Tricks to Remember Countries and their Capitals 

The questions about Countries and their capitals are often asked in GK section of competitive exams. So here, we provide simple tricks to remember countries and their capitals. You will be able to memorize the capitals and countries easily by using the following simple tips.

Tricks to Remember Countries and their Capitals 

Trick is a strategy that we used to make something handy. Like that we can utilize the tricks to memorize study notes which are confusing. Almost 195 countries are there in the world, grasping and memorizing each ever country, its capital is a tedious process. So we use tricks for ease of learning. We assure you that these tricks will  turn out to be useful for all students who are preparing for various competitive exams. Check out the following list of countries and its capital.

Country name and Capital name are similar/alike

• Mexico – Mexico City
• Kuwait – Kuwait City
• Panama – Panama City
• Vatican City – Vatican City
• Guatemala – Guatemala City
• Djibouti – Djibouti City
• Singapore – Singapore
• Monaco – Monaco
• Luxembourg – Luxembourg
• Tunisia – Tunis
• Andorra – Andorra la Vella

List of Capital Names Ending with “Town”

• South Africa – Cape Town
• Guyana – George Town
• Sierra Leone – Free Town
• Barbados – Bridge Town

List of other countries and tricks to memorize

Korea’s Family

• South Korea – Seoul Seoul looks like “Soul” (Trick: South Korea’s Soul)
• North Korea – Pyongyang Pyongyang sounds like “Young-yang” (Trick: North People are “Young”)

Sweden – Stockholm

Sweden (sound relates to ”Sweat-den”) Stockholm (sounds like “Stock +Home”)
(Trick: Sweats are in Stock in our Home.)

Jamaica – Kingston

(Trick: Jamaica’s men are “Kings”)

Iran – Tehran (Trick: Both words ends with “ran”)

Bhutan – Thimpu

Bhutan sounds like “Boot+tan” Thimphu sounds like name “Tippu Sultan” (Trick: Tippu Sultan wear Boots..)

Canada – Ottawa

Ottawa sounds like “Oats” (Trick: Canadians like Oats..)

Denmark – Copenhagen

Mark (a name) Co-Pen(means Others Pen) (Trick: Mark uses others Pen.)

Hungary – Budapest

Hungary looks like “Hungry” Budapest sounds like “Buddha+pest (Trick: Buddha is very Hungry.)

Argentina – Buenos

Aires Aires look like “Airs” (Trick: Argentina’s Airs)

Australia – Canberra

Canberra sounds like “Cadbury”
(Trick: Australia’s companies manufacture’ Cadbury)

Malta – Valletta

(Trick: Malta – Letta)

Morocco – Rabat

Rabat sounds like “Robert” (Trick: Morocco’s Robert.)

Romania – Bucharest

(Trick: Romania people take “Rest”)

Poland – Warsaw

Land – War – Saw

(Trick – I SAW a WAR happened in poLand)

Czech Republic – Prague

Prague sounds like “Pray”

(Trick: Czech People “Pray” for God Daily)

Ukraine – Kyiv

Ukraine sounds like (“Uk+rain”) Kyiv sounds like (“key”)

(Trick: In Uk,while raining lost KEY)

Taiwan – Taipei

Taiwan sounds like (“Tie +One”) Taipei sounds like (“Tie +Pi”)

(Trick: TieOne – TiePi)

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Estonia – Tallinn

Estonia sound like “Yes +Stone”

(Trick: Stone is Tall)

Venezuela – Caracas

(Trick: Veny Travels in Car)

Congo- Brazzaville

Brazzaville – Brazil + Ville

(Trick: Congo’s to Brazil for hosting FIFA WorldCup)

New Zealand – Wellington

Wellington -Washington

(Trick: New Washington)

Bulgaria – Sofia

Bulgaria – Bulk +Area Sofia looks like “Sofa”

(Trick: Bulk of Sofa’s in that Area)

Brazil – Brasillia

(Trick: Brasillia – Brazil+lia)

Croatia – Zagreb

Croatia sounds like (“Coast +Asia”) Zagreb sounds like (‘za+Grey”)

(Trick: Coast Asia people like “Grey” Colour)

Cyprus – Nicosia

(Trick: Nicosia sounds like (“Nik +Asia”)

Bahrain – Al Manamah

(Trick: Bahrain has ‘rain’ in its last word; In Manamah take the word ‘man’. Now, Man stands in the rain.)

Cyprus – Nicosia

(Trick: Take cyp as ‘zip’ in Nicosia think as Nike t-shirt; Now Nike shirt has zip in it)

Israel – Tele Aviv

(Trick: In Is’rael’ all seen ‘Rally’ in television)

Cambodia – Phnom Penh

(Trick: Combo pack of ‘pens’ are given)

Iraq – Baghdad

(Trick: ‘Ira’ in this era my ‘dad’ was born)

Jordan – Amman

(Trick: ’Jo+man’= Joker man)

Kyrgyzstan – Bishkek

(Trick: ‘kyr’ sounds like ‘Geer’,‘Shkek’ sounds like shake; now like milk shake,it is Geer shake.so shake the Geer to make geer shake)

Lebanon – Beirut

(Trick: Beirut sounds like Beetroot, Lebanon sounds like Non: Now it is Beetroot non…eat it..)

Maldives – male

(Trick: Add ‘E’ to the end of Mal.)

Syria – Damascus

(Trick: In Syria first 2 letters sounds like ‘see’. So see the ‘Dam’ when you go for picnic)

Qatar – Doha

(Trick: Qatar sounds like ‘katta’. Doha sounds for Dhokla food. Now it is Katta dhokla)

Yemen – Sana

(Trick: You remember the Robot movie heroine sana. She prayed to god for chiiti Robo at last said ‘Amen’)

Austria – Vienna

(Trick: in Austria take ‘tri’ means 3; Vienna Sounds like instrument ‘veena’. So,3 veenas that is tri vienna)

Philippines – Manila

(Trick: Philips TV was manufactured by a ‘Manu’ and Nila; Manu and Nila becomes Manila)

Oman – Muscat

(Trick: Oman as ‘Oh!Man!!” You Must cut the hair – Must cut, Muscat)

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Famous Countries & Capitals

• Afghanistan – Kabul
• Bangladesh – Dhaka
• China – Beijing
• Pakistan – Islamabad
• UAE – Abu Dhabi
• Vietnam – Hanoi
• Srilanka – Colombo
• Philippines – Manila
• Japan – Tokyo
• Italy – Rome
• France – Paris
• Spain – Madrid

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