South American countries/capitals mnemonics

[FlorianMinges]

This post reminded me of how Jonas von Essen memorised the south American countries. Just gonna cross-post this here in case people want some more inspiration for how it can be done.

Printable list of countries and capitals by continent

It seems to be common to memorize the world’s countries using a memory palace, arranging them in some logical order. Harry Lorayne mentions another method in one of his books, where you use the shapes of the countries to link them directly to the world map. (This is the method that I guess most people use for remembering Italy.) Personally I prefer the latter method since you get a much better overview of everything and can continue using the country shape images to add additional information s…

Vertical Memory Palace

Very interesting challenge indeed! I wrote a bit on my general way of memorizing geography here: https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/printable-list-of-countries-and-capitals-by-continent/29063/23?u=snillsparv Basically I like to use the shape of the countries/counties as the image. In this case, as you already pointed out, this seems impossible since all the counties look very similar on the map. I faced a similar challenge some time ago when I wanted to memorise all the counties of Romania. Th…

+2 YouTube videos where he explains in it (in Swedish though, sorry!):

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