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Former Capital Cities of the World: Multiple Choice
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- 01Before Washington, D.C., several cities served as the capital of this nation, including Philadelphia and New York City.
- 02Rio de Janeiro was the capital of which South American country before the planned city of Brasília was inaugurated in 1960?
- 03Kraków was the official capital of which European country for centuries before the honor was transferred to Warsaw?
- 04Which country moved its capital from Saint Petersburg to Moscow in 1918?
- 05Kyoto served as the imperial capital of which country for over a thousand years?
- 06Which Central Asian country moved its capital from Almaty to a new city, now named Astana, in 1997?
- 07Which Southeast Asian country's capital was Rangoon (now Yangon) before it was moved to the newly built city of Naypyidaw in 2005?
- 08Lagos was the capital of which populous African nation until it was moved to Abuja in 1991?
- 09Constantinople, now known as Istanbul, was the capital of the Ottoman Empire, the predecessor to which modern country?
- 10The city of Bonn served as the de facto capital of which country from 1949 to 1990?