World Capitals Word Search
By Reggie J·Updated
World Capitals word search puzzles with familiar capital-city names — free online for adults who enjoy geography without trivia noise. Easy to hard plus large print. No timer, no account.
World Capitals puzzles
Easy · 10×10 · 10 words
World Capitals: City Lights
Easy · 10×10 · 10 words
World Capitals: Quiet Atlas
Easy · 10×10 · 10 words
World Capitals: Open Window
Hard · 15×15 · 18 words
Hard World Capitals: Full Globe
Large print · 9×9 · 8 words
Large Print World Capitals: Soft Capital
Medium · 12×12 · 14 words
World Capitals: River Capitals
Medium · 12×12 · 14 words
World Capitals: World Desk
Medium · 12×12 · 14 words
World Capitals: Nested Calm
What words are in the world capitals word search?
Familiar capital-city names from several continents — everyday atlas English, not obscure trivia.
The full world capitals word bank has 48 words. Each puzzle picks a set from this list, so no two grids are quite the same:
ACCRA · AMSTERDAM · ANKARA · ATHENS · BAGHDAD · BANGKOK · BEIJING · BEIRUT · BERLIN · BERN · BOGOTA · BRASILIA · BRUSSELS · BUDAPEST · CAIRO · CANBERRA · COPENHAGEN · DAMASCUS · DELHI · DUBLIN · HANOI · HAVANA · HELSINKI · JAKARTA · KYIV · LAGOS · LIMA · LISBON · LONDON · MADRID · MANILA · MOSCOW · NAIROBI · OSLO · OTTAWA · PARIS · PRAGUE · PRETORIA · QUITO · RIYADH · ROME · SANTIAGO · SEOUL · STOCKHOLM · TEHRAN · TOKYO · VIENNA · WARSAW
Who is this theme good for?
Armchair travellers and anyone refreshing world geography at a gentle pace.
A solving tip
Unusual letter pairs help: the JJ in JAKARTA when it appears, double letters in TALLINN-style names, or QQ rarely — scan rare letters first.
How these puzzles work
Every puzzle is free and plays in your browser on a phone, tablet or computer. Drag across a word, or tap its first and last letter. Easy grids are 10×10 with words across and down; medium grids are 12×12 and add diagonals; hard grids are 15×15 with words in all eight directions. Press Large print above any grid for bigger letters. Progress is saved on your device, and there is never a timer. New to word searches? Read how to play.
Sources & notes
Word lists on Words at Rest use American English spelling (for example color, not colour). Merriam-Webster records colour as chiefly the British spelling of color. Merriam-Webster: colour.
“chiefly British spelling of color”
