CAPITAL OF COUNTRIES

City

Country

Abu Dhabi

United Arab Emirates

Abuja

Nigeria

Accra

Ghana

Adamstown

Pitcairn Islands

Addis Ababa

Ethiopia

Algiers

Algeria

Alofi

Niue

Amman

Jordan

Amsterdam

Netherlands

Andorra la Vella

Andorra

Ankara

Turkey

Antananarivo

Madagascar

Apia

Samoa

Ashgabat

Turkmenistan

Asmara

Eritrea

Astana

Kazakhstan

Asuncin

Paraguay

Athens

Greece

Notes

British Overseas Territory

Self-governing
in free
association with New Zealand.

The Dutch constitution refers

to Amsterdam as the "capital". The
Dutch government is located
in The Hague. See Capital of the
Netherlands.

Avarua

Cook Islands

Baghdad

Iraq

Baku

Azerbaijan

Bamako

Mali

Bandar Seri Begawan

Brunei

Bangkok

Thailand

Bangui

Central African Republic

Banjul

Gambia

Basseterre

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Beijing

China

Beirut

Lebanon

Belgrade

Serbia

Belmopan

Belize

Berlin

Germany

Bern

Switzerland

Bishkek

Kyrgyzstan

Bissau

Guinea-Bissau

Bogot

Colombia

Braslia

Brazil

Bratislava

Slovakia

Brazzaville

Republic of the Congo

Bridgetown

Barbados

Brussels

Belgium

Self-governing
in free
association with New Zealand.

See also: List of historical capitals

of China

Also
the

the de

facto capital

European Union

of

Bucharest

Romania

Budapest

Hungary

Buenos Aires

Argentina

Bujumbura

Burundi

Cairo

Egypt

Canberra

Australia

Caracas

Venezuela

Castries

Saint Lucia

Cayenne

French Guiana

Charlotte Amalie

United States Virgin Islands

Chisinau

Moldova

Cockburn Town

Turks and Caicos Islands

Conakry

Guinea

Copenhagen

Denmark

Dakar

Senegal

Damascus

Syria

Dhaka

Bangladesh

Dili

East Timor (Timor-Leste)

Djibouti

Djibouti

Dodoma (official, legislative)

Tanzania

Doha

Qatar

Douglas

Isle of Man

Overseas department of France

Territory of the United States

British Overseas Territory

Dar es Salaam, the former capital

and largest city continues to serve
as the de facto seat of government
hosting
the presidency, government
ministries, judiciary and diplomatic
missions.

British Crown Dependency

Dublin

Ireland

Dushanbe

Tajikistan

Edinburgh of the Seven Seas

Tristan da Cunha

Part of the British Overseas

Territory of Saint
Helena,
Ascension and Tristan da Cunha

El Aain (declared)

Sahrawi Arab Democratic

The Sahrawi Republic, recognised

by 82
states,
claims
the
mostly Moroccan controlledWester
n Sahara. Moroccan controlled
territory includes El Aain, and
Morocco
claims
allSahrawi
controlled territory. The Sahrawi
government resides in exile
in Tindouf,Algeria.[1] See Politics
of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic
Republic.

Republic [c]

Episkopi Cantonment

Akrotiri and Dhekelia

British Overseas Territory

Flying Fish Cove

Christmas Island

Freetown

Sierra Leone

Funafuti

Tuvalu

Gaborone

Botswana

George Town

Cayman Islands

British Overseas Territory

Georgetown

Ascension Island

Part of the British Overseas

Territory of Saint
Helena,
Ascension and Tristan da Cunha

Georgetown

Guyana

Gibraltar

Gibraltar

Guatemala City

Guatemala

Gustavia

Saint Barthlemy

Hagta

Guam

Hamilton

Bermuda

British Overseas Territory

Hanga Roa

Easter Island

Special territory of Chile

External territory of Australia

British Overseas Territory

Overseas collectivity of France

Territory of the United States

Hanoi

Vietnam

Harare

Zimbabwe

Hargeisa

Somaliland

Havana

Cuba

Helsinki

Finland

Honiara

Solomon Islands

Islamabad

Pakistan

Jakarta

Indonesia

Jamestown

Saint Helena

Part of the British Overseas

Territory of Saint
Helena,
Ascension and Tristan da Cunha

Jerusalem (declared, de facto)

Israel

Jerusalem
Law states
that
"Jerusalem, complete and united, is
the capital of Israel", and the city
serves as the seat of the
government,
home
to
the
president's residence, government
offices, supreme court, and
parliament. United
Nations
Security
Council
Resolution
478 declared the Jerusalem Law
"null and void" and called on
member states to withdraw their
diplomatic
missions
from
Jerusalem. The United Nations and
all member states maintain their
embassies in other cities such
as Tel
Aviv, Ramat
Gan,
and Herzliya, and do not recognise
Jerusalem as the capital.[3] Many
countries officially adhere to the
proposal that Jerusalem have
international status, as called for in
thePartition
Plan of
1947.
[4]
The Palestinian
National
Authority claims East Jerusalem as
the capital of a future Palestinian
state. See Positions on Jerusalem.

De facto independent state not

diplomatically recognized by any
other state, claimed in whole by
the Somali Republic.[2]

Jerusalem (declared)
Ramallah and Gaza (de facto)

State of Palestine

Juba

South Sudan

Kabul

Afghanistan

Kampala

Uganda

Kathmandu

The State of Palestine claims the

territories occupied by Israel since
the Six-Day War in 1967, with East
Jerusalem as its capital. The
proclaimed state is currently
occupied by Israel and has no
effective control over the territories
it claims. Administration is based
inRamallah and Gaza, rather than
Jerusalem. Most members of the
United Nations regard East
Jerusalem as occupied territory,
and the Organisation of Islamic
Cooperation, theArab League and
the Non-Aligned
Movement recognise it as the
capital of a future Palestinian state.
[5]
See Positions on Jerusalem.

Nepal

Khartoum

Sudan

Kiev

Ukraine

Kigali

Rwanda

King Edward Point

South Georgia and the South

British Overseas Territory

Sandwich Islands
Kingston

Jamaica

Kingston

Norfolk Island

Kingstown

Saint Vincent and the

Grenadines

Kinshasa

Democratic Republic of the

Congo

Kuala Lumpur (official, legislative and royal)

Putrajaya (administrative and judicial)

Malaysia

Kuwait City

Kuwait

External territory of Australia

Libreville

Gabon

Lilongwe

Malawi

Lima

Peru

Lisbon

Portugal

Ljubljana

Slovenia

Lom

Togo

London

United Kingdom

Luanda

Angola

Lusaka

Zambia

Luxembourg

Luxembourg

Madrid

Spain

Majuro

Marshall Islands

Malabo

Equatorial Guinea

Mal

Maldives

Managua

Nicaragua

Manama

Bahrain

Manila

Philippines

Maputo

Mozambique

Marigot

Saint Martin

Maseru

Lesotho

Mata-Utu

Wallis and Futuna

Mbabane (administrative)
Lobamba (royal and legislative)

Swaziland

[Note 1]

Prior to the Acts of Union in 1707,

London was the capital of England
only. Edinburgh was the capital of
the Kingdom of Scotland

Self-governing
in free
association with United States.

Overseas collectivity of France

Overseas collectivity of France

Mexico City

Mexico

Minsk

Belarus

Mogadishu

Somalia

Monaco

Monaco

Monrovia

Liberia

Montevideo

Uruguay

Moroni

Comoros

Moscow

Russia

Muscat

Oman

Nairobi

Kenya

Nassau

Bahamas

Naypyidaw

Burma

N'Djamena

Chad

New Delhi

India

Ngerulmud

Palau

Niamey

Niger

Nicosia

Cyprus

Nicosia

Northern Cyprus

Nouakchott

Mauritania

Nouma

New Caledonia

Nukualofa

Tonga

Nuuk

Greenland

City-state

Self-governing
in free
association with United States.

De facto independent state that is

recognised
only
by Turkey.
Northern Cyprus is claimed in
whole by the Republic of Cyprus.[6]

Sui generis collectivity of France

Self-governing country
the Kingdom of Denmark

within

Oranjestad

Aruba

Oslo

Norway

Ottawa

Canada

Ouagadougou

Burkina Faso

Pago Pago

American Samoa

Palikir

Federated States of Micronesia

Panama City

Panama

Papeete

French Polynesia

Paramaribo

Suriname

Paris

France

Philipsburg

Sint Maarten

Phnom Penh

Cambodia

Plymouth (official)
Brades Estate (de facto)

Montserrat

Podgorica (official)
Cetinje (seat of thePresident)

Montenegro

Port Louis

Mauritius

Port Moresby

Papua New Guinea

Port Vila

Vanuatu

Port-au-Prince

Haiti

Port of Spain

Trinidad and Tobago

Porto-Novo (official)
Cotonou (de facto)

Benin

Self-governing country within

the Kingdom of the Netherlands

Territory of the United States

Self-governing
in free
association with United States.

Overseas collectivity of France

Self-governing country within

the Kingdom of the Netherlands

British
Overseas
Territory.
Plymouth was abandoned after the
eruption of the Soufriere Hills
volcano in 1997. Government
offices since then have been moved
to Brades Estate, which is in the
northwestern part of Montserrat.

Prague

Czech Republic

Praia

Cape Verde

Pretoria (executive)
Bloemfontein (judicial)
Cape Town (legislative)

South Africa

Pristina

Kosovo[g]

Pyongyang

North Korea

Quito

Ecuador

Rabat

Morocco

Reykjavk

Iceland

Riga

Latvia

Riyadh

Saudi Arabia

Road Town

British Virgin Islands

Rome

Italy

Roseau

Dominica

Saipan

Northern Mariana Islands

San Jos

Costa Rica

San Juan

Puerto Rico

San Marino

San Marino

San Salvador

El Salvador

Sana'a

Yemen

Santiago (official)
Valparaso (legislative)

Chile

De facto independent state that is

recognised by 108 UN member
states and by Taiwan. Claimed in
whole by the Republic of Serbia as
part of its Autonomous Province of
Kosovo and Metohija. Republic of
Kosovo has de facto control over
most of the territory, with limited
control in North Kosovo.

Highest official capital.[7]

British Overseas Territory

Territory of the United States

Territory of the United States

Santo Domingo

Dominican Republic

So Tom

So Tom and Prncipe

Sarajevo

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Seoul

South Korea

Singapore

Singapore

Skopje

Macedonia

Sofia

Bulgaria

Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (official)

Colombo (former capital; has some government

Sri Lanka

offices)

City-state

Also known as "Kotte". Until the

1980s, the capital was Colombo,
where
many
important
governmental institutions still
remain and which is still
designated as the commercial
capital of Sri Lanka.

St. George's

Grenada

St. Helier

Jersey

St. John's

Antigua and Barbuda

St. Peter Port

Guernsey

St. Pierre

Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Stanley

Falkland Islands

Stepanakert

Nagorno-Karabakh Republic

Stockholm

Sweden

Sucre (constitutional)
La Paz (administrative)

Bolivia

La Paz is the highest administrative

capital, higher than Quito.[7]

Sukhumi

Abkhazia

De facto independent state

recognised by Russia, Nauru,
Nicaragua,
Venezuela,
South

British Crown Dependency

British Crown Dependency

Overseas collectivity of France
British Overseas Territory
The self-declared country remains
diplomatically unrecognised by
UN-member states, including
Armenia.
Transnistria,
South
Ossetia, and Abkhazia, all UN nonmember states, recognise the state.
Claimed in whole by Azerbaijan.

Ossetia and Transnistria. Claimed

in whole by Republic of Georgia as
the Autonomous
Republic
of
Abkhazia.
Suva

Fiji

Taipei

Taiwan

Tallinn

Estonia

Tarawa Atoll

Kiribati

Tashkent

Uzbekistan

Tbilisi (official)
Kutaisi (legislative)

Georgia

Tegucigalpa

Honduras

Tehran

Iran

Thimphu

Bhutan

Tirana

Albania

Tiraspol

Transnistria

Officially the Republic of China

(ROC), it has been competing for
recognition
with
thePeople's
Republic of China (PRC) as the
sole Chinese government since
1949. Taiwan controls the island of
Taiwan and its associated islands,
Quemoy, Matsu, the Pratas, and
part of the Spratly Islands[Note 2] The
territory of Taiwan is claimed in
whole by the People's Republic of
China.[Note 3] The Republic of China
participates in the World Health
Organization and a number of nonUN international organizations
such
as
theWorld
Trade
Organization, International
Olympic Committee and others
under a variety of pseudonyms,
most commonly Chinese Taipei.

De facto independent state, not

recognized by any UN-member,
but by Abkhazia and South
Ossetia. Claimed in whole by
the Republic
of
Moldova as
the Territorial Unit of Transnistria.

Tokyo

Japan

Trshavn

Faroe Islands

Tripoli

Libya

Tskhinvali

South Ossetia

Tunis

Tunisia

Ulan Bator

Mongolia

Vaduz

Liechtenstein

Valletta

Malta

The Valley

Anguilla

Vatican City

Vatican City

Victoria

Seychelles

Vienna

Austria

Vientiane

Laos

Vilnius

Lithuania

Warsaw

Poland

Washington, D.C.

United States

Wellington

New Zealand

West Island

Cocos (Keeling) Islands

Willemstad

Curaao

Windhoek

Namibia

Yamoussoukro (official)
Abidjan (former capital; still has many

Ivory Coast

Self-governing country
the Kingdom of Denmark

within

De facto independent state

recognised by Russia, Nicaragua,
Nauru, Venezuela, Abkhazia and
Transnistria. Claimed in whole by
the Republic
of
Georgia as
theProvisional
Administrative
Entity of South Ossetia.

British Overseas Territory

City-state

External territory of Australia

Self-governing country within
the Kingdom of the Netherlands

government offices)

Yaound

Cameroon

Yaren (de facto)

Nauru

Yerevan

Armenia

Zagreb

Croatia

Country does not have an official

capital; however, the government
offices are in Yaren.