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🚨 Time for 🚨

Name capital city pairs (and their countries) that are less than 100km by land (no tiny islands) from each other. For example Vienna, Austria 🇦🇹 and Bratislava, Slovakia 🇸🇰

As always:
• Only one answer per toot
• You must include the hashtag and the emoji flag of relevant countries

Full rules/details: blog.opencagedata.com/post/geo

First points of the game go to @ryankas for Vatican City - Rome Italy 🇻🇦 🇮🇹

Next to score is newcomer @seav with Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo 🇨🇬 — Kinshasa, DRC 🇨🇩

Wow, an immediate response from @ryankas with Jerusalem, Israel - Amman, Jordan 🇮🇱 🇯🇴

Staying in the region, @ferki discovers Damascus, Syria 🇸🇾 – Beirut, Lebanon 🇱🇧

It was only a matter of time. Many-time winner @ccferrie picks up Pristina, Kosovo 🇽🇰 — Skopje, North Macedonia 🇲🇰 barely beating out @seav

Ruling: @ryankas tries Helsinki, Finland - Tallinn, Estonia 🇫🇮🇪🇪 but we can't give the point as it requires a multi-hour ferry and thus doesn't pass the by land test

Point! to @ccferrie for the clever Jerusalem, Israel 🇮🇱 - Jerusalem, Palestine 🇵🇸

Half point to @MichelvanBaal for Nicosia, Cyprus 🇨🇾 and North Nicosia, Northern Cyprus (which has no ISO code, and thus no emoji flag)

Brilliant. @ryankas takes the lead by using @ccferrie's own cleverness against him and discovering Jerusalem, Palestine 🇵🇸 Ammon, Jorden 🇯🇴

Anyone with any new answers? Otherwise we will call it in 5 minutes. ⏱️

In a final throw of the dice @ccferrie tries Chisinau, Moldova 🇲🇩 - Tiraspol, Transnistria.

We can give only a half point as Transnistria does not have an ISO code

🏁🏁🏁 ok, the September 2024 edition of is over!

The coveted emoji trophy 🏆 goes to ...

@ryankas 👏👏👏

2nd place 🥈 to @ccferrie

Thanks everyone for playing, see you next month!

OpenCage 👉🌍

Update: a late entry by @ryankas who writes

"Zagreb Croatia, Lubjania, Slovenia. 🇭🇷 🇸🇮 - while the city centers are 118 km apart, it looks like you can find points within the city limits of each that are less than 100 km apart - e.g. city borders <100km"

We will count it, thus cementing the victory