This challenge holds all 197 capital cities in the world, and you have to type every one of them from memory, with no clues and nothing to pick from.
Every sovereign country GeoMemory recognises, in one run, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. One capital per country, so the challenge is complete at 197 out of 197.
GeoMemory counts 197 countries: the 193 UN member states plus Vatican City, Palestine, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Other dependencies and overseas territories are excluded, so Greenland, Puerto Rico and New Caledonia are never answers. Microstates are included in full, which means San Marino, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Andorra, Nauru, Tuvalu and Palau each count for one. Every country sits in exactly one continent, and that is what gives the totals of 54 for Africa, 49 for Asia, 45 for Europe, 23 for North America, 12 for South America and 14 for Oceania. The capitals challenges run on the same list, one capital per country. Nothing is grouped together: the Caribbean states, the Pacific states and the European microstates each count on their own.
Most people stall somewhere between 100 and 140 answers, once the obvious regions are done and only small states are left. The last forty are the run. Capitals are harder than countries here, because you first have to remember the country and then remember its capital.
GeoMemory is free recall, not recognition. There is no list of options, no map to click and no first letter given away: you type a name and it either belongs to the set or it does not. Spelling is forgiving (one wrong character is accepted, accents and punctuation are ignored), a timer runs while you play, and the run ends with a completion percentage you can share. A multiple choice quiz asks whether you recognise the right answer among four. A map click quiz asks whether you can point at it. This one asks whether you can produce it.
197. You need all 197 for a complete run, and your percentage is counted against that number.
Yes, up to a point. One missing, extra, swapped or transposed character is accepted, and accents, punctuation, capitals and spaces are ignored. Two mistakes in the same word are not accepted.
It is free and there is no account, no sign up and no install. Your best time for each challenge is kept in your own browser.
These are the answers that decide a run. The single most common mistake is answering the largest city instead of the capital. Abuja, not Lagos. Pretoria, not Johannesburg. Canberra, not Sydney. Ankara, not Istanbul. Brasilia, not Rio de Janeiro. Naypyidaw, Astana and Ngerulmud are the ones almost nobody reaches.