Asia's capital map carries a richer set of quirks than any other continent. Several countries quietly moved their seat of government in living memory: Kazakhstan from Almaty to Astana (1997, briefly renamed Nur-Sultan then back to Astana), Myanmar from Yangon to the purpose-built Naypyidaw (2005), Sri Lanka's parliament from Colombo to the suburb Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (1982). Malaysia runs two capitals — Kuala Lumpur (legislative + ceremonial) and the planned city Putrajaya (administrative). Israel and Palestine share a contested status around Jerusalem that puzzles every introductory geography quiz; both Jerusalem and Tel Aviv accept here. Saudi Arabia's Riyadh, the UAE's Abu Dhabi (often confused with the larger Dubai), and Qatar's Doha cluster the Arabian Peninsula.

The 49 mapped capitals span natural sub-regions: East Asia (Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul, Pyongyang, Ulaanbaatar, Taipei), Southeast Asia (Jakarta, Manila, Bangkok, Hanoi, Naypyidaw, Kuala Lumpur, Phnom Penh, Vientiane, Singapore, Bandar Seri Begawan, Dili), South Asia (New Delhi, Islamabad, Dhaka, Kathmandu, Thimphu, Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, Malé, Kabul), Central Asia + Caucasus (Astana, Tashkent, Ashgabat, Bishkek, Dushanbe, Yerevan, Baku, Tbilisi), and West Asia (Ankara, Nicosia, Damascus, Beirut, Jerusalem, Ramallah, Amman, Baghdad, Tehran, Riyadh, Sana'a, Muscat, Abu Dhabi, Doha, Manama, Kuwait City).

Pick a mode and start. Type-in is the deep-end recall mode; multiple choice is the warm-up; tile select sorts Asian capitals from European/African/American distractors under the clock; match pairs each capital to its country across regional rounds; click-the-map asks you to click the country whose capital is shown. Every mode counts toward your topic mastery.