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2/ One other twist to the game: in the case of dependent territories with their own ISO code you can use either the capital of the country or the capital of the dependent territory. So, for example, you can consider the capital of French Guiana (ISO code: GF) to be Cayenne or Paris.

Full rules, etc on the blog: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/geotrivia-may-2024

Good luck! #fridaygeotrivia

3/ to clarify - capital names in ENGLISH, not the local language(s).

Also, in the case of countries with multiple capitals you can choose whichever you like

4/ @IIVQ opens the #fridaygeotrivia scoring with a chain of 6

Amsterdam> Berlin> Brussels> Paris-> Rome-> Vienna

5/ People, please.

ALPHABETICAL order.

You can do this. Athens does not before Ankara . Budapest does not come before Bratislava

6/ After taking a break for a few months, former champ @ccferrie is back with a vengeance, throwing down a chain of 10!

Bratislava Budapest Bucharest Chisinau Kyiv Minsk Moscow Riga Vilnius Warsaw

EDIT: unfortunately we got too excited here. Budapest does not come before Bucharest. Sorry. But @ccferrie then also submitted this chain of 9: Belgrade Bucharest Chisinau Kyiv Minsk Moscow Riga Vilnius Warsaw

7/ Was @ccferrie taking a break the last few months? OR WAS HE PRACTICING ALONE IN A REMOTE CABIN?

Behold, his chain of 11!

Addis Ababa Juba Kampala Kigali Kinshasa Luanda Lusaka Maputo Mbabane Pretoria Windhoek

8/ some good efforts to go Latin American

@arferrand discovers Belmopan - Guatemala City - San Salvador - Tegucigalpa

while @njwatt finds Asuncion Brasilia Buenos Aires La Paz Lima Quito

nice, but just not long enough. Keep searching!

9/ @Jann finds a new variant of the African chain, also for 11

Bangui – Juba – Kampala – Kigali – Kinshasa – Luanda – Lusaka – Maputo – Mbabane – Pretoria – Windhoek

10/ nice little run through the 'stans by @njwatt to find a chain of 8. But that's just not enough, current lead is 11.

Ashgabat Astana Beijing Bishkek Dushanbe Kabul Tehran Yerevan

11/ This is an interesting one by @ccferrie

Asuncion Buenos Aires Brasilia Caracas Georgetown Paramaribo

But wait ... is there more here? Who sees it?

EDIT: this chain of course has an error Buenos Aires does not come before Brasilia. We got too excited in the heat of the moment.