# Printable list of countries and capitals by continent
**URL:** https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/printable-list-of-countries-and-capitals-by-continent/29063
**Category:** General Memory Chat
**Tags:** geography
**Created:** [January 19, 2014, 8:44pm UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/printable-list-of-countries-and-capitals-by-continent/29063 "2014-01-19T20:44:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@joeltagert](https://forum.artofmemory.com/u/joeltagert)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2014, 8:44pm UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/printable-list-of-countries-and-capitals-by-continent/29063/1 "2014-01-19T20:44:51Z")
So one of the first things I wanted to memorize was the countries and their capitals organized by continent. And obviously Wikipedia has such a list, but it also includes a ton of extraneous information, and I wanted to be able to print out the list and take it with me to memorize wherever. Anyway, I had a hard time finding such a list, so I went ahead and made my own. Thought others here might find it useful.
> **[Printable list of countries and capitals by continent](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OKey9Jj2uQrB3vnASF2e9dk6M2buE9-hI5H5-65JwVU/edit?usp=sharing)**
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> Asia (49 countries) 1. Afghanistan - Kabul 2. Armenia - Yerevan 3. Azerbaijan - Baku 4. Bahrain - Manama 5. Bangladesh - Dhaka 6. Bhutan - Thimphu 7. Brunei - Bandar Seri Begawan 8. Cambodia - Phnom Penh 9. China - Beijing 10. Cyprus - Nicosia 11....
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### Author:  [@Bateman](https://forum.artofmemory.com/u/Bateman)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2014, 9:55pm UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/printable-list-of-countries-and-capitals-by-continent/29063/2 "2014-01-19T21:55:43Z")
Thanks for that. I memorized all the countries in order, then added extra info like what continent they are on, capitals, major historical events. Only problem for me was, I used a weird list from a website that included a lot of “countries” that are not really countries, Antigua and Barbuda, Anguilla, “South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands” et cetera. There also seems to be a lot of disputes on how many countries there are and such. Wikipedia seems like the best place to get a definitive list.
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### Author:  [@ALeman](https://forum.artofmemory.com/u/ALeman)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2014, 10:26pm UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/printable-list-of-countries-and-capitals-by-continent/29063/3 "2014-01-19T22:26:08Z")
Thank you for the list! Memorizing capitals is not on the top of my to-do list but you made a great source and I will find it very helpful when I do get around to knowing the Capitals.
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### Author:  [@davidalexanderrobins](https://forum.artofmemory.com/u/davidalexanderrobins)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2014, 5:02am UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/printable-list-of-countries-and-capitals-by-continent/29063/4 "2014-01-21T05:02:23Z")
Thanks! I really appreciate this list.
– David
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### Author:  [@Opulent](https://forum.artofmemory.com/u/Opulent)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2014, 9:01pm UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/printable-list-of-countries-and-capitals-by-continent/29063/5 "2014-03-09T21:01:19Z")
Thanks, exactly what I was looking for!
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### Author:  [@danmanisa](https://forum.artofmemory.com/u/danmanisa)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2014, 9:18pm UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/printable-list-of-countries-and-capitals-by-continent/29063/6 "2014-03-09T21:18:24Z")
Thanks. This is on my to do list too!
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### Author:  [@Monti](https://forum.artofmemory.com/u/Monti)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2019, 1:23pm UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/printable-list-of-countries-and-capitals-by-continent/29063/7 "2019-04-15T13:23:00Z")
Sorry for reviving this thread after 5 years, but since “learning all of the countries” is such a common goal and one of the first things to use the newly-acquired memory skills for, I thought I’d bring this back to the front page of this forum for more people to see.
> Anyway, I had a hard time finding such a list, so I went ahead and made my own. Thought others here might find it useful.
I thought about learning [all the countries ordered by population](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population) (like @LynneKelly does) in one long journey, but it definitely is nice to have those remembered them by continent, as well.
This is where the printable list definitely comes in handy, so thank you for that!
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### Author:  [@LynneKelly](https://forum.artofmemory.com/u/LynneKelly)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2019, 5:42am UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/printable-list-of-countries-and-capitals-by-continent/29063/8 "2019-04-17T05:42:14Z")
I sing the continents in geographical order - a song for Africa, for example, goes anti-clockwise around the continent. The sing is made up of puns to make a story. Sort of. But all other information is kept in the memory palace because each location has so much scope to add more stuff. I use large landscape memory palaces, so each country is a location with lots of room around it to attach further information.
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### Author:  [@Monti](https://forum.artofmemory.com/u/Monti)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2019, 8:33am UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/printable-list-of-countries-and-capitals-by-continent/29063/9 "2019-04-17T08:33:23Z")
Hi Lynne,
thank you for your reply! I have two more questions:
Do you also have some of your countries indoors, or just around your house/garden?
If yes, even multiple per room?
I can imagine that a room might be "too small"to add constant information to a country and I would love to “do it right” from the very start when learning all of the countries moves to the top of my to-do list.
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### Author:  [@LikeARollingStone](https://forum.artofmemory.com/u/LikeARollingStone)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2019, 1:15pm UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/printable-list-of-countries-and-capitals-by-continent/29063/10 "2019-04-17T13:15:06Z")
We should seriously do a collab on this, getting a mnemonic image for all the world’s capitals and countries.
Do you have something like that already, Lynne? If so, please do share. It’s been on my to do list for years.
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### Author:  [@LynneKelly](https://forum.artofmemory.com/u/LynneKelly)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2019, 6:42am UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/printable-list-of-countries-and-capitals-by-continent/29063/11 "2019-04-18T06:42:05Z")
Monti - I have ten locations per room for my studio and the main rooms in my house. I wish I had done fewer to allow for more space. But most of my locations are quite large - a garden bed with wall and plants, an outdoor sitting area, or entire houses and shops along the streets I walk to get groceries. I also use handheld devices and can attach an entire bird family to a single bead glued to a piece of wood using story and a speck on the bead. So I use physical locations and stories and mix them up depending on what I am memorising. I don’t use an identical method for every location because sometimes a country capital name will suggest something immediately and sometime the name relates more to some physical item.
You can always find a new physical item at any location. Just start - it will go from there and you will find your own way. You don’t need all the rules in advance.
LikeARollingStone: My list wouldn’t be of use for mnemonic images. They work so much better when personal or vulgar or violent or … so I am not letting anyone see what goes on in my head! 🙂 For example, my Namibia location is memorised because I see a friend called Nam entering the doctor there. And that gives me the story linking all my Namibia information - Nam and the medical visit. So that’s simply not transferable. I also don’t have the mnemonics written down, so nothing to share there. Sorry!
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### Author:  [@LikeARollingStone](https://forum.artofmemory.com/u/LikeARollingStone)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2019, 11:16am UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/printable-list-of-countries-and-capitals-by-continent/29063/12 "2019-04-18T11:16:57Z")
> [@LynneKelly](#):
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> LikeARollingStone: My list wouldn’t be of use for mnemonic images. They work so much better when personal or vulgar or violent or … so I am not letting anyone see what goes on in my head! 🙂
I see! And I agree! One thing is privacy, you’re here under your full name, and another thing which may be a bit off topic is I dunno what Josh and the other people behind these forums actually think of violent and/or sexual mnemonics? They are, beyond a shadow of a doubt, more effective for making information stick. For sure. But I’ve for the most part avoided them on these boards as I dunno whether or not the stuff here is supposed to be children friendly.
But for the president Lyndon B. Johnson, I couldn’t find any other simple effective mnemonic image than a [\*\*\*\*], so that’s what I suggested. So, @Josh, how does that fly when making a public journey in your software? Sharing is caring, so if I were to put all the presidents into the Art of Memory software, I’d like everyone to have access.
Sure, I could use a [\*\*\*\*], but usually the more graphic an image is, the more effective it tends to be, so what’s your policy on graphic images?
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### Author:  [@Josh](https://forum.artofmemory.com/u/Josh)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2019, 5:38pm UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/printable-list-of-countries-and-capitals-by-continent/29063/13 "2019-04-20T17:38:14Z")
> [@LikeARollingStone](#):
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> I dunno whether or not the stuff here is supposed to be children friendly.
The forum content has to be child-friendly, because we’ve had requests for that from parents who are learning the techniques with their kids. (Sorry, I removed the specific examples in your post for that reason. 🙂 )
In the software, you can use whatever images you want in private memosets. For now, all shared (public) memosets have to be suitable for children. There will be a warning message when you click the “share” button.
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### Author:  [@LikeARollingStone](https://forum.artofmemory.com/u/LikeARollingStone)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2019, 12:51am UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/printable-list-of-countries-and-capitals-by-continent/29063/14 "2019-04-21T00:51:35Z")
> [@Josh](#):
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> (Sorry, I removed the specific examples in your post for that reason. 🙂 )
It feels like we’re [back in 1584](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonic_major_system). 😂
It’s fine, really. Some journeys can be private then. Though I wouldn’t take offence at other’s bawdy associations, I guess there are just too few sets to be bothered with creating some 18+ labeling and stuff. At least for the next few years.
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### Author:  [@JamesW](https://forum.artofmemory.com/u/JamesW)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2019, 4:02pm UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/printable-list-of-countries-and-capitals-by-continent/29063/15 "2019-04-21T16:02:47Z")
Though I doubt I’ll ever get round to memorising all this information, it’s clearly a great resource and I’ve downloaded it, so - very late in the day - thank you, [joeltagert](https://forum.artofmemory.com/u/joeltagert)
I will certainly try to memorise all the European material - and see where it takes me after that.
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### Author:  [@LikeARollingStone](https://forum.artofmemory.com/u/LikeARollingStone)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2019, 1:16am UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/printable-list-of-countries-and-capitals-by-continent/29063/16 "2019-04-23T01:16:13Z")
Ladies and gentlemen, what do you say we get together and make a mnemonic journey for all the countries?
We’ve got [Team History working over here](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/walking-through-world-history-should-we-make-the-journey/37511), we could have Team Geography here, creating a journey for the geography of the world, with countries, capitals and key info for each one. Using universal mnemonics.
It would be fairly easy if we all contribute. We could begin with Asia, and work our way down alphabetically.
So using the OP’s list, that’d be:
Asia (49 countries)
1. Afghanistan - Kabul
2. Armenia - Yerevan
3. Azerbaijan - Baku
4. Bahrain - Manama
5. Bangladesh - Dhaka
6. Bhutan - Thimphu
7. Brunei - Bandar Seri Begawan
8. Cambodia - Phnom Penh
9. China - Beijing
10. Cyprus - Nicosia
11. Georgia - Tblisi
12. India - New Delhi
13. Indonesia - Jakarta
14. Iran - Tehran
15. Iraq - Baghdad
16. Israel - Jerusalem
17. Japan - Tokyo
18. Jordan - Amman
19. Kazakhstan - Astana
20. Korea, North - Pyongyang
21. Korea, South - Seoul
22. Kuwait - Kuwait City
23. Kyrgyzstan - Bishkek
24. Laos - Vientiane
25. Lebanon - Beirut
26. Malaysia - Kuala Lumpur
27. Maldives - Malé
28. Mongolia - Ulaanbaatar
29. Myanmar - Nay Pyi Taw
30. Nepal - Kathmandu
31. Oman - Muscat
32. Pakistan - Islamabad
33. Palestine - Jerusalem
34. Philippines - Manila
35. Qatar - Doha
36. Russia - Moscow
37. Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
38. Singapore - Singapore
39. Sri Lanka - Sri Jayawardendpura Kotte
40. Syria - Damascus
41. Tajikistan - Dushanbe
42. Thailand - Bangkok
43. Timor-Leste/East Timor - Dili
44. Turkey - Ankara
45. Turkmenistan - Ashgabat
46. United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
47. Uzbekistan - Tashkent
48. Vietnam - Hanoi
49. Yemen - Sana’a
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### Author:  [@RMBittner](https://forum.artofmemory.com/u/RMBittner)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2019, 10:27am UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/printable-list-of-countries-and-capitals-by-continent/29063/17 "2019-06-20T10:27:13Z")
> [@LynneKelly](#):
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> For example, my Namibia location is memorised because I see a friend called Nam entering the doctor there. And that gives me the story linking all my Namibia information - Nam and the medical visit. So that’s simply not transferable.
Ha! I found this older comment while searching to see if anyone had mentioned their images for the countries of the world—and Namibia was why! I was going along fine with no problem—even for Kyrgystan!—and then I hit “Namibia.” (It was actually easier for me to create an image for Lesotho than Namibia, for some reason.)
My solution, which seems to work but which feels incredibly lame (no pun intended), was to picture a man sticking pins into his “numb tibia.”
Bob
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### Author:  [@Icosencephalic](https://forum.artofmemory.com/u/Icosencephalic)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2019, 1:14am UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/printable-list-of-countries-and-capitals-by-continent/29063/18 "2019-06-21T01:14:13Z")
Just a few updates to the list.
Kazakhstan has changed the name of its capital from Astana to Nur-Sultan.
Burundi has changed its capital to Gitega.
Swaziland is now officially called Eswatini, although both names are still in use.
Macedonia has changed its name to North Macedonia.
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### Author:  [@LynneKelly](https://forum.artofmemory.com/u/LynneKelly)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2019, 8:34am UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/printable-list-of-countries-and-capitals-by-continent/29063/19 "2019-06-22T08:34:17Z")
And doesn’t your “incredibly lame” solution work well, for that very reason?
Love it!
Lynne
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### Author:  [@RMBittner](https://forum.artofmemory.com/u/RMBittner)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2019, 12:12pm UTC](https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/printable-list-of-countries-and-capitals-by-continent/29063/20 "2019-06-22T12:12:39Z")
Glad I’m not also memorizing the capitals!
Glad to hear about these country name changes, since my own memory list is based on a 2017 UN list. Interestingly, though, “North Macedonia” appears on that 2017 list.
Bob
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