South American capitals

All 13 capitals in South America, from the ones everyone names first to the ones few people think of, with each capital’s country and region.

2 Plankton
9 Too Clever
2 Schooler
0 Rare
0 Deep Cut
0 One in a Krillion

All 13 South American capitals

Sorted by search interest, most familiar first. The last column is average monthly US Google searches.

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South American capitals, with definition, region, rarity tier and monthly searches
What it is	Region
Capital of Argentina, in South America.	South America	Plankton	165K
Capital of Peru, in South America.	South America	Plankton	110K
Capital of Venezuela, in South America.	South America	Too Clever	91K
Capital of Colombia, in South America.	South America	Too Clever	74K
Capital of Chile, in South America.	South America	Too Clever	est.
Capital of Uruguay, in South America.	South America	Too Clever	50K
Capital of Ecuador, in South America.	South America	Too Clever	41K
Capital of Brazil, in South America.	South America	Too Clever	27K
Seat of government of Bolivia, in South America. It is not the official capital.	South America	Too Clever	est.
Capital of Guyana, in South America.	South America	Too Clever	est.
Capital of Paraguay, in South America.	South America	Too Clever	12K
Capital of Suriname, in South America.	South America	Schooler	9.9K
The constitutional capital of Bolivia, in South America.	South America	Schooler	est.

Questions about South American capitals

How many capitals are in South America?

RareList lists 13 capitals for 12 countries in South America. Bolivia has more than one capital city, and each is listed with its role.

What are the best-known capitals in South America?

The most searched in the US are Buenos Aires, Lima, Caracas, Bogotá and Montevideo.

Which capital in South America is the least searched?

Paramaribo, with about 9.9K US searches a month. Capital of Suriname, in South America.

Capitals are listed for the 193 UN member states and the State of Palestine, except where we cannot state one: Israel and Palestine (the capital is disputed), Equatorial Guinea (a move from Malabo could not be confirmed) and Nauru (no official capital). Vatican City is a city-state and is left out. Where a country splits its capital functions, each city is listed with its role. Capitals come from the open mledoze/countries dataset, checked by hand.

Searches marked “est.” are estimates: for a capital whose name mostly means something else, such as Victoria or Georgetown, we count searches for the city plus its country; for Singapore, Monaco, Luxembourg and Djibouti the city and the country share one name, so the figure is the country’s.