World: Countries and Capitals

Afghanistan - Kabul
Albania Tirana
Algeria Algiers
Andorra Andorra la Vella
Angola Luanda
Antigua and Barbuda St. John's
Argentina Buenos Aires
Armenia Yerevan
Australia Canberra
Austria Vienna
Azerbaijan Baku
Bahamas Nassau
Bahrain Al-Manámah
Bangladesh Dhaka
Barbados Bridgetown
Belarus Mensk
Belgium Brussels
Belize Belmopan
Benin Porto-Novo
Bhutan Thimphu
Bolivia Sucre
Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo
Botswana Gaborone
Brazil Brasília
Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan
Bulgaria Sofia
Burkina Faso Ouagadougou
Burundi Bujumbura
Cambodia Phnom Penh
Cameroon Yaoundé
Canada Ottawa, Ontario
Cape Verde Praia
Central African Republic Bangui
Chad N'Djamena
Chile Santiago
China Beijing
Colombia Santafé de Bogotá
Comoros Moroni (on Grande Comoro)
Congo, Democratic Republic of the Kinshasa
Congo, Republic of Brazzaville
Costa Rica San José
Côte d'Ivoire Yamoussoukro
Croatia Zagreb
Cuba Havana
Cyprus Nicosia
Czech Republic Prague
Denmark Copenhagen
Djibouti Djibouti
Dominica Roseau
Dominican Republic Santo Domingo
East Timor Dili
Ecuador Quito
Egypt Cairo
El Salvador San Salvador
Equatorial Guinea Malabo
Eritrea Asmara
Estonia Tallinn
Ethiopia Addis Ababa
Fiji Suva
Finland Helsinki
France Paris
Gabon Libreville
Gambia Banjul
Georgia Tbilisi
Germany Berlin
Ghana Accra
Greece Athens
Grenada St. George's
Guatemala Guatemala City
Guinea Conakry
Guinea-Bissau Bissau
Guyana Georgetown, 227,700
Haiti Port-au-Prince, 1,764,000 (metro. area), 1,119,000 (city proper)
Honduras Tegucigalpa, 1,436,000 (metro. area), 1,248,300 (city proper)
Hungary Budapest, 2,597,000 (metro. area), 1,769,500 (city proper)
Iceland Reykjavik, 184,200 (metro. area), 114,800 (city proper)
India New Delhi, 15,334,000 (metro. area), 9,817,439 (city proper)
Indonesia Jakarta, 13,194,000 (metro. area), 8,389,443 (city proper)
Iran Tehran, 7,796,257 (city proper)
Iraq Baghdad, 6,777,300 (metro. area), 5,772,000 (city proper)
Ireland Dublin, 1,018,500
Israel Jerusalem, 695,500 Note: Israel proclaimed Jerusalem as its capital in 1950, but the U.S., like nearly all other countries, maintains its embassy in Tel Aviv.
Italy Rome, 3,550,900 (metro. area), 2,455,600 (city proper)
Jamaica Kingston, 937,700 (metro. area), 590,500 (city proper)
Japan Tokyo, 35,327,000 (metro. area), 8,483,050 (city proper)
Jordan Amman, 2,677,500 (metro. area), 1,293,200
Kazakhstan Astana, 288,200 (formerly Aqmola; capital since 1997)
Kenya Nairobi, 3,064,800 (metro. area), 2,411,900 (city proper)
Kiribati Tarawa, 26,600
Korea, North Pyongyang, 3,222,000 (metro. area), 2,767,900
Korea, South Seoul, 10,287,847 (city proper)
Kosovo Pristina, 400,000 (est.)
Kuwait Kuwait, 1,709,800 (metro. area), 32,600 (city proper)
Kyrgyzstan Bishkek (formerly Frunze), 824,900
Laos Vientiane, 194,200
Latvia Riga, 867,700 (metro. area), 706,200 (city proper)
Lebanon Beirut, 1,916,100 (metro. area), 1,171,000 (city proper)
Lesotho Maseru 173,700
Liberia Monrovia, 1,348,900 (metro. area), 550,200 (city proper)
Libya Tripoli, 2,357,800 (metro. area), 1,269,700 (city proper)
Liechtenstein Vaduz, 5,300
Lithuania Vilnius, 543,500
Luxembourg Luxembourg, 78,800
Macedonia Skopje, 587,300 (metro. area), 452,500 (city proper)
Madagascar Antananarivo, 1,390,800
Malawi Lilongwe, 499,200
Malaysia Kuala Lumpur, 3,688,200 (metro. area), 1,403,400
Maldives Malé, 81,600
Mali Bamako, 1,323,200 (metro. area), 935,400
Malta Valletta, 194,200 (metro. area) 6,900 (city proper)
Marshall Islands Majuro, 20,500
Mauritania Nouakchott, 661,400
Mauritius Port Louis, 577,200 (metro. area), 143,800 (city proper)
Mexico Mexico City, 19,013,000 (metro. area), 8,591,309 (city proper)
Micronesia Palikir 11,600
Moldova Chisinau, 772,500 (metro. area), 709,900 (city proper)
Monaco Monaco, 1,400
Mongolia Ulaan Baatar, 804,200
Montenegro Podgorica (administrative capital), 117,875; Cetinje (capital city), 14,700
Morocco Rabat, 1,636,600
Mozambique Maputo, 1,691,000 (metro. area), 1,114,000 (city proper)
Myanmar Rangoon (Yangon), 4,344,100
Namibia Windhoek, 221,000. Summer capital: Swakopmund, 26,200
Nauru Yaren, 4,900
Nepal Kathmandu, 1,203,100 (metro. area), 729,000 (city proper)
Netherlands Amsterdam (official), 737,900; The Hague (administrative capital), 465,900
New Zealand Wellington, 342,500 (metro. area), 165,100 (city proper)
Nicaragua Managua, 1,390,500 (metro. area), 1,146,000 (city proper)
Niger Niamey, 748,600
Nigeria Abuja, 590,400 (metro. area), 165,700 (city proper)
Norway Oslo, 791,500
Oman Muscat, 797,000 (metro. area), 54,800 (city proper)
Pakistan Islamabad, 601,600
Palau Koror, 11,100
Palestinian State (proposed) Undetermined
Panama Panama City, 1,053,500 (metro. area), 437,200 (city proper)
Papua New Guinea Port Moresby, 324,900
Paraguay Asunción, 1,482,200 (metro. area), 525,100
Peru Lima, 8,180,000 (metro. area), 7,029,928 (city proper)
Philippines Manila, 10,677,000 (metro. area), 1,581,082 (city proper)
Poland Warsaw, 2,201,900 (metro. area), 1,607,600 (city proper)
Portugal Lisbon, 2,618,100 (metro. area), 559,400
Qatar Doha, 550,700 (metro. area), 318,500 (city proper)
Romania Bucharest, 2,210,800 (metro. area), 1,906,800 (city proper)
Russia Moscow, 10,672,000 (metro. area), 10,101,500 (city proper)
Rwanda Kigali, 298,100
St. Kitts and Nevis Basseterre (on St. Kitts), 11,500
St. Lucia Castries, 60,300
St. Vincent and the Grenadines Kingstown, 17,600
Samoa Apia, 35,900
San Marino San Marino, 4,300
São Tomé and Príncipe São Tomé, 53,300
Saudi Arabia Riyadh, 3,724,100
Senegal Dakar, 2,476,400
Serbia Belgrade, 1,717,800 (metro. area), 1,285,200 (city proper)
Seychelles Victoria, 23,000
Sierra Leone Freetown, 1,051,000
Singapore Singapore, 3,438,600
Slovakia Bratislava, 428,800
Slovenia Ljubljana, 258,000
Solomon Islands Honiara (on Guadalcanal), 54,600
Somalia Mogadishu, 1,208,800
South Africa 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
Spain Madrid, 5,130,000 (metro. area), 3,169,400 (city proper)
Sri Lanka Colombo, 2,436,000 (metro. area), 656,100 (city proper). Legislative and judicial capital: Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, 118,300
Sudan Khartoum, 5,717,300 (metro. area), 1,397,900 (city proper)
Suriname Paramaribo, 217,300
Swaziland Mbabane, 69,000; Royal and legislative capital: Lobamba, circa 5,000
Sweden Stockholm, 1,622,300 (metro. area), 1,251,900 (city proper)
Switzerland Bern, 122,700
Syria Damascus, 2,381,800 (metro. area), 1,861,900
Taiwan Taipei, 7,871,900 (metro. area), 2,722,600 (city proper)
Tajikistan Dushanbe, 817,100 (metro. area), 590,300 (city proper)
Tanzania Dodoma, 164,500. Largest city (2003 est.): Dar es Salaam, 2,489,800
Thailand Bangkok, 6,320,174 (city proper)
Togo Lomé, 749,700 (metro. area), 676,400 (city proper)
Tonga Nuku'alofa, 24,500
Trinidad and Tobago Port-of-Spain, 263,800 (metro. area), 45,300 (city proper)
Tunisia Tunis, 1,660,300 (metro. area), 699,700 (city proper)
Turkey Ankara, 3,582,000 (metro. area), 3,456,100 (city proper)
Turkmenistan Ashgabat, 727,700
Tuvalu Funafuti, 5,300
Uganda Kampala, 1,461,600 (metro. area), 1,244,000 (city proper)
Ukraine Kyiv (Kiev), 3,296,100 (metro. area), 2,588,400 (city proper)
United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi, 539,800
United Kingdom London, 7,615,000 (metro. area), 7,429,200 (city proper)
United States Washington, DC, 570,898
Uruguay Montevideo, 1,745,100 (metro. area), 1,347,600 (city proper)
Uzbekistan Tashkent, 3,457,500 (metro. area), 2,155,400 (city proper)
Vanuatu Port Vila, 35,300
Venezuela Caracas, 3,517,300 (metro. area), 1,741,400 (city proper)
Vietnam Hanoi, 2,543,700 (metro. area), 1,396,500 (city proper)
Western Sahara (proposed state) El Aaiun 198,200
Yemen Sanaá, 1,778,900
Zambia Lusaka, 1,773,300 (metro. area), 1,265,000 (city proper)
Zimbabwe Harare, 2,331,400 (metro. area), 1,919,700 (city proper)


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