Holiday-goers are more eager than ever to get their well deserved breaks abroad as travel restrictions begin to loosen up. As many of us prepare to jet off around the world, Theknowledgeacademy.com asks which popular capital cities tourists know the least.
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The results:
|
Rank |
Country |
Capital |
Average Annual Online Searches |
|
1 |
Australia |
Canberra |
4,680,000 |
|
2 |
Canada |
Ottawa |
2,976,000 |
|
3 |
China |
Beijing |
2,868,000 |
|
4 |
India |
New Delhi |
2,592,000 |
|
5 |
Germany |
Berlin |
2,136,000 |
|
6 |
Brazil |
Brasília |
1,956,000 |
|
7 |
Turkey |
Ankara |
1,832,400 |
|
8 |
Switzerland |
Bern |
1,785,600 |
|
9 |
Italy |
Rome |
1,476,000 |
|
10 |
France |
Paris |
1,356,000 |
|
11 |
Russia |
Moscow |
1,152,000 |
|
12 |
Spain |
Madrid |
1,128,000 |
|
13 |
Indonesia |
Jakarta |
1,098,000 |
|
14 |
Japan |
Tokyo |
972,000 |
|
15 |
Mexico |
Mexico City |
912,000 |
|
16 |
Saudi Arabia |
Riyadh |
771,600 |
|
17 |
Netherlands |
Amsterdam |
651,600 |
|
18 |
South Korea |
Seoul |
507,600 |
|
19 |
United States |
Washington |
253,200 |
|
20 |
United Kingdom |
London |
192,000 |
#1: Australia
The public knows Australia’s capital, Canberra, least! Searches querying the country’s capital reached a whopping 4,680,000 annual searches. This is not surprising as many outside of the ‘Great Southern Land’ assume the capital to be Sydney or Melbourne.
#2: Canada
Coming in second is Canada’s capital Ottawa with 2,976,000 annual searches to find out the capital. Despite its cruel nickname ‘the city that fun forgot’, Ottawa has a number of interesting sites from Parliament Hill to the Rideau Canal.
#3: China
Third place goes to China’s capital, Beijing with 2,868,000 annual searches to find out the capital. Beijing hosts many fantastic sights such as The Forbidden City and The Temple of Heaven.
#20: United Kingdom
At the other end in 20th position, the United Kingdom’s Capital London is the most well known capital city out of high GDP countries with a mere 192,000 annual online searches.
Methodology:
1: Theknowledgeacademy.com endeavoured to find out which high GDP country’s capital people know the least.
2: Theknowledgeacademy.com collated a seed list of 195 countries from Worldometer which includes the 193 UN member states and the UN observer states of Palestine and the Holy See.
3: Each country was analysed on online analytics tool Ahrefs using the search terms ‘What is the capital of X country?’, ‘X country capital’, ‘capital of X country’ and other relevant search variations, to find the cumulative average global monthly search volumes.
4: Monthly search volumes were multiplied by 12 to represent annual search volumes.
5: GDP figures from the most recent year were then acquired from The World Bank.
6: The list was filtered down to include only the top 20 countries by GDP.
7: Search volumes to find out the capitals were then ranked.
8: Data is accurate as of 24th of January 2022 and is subject to change.
