Africa Capitals Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. A regional conference invitation lists Botswana’s national capital. Which city should appear on it?
Francistown
Maseru
Gaborone
Mbabane
2. A government document must be delivered in Liberia’s capital. Which destination is correct?
Yamoussoukro
Freetown
Gbarnga
Monrovia
3. A news report is datelined Nairobi, the national capital. Which country is the report from?
Kenya
Uganda
Rwanda
Tanzania
4. The headquarters of the African Union are in Ethiopia’s capital. Which city is it?
Addis Ababa
Dire Dawa
Mogadishu
Asmara
5. A diplomat has meetings with Tanzania’s national government in the country’s official capital. Where should the diplomat go?
Zanzibar City
Dar es Salaam
Arusha
Dodoma
6. Two national capitals face one another across the Congo River. Which pair is it?
Kampala and Kigali
Lusaka and Harare
Brazzaville and Kinshasa
Bangui and Yaoundé
7. Accra serves as the national capital of which West African country?
Ghana
Togo
Côte d’Ivoire
Benin
8. A flight announcement says the plane is landing in Kampala, the national capital. Which country is the destination?
Rwanda
Kenya
Burundi
Uganda
9. A traveler is preparing to visit Namibia’s national capital. Which destination belongs on the itinerary?
Walvis Bay
Gaborone
Windhoek
Lusaka
10. A traveler is visiting Mauritius and wants to begin in the national capital. Which city should be selected?
Victoria
Port Louis
Antananarivo
Saint-Denis
11. A traveler is checking North African country-capital pairs. Which pair is correct?
Morocco — Rabat
Tunisia — Sfax
Morocco — Casablanca
Algeria — Oran
12. Which proposed itinerary correctly matches an African capital with its country?
Alexandria — Egypt
Cairo — Egypt
Khartoum — Chad
Tripoli — Tunisia
13. An itinerary must distinguish the Democratic Republic of the Congo from the neighboring Republic of the Congo. Which city is the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
Brazzaville
Kinshasa
Lubumbashi
Kisangani
14. A Portuguese-language travel guide pairs each country with its capital. Which entry is accurate?
Angola — Benguela
Mozambique — Beira
Guinea-Bissau — Bafatá
Mozambique — Maputo
15. Dakar is the capital and major Atlantic port of which country?
The Gambia
Senegal
Mali
Guinea
16. Nigeria transferred its federal capital from Lagos in 1991. Which city became the capital?
Kano
Lagos
Abuja
Ibadan