Countries Where the Capital is Not the Largest City

Name every country of the world in which its capital is not the most populous city. Once you enter a country's name, its capital and largest city will show up.

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Last updated: May 18, 2024

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Capital	Most Populous City	Country
Canberra	Sydney	Australia
Brussels	Antwerp (city proper)	Belgium
Brussels	Brussels (urban area)	Belgium
Belmopan	Belize City	Belize
La Paz / Sucre	Santa Cruz	Bolivia
Brasília	São Paulo	Brazil
Yaoundé	Douala (city proper)	Cameroon
Yaoundé	Yaoundé (urban area)	Cameroon
Ottawa	Toronto	Canada
Beijing	Shanghai (city proper)	China
Beijing	Guangzhou (urban area)	China
Nicosia	Limassol (city proper)	Cyprus
Nicosia	Nicosia (urban area)	Cyprus
Quito	Quito (city proper)	Ecuador
Quito	Guayaquil (urban area)	Ecuador
Malabo	Bata	Equatorial Guinea
Palikir	Weno	F.S. Micronesia
Banjul	Brikama (city proper)	Gambia
Banjul	Banjul (urban area)	Gambia
Berlin	Berlin (city proper)	Germany
Berlin	The Ruhr (urban area)	Germany
New Delhi	Mumbai (city proper)	India
New Delhi	Delhi (urban area)	India
Jerusalem	Jerusalem (city proper)	Israel
Jerusalem	Tel Aviv (urban area)	Israel
Rome	Rome (city proper)	Italy
Rome	Milan (urban area)	Italy
Yamoussoukro	Abidjan	Ivory Coast
Astana	Almaty	Kazakhstan
Vaduz	Schaan	Liechtenstein
Valetta	St. Paul's Bay (largest city is hard to determine)	Malta
Rabat	Casablanca	Morocco
Napyidaw	Yangon	Myanmar
Yaren	Denigomodu (largest city is hard to determine)	Nauru
Amsterdam	Amsterdam (city proper)	Netherlands
Amsterdam	Rotterdam (urban area)	Netherlands
Wellington	Auckland	New Zealand
Abuja	Lagos	Nigeria
Islamabad	Karachi	Pakistan
Ngerulmud	Koror	Palau
Manila	Quezon City (city proper)	Philippines
Manila	Manila (urban area)	Philippines
San Marino	Dogana (largest city is hard to determine)	San Marino
Pretoria / Cape Town / Bloemfontein	Johannesburg	South Africa
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte	Colombo	Sri Lanka
Khartoum	Omdurman (city proper)	Sudan
Khartoum	Khartoum (urban area)	Sudan
Bern	Zürich	Switzerland
Damascus	Aleppo (city proper)	Syria
Damascus	Damascus (urban area)	Syria
Taiwan	New Taipei City (no one's going to get this)	Taiwan
Dodoma	Dar es Salaam	Tanzania
Port-of-Spain	Chaguanas	Trinidad and Tobago
Ankara	Istanbul	Turkey
Abu Dhabi	Dubai	United Arab Emirates
Washington D.C.	New York	United States
Hanoi	Ho Chi Minh City	Vietnam

7 Comments

Level 59

May 18, 2024

Yes, I know a quiz like this has already been made by several users on the site.... But they have have rather inconsistent/inaccurate data, so I decided to make this quiz using the list on this featured quiz. So please let me know if there's anything I need to fix!

Level 59

May 18, 2024

- Dubious cases, very small countries where a capital is not easily defined (e.g. Nauru), and countries whose largest city is different depending on whether city proper or urban area is used (e.g. Italy) - have been filled in for you.

- I kept Liechtenstein and Palau in the quiz because although the countries are small, their largest city is not difficult to determine, unlike for countries such as San Marino.

- Multi-capital nations, e.g. Benin, are not included if one of its capitals is the most populous in the country.

- Taiwan (largest city: New Taipei City) has been filled in because nobody is actually going to get that.

- Data is according to citypopulation.de, with Wikipedia as a secondary source.

Level 43

May 18, 2024

I would of gotten New Taipei City :/

Level 59

May 18, 2024

lol

Level 59

May 18, 2024

Should I add a map to this quiz? I'm not sure...

Level 56

May 20, 2024

a map would make it way too easy, and it would quiz your knowledge of where the cities are on the world, rather than quiz if you know which countries have a city bigger than their capital city.

Level 59

May 20, 2024

Alright