Tricky Countries Capital List

Memorizing list of the country’s capital is a tedious task. So most people memorize the important capitals of the world. But there are some country’s capital which confuses or tricks you in the examinations. So here I have listed out some important capitals of the world countries that are easy, that confuses you often, that have more than one capital. I also written some of the facts or notes which makes you to remember the capitals easier. Thus the list of tricky countries capital listare as follows

S.No	Countries	Capital	Notes/Points to note for easy remembrance
1.	Singapore	Singapore	Singapore is a small country expanded by land reclamation. Easy to remember.
2.	Vatican City	Vatican City	Smallest Internationally recognized Independent state by area and population. Easy to remember.
3.	Australia	Canberra	Largest Inland city is Canberra. Most of the cities you heard of are in the coastal area like Adelaide, Melbourne, Gold coast, Newcastle, Brisbane, Perth and Sydney. Canberra is a planned city after a settlement was made between rivals Sydney and Melbourne.
4.	Canada	Ottawa	Toronto is the most populous city and hosts Toronto stock Exchange. Toronto headquarters 5 largest banks. So Toronto is the commercial capital of Canada, not the national capital.
5.	Belize	Belmopan	The only country in Central American to have English also as National Language. Belize city is the largest city.
6.	Brazil	Brasilia	Brasilia was planned and founded in 1960, to move the capital from Rio de Janeiro to a central location.
7.	Burma/Myanmar	Naypyitaw	The capital was moved from Yangoon(Rangoon) to give a strategic position centrally to provide stability to other areas of the country.
8.	China	Bejing	Not to be confused with Shanghai. As Shanghai is the world most populous city, global financial center and world’s busiest container port but not the capital of China.
9.	El Salvador	San Salvador	En Salvador is the most populated district and also hosts most of the MNCs & Banks as its Head Quarters. It also has a World Trade Center.
10.	Guatemala	Guatemala City	Not to be confused with Guantanamo detention camp, run by USA.
11.	Guinea	Conakry	It is also called French Guineau. It was formerly a French colony.
12.	Guineau-Bissau	Bissau	Easy to remember. Was formerly a Portuguese colony. It is also called Portuguese Guineau.
13.	Equatorial Guineau	Malabo	Oyala is the planned city and future capital which is under construction. Equatorial Guineau was formerly a Spanish colony.
14.	Equador	Quito	Quito lies near the Earth’s Equator line.
15.	Ghana	Accra	Accra lies near the Earth’s Equator line.
16.	Kazakhstan	Astana	Akmola was renamed as Astana. It was formed only in 1997 after moving the capital from Almaty. Astana is the second coldest capital in the world. First new capital of 21st century. Astana is a Kazak title meaning Capital.
17.	Kuwait	Kuwait City	Easy to remember.
18.	Luxembourg	Luxembourg City	Easy to remember.
19.	Nauru	Yaren	Nauru is the world’s second least populated state next to Vatican City.
20.	Panama	Panama City	Easy to remember.
21.	San Marino	San Marino	Easy to remember.
22.	South Africa	Pretoria, Bloemfontein, Cape Town	Has three capitals namely Capetown (Legislative), Pretoria (Executive) and Bloemfontein (Judicial). Pretoria is the de facto capital.
23.	Sri Lanka	Colombo, Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte	Has two capitals namely Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (Administrative) and Colombo (Commercial).
24.	Switzerland	Bern	Bern is the de facto capital or Federal capital. Not to confuse with Zurich, Geneva and Basel.
25.	Tunisia	Tunis	Easy to remember. Housed the Arab League (League of 22 Arab nations) HQ from 1979-1990 during Egypt’s peace with Israel. In 1970-2003 also housed Palestine Liberation Organisation as it was bombed by the Israeli Air Force.
26.	United Arab Emirates	Abu Dhabi	Not to be confused with Dubai, as it is the global hub for tourism, retail and finance. Dubai and Abu Dhabi are the only two emirates to have veto power over major matters in the UAE’s legislature.
27.	Vietnam	Hanoi	Ho Chi Minh city is the largest city in Vietnam but not the capital.
28.	United States of America	Washington D.C	Planned capital and selected by President George Washington. Not to be confused with New York city as it is the head quarters to United Nations, cultural and financial capital of the world. D.C stands for District of Columbia.