Countries and their capitals

All 195 sovereign countries with their capital cities, sorted alphabetically. A handful are worth knowing about before you are quizzed on them: Bolivia's constitutional capital is Sucre rather than La Paz, South Africa's seat of government is Pretoria, and Sri Lanka's official capital is Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, not Colombo.

Learning them

Capitals are the hardest of the basic geography facts because there is no visual hook — nothing about "Bishkek" points to Kyrgyzstan. What works is repeated short sessions with immediate correction, which is exactly what the capital quiz does.