World Capital Cities with their country in a sortable table.


Country  Capital City  
AfghanistanKabul
AlbaniaTirana (Tirane)
AlgeriaAlgiers
AndorraAndorra la Vella
AngolaLuanda
Antigua and BarbudaSaint John's
ArgentinaBuenos Aires
ArmeniaYerevan
AustraliaCanberra
AustriaVienna
AzerbaijanBaku
BahamasNassau
BahrainManama
BangladeshDhaka
BarbadosBridgetown
BelarusMinsk
BelgiumBrussels
BelizeBelmopan
BeninPorto Novo[1]
BhutanThimphu
BoliviaLa Paz (administrative), Sucre (official)[2]
Bosnia and HerzegovinaSarajevo
BotswanaGaborone
BrazilBrasilia
BruneiBandar Seri Begawan
BulgariaSofia
Burkina FasoOuagadougou
BurundiGitega[3]
CambodiaPhnom Penh
CameroonYaounde
CanadaOttawa
Cape VerdePraia
Central African RepublicBangui
ChadN'Djamena
ChileSantiago
ChinaBeijing
ColombiaBogota
ComorosMoroni
Congo, Democratic Republic of theKinshasa
Congo, Republic of theBrazzaville
Costa RicaSan Jose
Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)Yamoussoukro[4]
CroatiaZagreb
CubaHavana
CyprusNicosia
Czech Republic (Czechia)[5]Prague
DenmarkCopenhagen
DjiboutiDjibouti
DominicaRoseau
Dominican RepublicSanto Domingo
East TimorDili
EcuadorQuito
EgyptCairo
El SalvadorSan Salvador
England[6]London
Equatorial GuineaMalabo
EritreaAsmara
EstoniaTallinn
Eswatini (Swaziland)[7]Mbabana[8]
EthiopiaAddis Ababa
Federated States of MicronesiaPalikir
FijiSuva
FinlandHelsinki
FranceParis
GabonLibreville
GambiaBanjul
GeorgiaTbilisi
GermanyBerlin
GhanaAccra
GreeceAthens
GrenadaSaint George's
GuatemalaGuatemala City
GuineaConakry
Guinea-BissauBissau
GuyanaGeorgetown
HaitiPort au Prince
HondurasTegucigalpa
HungaryBudapest
IcelandReykjavik
IndiaNew Delhi
IndonesiaJakarta
IranTehran
IraqBaghdad
IrelandDublin
IsraelJerusalem (very limited international recognition)[9]
ItalyRome
JamaicaKingston
JapanTokyo
JordanAmman
KazakhstanNur-Sultan[10]
KenyaNairobi
KiribatiTarawa Atoll
KosovoPristina
KuwaitKuwait City
KyrgyzstanBishkek
LaosVientiane
LatviaRiga
LebanonBeirut
LesothoMaseru
LiberiaMonrovia
LibyaTripoli
LiechtensteinVaduz
LithuaniaVilnius
LuxembourgLuxembourg
MadagascarAntananarivo
MalawiLilongwe
MalaysiaKuala Lumpur[11]
MaldivesMale
MaliBamako
MaltaValletta
Marshall IslandsMajuro
MauritaniaNouakchott
MauritiusPort Louis
MexicoMexico City
MoldovaChisinau
MonacoMonaco
MongoliaUlaanbaatar
MontenegroPodgorica
MoroccoRabat
MozambiqueMaputo
Myanmar (Burma)Nay Pyi Taw[12]
NamibiaWindhoek
NauruNo official capital
NepalKathmandu
NetherlandsAmsterdam[13]
New ZealandWellington
NicaraguaManagua
NigerNiamey
NigeriaAbuja
North KoreaPyongyang
North Macedonia (Macedonia)[14]Skopje
Northern Ireland[15]Belfast
NorwayOslo
OmanMuscat
PakistanIslamabad
PalauMelekeok
PanamaPanama City
Papua New GuineaPort Moresby
ParaguayAsuncion
PeruLima
PhilippinesManila
PolandWarsaw
PortugalLisbon
QatarDoha
RomaniaBucharest
RussiaMoscow
RwandaKigali
Saint Kitts and NevisBasseterre
Saint LuciaCastries
Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesKingstown
SamoaApia
San MarinoSan Marino
Sao Tome and PrincipeSao Tome
Saudi ArabiaRiyadh
Scotland[16]Edinburgh
SenegalDakar
SerbiaBelgrade
SeychellesVictoria
Sierra LeoneFreetown
SingaporeSingapore
SlovakiaBratislava
SloveniaLjubljana
Solomon IslandsHoniara
SomaliaMogadishu
South AfricaPretoria, Bloemfontein, Cape Town[17]
South KoreaSeoul
South SudanJuba
SpainMadrid
Sri LankaSri Jayawardenapura Kotte[18]
SudanKhartoum
SurinameParamaribo
SwedenStockholm
SwitzerlandBern
SyriaDamascus
Taiwan[19]Taipei
TajikistanDushanbe
TanzaniaDodoma[20]
ThailandBangkok
TogoLome
TongaNuku'alofa
Trinidad and TobagoPort of Spain
TunisiaTunis
TurkeyAnkara
TurkmenistanAshgabat
TuvaluFunafuti[21]
UgandaKampala
UkraineKiev
United Arab EmiratesAbu Dhabi
United KingdomLondon
United StatesWashington D.C.
UruguayMontevideo
UzbekistanTashkent
VanuatuPort Vila
Vatican CityVatican City
VenezuelaCaracas
VietnamHanoi
Wales[22]Cardiff
YemenSana'a[23]
ZambiaLusaka
ZimbabweHarare
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Foot Notes

1 The capital of Benin is Porto-Novo, but the seat of government is in Cotonou.
2 La Paz is the seat of the government and the de facto capital of Bolivia. Sucre is the official capital, as defined in the Bolivian constitution.
3 The political capital of Burundi is Gitega (December 2018). Bujumbura remains the seat of the government and economic capital.
4 The political capital of Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) is Yamoussoukro in the centre of the country, while its economic capital and largest city is the port city of Abidjan.
5 Czechia was made the official short name of Czech Republic on 14 April 2016.
6 England is a constituent part of the sovereign state of the United Kingdom. Although not fully independent, it is widely referred to as a country.
7 In 2018 the king of Swaziland proclaimed his nation would be henceforth known as Eswatini. The country's name in its constitution has not yet been changed from Swaziland.
8 Mbabane is the administrative capital of Eswatini (Swaziland), while Lobamba is the legislative and royal capital of the country.
9 Both Israel and Palestine claim Jerusalem as their capital and its unresolved status is one of the core questions at the heart of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Israel proclaimed Jerusalem as its capital in December 1949 in defiance of the UN General Assembly's decision earlier that month to reaffirm the international neutral zone (Corpus Separatum) status of the city. Due to the UN decision, very few countries recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and as a result almost all the international embassies in Israel are located in Tel Aviv.
Most countries maintain a position of 'non-recognition' of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Non-recognition is a legal term used in international law to apply to any situation established in violation of the League of Nations Pact (resolution 11 March 1932). UN Security Council resolutions 476 and 478 (1980) assert that Israel is in violation of the Pact, having unlawfully occupied Palestinian East Jerusalem since 1967. Under international law, such an occupation precludes Israel from claiming sovereignty on the city.
More than 135 United Nations member countries recognise Palestine as an independent state, but Israel and a few other countries, including the United States, do not make this distinction. The United States recognised Jerusalem as Israel's capital in December 2017, a significant but rare exception to the decades of international non-recognition consensus on the highly contested city.
10 Nur-Sultan (previously named Astana) is the capital city of Kazakhstan. It was renamed in March 2019, in honour of the departing Kazakh president, Nursultan Nazarbayev.
11 Kuala Lumpur is the national capital and largest city of Malaysia while Putrajaya is the seat of federal government.
12 Construction of Myanmar's capital, Nay Pyi Taw, began in secrecy in 2002. Built under military rule, it is four times the size of London and strangely empty.
13 Amsterdam is the constitutional capital of the Netherlands. The Hague is the seat of the government and residence of the monarchy.
14 As a result of a dispute with Greece over the name 'Macedonia', the country renamed itself Republic of North Macedonia in February 2019.
15 Northern Ireland is a constituent part of the sovereign state of the United Kingdom. Although not fully independent, it is widely referred to as a country.
16 Scotland is a constituent part of the sovereign state of the United Kingdom. Although not fully independent, it is widely referred to as a country.
17 South Africa has no legally defined capital city. The country's three branches of government are split over different cities: Pretoria (executive), Bloemfontein (judicial) and Cape Town (legislative). Most foreign embassies are located in Pretoria.
18 Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is the administrative capital of Sri Lanka and official seat of government. It is a suburb of the commercial capital and largest city, Colombo.
19 Taiwan is officially known as the Republic of China (ROC) and has limited diplomatic recognition as an independent country. China claims sovereignty over its territory.
20 De facto Tanzania's capital remains in Dar es Salaam, the site of the executive branch offices and diplomatic representation.
21 The de facto capital of Tuvalu is the village of Vaiaku, where most government offices are located.
22 Wales is a constituent part of the sovereign state of the United Kingdom. Although not fully independent, it is widely referred to as a country.
23 Yemen's constitutionally stated capital is Sana'a, but this city has been under Houthi rebel control since February 2015. Yemen's capital has been temporarily relocated to the port city of Aden, the former capital of South Yemen.

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