List of Countries and Capital Cities

Afghanistan Capital: Kabul, 2,206,300

Albania Capital: Tirana, 353,400

Algeria Capital: Algiers, 3,917,000 (metro. area), 1,742,800 (city proper)

Andorra Capital: Andorra la Vella, 23,000

Angola Capital: Luanda, 2,297,200

Antigua and Barbuda Capital: St. John's, 23,500

Argentina Capital: Buenos Aires, 13,349,000 (metro. area), 2,768,772 (city proper)

Armenia Capital: Yerevan, 1,462,700 (metro. area), 1,267,600 (city proper)

AustraliaCapital: Canberra, 327,700

Austria Capital: Vienna, 2,041,300 (metro area), 1,523,600 (city proper)

Azerbaijan Capital: Baku, 2,118,600 (metro area), 1,235,400 (city proper), a port on the Caspian Sea

Bahamas Capital: Nassau, 222,200

Bahrain Capital: Al-Manámah, 527,000 (metro area), 149,900 (city proper)

Bangladesh Capital: Dhaka, 12,560,000 (metro.area), 5,378,023 (city proper)

Barbados Capital: Bridgetown, 98,900

Belarus Capital: Mensk (Minsk), 1,769,500

Belgium Capital: Brussels, 1,750,600 (metro area), 981,200 (city proper)

Belize Capital: Belmopan, 8,700

Benin Capital: Porto-Novo (official), 231,600; Largest city and seat of government: Cotonou 734,600

Bhutan Capital: Thimphu (official), 60,200

Bolivia Capital: Sucre, 204,200; Administrative capital: La Paz, 1,576,100 (metro. area), 830,500 (city proper)

Bosnia and Herzegovina Capital: Sarajevo, 581,500 (unofficial)

Botswana Capital: Gaborone, 195,000

Brazil Capital: Brasília, 2,160,100

Brunei Capital: Bandar Seri Begawan, 78,000

Bulgaria Capital: Sofia, 1,088,700

Burkina Faso Capital: Ouagadougou, 962,100

Burundi Capital: Bujumbura, 331,700

CambodiaCapital: Phnom Penh, 1,169,800

Cameroon Capital: Yaoundé, 1,395,200 (metro. area), 1,154,400 (city proper)

Canada Capital: Ottawa, Ontario, 1,142,700 (metro. area)

Cape Verde Capital: Praia, 99,400

Central African Republic Capital: Bangui, 810,000 (metro. area), 669,800 (city proper)

Chad Capital: N'Djamena, 609,600

Chile Capital: Santiago, 5,333,100 (metro. area), 4,372,800 (city proper)

ChinaCapital: Beijing, 10,849,000 (metro. area), 8,689,000 (city proper)

Colombia Capital: Santafé de Bogotá, 7,594,000 (metro. area), 7,185,889 (city proper)

Comoros Capital: Moroni (on Grande Comoro), 60,200

Congo, Democratic Republic of the Capital: Kinshasa, 6,541,300

Congo, Republic of Capital: Brazzaville, 1,169,900

Costa Rica Capital: San José, 1,527,300 (metro. area), 337,200 (city proper)

Côte d'Ivoire Capital: Yamoussoukro (official), 185,600; Largest city and administrative center: Abidjan, 4,113,600 (metro. area), 3,427,500 (city proper)

Croatia Capital: Zagreb, 685,500

Cuba Capital: Havana, 2,686,000 (metro. area), 2,343,700 (city proper)

Cyprus Capital: Lefkosia (Nicosia) (in government-controlled area), 197,600

Czech Republic Capital: Prague, 1,378,700 (metro. area), 1,169,800 (city proper)

DenmarkCapital: Copenhagen, 1,094,400

Djibouti Capital: Djibouti, 383,000

Dominica Capital: Roseau, 20,000

Dominican Republic Capital: Santo Domingo, 2,851,300 (metro. area), 2,252,400 (city proper)

East Timor Capital: Dili, 50,800

Ecuador Capital: Quito 1,780,700 (metro. area), 1,443,900 (city proper)

Egypt Capital: Cairo, 11,146,000 (metro. area), 7,629,866 (city proper)

El Salvador Capital: San Salvador, 1,791,700 (metro. area), 504,700 (city proper)

Equatorial Guinea Capital: Malabo, 92,900

Eritrea Capital: Asmara, 899,000 (metro. area), 400,000 (city proper)

EstoniaCapital: Tallinn, 379,000

Ethiopia Capital: Addis Ababa, 2,716,200

Fiji Capital: Suva (on Viti Levu), 177,300

FinlandCapital: Helsinki, 1,162,900 (metro. area), 582,600 (city proper)

FranceCapital: Paris, 9,854,000 (metro. area), 2,110,400 (city proper)

Gabon Capital: Libreville, 661,600

Gambia Capital: Banjul, 46,700

Georgia Capital: Tbilisi, 1,440,000 (metro. area), 1,240,200 (city proper)

Germany Capital: Berlin (capital since Oct. 3, 1990), 3,933,300 (metro. area), 3,274,500 (city proper)

Ghana Capital: Accra, 2,825,800 (metro. area), 1,661,400 (city proper)

Greece Capital: Athens, 3,247,000 (metro. area), 747,300 (city proper)

Grenada Capital: St. George's, 4,300

Guatemala Capital: Guatemala City, 2,655,900 (metro. area), 1,128,800 (city proper)

Guinea Capital: Conakry, 1,767,200

Guinea-Bissau Capital: Bissau, 296,900

Guyana Capital: Georgetown, 227,700

Haiti Capital: Port-au-Prince, 1,764,000 (metro. area), 1,119,000 (city proper)

Honduras Capital: Tegucigalpa, 1,436,000 (metro. area), 1,248,300 (city proper)

Hungary Capital: Budapest, 2,597,000 (metro. area), 1,769,500 (city proper)

Iceland Capital: Reykjavik, 184,200 (metro. area), 114,800 (city proper)

India Capital: New Delhi, 15,334,000 (metro. area), 9,817,439 (city proper)

IndonesiaCapital: Jakarta, 13,194,000 (metro. area), 8,389,443 (city proper)

Iran Capital: Tehran, 7,796,257 (city proper)

Iraq Capital: Baghdad, 6,777,300 (metro. area), 5,772,000 (city proper)

Ireland Capital: Dublin, 1,018,500

Israel Capital: Jerusalem, 695,500

Italy Capital: Rome, 3,550,900 (metro. area), 2,455,600 (city proper)

Jamaica Capital: Kingston, 937,700 (metro. area), 590,500 (city proper)

Japan Capital: Tokyo, 35,327,000 (metro. area), 8,483,050 (city proper)

Jordan Capital: Amman, 2,677,500 (metro. area), 1,293,200

Kazakhstan Capital: Astana, 288,200 (formerly Aqmola; capital since 1997)

Kenya Capital: Nairobi, 3,064,800 (metro. area), 2,411,900 (city proper)

Kiribati Capital: Tarawa, 26,600

Korea, North Capital: Pyongyang, 3,222,000 (metro. area), 2,767,900

Korea, South Capital: Seoul, 10,287,847 (city proper)

Kosovo Capital: Pristina, 400,000 (est.)

Kuwait Capital: Kuwait, 1,709,800 (metro. area), 32,600 (city proper)

Kyrgyzstan Capital: Bishkek (formerly Frunze), 824,900

Laos Capital: Vientiane, 194,200

Latvia Capital: Riga, 867,700 (metro. area), 706,200 (city proper)

Lebanon Capital: Beirut, 1,916,100 (metro. area), 1,171,000 (city proper)

Lesotho Capital: Maseru 173,700

Liberia Capital: Monrovia, 1,348,900 (metro. area), 550,200 (city proper)

Libya Capital: Tripoli, 2,357,800 (metro. area), 1,269,700 (city proper)

Liechtenstein Capital: Vaduz, 5,300

Lithuania Capital: Vilnius, 543,500

Luxembourg Capital: Luxembourg, 78,800

Macedonia Capital: Skopje, 587,300 (metro. area), 452,500 (city proper)

Madagascar Capital: Antananarivo, 1,390,800

Malawi Capital: Lilongwe, 499,200

MalaysiaCapital: Kuala Lumpur, 3,688,200 (metro. area), 1,403,400

Maldives Capital: Malé, 81,600

Mali Capital: Bamako, 1,323,200 (metro. area), 935,400

Malta Capital: Valletta, 194,200 (metro. area) 6,900 (city proper)

Marshall Islands Capital: Majuro, 20,500

Mauritania Capital: Nouakchott, 661,400

Mauritius Capital: Port Louis, 577,200 (metro. area), 143,800 (city proper)

Mexico Capital: Mexico City, 19,013,000 (metro. area), 8,591,309 (city proper)

Micronesia Capital: Palikir 11,600

Moldova Capital: Chisinau, 772,500 (metro. area), 709,900 (city proper)

Monaco Capital: Monaco, 1,400

Mongolia Capital: Ulaan Baatar, 804,200

Montenegro Capital: Podgorica (administrative capital), 117,875; Cetinje (capital city), 14,700

Morocco Capital: Rabat, 1,636,600

Mozambique Capital: Maputo, 1,691,000 (metro. area), 1,114,000 (city proper)

MyanmarCapital: Rangoon (Yangon), 4,344,100

Namibia Capital: Windhoek, 221,000. Summer capital: Swakopmund, 26,200

Nauru Capital: Yaren, 4,900

Nepal Capital: Kathmandu, 1,203,100 (metro. area), 729,000 (city proper)

NetherlandsCapital: Amsterdam (official), 737,900; The Hague (administrative capital), 465,900

New ZealandCapital: Wellington, 342,500 (metro. area), 165,100 (city proper)

Nicaragua Capital: Managua, 1,390,500 (metro. area), 1,146,000 (city proper)

Niger Capital: Niamey, 748,600

Nigeria Capital: Abuja, 590,400 (metro. area), 165,700 (city proper)

NorwayCapital: Oslo, 791,500

Oman Capital: Muscat, 797,000 (metro. area), 54,800 (city proper)

Pakistan Capital: Islamabad, 601,600

Palau Capital: Koror, 11,100

Palestinian State (proposed) Capital: Undetermined

PanamaCapital: Panama City, 1,053,500 (metro. area), 437,200 (city proper)

Papua New GuineaCapital: Port Moresby, 324,900

Paraguay Capital: Asunción, 1,482,200 (metro. area), 525,100

Peru Capital: Lima, 8,180,000 (metro. area), 7,029,928 (city proper)

PhilippinesCapital: Manila, 10,677,000 (metro. area), 1,581,082 (city proper)

Poland Capital: Warsaw, 2,201,900 (metro. area), 1,607,600 (city proper)

Portugal Capital: Lisbon, 2,618,100 (metro. area), 559,400

Qatar Capital: Doha, 550,700 (metro. area), 318,500 (city proper)

Romania Capital: Bucharest, 2,210,800 (metro. area), 1,906,800 (city proper)

RussiaCapital: Moscow, 10,672,000 (metro. area), 10,101,500 (city proper)

Rwanda Capital: Kigali, 298,100

St. Kitts and Nevis Capital: Basseterre (on St. Kitts), 11,500

St. Lucia Capital: Castries, 60,300

St. Vincent and the Grenadines Capital: Kingstown, 17,600

Samoa Capital: Apia, 35,900

San Marino Capital: San Marino, 4,300

São Tomé and Príncipe Capital: São Tomé, 53,300

Saudi Arabia Capital: Riyadh, 3,724,100

Senegal Capital: Dakar, 2,476,400

Serbia Capital: Belgrade, 1,717,800 (metro. area), 1,285,200 (city proper)

Seychelles Capital: Victoria, 23,000

Sierra Leone Capital: Freetown, 1,051,000

SingaporeCapital: Singapore, 3,438,600

Slovakia Capital: Bratislava, 428,800

Slovenia Capital: Ljubljana, 258,000

South AfricaCapital: Pretoria, 1,541,300 (metro. area), 1,249,700 (city proper); Legislative capital and largest city: Cape Town, 3,140,600 (metro. area), 2,733,000 (city proper). Judicial capital: Bloemfontein, 378,000. No decision has been made to relocate the seat of government. South Africa is demarcated into nine provinces, consisting of the Gauteng, Northern Province, Mpumalanga, North West, KwaZulu/Natal, Eastern Cape, Western Cape, Northern Cape, and Free State. Each province has its own capital

Solomon Islands Capital: Honiara (on Guadalcanal), 54,600

Somalia Capital: Mogadishu, 1,208,800

Spain Capital: Madrid, 5,130,000 (metro. area), 3,169,400 (city proper)

Sri Lanka Capital: Colombo, 2,436,000 (metro. area), 656,100 (city proper). Legislative and judicial capital: Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, 118,300

Sudan Capital: Khartoum, 5,717,300 (metro. area), 1,397,900 (city proper)

Suriname Capital: Paramaribo, 217,300

Swaziland Capital: Mbabane, 69,000; Royal and legislative capital: Lobamba, circa 5,000

SwedenCapital: Stockholm, 1,622,300 (metro. area), 1,251,900 (city proper)

SwitzerlandCapital: Bern, 122,700

Syria Capital: Damascus, 2,381,800 (metro. area), 1,861,900

Taiwan Capital: Taipei, 7,871,900 (metro. area), 2,722,600 (city proper)

Tajikistan Capital: Dushanbe, 817,100 (metro. area), 590,300 (city proper)

Tanzania Capital: Dodoma, 164,500. Largest city (2003 est.): Dar es Salaam, 2,489,800

ThailandCapital: Bangkok, 6,320,174 (city proper)

Togo Capital: Lomé, 749,700 (metro. area), 676,400 (city proper)

Tonga Capital: Nuku'alofa, 24,500

Trinidad and Tobago Capital: Port-of-Spain, 263,800 (metro. area), 45,300 (city proper)

Tunisia Capital: Tunis, 1,660,300 (metro. area), 699,700 (city proper)

Turkey Capital: Ankara, 3,582,000 (metro. area), 3,456,100 (city proper)

Turkmenistan Capital: Ashgabat, 727,700

Tuvalu Capital: Funafuti, 5,300

Uganda Capital: Kampala, 1,461,600 (metro. area), 1,244,000 (city proper)

Ukraine Capital: Kyiv (Kiev), 3,296,100 (metro. area), 2,588,400 (city proper)

United Arab Emirates Capital: Abu Dhabi, 539,800

United Kingdom Capital: London, 7,615,000 (metro. area), 7,429,200 (city proper)

United StatesCapital: Washington, DC, 570,898

Uruguay Capital: Montevideo, 1,745,100 (metro. area), 1,347,600 (city proper)

Uzbekistan Capital: Tashkent, 3,457,500 (metro. area), 2,155,400 (city proper)

VanuatuCapital: Port Vila, 35,300

Venezuela Capital: Caracas, 3,517,300 (metro. area), 1,741,400 (city proper)

VietnamCapital: Hanoi, 2,543,700 (metro. area), 1,396,500 (city proper)

Western Sahara (proposed state) Capital: El Aaiun 198,200

Yemen Capital: Sanaá, 1,778,900

Zambia Capital: Lusaka, 1,773,300 (metro. area), 1,265,000 (city proper)

Zimbabwe Capital: Harare, 2,331,400 (metro. area), 1,919,700 (city proper)