World Capitals

Capitals of Europe

Country	Capital	Population	Area
Albania	Tirana	2.4 million	28,748 km²
Andorra	Andorra la Vella	81,900	468 km²
Austria	Vienna	9.2 million	83,871 km²
Belarus	Minsk	9.1 million	207,600 km²
Belgium	Brussels	11.9 million	30,528 km²
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sarajevo	3.2 million	51,209 km²
Bulgaria	Sofia	6.4 million	110,879 km²
Croatia	Zagreb	3.9 million	56,594 km²
Cyprus	Nicosia	1.4 million	9,251 km²
Czechia	Prague	10.9 million	78,865 km²
Denmark	Copenhagen	6 million	43,094 km²
Estonia	Tallinn	1.4 million	45,227 km²
Finland	Helsinki	5.6 million	338,424 km²
France	Paris	68.6 million	551,695 km²
Germany	Berlin	83.5 million	357,114 km²
Greece	Athens	10.4 million	131,990 km²
Hungary	Budapest	9.6 million	93,028 km²
Iceland	Reykjavík	386,500	103,000 km²
Ireland	Dublin	5.4 million	70,273 km²
Italy	Rome	59 million	301,336 km²
Latvia	Riga	1.9 million	64,559 km²
Liechtenstein	Vaduz	40,500	160 km²
Lithuania	Vilnius	2.9 million	65,300 km²
Luxembourg	Luxembourg	677,000	2,586 km²
Malta	Valletta	568,800	316 km²
Moldova	Chișinău	2.4 million	33,846 km²
Monaco	Monaco	38,600	2 km²
Montenegro	Podgorica	623,500	13,812 km²
Netherlands	Amsterdam *	18 million	41,850 km²
North Macedonia	Skopje	1.8 million	25,713 km²
Norway	Oslo	5.6 million	323,802 km²
Poland	Warsaw	36.6 million	312,679 km²
Portugal	Lisbon	10.7 million	92,090 km²
Romania	Bucharest	19.1 million	238,391 km²
Russia	Moscow	143.7 million	17,098,242 km²
San Marino	San Marino	34,000	61 km²
Serbia	Belgrade	6.6 million	88,361 km²
Slovakia	Bratislava	5.4 million	49,037 km²
Slovenia	Ljubljana	2.1 million	20,273 km²
Spain	Madrid	48.8 million	505,992 km²
Sweden	Stockholm	10.6 million	450,295 km²
Switzerland	Bern	9 million	41,284 km²
Ukraine	Kyiv	37.9 million	603,500 km²
United Kingdom	London	69.3 million	242,900 km²
Vatican City	Vatican City	900	0 km²

• * Netherlands: Amsterdam is the capital; government and parliament sit in The Hague.

Capitals of Africa

Country	Capital	Population	Area
Algeria	Algiers	46.8 million	2,381,741 km²
Angola	Luanda	37.9 million	1,246,700 km²
Benin	Porto-Novo *	14.5 million	112,622 km²
Botswana	Gaborone	2.5 million	582,000 km²
Burkina Faso	Ouagadougou	23.5 million	272,967 km²
Burundi	Gitega	14 million	27,834 km²
Cameroon	Yaoundé	29.1 million	475,442 km²
Cape Verde	Praia	524,900	4,033 km²
Central African Republic	Bangui	5.3 million	622,984 km²
Chad	N'Djamena	20.3 million	1,284,000 km²
Comoros	Moroni	866,600	1,862 km²
Djibouti	Djibouti	1.2 million	23,200 km²
DR Congo	Kinshasa	109.3 million	2,344,858 km²
Egypt	Cairo	116.5 million	1,002,450 km²
Equatorial Guinea	Malabo	1.9 million	28,051 km²
Eritrea	Asmara	3.5 million	117,600 km²
Eswatini	Mbabane and Lobamba *	1.2 million	17,364 km²
Ethiopia	Addis Ababa	132.1 million	1,104,300 km²
Gabon	Libreville	2.5 million	267,668 km²
Gambia	Banjul	2.8 million	10,689 km²
Ghana	Accra	34.4 million	238,533 km²
Guinea	Conakry	14.8 million	245,857 km²
Guinea-Bissau	Bissau	2.2 million	36,125 km²
Ivory Coast	Yamoussoukro *	31.9 million	322,463 km²
Kenya	Nairobi	56.4 million	580,367 km²
Lesotho	Maseru	2.3 million	30,355 km²
Liberia	Monrovia	5.6 million	111,369 km²
Libya	Tripoli	7.4 million	1,759,540 km²
Madagascar	Antananarivo	32 million	587,041 km²
Malawi	Lilongwe	21.7 million	118,484 km²
Mali	Bamako	24.5 million	1,240,192 km²
Mauritania	Nouakchott	5.2 million	1,030,700 km²
Mauritius	Port Louis	1.2 million	2,040 km²
Morocco	Rabat	38.1 million	446,550 km²
Mozambique	Maputo	34.6 million	801,590 km²
Namibia	Windhoek	3 million	825,615 km²
Niger	Niamey	27 million	1,267,000 km²
Nigeria	Abuja	232.7 million	923,768 km²
Republic of the Congo	Brazzaville	6.3 million	342,000 km²
Rwanda	Kigali	14.3 million	26,338 km²
São Tomé and Príncipe	São Tomé	235,500	964 km²
Senegal	Dakar	18.5 million	196,722 km²
Seychelles	Victoria	121,400	452 km²
Sierra Leone	Freetown	8.6 million	71,740 km²
Somalia	Mogadishu	19 million	637,657 km²
South Africa	Pretoria, Cape Town and Bloemfontein *	64 million	1,221,037 km²
South Sudan	Juba	11.9 million	619,745 km²
Sudan	Khartoum	50.4 million	1,886,068 km²
Tanzania	Dodoma *	68.6 million	945,087 km²
Togo	Lomé	8.4 million	56,785 km²
Tunisia	Tunis	12.3 million	163,610 km²
Uganda	Kampala	50 million	241,550 km²
Zambia	Lusaka	21.3 million	752,612 km²
Zimbabwe	Harare	16.6 million	390,757 km²

• * Benin: Porto-Novo is the official capital; Cotonou is the seat of government.
• * Eswatini: Mbabane is the administrative capital, Lobamba the royal and legislative one.
• * Ivory Coast: Yamoussoukro is the official capital; most institutions are in Abidjan.
• * South Africa: South Africa has three capitals: Pretoria (government), Cape Town (parliament) and Bloemfontein (supreme court of appeal).
• * Tanzania: Dodoma is the official capital; Dar es Salaam is the largest city and still hosts many offices.

Capitals of Asia

Country	Capital	Population	Area
Afghanistan	Kabul	42.6 million	652,230 km²
Armenia	Yerevan	3 million	29,743 km²
Azerbaijan	Baku	10.2 million	86,600 km²
Bahrain	Manama	1.6 million	765 km²
Bangladesh	Dhaka	173.6 million	147,570 km²
Bhutan	Thimphu	791,500	38,394 km²
Brunei	Bandar Seri Begawan	462,700	5,765 km²
Cambodia	Phnom Penh	17.6 million	181,035 km²
China	Beijing	1.4 billion	9,706,961 km²
Georgia	Tbilisi	3.8 million	69,700 km²
India	New Delhi	1.5 billion	3,287,590 km²
Indonesia	Jakarta *	283.5 million	1,904,569 km²
Iran	Tehran	91.6 million	1,648,195 km²
Iraq	Baghdad	46 million	438,317 km²
Israel	Jerusalem *	10 million	20,770 km²
Japan	Tokyo	124 million	377,930 km²
Jordan	Amman	11.6 million	89,342 km²
Kazakhstan	Astana	20.6 million	2,724,900 km²
Kuwait	Kuwait City	4.9 million	17,818 km²
Kyrgyzstan	Bishkek	7.2 million	199,951 km²
Laos	Vientiane	7.8 million	236,800 km²
Lebanon	Beirut	5.8 million	10,452 km²
Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur *	35.6 million	330,803 km²
Maldives	Malé	527,800	300 km²
Mongolia	Ulaanbaatar	3.5 million	1,564,110 km²
Myanmar	Naypyidaw	54.5 million	676,578 km²
Nepal	Kathmandu	29.7 million	147,181 km²
North Korea	Pyongyang	26.5 million	120,538 km²
Oman	Muscat	5.3 million	309,500 km²
Pakistan	Islamabad	251.3 million	881,912 km²
Palestine	Ramallah *	5.3 million	6,220 km²
Philippines	Manila	115.8 million	342,353 km²
Qatar	Doha	2.9 million	11,586 km²
Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	35.3 million	2,149,690 km²
Singapore	Singapore	6 million	710 km²
South Korea	Seoul	51.8 million	100,210 km²
Sri Lanka	Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte *	21.9 million	65,610 km²
Syria	Damascus	24.7 million	185,180 km²
Tajikistan	Dushanbe	10.6 million	143,100 km²
Thailand	Bangkok	71.7 million	513,120 km²
Timor-Leste	Dili	1.4 million	14,874 km²
Turkey	Ankara	85.5 million	783,562 km²
Turkmenistan	Ashgabat	7.5 million	488,100 km²
United Arab Emirates	Abu Dhabi	11 million	83,600 km²
Uzbekistan	Tashkent	36.4 million	447,400 km²
Vietnam	Hanoi	101 million	331,212 km²
Yemen	Sanaa *	40.6 million	527,968 km²

• * Indonesia: Jakarta is the capital; a new capital, Nusantara, is being built on Borneo.
• * Israel: Israel designates Jerusalem as its capital and seat of government; most countries do not recognize this and keep their embassies in Tel Aviv.
• * Malaysia: Kuala Lumpur is the capital; the federal government has moved to Putrajaya.
• * Palestine: Palestine proclaims East Jerusalem as its capital; the Palestinian Authority is based in Ramallah.
• * Sri Lanka: Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is the official capital and seat of parliament; Colombo is the largest city and commercial capital.
• * Yemen: Sanaa is the constitutional capital; the internationally recognized government has worked from Aden since 2015.

Capitals of North America

Country	Capital	Population	Area
Antigua and Barbuda	St. John's	93,800	442 km²
Bahamas	Nassau	401,300	13,943 km²
Barbados	Bridgetown	282,500	430 km²
Belize	Belmopan	417,100	22,966 km²
Canada	Ottawa	41.3 million	9,984,670 km²
Costa Rica	San José	5.1 million	51,100 km²
Cuba	Havana	11 million	109,884 km²
Dominica	Roseau	66,200	751 km²
Dominican Republic	Santo Domingo	11.4 million	48,671 km²
El Salvador	San Salvador	6.3 million	21,041 km²
Grenada	St. George's	117,200	344 km²
Guatemala	Guatemala City	18.4 million	108,889 km²
Haiti	Port-au-Prince	11.8 million	27,750 km²
Honduras	Tegucigalpa	10.8 million	112,492 km²
Jamaica	Kingston	2.8 million	10,991 km²
Mexico	Mexico City	130.9 million	1,964,375 km²
Nicaragua	Managua	6.9 million	130,373 km²
Panama	Panama City	4.5 million	75,417 km²
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Basseterre	46,800	261 km²
Saint Lucia	Castries	179,700	616 km²
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Kingstown	100,600	389 km²
Trinidad and Tobago	Port of Spain	1.4 million	5,130 km²
United States	Washington, D.C.	340 million	9,372,610 km²

Capitals of South America

Country	Capital	Population	Area
Argentina	Buenos Aires	45.7 million	2,780,400 km²
Bolivia	Sucre *	12.4 million	1,098,581 km²
Brazil	Brasília	212 million	8,515,767 km²
Chile	Santiago	19.8 million	756,102 km²
Colombia	Bogotá	52.9 million	1,141,748 km²
Ecuador	Quito	18.1 million	276,841 km²
Guyana	Georgetown	831,100	214,969 km²
Paraguay	Asunción	6.9 million	406,752 km²
Peru	Lima	34.2 million	1,285,216 km²
Suriname	Paramaribo	634,400	163,820 km²
Uruguay	Montevideo	3.4 million	181,034 km²
Venezuela	Caracas	28.4 million	916,445 km²

• * Bolivia: Sucre is the constitutional capital; the government sits in La Paz.

Capitals of Oceania

Country	Capital	Population	Area
Australia	Canberra	27.2 million	7,692,024 km²
Fiji	Suva	928,800	18,272 km²
Kiribati	South Tarawa	134,500	811 km²
Marshall Islands	Majuro	37,500	181 km²
Micronesia	Palikir	113,200	702 km²
Nauru	Yaren *	11,900	21 km²
New Zealand	Wellington	5.3 million	270,467 km²
Palau	Ngerulmud	17,700	459 km²
Papua New Guinea	Port Moresby	10.6 million	462,840 km²
Samoa	Apia	218,000	2,842 km²
Solomon Islands	Honiara	819,200	28,896 km²
Tonga	Nukuʻalofa	104,200	747 km²
Tuvalu	Funafuti	9,600	26 km²
Vanuatu	Port Vila	327,800	12,189 km²

• * Nauru: Nauru has no official capital; government offices sit in the Yaren District.

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