanda. The deck is written for grades 5-12 and filed under social studies.
- Can I study world capitals flashcards online for free?
- Yes. The first 30 cards of the World Capitals deck play free in any web browser at puzzlepage.app, with no account, no app and no card details. It works on a phone, tablet, Chromebook, laptop or classroom projector. Practice mode flips through the cards with nothing scored; quiz mode makes you answer each card before it flips, times the run and scores it.
- Are the world capitals flashcards accurate?
- Every card in the World Capitals deck was read and fact-checked by a subject-matter specialist before it went on sale, as was every other card on PuzzlePage — 5,420 cards across 30 decks. The audit found and fixed real defects, and one deck was withdrawn from sale entirely rather than shipped with a known problem. That is the difference from a user-generated flashcard site, where the cards are whatever a stranger typed and nobody is accountable for them.
- Can I print the world capitals flashcards?
- Yes. The World Capitals cards are available as a printable double-sided PDF to cut up, as well as playable in the browser. The first 30 cards are free to download; the full 195-card printable is included in the $11.99-a-month Study Pack.
- How should I use the World Capitals deck to revise?
- Start in practice mode and go through the World Capitals deck once without scoring, to find out which cards you already know — the deck is dealt in a different order every time you open it, so you are recalling the card rather than its position. Then switch to quiz mode, which times and scores the run and lets you re-run only the cards you missed. Use the "flip deck" control to swap which side is the question: recognising an answer is much easier than producing one, so a deck you find easy one way round is usually the harder and more useful drill the other way. Two or three short sessions across a week beat one long one, which is the whole reason flashcards work.
- What grade level are the world capitals flashcards for?
- The World Capitals deck is written for grades 5-12. Because the cards are plain term-and-answer pairs, they are also used outside that band — by adults revising social studies, and by teachers running them as a whole-class starter on a projector.