Country and Capital Word Searches

Two kinds of page sit together here. Three of them take a whole region at once — the countries of Africa, of Asia, of Latin America — so a single grid can hold fifty nations rather than one. The rest are capital cities, a page apiece, with that city's rivers, landmarks and history in the word list instead.

The capitals run alphabetically from Albany to Helena and are mostly American state capitals: Atlanta, Austin, Boise, Boston, Denver, Hartford. Charlotte Amalie in the US Virgin Islands and Hagatna in Guam are here on the same footing, and Bangkok is the one national capital outside the United States in the set. A puzzle on the US national parks rounds it off.

Almost all of these are hard-tier puzzles — words in all eight directions, backwards and diagonally included, on grids that start around 16×16 and reach 30×35. The lists run from eleven words up to the fifty nations of Asia. Dover, Baton Rouge and Carson City are the gentler medium ones; the national parks puzzle is the single easy 12×12, and it reads forwards only. All of them print on one sheet, and all of them have an answer key.

Countries, capitals and the Geography topic

The catalogue has no puzzle for each individual country. It has regional lists, where one grid holds every nation on a continent at once — the Asia puzzle alone hides fifty of them. Capital cities are the opposite: one page each, in detail. Both are the world beyond a single town, which is why they share a page rather than two thin ones.

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