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50 U.S. States and Capitals Flashcards: Complete Two-Way Deck

Study all 50 U.S. state capitals with 100 installable flashcards for state-to-capital and capital-to-state recall.

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About this deck

50 U.S. States and Capitals Flashcards

Study all 50 current U.S. state-capital pairs with 100 ordinary basic flashcards. Each retrieval direction is its own card; the deck does not depend on a special reversible-card or two-way mode.

What is included

  • State to capital: recall the capital from the full U.S. state name.
  • Capital to state: recall the state from the full capital-city name.
  • One us-state-capitals tag on every card.

Each card has one retrieval target. Answers begin with—and contain only—the requested state or capital, so no unrelated fact competes with the mapping.

Learning order

The fixed order alternates the two recall directions while mixing states across regions instead of presenting an alphabetical or geographic run. Every pair's reverse appears 45, 51, or 55 cards after its first occurrence. Similar cues and answers—including the four capitals ending in “City,” Columbia and Columbus, Denver and Dover, Lansing and Lincoln, Montgomery and Montpelier, Indianapolis and Annapolis, Charleston and Cheyenne, and North/South state names—are spaced apart in both passes. The order is deterministic and does not randomize at runtime.

Scope

This deck includes the 50 U.S. states only. Washington, D.C., and U.S. territories are excluded because they are not states.

State abbreviations, statehood dates, regions, largest cities, landmarks, flags, maps, populations, and trivia are excluded. Those facts are separate retrieval targets and would turn a focused state-capital deck into a mixed geography reference.

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Sources and license

The current set and names of the 50 states were checked on August 16, 2026 against the U.S. Census Bureau ANSI/FIPS state-code table and the USAGov state government directory. Every state-capital pair was checked against the archived U.S. Department of State/USIA State Capitals table from An Outline of American Geography. The full spelling “Saint Paul” was also checked against the current USAGov Minnesota state page.

State and capital names are factual data. The cited sources are acknowledged and are not copied or relicensed. Original organization, prompts, answer presentation, metadata, description, and generated cover artwork are dedicated under CC0 1.0 Universal. This independent study deck is not affiliated with or endorsed by the U.S. Census Bureau, USAGov, or the U.S. Department of State.

Source review date: August 16, 2026.

Cards in this deck

  1. Card 1

    Question

    Capital of the U.S. state of Alabama?

    Answer

    Montgomery

  2. Card 2

    Question

    U.S. state whose capital is Salem?

    Answer

    Oregon

  3. Card 3

    Question

    Capital of the U.S. state of New York?

    Answer

    Albany

  4. Card 4

    Question

    U.S. state whose capital is Topeka?

    Answer

    Kansas

  5. Card 5

    Question

    Capital of the U.S. state of Nevada?

    Answer

    Carson City

  6. Card 6

    Question

    U.S. state whose capital is Richmond?

    Answer

    Virginia

  7. Card 7

    Question

    Capital of the U.S. state of Iowa?

    Answer

    Des Moines

  8. Card 8

    Question

    U.S. state whose capital is Honolulu?

    Answer

    Hawaii

  9. Card 9

    Question

    Capital of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania?

    Answer

    Harrisburg

  10. Card 10

    Question

    U.S. state whose capital is Phoenix?

    Answer

    Arizona

  11. Card 11

    Question

    Capital of the U.S. state of Maine?

    Answer

    Augusta

  12. Card 12

    Question

    U.S. state whose capital is Lansing?

    Answer

    Michigan

  13. Card 13

    Question

    Capital of the U.S. state of Wisconsin?

    Answer

    Madison

  14. Card 14

    Question

    U.S. state whose capital is Sacramento?

    Answer

    California

  15. Card 15

    Question

    Capital of the U.S. state of Alaska?

    Answer

    Juneau

  16. Card 16

    Question

    U.S. state whose capital is Columbus?

    Answer

    Ohio

  17. Card 17

    Question

    Capital of the U.S. state of Vermont?

    Answer

    Montpelier

  18. Card 18

    Question

    U.S. state whose capital is Tallahassee?

    Answer

    Florida

  19. Card 19

    Question

    Capital of the U.S. state of Illinois?

    Answer

    Springfield

  20. Card 20

    Question

    U.S. state whose capital is Raleigh?

    Answer

    North Carolina

  21. Card 21

    Question

    Capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee?

    Answer

    Nashville

  22. Card 22

    Question

    U.S. state whose capital is Boise?

    Answer

    Idaho

  23. Card 23

    Question

    Capital of the U.S. state of Missouri?

    Answer

    Jefferson City

  24. Card 24

    Question

    U.S. state whose capital is Santa Fe?

    Answer

    New Mexico

  25. Card 25

    Question

    Capital of the U.S. state of Texas?

    Answer

    Austin

  26. Card 26

    Question

    U.S. state whose capital is Columbia?

    Answer

    South Carolina

  27. Card 27

    Question

    Capital of the U.S. state of Colorado?

    Answer

    Denver

  28. Card 28

    Question

    U.S. state whose capital is Providence?

    Answer

    Rhode Island

  29. Card 29

    Question

    Capital of the U.S. state of Louisiana?

    Answer

    Baton Rouge

  30. Card 30

    Question

    U.S. state whose capital is Lincoln?

    Answer

    Nebraska

  31. Card 31

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    Capital of the U.S. state of Mississippi?

    Answer

    Jackson

  32. Card 32

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    U.S. state whose capital is Salt Lake City?

    Answer

    Utah

  33. Card 33

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    Capital of the U.S. state of New Hampshire?

    Answer

    Concord

  34. Card 34

    Question

    U.S. state whose capital is Atlanta?

    Answer

    Georgia

  35. Card 35

    Question

    Capital of the U.S. state of North Dakota?

    Answer

    Bismarck

  36. Card 36

    Question

    U.S. state whose capital is Charleston?

    Answer

    West Virginia

  37. Card 37

    Question

    Capital of the U.S. state of Montana?

    Answer

    Helena

  38. Card 38

    Question

    U.S. state whose capital is Indianapolis?

    Answer

    Indiana

  39. Card 39

    Question

    Capital of the U.S. state of Delaware?

    Answer

    Dover

  40. Card 40

    Question

    U.S. state whose capital is Little Rock?

    Answer

    Arkansas

  41. Card 41

    Question

    Capital of the U.S. state of Kentucky?

    Answer

    Frankfort

  42. Card 42

    Question

    U.S. state whose capital is Saint Paul?

    Answer

    Minnesota

  43. Card 43

    Question

    Capital of the U.S. state of Connecticut?

    Answer

    Hartford

  44. Card 44

    Question

    U.S. state whose capital is Oklahoma City?

    Answer

    Oklahoma

  45. Card 45

    Question

    Capital of the U.S. state of South Dakota?

    Answer

    Pierre

  46. Card 46

    Question

    U.S. state whose capital is Annapolis?

    Answer

    Maryland

  47. Card 47

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    Capital of the U.S. state of Massachusetts?

    Answer

    Boston

  48. Card 48

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    U.S. state whose capital is Cheyenne?

    Answer

    Wyoming

  49. Card 49

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    Capital of the U.S. state of New Jersey?

    Answer

    Trenton

  50. Card 50

    Question

    U.S. state whose capital is Olympia?

    Answer

    Washington

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  51. Card 51

    Question

    Capital of the U.S. state of Virginia?

    Answer

    Richmond

  52. Card 52

    Question

    U.S. state whose capital is Montgomery?

    Answer

    Alabama

  53. Card 53

    Question

    Capital of the U.S. state of Hawaii?

    Answer

    Honolulu

  54. Card 54

    Question

    U.S. state whose capital is Albany?

    Answer

    New York

  55. Card 55

    Question

    Capital of the U.S. state of Arizona?

    Answer

    Phoenix

  56. Card 56

    Question

    U.S. state whose capital is Carson City?

    Answer

    Nevada

  57. Card 57

    Question

    Capital of the U.S. state of Oregon?

    Answer

    Salem

  58. Card 58

    Question

    U.S. state whose capital is Des Moines?

    Answer

    Iowa

  59. Card 59

    Question

    Capital of the U.S. state of Kansas?

    Answer

    Topeka

  60. Card 60

    Question

    U.S. state whose capital is Harrisburg?

    Answer

    Pennsylvania

  61. Card 61

    Question

    Capital of the U.S. state of Ohio?

    Answer

    Columbus

  62. Card 62

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    U.S. state whose capital is Augusta?

    Answer

    Maine

  63. Card 63

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    Capital of the U.S. state of Florida?

    Answer

    Tallahassee

  64. Card 64

    Question

    U.S. state whose capital is Madison?

    Answer

    Wisconsin

  65. Card 65

    Question

    Capital of the U.S. state of North Carolina?

    Answer

    Raleigh

  66. Card 66

    Question

    U.S. state whose capital is Juneau?

    Answer

    Alaska

  67. Card 67

    Question

    Capital of the U.S. state of Michigan?

    Answer

    Lansing

  68. Card 68

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    U.S. state whose capital is Montpelier?

    Answer

    Vermont

  69. Card 69

    Question

    Capital of the U.S. state of California?

    Answer

    Sacramento

  70. Card 70

    Question

    U.S. state whose capital is Springfield?

    Answer

    Illinois

  71. Card 71

    Question

    Capital of the U.S. state of South Carolina?

    Answer

    Columbia

  72. Card 72

    Question

    U.S. state whose capital is Nashville?

    Answer

    Tennessee

  73. Card 73

    Question

    Capital of the U.S. state of Rhode Island?

    Answer

    Providence

  74. Card 74

    Question

    U.S. state whose capital is Jefferson City?

    Answer

    Missouri

  75. Card 75

    Question

    Capital of the U.S. state of Nebraska?

    Answer

    Lincoln

  76. Card 76

    Question

    U.S. state whose capital is Austin?

    Answer

    Texas

  77. Card 77

    Question

    Capital of the U.S. state of Idaho?

    Answer

    Boise

  78. Card 78

    Question

    U.S. state whose capital is Denver?

    Answer

    Colorado

  79. Card 79

    Question

    Capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico?

    Answer

    Santa Fe

  80. Card 80

    Question

    U.S. state whose capital is Baton Rouge?

    Answer

    Louisiana

  81. Card 81

    Question

    Capital of the U.S. state of West Virginia?

    Answer

    Charleston

  82. Card 82

    Question

    U.S. state whose capital is Jackson?

    Answer

    Mississippi

  83. Card 83

    Question

    Capital of the U.S. state of Indiana?

    Answer

    Indianapolis

  84. Card 84

    Question

    U.S. state whose capital is Concord?

    Answer

    New Hampshire

  85. Card 85

    Question

    Capital of the U.S. state of Arkansas?

    Answer

    Little Rock

  86. Card 86

    Question

    U.S. state whose capital is Bismarck?

    Answer

    North Dakota

  87. Card 87

    Question

    Capital of the U.S. state of Utah?

    Answer

    Salt Lake City

  88. Card 88

    Question

    U.S. state whose capital is Helena?

    Answer

    Montana

  89. Card 89

    Question

    Capital of the U.S. state of Georgia?

    Answer

    Atlanta

  90. Card 90

    Question

    U.S. state whose capital is Dover?

    Answer

    Delaware

  91. Card 91

    Question

    Capital of the U.S. state of Maryland?

    Answer

    Annapolis

  92. Card 92

    Question

    U.S. state whose capital is Frankfort?

    Answer

    Kentucky

  93. Card 93

    Question

    Capital of the U.S. state of Wyoming?

    Answer

    Cheyenne

  94. Card 94

    Question

    U.S. state whose capital is Hartford?

    Answer

    Connecticut

  95. Card 95

    Question

    Capital of the U.S. state of Washington?

    Answer

    Olympia

  96. Card 96

    Question

    U.S. state whose capital is Pierre?

    Answer

    South Dakota

  97. Card 97

    Question

    Capital of the U.S. state of Minnesota?

    Answer

    Saint Paul

  98. Card 98

    Question

    U.S. state whose capital is Boston?

    Answer

    Massachusetts

  99. Card 99

    Question

    Capital of the U.S. state of Oklahoma?

    Answer

    Oklahoma City

  100. Card 100

    Question

    U.S. state whose capital is Trenton?

    Answer

    New Jersey

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