Friday, January 31, 2014

New Year New Project

So I know its a bit late to start a New Year project but whatever...I'm doing it. So my oldest had a request a while ago that we make an international dish once a week, and when your 10 year old ASKS you to make something from Algeria and Morocco well you just HAVE to do it! So we did if for a while and now I am finding myself being asked to chronicle this "adventure in eating" So here we go! This is the list we have for Countries around the world (complete with their capitals), we're going to just pretend we haven't done any of these yet and just start over...this is going to be a LONG project
A
 Afghanistan – Kabul
 Albania – Tirane 
Algeria – Algiers 
Andorra – Andorra la Vella
 Angola – Luanda
 Antigua and Barbuda – Saint John’s
 Argentina – Buenos Aires
 Armenia – Yerevan 
Australia – Canberra
 Austria – Vienna 
Azerbaijan – Baku 
The Bahamas – Nassau
 Bahrain – Manama
 Bangladesh – Dhaka
 Barbados – Bridgetown
 Belarus – Minsk
 Belgium – Brussels
 Belize – Belmopan 
Benin – Porto-Novo 
Bhutan – Thimphu
 Bolivia – La Paz (administrative); Sucre (judicial) 
Bosnia and Herzegovina – Sarajevo 
Botswana – Gaborone
 Brazil – Brasilia 
Brunei – Bandar Seri Begawan 
Bulgaria – Sofia 
Burkina Faso – Ouagadougou 
Burundi – Bujumbura 
Cambodia – Phnom Penh 
Cameroon – Yaounde
 Canada – Ottawa 
Cape Verde – Praia 
Central African Republic – Bangui 
Chad – N’Djamena
 Chile – Santiago
 China – Beijing
 Colombia – Bogota 
Comoros – Moroni 
Congo, Republic of the – Brazzaville 
Congo, Democratic Republic of the – Kinshasa 
Costa Rica – San Jose
 Cote d’Ivoire – Yamoussoukro (official); Abidjan (de facto) 
Croatia – Zagreb
 Cuba – Havana 
Cyprus – Nicosia 
Czech Republic – Prague
 D
 Denmark – Copenhagen
 Djibouti – Djibouti
 Dominica – Roseau
 Dominican Republic – Santo Domingo 
E
 East Timor (Timor-Leste) – Dili
 Ecuador – Quito
 Egypt – Cairo
 El Salvador – San Salvador
 Equatorial Guinea – Malabo
 Eritrea – Asmara
 Estonia – Tallinn 
Ethiopia – Addis Ababa 
F
 Fiji – Suva 
Finland – Helsinki 
France – Paris
 G
 Gabon – Libreville 
The Gambia – Banjul
 Georgia – Tbilisi Germany – Berlin 
Ghana – Accra
 Greece – Athens
 Grenada – Saint George’s
 Guatemala – Guatemala City 
Guinea – Conakry 
Guinea-Bissau – Bissau
 Guyana – Georgetown
 H 
Haiti – Port-au-Prince 
Honduras – Tegucigalpa 
Hungary – Budapest 
I
 Iceland – Reykjavik
 India – New Delhi
 Indonesia – Jakarta
 Iran – Tehran
 Iraq – Baghdad 
Ireland – Dublin 
Israel – Jerusalem
 Italy – Rome
 J 
Jamaica – Kingston 
Japan – Tokyo
 Jordan – Amman 
K
 Kazakhstan – Astana
 Kenya – Nairobi
 Kiribati – Tarawa Atoll
 Korea, North – Pyongyang
 Korea, South – Seoul
 Kosovo – Pristina
 Kuwait – Kuwait City 
Kyrgyzstan – Bishkek
 L 
 Laos – Vientiane
 Latvia – Riga
 Lebanon – Beirut 
Lesotho – Maseru
 Liberia – Monrovia
 Libya – Tripoli
 Liechtenstein – Vaduz 
Lithuania – Vilnius
 Luxembourg – Luxembourg 
Macedonia – Skopje
 Madagascar – Antananarivo 
Malawi – Lilongwe 
Malaysia – Kuala Lumpur 
Maldives – Male 
Mali – Bamako 
Malta – Valletta
 Marshall Islands – Majuro 
Mauritania – Nouakchott
 Mauritius – Port Louis
 Mexico – Mexico City
 Micronesia, Federated States of – Palikir
 Moldova – Chisinau
 Monaco – Monaco 
Mongolia – Ulaanbaatar
 Montenegro – Podgorica
 Morocco – Rabat
 Mozambique – Maputo 
Myanmar (Burma) – Rangoon (Yangon); Naypyidaw or Nay Pyi Taw (administrative) 
N
 Namibia – Windhoek
 Nauru – no official capital; government offices in Yaren District 
Nepal – Kathmandu
 Netherlands – Amsterdam; The Hague (seat of government)
 New Zealand – Wellington 
Nicaragua – Managua 
Niger – Niamey 
Nigeria – Abuja
 Norway – Oslo 
O
 Oman – Muscat
P
Pakistan – Islamabad 
Palau – Melekeok 
Panama – Panama City
 Papua New Guinea – Port Moresby 
Paraguay – Asuncion
 Peru – Lima 
Philippines – Manila 
Poland – Warsaw 
Portugal – Lisbon
Q
 Qatar – Doha
 R
 Romania – Bucharest
 Russia – Moscow
 Rwanda – Kigali
 S
 Saint Kitts and Nevis – Basseterre
 Saint Lucia – Castries 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines – Kingstown 
Samoa – Apia
 San Marino – San Marino 
Sao Tome and Principe – Sao Tome 
Saudi Arabia – Riyadh 
Senegal – Dakar
 Serbia – Belgrade
 Seychelles – Victoria 
Sierra Leone – Freetown 
Singapore – Singapore 
Slovakia – Bratislava 
Slovenia – Ljubljana 
Solomon Islands – Honiara
 Somalia – Mogadishu 
South Africa – Cape Town
 Spain – Madrid 
Sri Lanka – Colombo
 Sudan – Khartoum 
Suriname – Paramaribo 
Swaziland – Mbabane 
Sweden – Stockholm 
Switzerland – Bern 
Syria – Damascus 
Taiwan – Taipei 
Tajikistan – Dushanbe
 Tanzania – Dar es Salaam; Dodoma (legislative)
 Thailand – Bangkok
 Togo – Lome
 Tonga – Nuku’alofa 
Trinidad and Tobago – Port-of-Spain
 Tunisia – Tunis 
Turkey – Ankara 
Turkmenistan – Ashgabat
 Tuvalu – Vaiaku village, Funafuti province
 U
 Uganda – Kampala
 Ukraine – Kyiv
 United Arab Emirates – Abu Dhabi
 United Kingdom – London 
United States of America – Washington D.C.
 Uruguay – Montevideo 
Uzbekistan – Tashkent 
V
 Vanuatu – Port-Vila
 Vatican City (Holy See) – Vatican City
 Venezuela – Caracas
 Vietnam – Hanoi 
Yemen – Sanaa 
Zambia – Lusaka
 Zimbabwe – Harare 
 http://www.howmanyarethere.net/how-many-countries-are-there-in-the-world/
February we are doing Uganda, The United Kingdom, Uruguay, and Ukraine; look for those posts coming soon