Kuala Lumpur, Kathmandu and Tashkent have one thing in common: they are each the capital of an Asian country. We ask 48 of these capitals in the geography quiz. This is a real challenge. How many correct answers can you provide?
Asia is home to the most people, almost 4 billion people. This geography quiz will test your knowledge of the Asian capitals. How many Asian countries can you recite the capitals of in your sleep? We test your geographical knowledge!
Beijing, the capital of the People’s Republic of China , is the most populous. Over 21 million people live there. The city has over three thousand years of history to offer, so it is rich in tradition and culture. The Forbidden City is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The capital of Japan – Tokyo – may have fewer inhabitants than Beijing, but as the Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan region it is somewhat larger. 38 million people live and work there. Knowing these two capitals in the geography quiz will not demand much from you and should be done quickly.
But do you also know the names of the capitals of Thailand, Yemen or Azerbaijan in our geography quiz? After the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, many successor states were founded in Asia whose capitals are not yet known by everyone. The questions about the capitals of Uzbekistan (Tashkent), Kyrgyzstan (Bishkek) or Tajikistan (Dushanbe) are the more difficult ones in this guessing game.
We people from Europe usually look to the West, but looking East to Asia is looking to the future. Many cultural and technological centers are developing there. South Korea is one of the most important examples of this. So we should know the capitals of these countries.
The continent of Asia consists of 47 countries. Perhaps that’s not the answer to a tricky question in our geography quiz, but it’s still a useful piece of information. How many of the questions can you answer? What do you estimate? 50 percent? Surely more, right?
Are you ready for the geography quiz on Asian capitals? Then test your geographical knowledge!
22. February 26, 15:00 – Isabell Slisz
