Capitals of Europe

Test your knowledge of European capitals. Study the city–country pairs for 44 countries and practice the answers you find difficult.

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44 UN member states in the Europe set. Capital questions specify the role to answer.

How this set is defined

Country quizzes use the 193 UN member states. The Holy See and the State of Palestine are non-member observer states and are not included. Each member appears in one regional set: Russia and Cyprus are in Europe; Türkiye, the Caucasus states and Kazakhstan are in Asia. North America includes Central America and the Caribbean. These groupings define the quiz, not a position on statehood or disputed borders.

Not included

The Holy See (UN non-member observer State)
The State of Palestine (UN non-member observer State)
Other non-member entities
Dependent territories as separate answers

Last scope review: 2026-10-21

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Places and answers

Use the names and alternatives listed below. Capital questions accept the city for the role named in the prompt. Historical names and unlisted abbreviations are not accepted automatically.

Place	Capital role	Accepted names	Place notes
Albania	Tirana — capital	Tirana	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Andorra	Andorra la Vella — capital	Andorra la Vella	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Austria	Vienna — capital	Vienna	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Belarus	Minsk — capital	Minsk	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Belgium	Brussels — capital	Brussels	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sarajevo — capital	Sarajevo	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Bulgaria	Sofia — capital	Sofia	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Croatia	Zagreb — capital	Zagreb	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Cyprus	Nicosia — capital	Nicosia	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified. Cyprus appears in the Europe quizzes.
Czechia	Prague — capital	Prague	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Denmark	Copenhagen — capital	Copenhagen; København; Kobenhavn	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Estonia	Tallinn — capital	Tallinn	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Finland	Helsinki — capital	Helsinki	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
France	Paris — capital	Paris	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Germany	Berlin — capital	Berlin	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Greece	Athens — capital	Athens	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Hungary	Budapest — capital	Budapest	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Iceland	Reykjavik — capital	Reykjavik; Reykjavík	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Ireland	Dublin — capital	Dublin	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Italy	Rome — capital	Rome	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Latvia	Riga — capital	Riga	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Liechtenstein	Vaduz — capital	Vaduz	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Lithuania	Vilnius — capital	Vilnius	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Luxembourg	Luxembourg — capital	Luxembourg	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Malta	Valletta — capital	Valletta	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Moldova	Chisinau — capital	Chisinau; Chișinău	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Monaco	Monaco — capital	Monaco	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Montenegro	Podgorica — capital	Podgorica	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
North Macedonia	Skopje — capital	Skopje	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Norway	Oslo — capital	Oslo	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Poland	Warsaw — capital	Warsaw	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Portugal	Lisbon — capital	Lisbon	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Romania	Bucharest — capital	Bucharest	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Russia	Moscow — capital	Moscow	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified. Russia appears in the Europe quizzes; its territory spans Europe and Asia.
San Marino	San Marino — capital	San Marino	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Serbia	Belgrade — capital	Belgrade	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Slovakia	Bratislava — capital	Bratislava	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Slovenia	Ljubljana — capital	Ljubljana	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Spain	Madrid — capital	Madrid	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Sweden	Stockholm — capital	Stockholm	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Switzerland	Bern — federal city: Switzerland uses the designation federal city rather than a formally declared capital.	Bern; Berne	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
The Netherlands	Amsterdam — constitutional capital The Hague — seat of government	Amsterdam / The Hague; Den Haag; 's-Gravenhage	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Ukraine	Kyiv — capital	Kyiv; Kiev	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
United Kingdom	London — capital	London	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.

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equirectangular; regional standard parallel; US inset transforms when stated. Generalized Natural Earth geography; public domain. Coordinate projection is an equirectangular study view with standard-parallel scaling. Boundaries are not a political-status claim. Small or unrepresented polygons use explicitly marked representative points. Use the text list as an equivalent answer method.

Last scope review: 2026-10-21

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