Europe capitals quiz

How many of the 47 capital cities of Europe do you know? Choose from four cities or type the answer yourself. The wrong options come from the same region, so you cannot rely on geography alone. Every country and capital is listed below for study.

How the capitals quiz works

Each round draws countries at random from the 47 scored in this quiz. Wrong options are capitals of neighbouring countries in the same region where possible, then elsewhere in Europe. You earn one point per correct answer; your streak counts correct answers in a row.

In typed mode, capital letters, accents, spaces, hyphens and apostrophes are ignored, so bogota matches Bogotá and nukualofa matches Nuku‘alofa. Common English forms such as Kiev for Kyiv and Ulan Bator for Ulaanbaatar are accepted, and a single-letter slip in longer names is marked correct with a spelling reminder. Where a country has more than one capital, any of them counts.

Capitals with a story: 2 special cases

These are the answers most often disputed, outdated or split between cities in other quizzes and atlases.

Netherlands: Amsterdam: Amsterdam is the capital under the Dutch constitution, but The Hague is the seat of government and home to the International Court of Justice. Quizzes that answer “The Hague” are confusing the two roles.
Switzerland: Bern: Switzerland’s constitution names no capital. Bern is the “federal city”, the seat of the federal government and parliament.

Tricky ones to remember

Capitals that are not the largest city

The most common wrong answer is the country’s biggest or best-known city. These are well-known cases in Europe; the list is not exhaustive, and city size depends on where the boundary is drawn.

Country	Capital	Larger city often guessed
Switzerland	Bern	Zurich

Countries with similar names

Similar country names make it easy to attach a capital to the wrong one.

Slovakia → BratislavavsSlovenia → Ljubljana
Latvia → RigavsLithuania → Vilnius
Austria → ViennavsAustralia → Canberra
Iceland → ReykjavikvsIreland → Dublin

Capitals named after their country

5 capitals share the country’s name, or their country is named after them: Andorra la Vella (Andorra), Luxembourg (Luxembourg), Monaco (Monaco), San Marino (San Marino) and Vatican City (Vatican City).

The two closest capitals

The closest pair of capitals in Europe is Rome (Italy) and Vatican City (Vatican City), about 3 km apart in a straight line. Distances use capital coordinates from Wikidata.

Study list: all 47 capitals of Europe

Grouped by region, the same groups the quiz uses for its wrong options. Capitals are shown exactly as recorded on each country profile.

Caucasus

Country	Capital
Armenia	Yerevan
Azerbaijan	Baku
Georgia	Tbilisi

Central Europe

Country	Capital
Austria	Vienna
Czech Republic	Prague
Hungary	Budapest
Liechtenstein	Vaduz
Poland	Warsaw
Slovakia	Bratislava
Slovenia	Ljubljana

Eastern Europe

Country	Capital
Belarus	Minsk
Moldova	Chisinau
Russia	Moscow
Ukraine	Kyiv

Northern Europe

Country	Capital
Denmark	Copenhagen
Estonia	Tallinn
Finland	Helsinki
Iceland	Reykjavik
Ireland	Dublin
Latvia	Riga
Lithuania	Vilnius
Norway	Oslo
Sweden	Stockholm
United Kingdom	London

Southeast Europe

Country	Capital
Romania	Bucharest

Southern Europe

Country	Capital
Albania	Tirana
Andorra	Andorra la Vella
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sarajevo
Bulgaria	Sofia
Croatia	Zagreb
Greece	Athens
Italy	Rome
Malta	Valletta
Montenegro	Podgorica
North Macedonia	Skopje
Portugal	Lisbon
San Marino	San Marino
Serbia	Belgrade
Spain	Madrid
Vatican City	Vatican City

Western Europe

Country	Capital
Belgium	Brussels
France	Paris
Germany	Berlin
Luxembourg	Luxembourg
Monaco	Monaco
Netherlands	Amsterdamnote
Switzerland	Bernnote

Capitals: Countries.World country records. Coordinates for distances: Wikidata (CC0), accessed 2026-10-10. For coordinates and time zones of each capital, see capitals of Europe.