World Capitals Word Search
A capital city is where a country's government meets, and it is not always the largest city: Canberra, Ottawa and Brasília are each smaller than other cities at home. A few countries, South Africa and Bolivia among them, split government work between more than one capital. Fits geography lessons, trivia nights and adults who like maps.
World Capitals word search (Easy)
Find these 10 words
10 words, across and down only
- berlin
- cairo
- lima
- london
- madrid
- oslo
- ottawa
- paris
- rome
- tokyo
World Capitals word search (Medium)
Find these 15 words
15 words, adds diagonals
- athens
- beijing
- berlin
- cairo
- dublin
- lima
- london
- madrid
- moscow
- nairobi
- oslo
- ottawa
- paris
- rome
- tokyo
World Capitals word search (Hard)
Find these 20 words
20 words, any direction, backwards too
- athens
- bangkok
- beijing
- berlin
- cairo
- canberra
- dublin
- jakarta
- lima
- london
- madrid
- moscow
- nairobi
- oslo
- ottawa
- paris
- rome
- santiago
- stockholm
- tokyo
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Words in the World Capitals word search
Every word used across the three levels, with a quick note on what it means.
- paris
- The capital of France, on the Seine River
- rome
- Italy's capital, built around ancient ruins
- tokyo
- Japan's capital and one of the world's largest cities
- cairo
- Egypt's capital, near the Nile delta
- lima
- The capital of Peru, on the Pacific coast
- oslo
- Norway's capital, at the head of a long fjord
- madrid
- Spain's capital, near the center of the country
- berlin
- Germany's capital, once divided by a wall
- ottawa
- Canada's capital, in the province of Ontario
- london
- The capital of the United Kingdom, on the Thames
- dublin
- Ireland's capital, on the Irish Sea
- athens
- Greece's capital and an ancient city
- moscow
- Russia's capital and largest city
- beijing
- The capital of China, in the country's north
- nairobi
- Kenya's capital, near a national park
- bangkok
- Thailand's capital, on the Chao Phraya River
- jakarta
- Indonesia's capital, on the island of Java
- canberra
- Australia's capital, built to settle a rivalry between cities
- santiago
- Chile's capital, in a valley below the Andes
- stockholm
- Sweden's capital, spread across fourteen islands
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