Europe in 1815 capitals quiz
Can you place all 51 capitals of Europe in 1815 on the map? A capital appears, you tap its dot. Three tries each, and the ones you miss come back until you know them.
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All 51 capitals of Europe in 1815
| State | Capital | In 1815 |
|---|---|---|
| Andorra | Andorra la Vella | Co-principality |
| Anhalt | Dessau | Three small duchies (Dessau, Köthen, Bernburg) |
| Austrian Empire | Vienna | Great power; led the German Confederation |
| Baden | Karlsruhe | Grand duchy |
| Bavaria | Munich | Kingdom (with the Palatinate on the Rhine) |
| Bremen | Bremen | Free city |
| Brunswick | Brunswick | Duchy |
| Denmark | Copenhagen | Kingdom; Holstein and Lauenburg in the Confederation |
| Electoral Hesse | Kassel | Electorate (Hesse-Kassel) |
| France | Paris | Kingdom, Bourbons restored |
| Frankfurt | Frankfurt | Free city, seat of the German Confederation's diet |
| Free City of Kraków | Kraków | Free city under Austria, Prussia and Russia |
| Grand Duchy of Hesse | Darmstadt | Grand duchy (Hesse-Darmstadt) |
| Hamburg | Hamburg | Free city |
| Hanover | Hanover | Kingdom, ruled by the British king |
| Ionian Islands | Corfu | British protectorate (United States of the Ionian Islands) |
| Kingdom of Poland | Warsaw | Kingdom ruled by the Russian tsar (Congress Poland) |
| Kingdom of Sardinia | Turin | Kingdom (Piedmont, Savoy, Nice, Genoa, Sardinia) |
| Kingdom of the Netherlands | Amsterdam | Kingdom including today's Belgium |
| Liechtenstein | Vaduz | Principality |
| Lippe | Detmold | Principality |
| Lübeck | Lübeck | Free city |
| Lucca | Lucca | Duchy |
| Luxembourg | Luxembourg | Grand duchy, ruled by the Dutch king |
| Mecklenburg-Schwerin | Schwerin | Grand duchy |
| Mecklenburg-Strelitz | Neustrelitz | Grand duchy |
| Modena | Modena | Duchy, Austrian Habsburg dynasty |
| Moldavia | Iași | Principality under Ottoman rule |
| Monaco | Monaco | Principality under Sardinian protection |
| Montenegro | Cetinje | Prince-bishopric, independent in practice |
| Nassau | Wiesbaden | Duchy |
| Oldenburg | Oldenburg | Grand duchy |
| Ottoman Empire | Constantinople | Empire, ruled the Balkans |
| Papal States | Rome | Ruled by the Pope |
| Parma | Parma | Duchy of Napoleon's wife Marie Louise |
| Portugal | Lisbon | Kingdom (the court was in Rio de Janeiro until 1821) |
| Prussia | Berlin | Kingdom, great power; Rhineland gained in 1815 |
| Russian Empire | Saint Petersburg | Empire; Finland and Bessarabia included |
| San Marino | San Marino | Republic |
| Saxony | Dresden | Kingdom, lost about two-fifths of its land to Prussia in 1815 |
| Schaumburg-Lippe | Bückeburg | Principality |
| Spain | Madrid | Kingdom |
| Sweden–Norway | Stockholm | Two kingdoms under one king (union of 1814) |
| Switzerland | Bern | Confederation, neutrality recognised in 1815 |
| Thuringian states | Weimar | Small duchies and principalities (Saxe-Weimar, Gotha, Meiningen, Schwarzburg, Reuss ...) |
| Tuscany | Florence | Grand duchy, Habsburg dynasty |
| Two Sicilies | Naples | Kingdom (Naples and Sicily, united 1816) |
| United Kingdom | London | Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; Malta, Gibraltar, Heligoland |
| Waldeck | Arolsen | Principality |
| Wallachia | Bucharest | Principality under Ottoman rule |
| Württemberg | Stuttgart | Kingdom |
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