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How many country capitals have you been to?

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ThunderCougarFalconBird
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Lame derivative of the state capital thread but might as well find out.

Washington, D.C. - USA
Nassau - Bahamas
Belmopan - Belize
Santiago - Chile
Dublin - Ireland
London - UK (If Scotland declares independence, Edinburgh - Scotland)
Paris - France
Brussels - Belgium/EU
Amsterdam and The Hague - Netherlands
Berlin - Germany
Monaco - Monaco
Rome - Italy
Vatican City - Vatican City
Vienna - Austria
Canberra - Australia

15 total.
CDub06
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Washington DC, USA
Bangkok, Thailand
Seoul, South Korea
Papeete, French Polynesia
Vienna, Austria
Prague, Czechia
Copenhagen, Denmark
Tallinn, Estonia
Helsinki, Finland
Tatem
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Nassau - Bahamas
Amsterdam and The Hague - Netherlands
Rome - Italy
Vatican City - Vatican City


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THE_CHOSEN_ONE
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DC & Amsterdam
NoahAg
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Just one. San Jose, Costa Rica
Let's go, Brandon!
dabo man
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zero

EDIT - Don't know WTF I was thinking when I wrote this, but I've been to London, so that's one.
TrevorAgg2012
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24 for me

Cape Town, South Africa (1/3 capitals)
Jerusalem, Israel
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Muscat, Oman
New Delhi, India
Bangkok, Thailand
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Singapore, Singapore
Jakarta, Indonesia
Beijing, China
Taipei, Taiwan
Tokyo, Japan
Dublin, Ireland
London, UK
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Bern, Switzerland
Vienna, Austria
Bratislava, Slovakia
Budapest, Hungary
Rome, Italy
Vatican City, Vatican City
Lisbon, Portugal
Moscow, Russia
DC, US

Edited because I was an idiot and typed out "Auckland, New Zealand" when I listed it out despite thinking earlier on " I haven't been to NZ capital, it is Wellington."
Retusaf94
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Mexico
Okinawa-Japan
Thailand
Philippines
Korea
Germany
Panama
Columbia
Ecuador
Honduras
United Kingdom
Hong Kong
Guam
ThunderCougarFalconBird
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TrevorAgg2012 said:

Auckland, New Zealand
Wellington is capital of New Zealand. Sorry bro.
MouthBQ98
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DC - USA
Paris - France
Singapore is it's own capital
Malabo -Equatorial Guinea
Nouakchott- Mauritania (bet not many have been here)
Moscow - Russia
Sri Lanka - Columbo (it has two capitals)
barbacoa taco
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15!

DC
Mexico City
Bogota
Guatemala City
London
Paris
Brussels
Amsterdam
Berlin
Prague
Rome
Madrid
Bangkok
Singapore
Canberra

Want to visit:

Ottawa
Tokyo
Beijing
Seoul
Stockholm
Lisbon
BA
TrevorAgg2012
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Haha oh no. I even thought of that at one point when I was making my list.... embarrassing
gggmann
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Bangkok
Beijing
Dublin
George Town
Jerusalem
London
Singapore
Taipei
Tokyo


River
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USA- dc
Mexico - Mexico City
Guatemala - Ciudad de Guatemala
Nicaragua - Managua
Panama - Panama
Colombia - Bogot
Ecuador - Quito
Peru - Lima
Chile - Santiago
Argentina - Buenos Aires
Uruguay- Montevideo
Ireland - Dublin
Uk - London
Netherlands- Amsterdam den Haag
Belgium - Brussels
France - Paris
Spain - Madrid
Italy - Rome
Vatican - Vatican City
Czechia - Prague
Hungary - Budapest
Ukraine - Kyiv
India - Delhi
Thailand - Bangkok
Singapore
Indonesia - Jakarta
China - Beijing
Japan - Tokyo
AggieT
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None
AggieT
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State capitals, maybe 5. They were all **** holes.
JABQ04
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DC
Seoul
Baghdad

8 hour layover in Tokyo if that counts
ThunderCougarFalconBird
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MouthBQ98 said:

Nouakchott- Mauritania (bet not many have been here)
Curious about the story on this one.
malenurse
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15

D.C.
Mexico City
Georgetown, Cayman Isle
Tokyo
Bangkok
New Delhi
Jerusalem
London
Rome
Vatican City
Paris
Rabat, Morocco
N'Djamena, Chad
Kampala, Uganda
Nairobi, Kenya
The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But, it's still on the list.
rebag00
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Bonn/Berlin
Athens
Rome
Paris
Vienna
Vaduz
Luxembourg City
San Marino
Vatican City
Bern
Madrid
Amsterdam/The Hauge
Brussels
Prague
Tokyo
Manila
Seoul
Georgetown

Uncle Howdy
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Italy - Rome
Vatican City - Vatican City
Ukraine - Kyiv
Georgia - Tbilisi

If we are counting layovers/running through an airport
UK - London
Spain - Madrid
MouthBQ98
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I was working in offshore O&G and had been assigned to a new rig warehouse project in Houston in the Greenspoint area. I was wrapping up work in the warehouse Friday afternoon when a call comes in from the main office and they tell me they've booked a flight for me to hand carry two 50# valves to a down Rig off the coast of Mauritania. I have to go a couple blocks away to a subcontractor's warehouse, pick up the valves, haul ass home, pack a carry on bag, buy a couple of cheap duffel bags to carry the valves in, and make a flight to leaving to Istanbul in 4 hours. They email me my ticket and an expedited VISA and off I go. Land in Turkey, sleep through a 5 hour layover then catch a flight to Morocco and then to Nouakchott. I'm to haul these valves with me as checked baggage.

The company emails me an agent I am to call and meet when I land that will walk me through customs there. They mostly only speak Arabic and French, and there's a lot of police security guys toting AK's around the airport. I meet the agent, and we drop the valves and paperwork off at customs and then they get me in a blacked out SUV with the driver who drives me across town and books me into a decent hotel with a LOT of security guards, where I lay low on a 5th floor room for 48 hours until the next available outbound flight. Turns out there was an active Al Qaeda affiliate cell in the area. I politely turned down the driver's offer to take a tour around if I wanted or drive to the French Embassy (only place where alcohol was allowed and available to buy), and spent 2 days reading in my room or watching BBC world, their only English language tV channel, listening to car horns honking in every direction near and far from down to dusk except during call to prayer, and eating at the hotel restaurant, until the agent called and had me meet the driver back in the lobby to catch an outbound flight. I really stood out in the place as not from around there, to be sure.

I get to the airport and get grouped in with some company Filipino rig crewmen rotating home and we get shuffled back through customs. They checked the hell out of our bags several times, and also grilled us about turning over any national currency we might have. They forbid their currency to be taken outside of their border so if you obtained any, you had to give it up. They did not exchange either, but I had none. The guy in the security booth must have been allowed to keep whatever was taken because he gave a frustrated look when I said I had none. He was big and armed so I sure the hell wasn't lying.

They check out bags again at the flight line and we wait about an hour (it is midnight) while they meticulously inspect the Air France plane for anything that "doesn't belong" on the underside and landing gear.

Finally, I get flown back to Paris, then home.

4 days of WTF?
REMtx
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Mexico and Spain.

I have gone to Herndon and Reston Virginia, but not made directly into DC.
Jugstore Cowboy
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Only been to Amsterdam and Bangkok, but many times and well worth it!
THE_CHOSEN_ONE
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Microwave Onions said:

Only been to Amsterdam and Bangkok, but many times and well worth it!

This guy bangs who-ers
Jugstore Cowboy
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Ampsterdamp.
The Kraken
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DC
Beijing
Mexico City
Bogota
Caracas
Lima
Quito
Buenos Aires
Montevideo
Panama City
plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
ThunderCougarFalconBird
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That's a pretty incredible story. Thanks for sharing. Any photos from Mauritania you can share? Did you at least get some sort of hazard pay for that? Business class seats?

Some of the security stuff reminds me of flying out of Morocco. Every bag was inspected and its owner had to identify it specifically.
Southlake
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34.

I lived in Holland and the Philippines.

And I've been an International Pilot 15 years.

So my milkshake is better than yours…
Ol Jock 99
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DC
London
Madrid
Charlestown, Nevis
Muscat, Oman
Reykjavk, Iceland
Windhoek, Namibia
LostInLA07
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Austin, Texit

Lisbon
Paris
Lagos
Mexico City
London
DC
Accra
Nassau and a bunch of Caribbean island countries
Pyongyang for spring break every year
Probably a few more if you count airports.

Some of you are well traveled!
JCRiley09
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DC
Paris
Athens
Rome
Vatican
Bangkok
Tokyo
Hanoi
concac
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Washington, D.C., USA
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Reykjavik, Iceland
London, England
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Berlin, Germany
Prague, Czech Republic
Beijing, China
Tokyo, Japan
Taipei, Taiwan
Ha Noi, Vietnam
concac
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Based on OP, Belmopan is the capital of Belize.
BackwardsInBoots
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Okinawa isn't the capital of Japan.
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