| 100% | RANGOON | 7 | Former name of Myanmar's largest city, capital of the Yangon region |
| 51% | RANGOON | 7 | Former name of Myanmar's most populous city |
| 51% | GODTHAAB | 8 | Former name of Greenland's capital city Nuuk |
| 50% | QUEZON | 6 | Large city and former capital of the Philippines |
| 49% | ELAAIUN | 7 | Capital of the former Spanish Sahara; largest city of the disputed territory of Western Sahara |
| 49% | YANGON | 6 | Largest city and former capital of Myanmar also known as Rangoon |
| 48% | FROBISHER | 9 | __ Bay, the former name of Nunavut's capital |
| 48% | UMTATA | 6 | Former name of Mthatha, city in Eastern Cape, South Africa, that was capital of the Transkei Bantustan |
| 48% | DES | 3 | Word in the name of Iowa’s capital city |
| 48% | ELAAIUN | 7 | Capital of the former Spanish Sahara; largest city of the disputed territory of Western Sahara also called Laayoune |
| 46% | PEKING | 6 | Former romanisation of the name of China's capital |
| 46% | EDO | 3 | Former name of Tokyo, the Japanese capital |
| 45% | BURMA | 5 | Former name of the nation Myanmar |
| 45% | KIEV | 4 | Former spelling of the Ukrainian capital city |
| 44% | BURMA | 5 | Former name of the country now called Myanmar |
| 44% | OVIEDO | 6 | Capital city of the Asturias region of Spain |
| 44% | DIJON | 5 | French city; capital of the former duchy of Burgundy |
| 43% | MADRAS | 6 | Former name of Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu, India |
| 43% | IASI | 4 | City in NE Romania; a former capital of the country |
| 43% | IASI | 4 | City in northeast Romania; a former capital of the country |
| 43% | TOLEDO | 6 | Spanish city with capital of the same name |
| 43% | RAVENNA | 7 | Italian city and former capital of the Ostrogoths |
| 43% | SAMHOUSTON | 10 | Texas Revolution figure for whom Texas's largest city is named ("The Treasure of the Sierra Madre") |
| 43% | LIMA | 4 | South American capital that's the world's largest city with a four-letter name |
| 43% | SAN | 3 | Word that starts the names of three of California’s four largest cities |
| 43% | AGANA | 5 | Former name of Hagatna, capital of the Pacific island of Guam |
| 43% | RANGOON | 7 | Largest city of Myanmar also called Yangon |
| 43% | BURMA | 5 | Former name for the country of Myanmar |
| 43% | LAGOS | 5 | Largest city and former capital of Nigeria |
| 43% | DOUALA | 6 | Largest city of Cameroon (not the capital) |