50 Capitals of South America Quiz

1. What is the capital of Peru?

2. Which city is the capital of Colombia?

3. Name the capital city of Chile.

4. Venezuela's capital is which city?

5. Guyana's government is based in which capital city?

6. Which city serves as Paraguay's capital?

7. Which city was Brazil's capital right before Brasília took over?

8. Bolivia's constitution names which city as the nation's capital?

9. Which city, Bolivia's seat of government, is called the world's highest national capital?

10. Montevideo is the capital of which country?

11. Quito is the capital of which South American nation?

12. Paramaribo is the capital of which country?

13. Cayenne is the capital of which French region in South America?

14. Asunción leads one of South America's two landlocked countries. Which country is the other?

15. The Mitad del Mundo monument, near the equator, stands just outside which capital?

16. Which capital's old town was among the very first UNESCO World Heritage Sites, named in 1978?

17. La Moneda, the palace of Chile's president in Santiago, was first built to do what?

18. Which architect designed many of Brasília's landmark modern buildings?

19. Brasília sits inside which special area rather than any Brazilian state?

20. Callao serves as the main Pacific seaport for which capital?

21. Chile's National Congress meets in which city instead of Santiago?

22. Which river flows through the middle of Santiago?

23. Simón Bolívar, the Liberator, was born in which capital?

24. Miraflores Palace, the official office of Venezuela's president, is in which capital?

25. Georgetown sits where which river meets the Atlantic Ocean?

26. Which South American national capital is the only one where English is the official language?

27. In which South American national capital is Dutch the official language?

28. Which capital's historic inner city of Dutch colonial wooden buildings became a UNESCO site in 2002?

29. Paraguay's capital lies on the banks of which river?

30. Which two capitals face each other across the Río de la Plata?

31. What nickname do people from Buenos Aires go by?

32. Which capital's name comes from a Spanish phrase meaning 'good air'?

33. The pink presidential palace called the Casa Rosada stands in which capital?

34. Which branch of Bolivia's government is based in Sucre?

35. Which South American capital lies closest to Lake Titicaca?

36. Which South American capital shares its name with a spicy red pepper?

37. Which Ecuadorian city is larger than the capital, Quito?

38. Colombia's capital sits on a high Andean plateau at roughly what height?

39. Chile's capital sits in a valley with views of which mountain range to the east?

40. Which capital did Francisco Pizarro found in 1535 as the 'City of the Kings'?

41. Spanish rulers made Lima their capital instead of which old Inca capital?

42. Spanish conquistador Pedro de Valdivia founded which capital in 1541?

43. Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada began Spanish settlement at which capital in 1538?

44. Bacatá, whose name is linked to Bogotá, was a major center of which Indigenous people?

45. Which capital was founded in 1567 under the long name Santiago de León?

46. Georgetown is named after which British king?

47. Under Dutch rule, what was Georgetown called?

48. Paramaribo passed to the Dutch under a 1667 treaty named after which Dutch city?

49. Asunción takes its name from a feast day in 1537. Which one?

50. Which South American capital was founded in 1726 to block Portuguese expansion?