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Which countries have the same name as their capitals?

Question #114981. Asked by Buddy1.
Last updated Aug 19 2015.

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May 29 2010, 10:35 PM
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Brazil.

Brasília was built so that the federal capital of Brazil could be transferred from the coast to the Midwestern interior of the country. The name "Brasilia" comes from Latin and means "Brazil".

link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bras%C3%ADlia

May 29 2010, 10:53 PM
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Djibouti. link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djibouti
Guatemala. Guatemala City. link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala
Guinea-Bissau. Bissau ... upon independence, the name of its capital, Bissau, was added to the country's name to prevent confusion with the Republic of Guinea. link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea-bissau

El Salvador. San Salvador. link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_salvador
Luxembourg. link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourg
Mexico. Mexico City. link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico
San Marino. link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_marino
São Tomé and Príncipe. São Tomé. link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/São_Tomé_and_Pr%C3%ADncipe
Singapore. link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore
Tunisia. Tunis. Its name is derived from the capital Tunis located in the north-east. link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunisia

May 29 2010, 11:08 PM
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Some capitals and countries have very similar names, often because one was based on the other- e.g. Brasilia/Brazil, and Algiers/Algeria. This could get very complicated, using all the different versions in the different languages used, both in those countries and from abroad, so I will confine myself to the names (short forms) used in English.

Identical capital/country (apart from adding "city" to distinguish between them):

Andorra
Djibouti
Guatemala
Kuwait
Luxembourg
Mexico
Monaco
Panama
San Marino
Singapore
Vatican City

Very similar or related, but not exactly the same:

Algiers/Algeria
Brasilia/Brazil
Santo Domingo/Dominican Republic
San Salvador/El Salvador
Bissau/Guinea-Bissau
São Tomé/São Tomé and Principe
Taipei/"Chinese Taipei" (a.k.a. Taiwan, a.k.a. Republic of China)
Tunis/Tunisia

Belize* (was named after the former capital of the colony of British Honduras, and its river, but a new capital, Belmopan, was established in 1970, prior to the colony name becoming Belize in 1973)

-see link https://www.countries-ofthe-world.com/capitals-of-the-world.html

Aug 19 2015, 5:46 PM
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