Honiara.
Tuvalu?
It looks to me like Colorado has six sides. The western border of Montrose County angles in for a little bit, causing the western border of Colorado to actually have sides.
Several years ago, I remember reading in Omni magazine (the Games section) about the boundary of a state being surveyed by two parties, one coming from the north, one from the south, expecting to meet halfway. They missed each other by about a mile and had to “cut across” to finish off the boundary. I don’t remember what the state was, it could be the Colorado/Utah boundary mentioned above. Looking at a map, it may also be the NM/OK/TX corner, or the MT/SD/WY border; I’m leaning toward CO/UT because if it was an accident, that wouldn’t do much for explaining why it occurred at a point where three states meet, that seems to much of a coincidence.
Anyone else heard this story before?
matt_mcl,
Once again, stumped…
:: Checking atlas once again :: Funafuti
Keeping with the South Pacific theme - Palau.
Koror.
Vanuatu?
matt_mcl,
Correct…
Capital of Vanuatu is Port Vila.
Marshall Islands…
Majuro.
Kiribati? (For bonus points, how do you pronounce Kiribati?)
matt_mcl,
Capital of Kiribati is Bairiki. And it’s pronounced
Ki - ri - bass.
Tonga.
Wrong!
The capital of Kiribati is Tarawa.
The capital of Tonga is Nuku’alofa.
matt_mcl,
Hmm…I recall the capital being Bairiki, but in checking the CIA World Factbook, you’re right…it’s Tarawa.
Nuku’alofa - correct.
OK - now let’s switch to the Caribbean. St. Kitts and Nevis…(And no cheating!! :: grin :
Actually, it looks like the opposite happened. That is, the states were defined before an actual survey was done. Tennessee was defined to only go north to a certain latitude and be on the eastern drainage of the Mississippi River. Missouri was similar only being on the wester drainage side. But that little bulb of land defies either state’s definition: it’s too far north to be Tennessee, and it’s on the eastern drainage, so it’s not Missouri. That only left Kentucky.
That latitude between KY and TN is also the same one between VA and NC, so it was just happenstance that it met the Mississippi River at that bendy S-curve.
There are other oddities on the Mississippi that do involve its changing course. For example, southeast of Charleston, MO, there is Kentucky territory that borders Missouri on dry land. Looking at the border, it’s obvious it once followed the course of the Mississippi, but ended up high and dry when it cut through a straighter course to the east.
Basseterre.
St Lucia?
I grew up in western Colorado, and never heard the survey story before. Then again, that area of the border is pretty desolate, so there where probably no tourists to explain it to. It’s near Paradox, CO; maybe Zippy the Pinhead knows about it. 
I’ve noticed similar jogs in the MT/WY border near Yellowstone. Probably survey errors. I think this also explains the little notch of Massachusetts taken out of Connecticut.
Castries.
Grenada?
Saint George’s.
Uzbekistan?
matt_mcl,
Capital is Tashkent.
Kyrgyzstan.
Capital is Tashkent.
Kyrgyzstan?
Bishqek.
Slovakia?
Bratislava - (hometown of “Two Wild and Crazy Guys” - Steve Martin and Dan Ackroyd - of SNL).
Moldova?
Chisinau.
Eritrea?
Asmera.
Bahrain?