Capitals of Asia Quiz

Name the capital city of every country in Asia: 45 questions, each with four capitals from the same continent. Below the game is the full list of Asia countries and their capitals to study first. This capitals of Asia quiz also has the quiz in a printable form, and tables that sort the 45 capitals by level, first letter and name length.

Capitals of Asia quiz to print (PDF)

The four printable pages below are a multiple-choice sheet, a write-in sheet, the answer key and a black-and-white version. Click a picture for the PDF.

How to play the capitals of Asia quiz

Set the level, the number of questions and the timer above the quiz. This quiz has 45 questions in three levels: 17 easy, 22 medium and 6 hard. A wrong answer shows the right one, and the result ends with a list of answers to learn.

Capitals people often get wrong

• China: Beijing, not Shanghai
• India: New Delhi, not Mumbai
• Kazakhstan: Astana, not Almaty
• Myanmar: Naypyidaw, not Yangon
• Pakistan: Islamabad, not Karachi
• Saudi Arabia: Riyadh, not Jeddah
• Sri Lanka: Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, not Colombo
• Turkey: Ankara, not Istanbul
• United Arab Emirates: Abu Dhabi, not Dubai
• Vietnam: Hanoi, not Ho Chi Minh City

Asia countries and capitals

Capitals of Asia quiz: 45 capitals by level

The capitals of Asia quiz sorts the 45 capitals of Asia into three levels, so players of every age can find a level that suits them. Easy has 17 capitals that most people know, medium has 22 and hard has 6:

Asia capitals quiz: capitals by first letter

A quick way to see the shape of a list is to count the first letters. In this Asia capitals quiz, the letter B starts the most capitals (7 of 45), followed by A (5). Here is the full count:

Capitals of Asia: the longest and shortest names

When you study the capitals of Asia, the names with the fewest letters are the easiest to spell, and the longest are the ones that are most often written wrong. Counting only letters, the names are:

For the write-in sheet, accents and apostrophes do not matter for learning, but players should know that the spelling of some capitals has changed over the years.

Asia capital cities quiz: capitals with the same name as the country

The Asia capital cities quiz has 2 capitals that share a name with their country, which makes them the easiest to remember:

Asia countries and capitals: a five-day study plan

To learn the Asia countries and capitals in a week, work through the levels one by one. This plan uses the 17 easy, 22 medium and 6 hard capitals in the quiz, and a short write-in test to check what you remember:

Most players need two or three rounds to get to 100% on the easy level, and about 9 minutes to play all 45 questions at 12 seconds each.

Capital city changes in Asia

Some of the capitals in this quiz are new, and others are not the largest city. These facts help players remember the answers, and they come from the history of each country. Wikipedia’s list of national capitals has the full details:

• Kazakhstan moved its capital from Almaty to Astana in 1997. The city was renamed Nur-Sultan in 2019 and became Astana again in 2022.
• Myanmar moved its government from Yangon to the new city of Naypyidaw in 2005 and 2006.
• Turkey has had Ankara as its capital since 1923, and Istanbul, the largest city, is not the capital.
• Sri Lanka has its parliament in Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, a suburb of Colombo, which is the largest city.
• Pakistan moved from Karachi to the purpose-built city of Islamabad in the 1960s.
• Indonesia is building a new capital called Nusantara on the island of Borneo, but Jakarta is the capital in this quiz.
• Israel is left out of the quiz because the status of Jerusalem is disputed.

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