| TURKU | Port and former capital of Finland (5) |
| LAGOS | Port and former capital of Nigeria on the Bight of Benin (5) |
| NYALA | Capital of Sudan's South Darfur state and former capital of the 15th century Sultanate of Fur |
| DOUALA | Chief port and former capital of Cameroon (6) |
| SALVADOR | Brazilian port and former capital of the Portuguese colony |
| RIODEJANEIRO | Chief port and former capital of Brazil (3,2,7) |
| ISTANBUL | A port and former capital of Turkey (8) |
| DARESSALAAM | Chief port and former capital of Tanzania (3,2,6) |
| VAASA | Port on the Gulf of Bothnia and capital of Finland in 1918 (5) |
| ENGEL | Johann Carl Ludwig --, architect who planned the layout of Helsinki as capital of Finland (5) |
| AUCKLAND | Largest city, chief port and former capital (1840-65) (8) |
| ALOOF | It's a convenience to have the capital of Finland remote |
| YANGON | Formerly Rangoon, the largest city and former capital of Myanmar, site of the Shwedagon Pagoda (6) |
| ESSALAAM | Chief seaport and former capital of Tanzania, Dar ... (2,6) |
| AGRA | Indian city and former capital of the Mogul empire (4) |
| ABIDJAN | Largest city and former capital of Cote d'Ivoire (7) |
| HELSINKI | Capital of Finland and host of the 1952 summer Olympics |
| AYR | Scottish port and former royal burgh (3) |
| WHITEHAVEN | Port and former coal-mining town in Cumbria laid out in a grid plan with many elegant Georgian buildings (10) |
| KARACHI | Pakistani seaport and former capital (7) |
