Think you know your European geography? The European Capitals Quiz gives you a country and asks for one thing: its capital city. From the easy anchors — Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Rome — to the ones that catch everyone out, it covers all 50 European countries and their capitals on a fast, clean map that actually works on your phone.

Play it whichever way suits you. Get a country name and name its capital, flip it around and name the country from its capital, or locate the country on an interactive map of Europe. Each question highlights the country in question, so you build the map and the capitals together. Choose Easy for multiple choice, Medium for a first-letter hint, or Hard to type the answer from memory.

New every day: a Daily Challenge of ten European capitals that is identical for everyone, with a shareable results grid so you can compare scores with friends. Or race the clock in a 90-second Speed Run and see how many capitals you can rattle off.

How to play

Daily Challenge — ten European capitals to name, the same for every player today. Finish to reveal your green-and-red result grid and share it.
Name the Capital — you are given a country and name its capital, by multiple choice (Easy), first-letter hint (Medium) or typing (Hard).
Name the Country — the reverse: a capital city is shown and you name the country it belongs to.
Locate — you are given a capital and click the country it belongs to on the map of Europe.
Speed Run — name as many capitals as you can in 90 seconds, building a streak multiplier.

Every mode tracks your streak, score and accuracy, and a local leaderboard keeps your best runs. There is also a Learn mode — tap any country to see its capital, region, area, language and currency before you test yourself.

How many capital cities are in Europe?

There is no single official answer, because Europe’s borders are debated at the edges. 44 countries lie wholly or mostly within Europe, each with its own capital. Add the transcontinental states that straddle the Europe–Asia border — Turkey (Ankara), Georgia (Tbilisi), Armenia (Yerevan), Azerbaijan (Baku) and Kazakhstan (Astana) — and the total most quizzes use is around 50. This quiz covers that full set of 50 capitals, from Reykjavík in the west to the Caspian in the east, including the six European micro-states.

Tips for learning the capitals of Europe

Learn them region by region — master Western Europe first, then the Nordics, Central Europe, the Balkans and finally Eastern Europe and the Caucasus.
Watch the country–capital name traps: the capital is rarely the country’s largest or best-known city — Switzerland is Bern (not Zurich), Turkey is Ankara (not Istanbul), and Kazakhstan is Astana.
Drill the hard clusters on their own: the Balkan capitals (Ljubljana, Zagreb, Sarajevo, Belgrade, Podgorica, Pristina, Skopje, Tirana) and the three Baltic capitals (Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius) are where most points are lost.
Use the daily challenge to learn ten fresh capitals a day — spaced repetition beats cramming, and the streak keeps you coming back.

How the daily challenge works

The daily set is generated from the calendar date with a seeded shuffle, so every player in the world gets the same ten capitals on the same day — no account, no server tracking you. When you finish, your result is encoded as a grid of green (correct) and red (wrong) squares, ready to copy or share. Come back tomorrow for a fresh set and keep your streak alive.

Data & method

Capitals and country facts come from the open mledoze/countries dataset (ODbL), and the map of Europe is drawn from Natural Earth (public domain) via the world-atlas 1:50m dataset. Countries are joined on their ISO-3166 numeric code, filtered to the European set with a capital, and the whole dataset is bundled into the app — so it loads instantly and works offline, with no tracking.

Frequently asked questions

How many European capitals are in the quiz?

All 50. That is the 44 countries that lie wholly or mostly in Europe plus the five transcontinental states on the Europe–Asia border (Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan), each with its capital. The six European micro-states — Vatican City, Monaco, San Marino, Liechtenstein, Malta and Andorra — are all included.

Which European capitals are hardest to remember?

The usual trip-ups are capitals that are not their country’s biggest city — Bern (Switzerland), Ankara (Turkey), Astana (Kazakhstan) and Valletta (Malta) — and the tightly-packed Balkan and Baltic capitals. The Caucasus trio (Tbilisi, Yerevan, Baku) and the micro-state capitals round out the toughest set, which is why Learn mode lets you drill them before you play.

Is the European Capitals Quiz free?

Yes, completely free. There is no sign-up, no app to install and no paywall — just open the page and play, on any device.

Does it work on mobile?

Yes. The quiz is mobile-first and runs in any modern browser on phone, tablet or desktop — no app, no sign-up. Tap an answer, or in Locate mode pinch to zoom and drag to pan the map before tapping a country.

Where does the data come from?

Capitals and country facts come from the open mledoze/countries dataset (ODbL), and the map of Europe from Natural Earth (public domain) via the world-atlas dataset. All data is bundled into the app, so it loads instantly and works offline.