Photos: This two year old girl can recite the capital cities of 196 countries under five minutes

Rakshitha Kumar already knows the capitals of some of the world’s most obscure and little heard of countries.
And she effortlessly works through them all in alphabetical order, continent by continent, at an age when a lot of children are still learning to walk .
She can tell you that the capital of Kazakhstan in central Asia is Astana and the capital of neighbouring Uzbekistan is Tashkent.
Crossing to Africa, she knows instantly that the capital of tiny Lesotho is Maseru and that the capital of Mauritania in the Sahara is Nouakchott.
The remarkable achievement has its seeds in an 11-hour plane journey when her father Ramesh Kumar, 33, and mother Kavitha, 30, tried to keep her occupied by learning the capitals of India, Britain and a handful of other major world countries.

To their astonishment, she was able to memorise every capital they mentioned.
Intrigued, the family bought a colourful children’s book listing 30 of the world’s better known capital cities.
Within a week, angelic Rakshitha had learned all 30 off by heart.
And now, she can recite the capital cities of 196 countries after just three months of learning and memorising.
When her mother or father call out the name of a country, little Rakshitha answers back with the right city.
And videos uploaded to YouTube by Kavitha show Rakshitha naming capitals as though it was as easy as saying one, two, three.
Proud Ramesh hopes her thirst for knowledge will continue into her adult life.