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Africa Capitals Quiz: Printable Worksheets
A two-part printable capitals quiz for Africa. Sheet 1 gives the country and asks for the capital; sheet 2 flips it, giving shuffled capital cities and asking for the country. The answer key covers both.
There are 54 countries on the sheets. Where a country has more than one capital, the sheets use the best-known one and the answer key notes the detail, for example Burundi: Gitega (political capital; Bujumbura is the largest city).
Sheet: Africa: write the capital city
Sheet: Africa: write the country
Answer key: Africa capitals: answer key
Sheet 1: country and capital
Answer key: Africa capitals: answer key (sheet 2)
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How to use these quiz sheets
- Learn in chunks. Cover half the list and quiz yourself on the other half before attempting the full sheet.
- Quick test. Give sheet 1 as a five-minute starter, then sheet 2 a few days later to see what stuck.
- Add a map. Use the numbered Africa map so pupils place each capital's country first.
- Check as you go. The key lists the whole table, and you can see all of them on the capital cities list too.
Capitals with a catch
Burundi: Gitega (political capital; Bujumbura is the largest city).
How to print
Press the print button, then choose A4 or Letter in the print dialog and keep the scale at 100% (not "fit to page" with extra margins). Each sheet is designed to fill one page with a small margin on either size, and your browser's headers and footers can be switched off in the same dialog. Prefer a file? Download the PDF at the top.
Country pages for this map
Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Congo Djibouti DR Congo Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Eswatini Ethiopia Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda Sao Tome and Principe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan Sudan Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe
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Questions
Are there answers?
Yes. The last two sheets on this page are the answer key, one for each worksheet, and they are the final pages of the PDF downloads.
How many capitals are on the sheets?
54, one for each country in the Africa list.
Which capitals are used when a country has several?
The most commonly used one appears on the worksheet, with details in the answer key: Burundi: Gitega (political capital; Bujumbura is the largest city).
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