Isn’t Rome and the Vatican the closest capitals in the world?

I think Brasília is the most remote capital for a country that is not on an island . Its closest capital is Asuncion, which is almost 1500km away

The capitals of France and the Netherlands are about 410 km apart, though the closest point where the two countries borders meet is some 6.720 km from Paris and 6.925 km from Amsterdam.

I live in Bratislava. Vienna is super close. Less than 1 hour with train or about 2-3 hours with bike! And there is a boat connection as well on the Danube.

Malta is only classified as Europe because of the culture and religion being heavily influenced by Britain and Italy, and also since it's politically tied to European countries. Maltese is a semitic language, deriving from Arabic, but has been so heavily influenced by Italian, English, Greek and other languages that it has become separate language from Arabic, though I've heard it still remain lots of similarities with Tunisian Arabic. Malta is physically on the African plate. So Malta could really be both European and African.

Malabo of Equatorial Guinea. Not only it's situated on an island and not the continental part of the country, but it is also closer to Cameroon than the continential Equatorial Guinea Edit: Indonesia, unlike EG, is an island nation through and through, so no matter where the capital is situated it will always be on an island. EG, on the other hand, owns a territory on the continent, yet their capital isn't located on the said territory. Also, even if Malabo won't be the capital of EG in the future, it is a capital CURRENTLY, so it still counts Edit 2: Now that I actually think about it, Denmark will fall in the same category as EG, because Copenhagen, the Danish capital, is also located on the island and it's much closer to Sweden then continetial Denmark

Maseru, Lesotho and Bloemfontein, South Africa are 93 miles apart.

The closest European capitals are Rome (Italy) and Citta del Vaticano (Vatican city),

Thanks to settling the dispute over Hans island, both Canada and Denmark share a land border Ottawa and Copenhagen have a distance of 5912 Km (~3673 Miles) between them

This channel never fails to delight with its howlers. Monte"VIDEO" was the best one followed by 9:06 '.......border but have their capitals FURTHEREST away from one another.'

In the Levant. Damascus, Beirut, Amman, Jerusalem, and Ramallah are all quite close to each other, and Jerusalem to Egypt are probably the closest capital pair between Africa and Asia (second place would be Djibouti and Sanaa)

Fun fact: you can not only travel from Vienna to Bratislava by car or train, you can also use a scheudled boat service.

Bratislava actually used to be Hungary's capital for roughly 300 years (twice the amount of time Budapest has served as the capital of Hungary and 10 times the amount of time Bratislava has served as the capital of Slovakia) Its Hungarian name was (and still is) Pozsony however the main language of the city German which called the city Pressburg. The simple reason why it they're so close is because Hungary used to be a mere vassal state to Austria in those times so the capital city was developed to be as close to Vienna as possible. By the 20th century the majority of the population shifted demographically in favour of the surrounding Slovak people who historically call this land home.

Great video!!! I think a must-consider case is Banjul (The Gambia) and Bissau (Guinea-Bissau). Both cities are 200 km away from each other while there is no border between the countries as you need to travel across another country (Senegal) to go from one city to the other. Another example like this one is Pristina in Kosovo (if you consider Kosovo a country) and Sofia in Bulgaria.

Great video as always!

I always thought it was remarkable how close together the capitals of the Unites States and the Confederacy were during the American civil war (Washington DC to Richmond, Virginia, just about 100 miles). And indeed how close some of the battles came to Washington... places that could now be considered outer suburbs of the city.

The closest capital city to the north coast of Alaska is Reykjavik, Iceland

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Not only does Brazil share a land border with France. It's actually the longest French land border by neighboring country.

India and Pakistan, two major rivalries in Asia, have their capital cities New Delhi and Islamabad, respectively, at a distance of just 688 kms. Also Islamabad is closer to the border than New Delhi is, which sometimes seems peculiar, making both the cities vulnerable

I think Madrid and Wellington was the case where capitals can be as far as physically possible on Earth. Both cities are almost antipodes - meaning - located exactly on the other side of the globe

Bloemfontein, South Africa and Maseru, Lesotho. Maputo, Mozambique and Mbabane, Eswatini.

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Wow i really didn't expect my tiny country of Trinidad and Tobago to be featured 😂

Greetings from Montevideo, where international artists rarely cone because they assume we will go to Buenos Aires, since it's so near... Well, it's not that simple! Ferry tickets are really expensive, more than $150 pet round trip.

You should play the Sporcle quiz, '50 Closest Pairs of World Capitals'. I played it about 20 times today to try and get them all, and I succeeded.

What do you mean finland and Estonia are sort of allies? They’re basically brother and sister.

Is it just me or does Tunis look closer to Valletta, Malta than Tripoli????

Closest capitals are Brazzaville and Kinshasa bro and rc

Brazzaville and Kinshasa.

An interesting note about Guyana and Trinidad - they have very similar histories and Guyana is probably the closest country to Trinidad culturally. Guyanese people also generally consider themselves to be part of the Caribbean.

There's been plans of an underwater tunnel like in the British channel, which would connect Helsinki and Tallinn with only a 30 minute train ride. Would be awesome.

Would like you to do videos on the Caribbean countries. As im sure we watch this channel aswel.

An interesting subject for a future video would be 'Countries sharing Land Borders, with no formal Border crossing point for the general public /private travellers, two examples North and South Korea, Brasil and Suriname

Interesting tidbit that the capital cities of the 2nd and 3rd (or 4th, depending on your view) largest countries in the world, Canada and the US, are only about 725 km apart, esp. considering that their combined land mass stretches for thousands of kilometers in every direction.

Bloemfontein, being the judicial capital of South Africa is around 150 Kilometres from Lesotho’s Maseru

As someone from Wellington who rarely travels, I’ve never had the experience of traveling through a border, but places like the tri-border bench look really cool. Rome/Vatican would be the closest with 0km difference

0:49 That map looks like 70s-80s map Nowdays, there are more highways in South Korea and No.5 highway on that map is No.65.

Rome and Vatican City have got to be in 1st place!

Amazed you left out Kinshasa / Brazzaville, with the capitals each sharing a side of the Congo river - just 200m apart in some places!

Interested to understand how Vatican/Italy(Rome) missed the cut. Vatican is considered a country and is inside the capital of Italy. Is there some loophole that means this isn't the closest pairing?

At 2:35 you ask whether 321 km is the closest distance for a European capital pairing. Why would you ask that, given that at 1:11, you already mentioned Finland and Estonia's capitals' *82 km* distance? You don't think Finland and Estonia are in Europe?

I’m in love with Buenos Ayres & Montevideo at least for the past few years. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾 I highly recommend visiting both. I m used to visit them every year due to the relative closeness to São Paulo. I am sure you can definitely plan a very nice trip with gastronomical cultural and meaningful experiences. If you have the chance, visit Santiago in Chile too. It is also relatively close to Buenos Ayres.

So what's up with the UK map for some reason showing the Wirral? I mean it's the only non-capital on the whole map, and it's not even a city, it's a borough/peninsula.

Canada and Denmark are also countries with very distant capitals while sharing a border

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6:19 i think i found 2 closer on google maps using the measure distance feature. Nicosia to Beirut is 152 miles while Valetta to tripoli is 222 miles. Tbf since googling cyprus might be in Asia but is politically in Europe and part of the EU so idk if it counts

Greenland now borders Canada from a small island. This would make denmark and Canada border, with 6416km of distance between their capitals.

The answer of Trinidad and Tobago being either in North or South America is quite simple, neither. It is part of the Caribbean subregion which alongside North, South and Central America make up what most people in the continent know as America. I think countries like this only serve to expose how arbitrary diving America into two can be and why it makes much more sense to look at it as one, like it is originally supposed to be and is already recognized by many.

2 other far capitals which countries border are Copenhagen, Denmark and Ottawa, Canada, they recently divided by two an island between Canada and Greenland, so they are actually bordering each other, the distance between those capitals are quite more than 5600km

Nicosia, Cyprus (Europe) and Beirut, Lebanon (Asia) are capital cities on different continents closer to each other than La Valetta and Tripoli. around 244 km, and even Beirut, Syria is closer to Nicosia (323 km).

Denmark Technicality borders Canada because of Hans island and is around 5900 kms away

5:01 Incorrect: The French and Belgian colonies in the Congo region were always separate entities, going back to the 1880's.

I don't think anyone with any sense considers Trinidad and Tobago as part of North America. For that matter, Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire would clearly be grouped with South America as well. I think the Caribbean is a bit of a grey area, and really not part of either 'continent', I consider it an oceanic community like Oceania. But if we have to put them with one or the other, I'd put the Greater Antilles with North America and the Lesser Antilles with South America. Naturally the Bahamas, the Turks and Caicos, and Bermuda would also be grouped with North America, just as the Galapagos and Falklands would be grouped with South America.

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the kindom of denmark ( with greenland ) actually borders canada in tarupaluk island (1,280 meters) so you could say that copenhagen and ottawa are kinda far from each other

The German City of Aachen lies some 540 km from the German capital city of Berlin, meaning that is lies closer to seven other capitals than its own, Ie Brussels, Amsterdam, Luxembourg City, Paris, London, Bern and Vaduz!

Technically, Russia and the USA share a border to in Alaska. So Washington DC and Moscow should be listed as 'far away' capitals around 7800km (4857 miles).

If we ignore the course of time, the capital of East Germany and the capital of today's Germany partially coincide.

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France and Canada share an aquatic border considering the islands of St Pierre and Miquelon. 5,655km from Paris to Ottawa

Lome, Togo and Porto-Novo, Benin are pretty close. (188 km by car)

Distance from the other country's territory is more relevant than the other country's capital. An attack on Seoul isn't coming from Pyongyang. It's coming from directly across the nearby border. Ottawa isn't that close to DC, for example, but it's very close to the US. Copenhagen is close to Sweden without being near Stockholm.

Port au Prince, Haiti and Santo Domongo, Dominican Republic are quite close to one another.

My COuntry Guyana got mentioned. Thank you

Japan's capital, Tokyo has a gdp similar to all of Brazil

Today I flew London to Bucharest. Last year this week I sailed from Helsinki to Tallin and a couple of years ago sailed from Beunos Aries to Montevideo. I have visited most of the other capitals in Europe too

Do something about the Dutch province of Flevoland.

I would have guessed that the Vatican and Italy have the closest capitals in Europe, as Vatican City is actually inside of Rome, which is the capital of Italy.

9:37 - Canada and Denmark now share a land border thanks to the resolution of the Hans Island Whisky War in 2022. Ottawa and Copenhagen are over 5,900km apart

Helsinki and Tallinn are not so friendly cities. Helsinki was built on that location right across Finnish bay to offset trading success of Tallinn. Helsinki exists only because of Tallinn.

Big shout out for having the Wirral on the uk

Bern to Vaduz for short distance and Ottawa to Copenhagen for long distance.

South Africa has 3 capital cities...

Can't believe I never realized Finland and Estonia are so close to one another! I know their languages are similar, though.

How about Thimphu and Kathmandu? They don't share borders but their capitals are pretty close.

If we include Antarctic claims: farthest bordering countries' capitals are: 1) when one border point is enough: Paris (France) -- Wellington (New Zealand) 2) when there must be border section: Paris (France) --- Canberra (Australia)

What about Ottawa, Canada to Godthåb, Greenland or Ottawa to Kopenhagen, Denmark. Since they border each other I though for sure they we're gonna be mentioned.

Moscow and washington dc are distant capitals of bordering countries for a few weeks during the winter when the bearing sea freezes over

At 8:55 he says that two very distant capitals are Wellington in New Zealand and Madrid in Spain, but Lisbon in Portugal is just a s skip to the west of Madrid, making it even further... I really hope he doesn't think the Iberian Peninsula only has one country :/

Yerevan-Tiblisi, Jerusalem-Amman-Beirut-Damascus come to mind as being close.

what about ottawa and paris? due to a small island owned by france in the st lawrance.

The way you pronounced Montevideo is hilarious🤣🤣

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Ljubljana and Zagreb are also quite close

You forgot to mention Beirut and Damascus -around 115 km

Vaduz, Liechtenstein to Bern, Switzerland is 151 kilometres.

As a person from the the very west parts of Bratislava (4 that one person from Bratislava who comes all the way to this comment Záhorská Bystrica) it usually takes me like 10 min less to drive to our (Bratislava) airport than it does to Vienna airport that has much better flights 😂

Washington D.C. to Bangkok, Thailand is 8,789 miles (or 14,144 km) apart.

The distance between one city to other city in other country in west Europe is not far , when travelled by land , I had 2 times experiences of had breakfast in Amsterdam , lunch in Brussel and dinner in Paris. I also had experience had breakfast in Luzern , lunch in Milan and dinner in Venice.

Far away capitals of countries which share a border: Those of Denmark and Canada. They share a border across a tiny island off Groenlandia.

A funny anecdote I like is the Confederate Capitol and Washington D.C. were only about ≈100 miles apart. You'd think someone on either side would've thought that'd be a bad idea for two, although split, large countries.

wouldent cyprus (europe) and lebenon (asia) be the closest capitals on differant continents its about 240km

A small thought when you're talking about the closets capitals on 2 continents: aren't Nicosia, Cyprus and Beirut, Lebanon not more closer together? It's only 240 km between the 2 of them

9:44 Vilnius, Lithuania-Minsk, Belarus (172 km)

I haven't watched the video yet, but I'm already predicting Bratislava and Vienna.

What about Ottawa and Copanhagan for farthest capitals whose countries share a land border? Canada and Denmark share a land border at Hans Island through Greenland

Lefkosía and Lefkoşa Belfast and Dublin Beirut and Damascus

Beyrouth - Damascus - Amman - Jerusalem are quite near to each others as well.