Of the 26 words of the NATO phonetic alphabet, how many are the names of cities?
The International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet, commonly known as the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) phonetic alphabet, is the most widely used set of clear-code words for communicating the letters of the Roman alphabet.
To create the code, several international agencies assigned 26 clear-code words to the letters of the Roman alphabet, with the goal that the letters and numbers would be easily distinguishable from one another over radio and telephone. In 1956, NATO modified the set used by the International Civil Aviation Organization; this modified form became the international standard.
The A-Z codewords are these: Alfa, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, India, Juliett, Kilo, Lima, Mike, November, Oscar, Papa, Quebec, Romeo, Sierra, Tango, Uniform, Victor, Whiskey, Xray, Yankee, Zulu.
In the list of words are the names of two cities in the Americas. Lima is the capital and largest city of Peru. Quebec City, officially known as Québec, is the capital city of the Canadian province of Quebec.
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