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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

StateCapitalIn 1815
AndorraAndorra la VellaCo-principality
AnhaltDessauThree small duchies (Dessau, Köthen, Bernburg)
Austrian EmpireViennaGreat power; led the German Confederation
BadenKarlsruheGrand duchy
BavariaMunichKingdom (with the Palatinate on the Rhine)
BremenBremenFree city
BrunswickBrunswickDuchy
DenmarkCopenhagenKingdom; Holstein and Lauenburg in the Confederation
Electoral HesseKasselElectorate (Hesse-Kassel)
FranceParisKingdom, Bourbons restored
FrankfurtFrankfurtFree city, seat of the German Confederation's diet
Free City of KrakówKrakówFree city under Austria, Prussia and Russia
Grand Duchy of HesseDarmstadtGrand duchy (Hesse-Darmstadt)
HamburgHamburgFree city
HanoverHanoverKingdom, ruled by the British king
Ionian IslandsCorfuBritish protectorate (United States of the Ionian Islands)
Kingdom of PolandWarsawKingdom ruled by the Russian tsar (Congress Poland)
Kingdom of SardiniaTurinKingdom (Piedmont, Savoy, Nice, Genoa, Sardinia)
Kingdom of the NetherlandsAmsterdamKingdom including today's Belgium
LiechtensteinVaduzPrincipality
LippeDetmoldPrincipality
LübeckLübeckFree city
LuccaLuccaDuchy
LuxembourgLuxembourgGrand duchy, ruled by the Dutch king
Mecklenburg-SchwerinSchwerinGrand duchy
Mecklenburg-StrelitzNeustrelitzGrand duchy
ModenaModenaDuchy, Austrian Habsburg dynasty
MoldaviaIașiPrincipality under Ottoman rule
MonacoMonacoPrincipality under Sardinian protection
MontenegroCetinjePrince-bishopric, independent in practice
NassauWiesbadenDuchy
OldenburgOldenburgGrand duchy
Ottoman EmpireConstantinopleEmpire, ruled the Balkans
Papal StatesRomeRuled by the Pope
ParmaParmaDuchy of Napoleon's wife Marie Louise
PortugalLisbonKingdom (the court was in Rio de Janeiro until 1821)
PrussiaBerlinKingdom, great power; Rhineland gained in 1815
Russian EmpireSaint PetersburgEmpire; Finland and Bessarabia included
San MarinoSan MarinoRepublic
SaxonyDresdenKingdom, lost about two-fifths of its land to Prussia in 1815
Schaumburg-LippeBückeburgPrincipality
SpainMadridKingdom
Sweden–NorwayStockholmTwo kingdoms under one king (union of 1814)
SwitzerlandBernConfederation, neutrality recognised in 1815
Thuringian statesWeimarSmall duchies and principalities (Saxe-Weimar, Gotha, Meiningen, Schwarzburg, Reuss ...)
TuscanyFlorenceGrand duchy, Habsburg dynasty
Two SiciliesNaplesKingdom (Naples and Sicily, united 1816)
United KingdomLondonKingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; Malta, Gibraltar, Heligoland
WaldeckArolsenPrincipality
WallachiaBucharestPrincipality under Ottoman rule
WürttembergStuttgartKingdom

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