Geography: Capitals of the world

[DrDoc]

Last night I decided to say up and memorize all the capitals of:
• the provinces of Canada
• the United States
• the countries of the world

It took me quite some time...

But now I know that, for example, the capital of Mongolia is 'M'. Then there's the United Arab Emirate that has three capitals: 'U', 'A', and 'E'...

[Shak]

this is what buying medicines online can do to you!

Shak

[BlobFisk]

And I thought that I was mad....

;)

[rcjordan]

> all the capitals of

I think I have a website on that...

[ritualcoffee]

:)

ironically, I am trying to memorize all the countries of the world for real. I keep getting stuck in eastern europe and the 'stans.

[DrDoc]

And I thought that I was mad

Hey, I never claimed to be sane ;)

trying to memorize all the countries of the world for real

Yeah, I remember having to do that in 6th grade...

[digitalghost]

>>trying to memorize all the countries of the world for real

Download Yakko's inspiring song. The Animanicas also do the State capitals and the U.S. Presidents.

I think the Animaniac version of "Countries of the World" is sung to the tune of the Mexican Hat Dance. Yep, pretty sure...

[ritualcoffee]

it starts to get tough when we are talking about micronesia, latvia, and the ever confusing 'stans. The goal is to be able to have a blank map of the world and be able to fill in all the country names correctly.

a lot has changed since 6th grade

the animaniacs songs are great to get the names straight but they don't help with the location.

animaniacs - that is how i memorized all the presidents and us state capitals.

[rcjordan]

For extra credit in FOO, start working on those tld's.

[DrDoc]

Well, having grown up in Europe it helped me a lot as far as keeping track of things goes :)

[choster]

Some say the U.S. starts with U.K. T in the C, though that is inaccurate.

[Sinner_G]

the U.S. starts with U.K. T in the C

Say what?

[martinibuster]

Boston Tea Party.

Probably not related and totally off-topic but...

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN LIVES! Heuh! Get down!

[Sinner_G]

Ooooh, had figured it had to do with that, but didn't get the C. Was trying to remember about a river starting with C...

I have a quiz application on my Palm for world capital cities. Africa has just too many countries, and I will never be able to remember the capital cities of all those small island countries.

[BlobFisk]

Try then adding what the coutries used to be called... Upper Volta, Northern Rhodesia, Abyssinia...

[ritualcoffee]

ah I still do the little sing-song by They Might Be Giants..

Istanbul was Constantinople....

[Sinner_G]

Istanbul was Constantinople....

Also used to be Byzance...

coutries used to be called

French equatorial Africa,...

[mivox]

I keep getting stuck in eastern europe and the 'stans.

That's because everytime you get them all straight, either 5 new countries appear, or a half dozen have merged together...

[Sinner_G]

half dozen have merged together

Now that is very rare. In fact I can't remember any occasion when eastern Europe or 'stans' merged since a very long time. IIRC the last time was when Czechoslovakia was founded after WWI. And they have split now.

[percentages]

>the last time was when Czechoslovakia was founded after WWI

Does that east/west German thingy not count?

Guess that wall was just a good use for some spare bricks eh?

[Sinner_G]

I could argue that Germany is not Eastern, but Central Europe, but in fact I had just completely forgotten about that event.

[ritualcoffee]

what about serbia and montenagro(I butched that spelling but coffee is ready and i don't care to look it up.) ;)

[Allybongo839]

When I was younger I memorised all the US states in alphabetical order - it comes in handy at pub quizzes and usually comes out when I'm half cut on a Friday night. Sad really...

[Sinner_G]

what about serbia and montenagro

Serbia and Montenegro used to be part of Yugoslavia together with Croatia, Slovenia and a few others. That's not a merge, just an incomplete breaking up.