March in this order:
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Usage Instructions
The purpose of this page is to help familiarize you with the capitals of the countries of the world. It is a perfect preliminary to our World Capitals Game in which you must know the countries to win.
Click on the Speech On checkbox to hear the names of the countries and their capitals when you hover over, find, or Play them.
Hover over a country to highlight it in red, and see (and hear) its name along with its capital city.
Use the drop-down list of countries or capitals to search for a specific country or capital (by typing its name or scrolling down to it in the list).
Click the Play button to sit back and watch the “parade” of countries/capitals unfold before you automatically.
Use the Settings drop-down window to set the controls for the Play feature. The default is to play all countries by continent/area in geographical order (roughly NW to SE). You can change to an alphabetical or random order. You can also choose to display without regard to continent/area, and/or include only those you are interested in.
You can also change the speed of the display from slow (roughly a new country every 12 seconds) to fast (a new country every 2 seconds).
If you make any changes other than speed, the Play will restart at the beginning.
The settings will be remembered on your device for your current browser for the next time you access the page.
Use the Pan/Zoom control in the upper left corner of the screen to move the map and zoom it in or out.
When you think you know the countries well enough, try out our practice game to test your knowledge of the world!