Capital cities you've visited that you can see other countries from...

[GrumpyGregry]

...when at ground level, no going up some maa-hooo-sive tower to push back the horizon. (Unless you insist, in which case make it clear it isn't a sea-level viewpoint)

Starter for 10
Copenhagen - from where at sea level you can see Malmo and a big chunk of the adjacent Swedish coast.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Two starters for 10

Copenhagen - directly borders Sweden
Dublin - directly, just about, borders the UK

Are there any non-coastal ones?

EDIT: the mods merged two threads. The other was about capitals on international borders. I'm not stupid. You can't see another country from Dublin.

 

[JtB]

You can see other countries in every capital other than London.

 

[Markymark]

Vatican- borders Italy

London. Borders rUK wasteland.

 

[MontyVeda]

CPH and possibly Bratislava... not because I'm not sure if i've been there, just not sure if it's actually 'on' the border.

 

[vernon]

Bratislava. It has two international borders. Hungary and Austria. It's at the second from bottom place of my 'must go there again' capital cities list.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

The mods have merged my two threads and thus rendered this insensible and make me appear to be an idiot. You can't see another country from Dublin FFS!

 

[GrumpyGregry]

You can see other countries in every capital other than London.

Really. You couldn't the last time I was in Paris.

 

[Glow worm]

Kinshasa, Congo - and Brazzaville, DRC. Either side of the river.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Vatican- borders Italy

London. Borders rUK wasteland.

Only half point. Whilst London is another country it is still the capital of the UK

 

[GrumpyGregry]

[QUOTE 3958260, member: 259"]Berlin in what was then the German Democratic Republic. You could see lots of bits of West Germany through bits of wasteland and from trains. It looked very colourful.[/QUOTE]
Only half a mark. You can't see another country from it now, I think.

 

[MontyVeda]

Bratislava. It has two international borders. Hungary and Austria. It's at the second from bottom place of my 'must go there again' capital cities list.

All I saw was the bus station

 

[threebikesmcginty]

The mods have merged my two threads and thus rendered this insensible and make me appear to be an idiot.

Are you sure you needed their assistance for that?

 

[Glow worm]

EDIT: the mods merged two threads. The other was about capitals on international borders. I'm not stupid. You can't see another country from Dublin.

I wouldn't be surprised if on a very clear day you could see the Isle of Man or the tops of the Llyn Peninsula from the top of the Dublin mountains or from one of those big chimneys on the edge of Dublin at Dun Laoghaire. I remember seeing the Irish coast once from Holyhead.

 

[Joshua Plumtree]

Apparently, according to Michael Portillo, Istanbul is in both Asia and Europe; so you can stand on one side of the city and look from one continent to another, and visa versa - obviously !