Oceanian Capitals

Oceania's capitals tilt small — only Canberra (Australia), Wellington (New Zealand), and Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea) sit in countries with more than a million people. The other 11 capitals serve micro-states scattered across the Pacific: Suva (Fiji), Honiara (Solomon Islands), Port Vila (Vanuatu), Apia (Samoa), Nuku'alofa (Tonga), Funafuti (Tuvalu), Tarawa (Kiribati), Majuro (Marshall Islands), Palikir (Federated States of Micronesia), Ngerulmud (Palau), Yaren (Nauru). A few quirks to flag. Australia's Canberra is a planned compromise between rival Sydney and Melbourne, neither of which ever became capital. New Zealand's Wellington took over from Auckland in 1865. Palau's Ngerulmud is one of the smallest national capitals in the world by population (a few hundred residents) and one of the newest — the seat moved from Koror in 2006. Nauru is unusual in not having an official capital city at all; "Yaren" is the district where parliament sits, but the country has never formally designated a capital. The 14 mapped capitals span the four cultural regions: Australasia (Canberra, Wellington), Melanesia (Port Moresby, Suva, Honiara, Port Vila), Micronesia (Palikir, Majuro, Ngerulmud, Tarawa, Yaren), Polynesia (Apia, Nuku'alofa, Funafuti). Pick a mode and start. Type-in is the deep-end recall mode; multiple choice is the warm-up; tile select sorts Oceanian capitals from European/African/American/Asian 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.