Name the capital city of an Asian country: rare answers
Answering “Name the capital city of an Asian country”? Our list has 52 answers, sorted below from the deepest cuts to the picks everyone types first. Singapore, Jerusalem and Tokyo only score 10. Deep cuts such as East Jerusalem, Bandar Seri Begawan and Dili score up to 100 points.
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- Accepted answers
- 52
- Category
- Geography
- Deep answers (85–100 pts)
- 18 (35%)
- Alternate spellings accepted
- 5 answers
- First letters
- 18 different; B is the most common (7)
The rarest answers
6 answers are Abyssal here, the ones we expect the fewest players to think of: East Jerusalem, Bandar Seri Begawan, Dili, Putrajaya, Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte and Nusantara. Each is worth 100 points, ten times a Surface answer.
🐙 Abyssal answers (100 points)
East Jerusalem, Bandar Seri Begawan, Dili, Putrajaya, Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, Nusantara
🦑 Midnight Zone answers (85 points)
Bishkek, Muscat, Colombo, Male, Naypyidaw, Vientiane, Kuwait City, Dushanbe, Ramallah, Manama, Thimphu, Sanaa
🐠 Twilight Zone answers (60 points)
Kathmandu, Riyadh, Ankara, Kabul, Hanoi, Pyongyang, Doha, Islamabad, Astana, Yerevan, Ulaanbaatar, Tashkent, Nicosia, Amman, Phnom Penh, Ashgabat
🐟 Sunlit Zone answers (30 points)
Seoul, Bangkok, Jakarta, New Delhi, Baku, Damascus, Kuala Lumpur, Beirut, Tehran, Baghdad, Manila, Dhaka, Abu Dhabi, Tbilisi
🌊 Surface answers (10 points)
Singapore, Jerusalem, Tokyo, Beijing
Other spellings we accept
Type any of these and the game counts it as the same answer. Small typos are forgiven on longer answers too.
- Naypyidaw: Nay Pyi Taw, Naypyitaw
- Kuwait City: Kuwait
- Sanaa: Sana'a
- Astana: Nur-Sultan
- Ulaanbaatar: Ulan Bator
Rarity tiers are our own estimate of how few people would think of each answer. For strategy, read how to find One in a Krillion answers.
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