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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 Construction of a new capital city, Nusantara, is planned to begin in mid-2023 and is set to replace Jakarta as Indonesia’s capital by late 2024.

¹⁰ 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.

¹¹ Astana (previously named Nur-Sultan) is the capital city of Kazakhstan. The name was changed to Nur-Sultan in March 2019, in honour of outgoing President Nursultan Nazarbayev, reverting to Astana in September 2022.

¹² Kuala Lumpur is the national capital and largest city of Malaysia while Putrajaya is the seat of federal government.

¹³ 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.

¹⁴ Amsterdam is the constitutional capital of the Netherlands. The Hague is the seat of the government and residence of the monarchy.

¹⁵ As a result of a dispute with Greece over the name ‘Macedonia’, the country renamed itself Republic of North Macedonia in February 2019.

¹⁶ 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.

¹⁷ Palestine is a partially recognised sovereign state, recognised by 138 of the 193 UN members. It has had a status of a non-member observer state in the United Nations since 2012.

¹⁸ The status of Jerusalem is disputed in both international law and diplomatic practice, with both the Israelis and Palestinians claiming Jerusalem as their capital city. Israel exercises de facto control over Jerusalem, but Palestine and Israel’s claims to Jerusalem are not recognized by the international community. Ramallah is the administrative capital where government institutions and foreign representative offices are located, while most countries maintain their embassies to Israel in Tel Aviv.

¹⁹ 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.

²⁰ 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.

²¹ 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.

²² 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.

²³ De facto Tanzania’s capital remains in Dar es Salaam, the site of the executive branch offices and diplomatic representation.

²⁴ Turkey is now officially known as Türkiye after the country’s government moved to escape associations with the ground-feeding festive bird and a term for failure. The United Nations adopted the new name in June 2022 at Ankara’s request.

²⁵ The de facto capital of Tuvalu is the village of Vaiaku, where most government offices are located.

²⁶ 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.

²⁷ 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.

List of World Capitals and Their Countries

A capital or simply put as the capital city is a district or town or a municipality that holds the primary status within a country, province, state or another administrative region, generally as its seat of government. The 197 towns or cities as identified as the capital cities of their countries constitute the world capitals and each of them differ in terms of currency, healthcare, pollution level, inhabitants, standard of living, safety and many other factors. All these factors prompt towards the quality of life. Thus, one of the most frequent question striking our mind could be that what is the best place to live? Well, as per the survey Australian capital Canberra is the world’s best place to live in and thereafter the Canadian Ottawa. Apart from this London- the capital city of the Great Britain is one of the most visited towns of the world followed by Bangkok- the capital city of Thailand and then the capital city of France i.e. Paris.

List of All Capital Cities in The World Alphabetically

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• Capital — Country




• Abidjan (former capital) — Cote d’Ivoire
• Abu Dhabi — United Arab Emirates
• Abuja — Nigeria
• Accra — Ghana
• Adamstown — Pitcairn Islands
• Addis Ababa — Ethiopia
• Aden (de facto) — Yemen
• Algiers — Algeria
• Alofi — Niue
• Amman — Jordan
• Amsterdam (official) — Netherlands
• Andorra la Vella — Andorra
• Ankara — Turkey
• Antananarivo — Madagascar
• Apia — Samoa
• Ashgabat — Turkmenistan
• Asmara — Eritrea
• Asunción — Paraguay
• Atafu — Tokelau
• Athens — Greece
• 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
• Basse-Terre — Guadeloupe
• Beijing — China
• Beirut — Lebanon
• Belgrade — Serbia
• Belmopan — Belize
• Berlin — Germany
• Bern — Switzerland
• Bishkek — Kyrgyzstan
• Bissau — Guinea-Bissau
• Bloemfontein (judicial) — South Africa
• Bogotá — Colombia
• Brades (de facto) — Montserrat
• Brasilia — Brazil
• Bratislava — Slovakia
• Brazzaville — Republic of the Congo
• Bridgetown — Barbados
• Brussels — Belgium
• Bucharest — Romania
• Budapest — Hungary
• Buenos Aires — Argentina
• Bujumbura (de facto) — Burundi
• Cairo — Egypt
• Canberra — Australia
• Cape Town (legislative) — South Africa
• Caracas — Venezuela
• Castries — Saint Lucia
• Cayenne — French Guiana
• Cetinje (Old Royal Capital) — Montenegro
• Charlotte Amalie — Virgin Islands (U.S.)
• Chișinău — Moldova
• Cockburn Town — Turks and Caicos
• Colombo (executive, judicial) — Sri Lanka
• Conakry — Guinea
• Copenhagen — Denmark
• Dakar — Senegal
• Damascus — Syria
• Dar es Salaam (de facto, judicial) — Tanzania
• Dhaka — Bangladesh
• Dili — East Timor
• Djibouti — Djibouti
• Dodoma (official, legislative) — Tanzania
• Doha — Qatar
• Douglas — Isle of Man
• Dublin — Ireland
• Dushanbe — Tajikistan
• El Aaiún (declared) — Western Sahara
• Fakaofo — Tokelau
• Flying Fish Cove — Christmas Island
• Fort-de-France — Martinique
• Freetown — Sierra Leone
• Funafuti — Tuvalu
• Gaborone — Botswana
• Gaza City — Gaza Strip
• George Town — Cayman Islands
• Georgetown — Ascension Island
• Georgetown — Guyana
• Gibraltar — Gibraltar
• Gitega (official) — Burundi
• Guatemala City — Guatemala
• Gustavia — Saint Barthélemy
• Hagåtña — Guam
• Hamilton — Bermuda
• Hanoi — Vietnam
• Harare — Zimbabwe
• Hargeisa — Somaliland
• Havana — Cuba
• Helsinki — Finland
• Hong Kong — Hong Kong
• Honiara — Solomon Islands
• Islamabad — Pakistan
• Jakarta — Indonesia
• Jamestown — Saint Helena
• Jerusalem — Israel
• Jerusalem (claimed) — Palestine
• Juba — South Sudan
• Kabul — Afghanistan
• Kampala — Uganda
• Kathmandu — Nepal
• Khartoum — Sudan
• Kigali — Rwanda
• King Edward Point — South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
• Kingston — Jamaica
• Kingston — Norfolk Island
• Kingstown — Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• Kinshasa — DR Congo
• Kralendijk — Caribbean Netherlands
• Kralendijk — Bonaire
• Kuala Lumpur (official, legislative and royal) — Malaysia
• Kuwait City — Kuwait
• Kyiv — Ukraine
• La Paz (administrative) — Bolivia
• Libreville — Gabon
• Lilongwe — Malawi
• Lima — Peru
• Lisbon — Portugal
• Ljubljana — Slovenia
• Lobamba (royal) — Eswatini
• Lomé — Togo
• London — United Kingdom
• Luanda — Angola
• Lusaka — Zambia
• Luxembourg — Luxembourg
• Macau — Macau
• Madrid — Spain
• Majuro — Marshall Islands
• Malabo — Equatorial Guinea
• Malé — Maldives
• Mamoudzou — Mayotte
• Managua — Nicaragua
• Manama — Bahrain
• Manila — Philippines
• Maputo — Mozambique
• Mariehamn — Åland Islands
• Marigot — Saint Martin
• Maseru — Lesotho
• Mata Utu — Wallis and Futuna
• Mbabane (administrative) — Eswatini
• Mexico City — Mexico
• Minsk — Belarus
• Mogadishu — Somalia
• Monaco City — Monaco
• Monrovia — Liberia
• Montevideo — Uruguay
• Moroni — Comoros
• Moscow — Russia
• Muscat — Oman
• Nairobi — Kenya
• Nassau — Bahamas
• Naypyidaw — Myanmar
• N’Djamena — Chad
• New Delhi — India
• Ngerulmud — Palau
• Niamey — Niger
• Nicosia — Cyprus
• Nouakchott — Mauritania
• Nouméa — New Caledonia
• Nukuʻalofa — Tonga
• Nukunonu — Tokelau
• Nur-Sultan — Kazakhstan
• Nuuk — Greenland
• Oranjestad — Aruba
• Oranjestad — Caribbean Netherlands
• Oranjestad — Sint Eustatius
• Oslo — Norway
• Ottawa — Canada
• Ouagadougou — Burkina Faso
• Pago Pago — American Samoa
• Palikir — Micronesia
• Panama City — Panama
• Papeete — French Polynesia
• Paramaribo — Suriname
• Paris — France
• Philipsburg — Sint Maarten
• Phnom Penh — Cambodia
• Plymouth (official) — Montserrat
• Podgorica (official) — Montenegro
• Port Louis — Mauritius
• Port Moresby — Papua New Guinea
• Port of Spain — Trinidad and Tobago
• Port Vila — Vanuatu
• Port-au-Prince — Haiti
• Porto-Novo — Benin
• Prague — Czech Republic
• Praia — Cape Verde
• Pretoria (executive) — South Africa
• Pristina — Kosovo
• Putrajaya (administrative) — Malaysia
• Pyongyang — North Korea
• Quito — Ecuador
• Rabat — Morocco
• Ramallah — West Bank
• Ramallah (de facto) — Palestine
• Reykjavik — Iceland
• Riga — Latvia
• Riyadh — Saudi Arabia
• Road Town — British Virgin Islands
• Rome — Italy
• Roseau — Dominica
• Saipan — Northern Mariana Islands
• San José — Costa Rica
• San Juan — Puerto Rico
• San Marino — San Marino
• San Salvador — El-Salvador
• Sanaa (de jure) — Yemen
• Santiago (official) — Chile
• Santo Domingo — Dominican Republic
• São Tomé — São Tomé and Príncipe
• Sarajevo — Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Seoul — South Korea
• Singapore — Singapore
• Skopje — North Macedonia
• Sofia — Bulgaria
• South Tarawa — Kiribati
• Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (official) — 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 — Republic of Artsakh
• Stockholm — Sweden
• Sucre (constitutional) — Bolivia
• Sukhumi — Abkhazia
• Suva — Fiji
• Taipei — Taiwan
• Tallinn — Estonia
• Tashkent — Uzbekistan
• Tbilisi — Georgia
• Tegucigalpa — Honduras
• Tehran — Iran
• The Bottom — Caribbean Netherlands
• The Bottom — Saba
• The Hague (de facto) — Netherlands
• The Valley — Anguilla
• Thimphu — Bhutan
• Tifariti (de facto) — Western Sahara
• Tirana — Albania
• Tiraspol — Transnistria
• Tokyo — Japan
• Tórshavn — Faroe Islands
• Tripoli — Libya
• Tskhinvali — South Ossetia
• Tunis — Tunisia
• Ulaanbaatar — Mongolia
• Vaduz — Liechtenstein
• Valletta — Malta
• Valparaíso (legislative) — Chile
• 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 — Curaçao
• Windhoek — Namibia
• Yamoussoukro (official) — Cote d’Ivoire
• Yaoundé — Cameroon
• Yaren — Nauru
• Yerevan — Armenia
• Zagreb — Croatia

City/Town Country/Territory Notes Abidjan (former capital; still has many government offices)  Ivory Coast Yamoussoukro (official) Abu Dhabi  United Arab Emirates Abuja  Nigeria Lagos was the capital from 1914 to 1991. Accra  Ghana Adamstown  Pitcairn Islands British Overseas Territory. Addis Ababa  Ethiopia Aden (de facto, temporary)  Yemen Sana’a has been occupied by Houthi rebels since February 2015. Aden, the former capital of South Yemen, is Yemen’s acting capital. See also: Yemeni Civil War (2015–present). Sana’a (de jure) Algiers  Algeria Alofi  Niue Self-governing in free association with New Zealand. Amman  Jordan Amsterdam (official)  Netherlands The Dutch constitution refers to Amsterdam as the «capital». Also of the public bodies of:  Bonaire,  Saba and  Sint Eustatius. The Hague (de facto) The Dutch government is located in The Hague, which also hosts the monarch, government ministries, judiciary and diplomatic missions. Andorra la Vella  Andorra Ankara  Turkey Ankara replaced Istanbul as the capital of the newly-formed Republic of Turkey in 1923, after the Turkish War of Independence. Istanbul was the capital of Turkey’s predecessor, the Ottoman Empire. Antananarivo  Madagascar Apia  Samoa Ashgabat  Turkmenistan Asmara  Eritrea Astana  Kazakhstan Astana was named Nur-Sultan from 2019 to 2022. Almaty was the capital from 1929 to 1997. Asunción  Paraguay Athens  Greece Avarua  Cook Islands Self-governing in free association with New Zealand. Sometimes incorrectly referred to as Rarotonga, the name of the island on which Avarua is located. Baghdad  Iraq Baku  Azerbaijan Bamako  Mali Bandar Seri Begawan  Brunei Bangkok  Thailand Bangui  Central African Republic Banjul  The Gambia Basseterre  Saint Kitts and Nevis Beijing  China See also: Historical capitals of China.
Sub-divisions of  Hong Kong and  Macau. Beirut  Lebanon Belfast  Northern Ireland Constituent country of the United Kingdom. Belgrade  Serbia Belmopan  Belize Berlin  Germany Bonn was the capital of West Germany and remained the seat of government for reunified Germany until 1999. Bern (de facto)  Switzerland Switzerland has no official capital. Bishkek  Kyrgyzstan Bissau  Guinea-Bissau Bloemfontein (judicial)  South Africa Cape Town (legislative) Pretoria (executive) Bogotá  Colombia Brades (de facto)  Montserrat 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, which is in the northwestern part of Montserrat. Plymouth (official) Brasília  Brazil Rio de Janeiro was the capital until 1960. See also: Capitals of Brazil Bratislava  Slovakia Brazzaville  Congo Bridgetown  Barbados Brussels  Belgium Also the de facto capital of the  European Union. Bucharest  Romania Budapest  Hungary See also: List of historical capitals of Hungary Buenos Aires  Argentina Cairo  Egypt A new capital is being built at the New Administrative Capital. It could be named Egypt. See also: List of historical capitals of Egypt Camp Thunder Cove  British Indian Ocean Territory British Overseas Territory. Canberra  Australia Planned city built to overcome the rivalry between Melbourne (de facto capital at the time) and Sydney (economic capital and largest population center), which were both put forward as potential capitals for the nation in the Australasia Federation Conventions of the 1890s. Section 125 of the Constitution gives basic details about the location of the capital, size of the encompassing territory and so forth, while the Seat of Government Act 1908 specified its precise location. Caracas  Venezuela Cardiff  Wales Constituent country of the United Kingdom. Castries  Saint Lucia Cetinje (Old Royal Capital, present seat of the President)  Montenegro Podgorica (official) Charlotte Amalie  United States Virgin Islands Territory of the United States. Chișinău  Moldova Cockburn Town  Turks and Caicos Islands British Overseas Territory. Colombo (executive, judicial)  Sri Lanka 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. Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (official) Also known as Kotte. Conakry  Guinea Copenhagen  Denmark Cotonou (de facto)  Benin Porto-Novo (official) Dakar  Senegal Damascus  Syria Dar es Salaam (de facto, judicial)  Tanzania 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. Dodoma (official, legislative) Dhaka  Bangladesh Dili  East Timor Djibouti  Djibouti Doha  Qatar Douglas  Isle of Man British Crown Dependency. Dublin  Ireland Dushanbe  Tajikistan Edinburgh  Scotland Constituent country of the United Kingdom. Flying Fish Cove  Christmas Island External territory of Australia. 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 British Overseas Territory. Gitega (official)  Burundi Bujumbura was the capital from 1962 to 2018. Bujumbura (de facto) Guatemala City  Guatemala Gustavia  Saint Barthélemy Overseas collectivity of France. Hagåtña  Guam Territory of the United States. Hamilton  Bermuda British Overseas Territory. Hanoi  Vietnam See also: List of historical capitals of Vietnam Harare  Zimbabwe Hargeisa  Somaliland Unrecognized and self-declared state, de jure part of Somalia. Havana  Cuba Helsinki  Finland Honiara  Solomon Islands Islamabad  Pakistan Karachi was selected as the first capital of Pakistan and served as such until the capital was shifted to Rawalpindi in 1958. Rawalpindi served as an interim capital for almost a decade until the construction of Islamabad was complete. Jakarta  Indonesia A new purpose-built city named Nusantara in Kalimantan is planned to replace Jakarta as the national capital from the mid-2020s.^[1][2] Jamestown  Saint Helena Part of the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. Jerusalem  Israel The Jerusalem Law states that «Jerusalem, complete and united, is the capital of Israel» and the city serves as the seat of the Israeli government and its institutions. 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. Most countries currently maintain their embassies in and around Tel Aviv. The United States recognized Jerusalem as the capital and moved its embassy there in May 2018. ^[3] Many countries officially adhere to the proposal that Jerusalem have international status, as called for in the 1947 Partition Plan.^[4]  Palestine (claimed) Ramallah (de facto) Juba  South Sudan Kabul  Afghanistan Kampala  Uganda Kathmandu  Nepal Khartoum  Sudan Kigali  Rwanda King Edward Point  South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands British Overseas Territory. Kingston  Jamaica Kingston  Norfolk Island External territory of Australia. Kingstown  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Kinshasa  Democratic Republic of the Congo Kuala Lumpur (official, legislative and royal)  Malaysia Putrajaya (administrative and judicial) Kuwait City  Kuwait Kyiv  Ukraine La Paz (administrative)  Bolivia La Paz is the highest administrative capital (3,650 m) in the world, higher than Quito.^[5] Sucre (constitutional) Laâyoune (declared)  Western Sahara The Sahrawi Republic, recognized by 82 states, claims the mostly Moroccan-controlled Western Sahara. Moroccan-controlled territory includes Laâyoune, and Morocco claims all Sahrawi-controlled territory. Tifariti is now the temporary capital (instead of Bir Lehlou earlier) of the SADR. Some government and military structures reside in exile in Tindouf, Algeria.^[6] See Also: Politics of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. Tifariti (de facto) Libreville  Gabon Lilongwe  Malawi Lima  Peru Cusco is declared the «Historical Capital» (Spanish: Capital Historica), a merely symbolic statement, by Article 49 of the Peruvian Constitution. Arequipa is dubbed the «Legal Capital» of Peru for being the seat of the Constitutional Court. Lisbon  Portugal Ljubljana  Slovenia Lobamba (royal and legislative)  Eswatini Mbabane (administrative) Lomé  Togo London  United Kingdom Prior to the Acts of Union in 1707, London was the capital of England only; Edinburgh was the capital of the Kingdom of Scotland.
Sub-divisions of  England,  Scotland,  Wales,  Northern Ireland. Luanda  Angola Lusaka  Zambia Luxembourg  Luxembourg Madrid  Spain Majuro  Marshall Islands Self-governing in free association with the United States. The seat of government is at Delpa-Uliga-Djarrit, a settlement on the atoll of Majuro. Malabo  Equatorial Guinea Ciudad de la Paz is currently under construction and will become the new capital when complete.^[7] Malé  Maldives Managua  Nicaragua Manama  Bahrain Manila  Philippines Metro Manila Maputo  Mozambique Mariehamn  Åland Islands Autonomous province of Finland. Marigot  Saint Martin Overseas collectivity of France. Maseru  Lesotho Mata Utu  Wallis and Futuna Overseas collectivity of France. Mexico City  Mexico Minsk  Belarus Mogadishu  Somalia Monaco  Monaco City-state. The Principality of Monaco does not have an official capital designated in its constitution; however, the Commune of Monaco, the country’s only commune, is coterminous with the nation, making it the de facto capital.^[8][9] Monrovia  Liberia Montevideo  Uruguay Moroni  Comoros Moscow  Russia Muscat  Oman Nairobi  Kenya Nassau  Bahamas Naypyidaw  Myanmar Yangon was the capital until 2006.^[10] See also: List of capitals of Myanmar N’Djamena  Chad New Delhi  India Kolkata was the capital of India until 1911 during the British Raj. Ngerulmud  Palau Self-governing in free association with the United States. Koror City was the capital of Palau until 2006. Niamey  Niger Nicosia  Cyprus
 Northern Cyprus See also: List of divided cities^{[clarification needed]} Nouakchott  Mauritania Nouméa New Caledonia Overseas territory of France. Nukuʻalofa  Tonga Nuuk  Greenland Self-governing country within the Kingdom of Denmark. Oranjestad  Aruba Self-governing country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Oslo  Norway See also: List of historical capitals of Norway Ottawa  Canada Ouagadougou  Burkina Faso Pago Pago  American Samoa Territory of the United States. Palikir  Micronesia Self-governing in free association with the United States. Kolonia is the former capital; and Australia, China, Japan and the United States retain embassies there.

Sub-divisions of  Yap,  Chuuk,  Pohnpei,  Kosrae.

Panama City  Panama Papeete  French Polynesia Overseas collectivity of France. Paramaribo  Suriname Paris  France See also: List of Capitals of France Philipsburg  Sint Maarten Self-governing country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Phnom Penh  Cambodia Port Louis  Mauritius Port Moresby  Papua New Guinea Port of Spain  Trinidad and Tobago Port Vila  Vanuatu Port-au-Prince  Haiti Prague (official, legislative and executive)  Czech Republic Brno (judiciary) Praia  Cape Verde Pristina  Kosovo De facto independent state that is recognized by 114 UN member states and by Taiwan. Claimed in whole by the Republic of Serbia as part of its Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija. The Republic of Kosovo has de facto control over most of the territory, with limited control in North Kosovo. Pyongyang  North Korea Quito  Ecuador Highest official capital (2,850 m).^[5] Rabat  Morocco Reykjavík  Iceland Riga  Latvia Riyadh  Saudi Arabia Road Town  British Virgin Islands British Overseas Territory. Rome  Italy Roseau  Dominica Rothera  British Antarctic Territory British Overseas Territory. Saipan  Northern Mariana Islands Territory of the United States. The seat of government is at Capitol Hill, a settlement on the island of Saipan. San José  Costa Rica San Juan  Puerto Rico Territory of the United States. San Marino  San Marino San Salvador  El Salvador Santiago (official)  Chile Valparaíso (legislative) The National Congress of Chile is located in Valparaíso. Santo Domingo  Dominican Republic São Tomé  São Tomé and Príncipe Sarajevo  Bosnia and Herzegovina Seoul  South Korea Sejong City (de facto) On 2 July 2012, some functions of government moved to Sejong, which became the de facto administrative capital of South Korea. Singapore  Singapore City-state. Skopje  North Macedonia Sofia  Bulgaria South Tarawa  Kiribati South Tarawa is a settlement on the atoll of Tarawa. St. George’s  Grenada St. Helier  Jersey British Crown Dependency. St. John’s (de facto)  Antigua and Barbuda Antigua and Barbuda has no official capital. St. Peter Port  Guernsey British Crown Dependency. St. Pierre  Saint Pierre and Miquelon Overseas collectivity of France. Stanley  Falkland Islands British Overseas Territory. Stepanakert  Artsakh The self-declared country remains diplomatically unrecognized by UN-member states, including Armenia. Transnistria, South Ossetia, and Abkhazia all recognize the state. Claimed in whole by Azerbaijan. Stockholm  Sweden Sukhumi  Abkhazia De facto independent state recognized by Russia, Nauru, Nicaragua, Venezuela, South Ossetia and Transnistria. Claimed in whole by the Republic of Georgia as the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia. Suva  Fiji Taipei  Taiwan Officially the Republic of China (ROC), it has been competing for recognition with the People’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 1]} Its territory is claimed in whole by the People’s Republic of China.^{[Note 2]} The Republic of China participates in the World Health Organization and a number of non-UN international organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the International Olympic Committee and others under a variety of pseudonyms, most commonly Chinese Taipei. Tallinn  Estonia Tashkent  Uzbekistan Tbilisi  Georgia Tegucigalpa  Honduras Comayagüela is declared in the Honduran Constitution as co-official capital with Tegucigalpa.^[11] Now they have merged into a single Metropolitan Area. Comayagüela Tehran  Iran Thimphu  Bhutan Tirana  Albania Tiraspol  Transnistria 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 See also: Capital of Japan Tórshavn  Faroe Islands Self-governing country within the Kingdom of Denmark. Tripoli  Libya Tskhinvali  South Ossetia De facto independent state recognised by Russia, Nicaragua, Nauru, Venezuela, Abkhazia and Transnistria. Claimed in whole by the Republic of Georgia as the Provisional Administrative Entity of South Ossetia. Tunis  Tunisia Ulaanbaatar  Mongolia Vaduz  Liechtenstein Valletta  Malta The Valley  Anguilla British Overseas Territory. Vatican City  Vatican City City-state. Victoria  Seychelles Vienna  Austria Vientiane  Laos Vilnius  Lithuania Warsaw  Poland Washington, D.C.  United States The capital of the United States has moved multiple times. See also: National capitals of the United States Wellington  New Zealand Since 1865. Wellington is New Zealand’s third capital. See also: Capital of New Zealand. West Island  Cocos (Keeling) Islands External territory of Australia. Willemstad  Curaçao Self-governing country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Windhoek  Namibia Yaoundé  Cameroon Yaren (de facto)  Nauru Nauru has no official capital; however, the government offices are in Yaren. Yerevan  Armenia Zagreb  Croatia

Capitals of Every Independent Country

195 Capital Cities of the World

Updated on February 04, 2020

There are 195 nations officially recognized as independent countries in the world, each with its own capital city. A significant number of countries have multiple capital cities. Where that occurs, the additional capital cities are listed as well.

Is Taiwan a Country?

The United Nations list of nations doesn’t include Taiwan as separate but as a part of China: 193 U.N. member nations and two nonvoting observer states, the Vatican City and Palestine. As of Jan. 20, 2020, only 15 countries recognize Taiwan as an independent nation. Eight countries that previously did so established diplomatic relations with China after President Tsai Ing-Wen’s election in May 2016. Tsai was reelected on Jan. 10, 2020.

The Countries of the World and their Capitals

Check out this alphabetical list of every independent nation and its capital (Taiwan is also included):

1. Afghanistan: Kabul
2. Albania: Tirana
3. Algeria: Algiers
4. Andorra: Andorra la Vella
5. Angola: Luanda
6. Antigua and Barbuda: Saint John’s
7. Argentina: Buenos Aires
8. Armenia: Yerevan
9. Australia: Canberra
10. Austria: Vienna
11. Azerbaijan: Baku
12. The Bahamas: Nassau
13. Bahrain: Manama
14. Bangladesh: Dhaka
15. Barbados: Bridgetown
16. Belarus: Minsk
17. Belgium: Brussels
18. Belize: Belmopan
19. Benin: Porto-Novo
20. Bhutan: Thimphu
21. Bolivia: La Paz (administrative); Sucre (judicial)
22. Bosnia and Herzegovina: Sarajevo
23. Botswana: Gaborone
24. Brazil: Brasilia
25. Brunei: Bandar Seri Begawan
26. Bulgaria: Sofia
27. Burkina Faso: Ouagadougou
28. Burundi: Gitega (changed from Bujumbura in December 2018)
29. Cambodia: Phnom Penh
30. Cameroon: Yaounde
31. Canada: Ottawa
32. Cape Verde: Praia
33. Central African Republic: Bangui
34. Chad: N’Djamena
35. Chile: Santiago
36. China: Beijing
37. Colombia: Bogota
38. Comoros: Moroni
39. Congo, Republic of the: Brazzaville
40. Congo, Democratic Republic of the: Kinshasa
41. Costa Rica: San Jose
42. Cote d’Ivoire: Yamoussoukro (official); Abidjan (de facto)
43. Croatia: Zagreb
44. Cuba: Havana
45. Cyprus: Nicosia
46. Czech Republic: Prague
47. Denmark: Copenhagen
48. Djibouti: Djibouti
49. Dominica: Roseau
50. Dominican Republic: Santo Domingo
51. East Timor (Timor-Leste): Dili
52. Ecuador: Quito
53. Egypt: Cairo
54. El Salvador: San Salvador
55. Equatorial Guinea: Malabo
56. Eritrea: Asmara
57. Estonia: Tallinn
58. Ethiopia: Addis Ababa
59. Fiji: Suva
60. Finland: Helsinki
61. France: Paris
62. Gabon: Libreville
63. The Gambia: Banjul
64. Georgia: Tbilisi
65. Germany: Berlin
66. Ghana: Accra
67. Greece: Athens
68. Grenada: Saint George’s
69. Guatemala: Guatemala City
70. Guinea: Conakry
71. Guinea-Bissau: Bissau
72. Guyana: Georgetown
73. Haiti: Port-au-Prince
74. Honduras: Tegucigalpa
75. Hungary: Budapest
76. Iceland: Reykjavik
77. India: New Delhi
78. Indonesia: Jakarta
79. Iran: Tehran
80. Iraq: Baghdad
81. Ireland: Dublin
82. Israel: Jerusalem*
83. Italy: Rome
84. Jamaica: Kingston
85. Japan: Tokyo
86. Jordan: Amman
87. Kazakhstan: Nur-Sultan
88. Kenya: Nairobi
89. Kiribati: Tarawa Atoll
90. Korea, North: Pyongyang
91. Korea, South: Seoul
92. Kosovo: Pristina
93. Kuwait: Kuwait City
94. Kyrgyzstan: Bishkek
95. Laos: Vientiane
96. Latvia: Riga
97. Lebanon: Beirut
98. Lesotho: Maseru
99. Liberia: Monrovia
100. Libya: Tripoli
101. Liechtenstein: Vaduz
102. Lithuania: Vilnius
103. Luxembourg: Luxembourg
104. Macedonia: Skopje
105. Madagascar: Antananarivo
106. Malawi: Lilongwe
107. Malaysia: Kuala Lumpur
108. Maldives: Male
109. Mali: Bamako
110. Malta: Valletta
111. Marshall Islands: Majuro
112. Mauritania: Nouakchott
113. Mauritius: Port Louis
114. Mexico: Mexico City
115. Micronesia, Federated States of: Palikir
116. Moldova: Chisinau
117. Monaco: Monaco
118. Mongolia: Ulaanbaatar
119. Montenegro: Podgorica
120. Morocco: Rabat
121. Mozambique: Maputo
122. Myanmar (Burma): Rangoon (Yangon); Naypyidaw or Nay Pyi Taw (administrative)
123. Namibia: Windhoek
124. Nauru: no official capital; government offices in Yaren District
125. Nepal: Kathmandu
126. Netherlands: Amsterdam; The Hague (seat of government)
127. New Zealand: Wellington
128. Nicaragua: Managua
129. Niger: Niamey
130. Nigeria: Abuja
131. Norway: Oslo
132. Oman: Muscat
133. Pakistan: Islamabad
134. Palau: Melekeok
135. Panama: Panama City
136. Papua New Guinea: Port Moresby
137. Paraguay: Asuncion
138. Peru: Lima
139. Philippines: Manila
140. Poland: Warsaw
141. Portugal: Lisbon
142. Qatar: Doha
143. Romania: Bucharest
144. Russia: Moscow
145. Rwanda: Kigali
146. Saint Kitts and Nevis: Basseterre
147. Saint Lucia: Castries
148. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Kingstown
149. Samoa: Apia
150. San Marino: San Marino
151. Sao Tome and Principe: Sao Tome
152. Saudi Arabia: Riyadh
153. Senegal: Dakar
154. Serbia: Belgrade
155. Seychelles: Victoria
156. Sierra Leone: Freetown
157. Singapore: Singapore
158. Slovakia: Bratislava
159. Slovenia: Ljubljana
160. Solomon Islands: Honiara
161. Somalia: Mogadishu
162. South Africa: Pretoria (administrative); Cape Town (legislative); Bloemfontein (judiciary)
163. South Sudan: Juba 
164. Spain: Madrid
165. Sri Lanka: Colombo; Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte (legislative)
166. Sudan: Khartoum
167. Suriname: Paramaribo
168. Swaziland: Mbabane
169. Sweden: Stockholm
170. Switzerland: Bern
171. Syria: Damascus
172. Taiwan: Taipei
173. Tajikistan: Dushanbe
174. Tanzania: Dar es Salaam; Dodoma (legislative)
175. Thailand: Bangkok
176. Togo: Lome
177. Tonga: Nuku’alofa
178. Trinidad and Tobago: Port-of-Spain
179. Tunisia: Tunis
180. Turkey: Ankara
181. Turkmenistan: Ashgabat
182. Tuvalu: Vaiaku village, Funafuti province
183. Uganda: Kampala
184. Ukraine: Kyiv
185. United Arab Emirates: Abu Dhabi
186. United Kingdom: London
187. United States of America: Washington, D.C.
188. Uruguay: Montevideo
189. Uzbekistan: Tashkent
190. Vanuatu: Port-Vila
191. Vatican City (Holy See): Vatican City
192. Venezuela: Caracas
193. Vietnam: Hanoi
194. Yemen: Sanaa
195. Zambia: Lusaka
196. Zimbabwe: Harare

An important fact to note is that the executive, judicial, and legislative branches of the State of Israel are all located in Jerusalem, making it the capital; nonetheless, almost all countries maintain their embassies in Tel Aviv. President Donald Trump moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem in 2018 and others may follow, possibly just to «curry favor» with the United States for aid in their own crises, Eric Olson told the Washington Post.

While the listing above is an authoritative listing of the independent countries of the world, it is important to note that there are also more than 80 territories, colonies, and dependencies of independent countries, which often have their own capital cities as well.

1. «Independent States in the World.» Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State, 27 March 2019.

2. «Member States of the United Nations.» United Nations.

3. Lawrence, Susan V. «Taiwan: Select Political and Security Issues.» Congressional Research Service, 21 Jan. 2020. 

4. «Dependencies and Areas of Special Sovereignty.» Bureau of Intelligence and Research, 7 March 2019. 

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Country	Capital
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	Manama
Bangladesh	Dhaka
Barbados	Bridgetown
Belarus	Minsk
Belgium	Brussels
Belize	Belmopan
Benin	Porto-Novo
Bhutan	Thimphu
Bolivia	Sucre
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sarajevo
Botswana	Gaborone
Brazil	Brasilia
Brunei	Bandar Seri Begawan
Bulgaria	Sofia
Burkina Faso	Ouagadougou
Burundi	Bujumbura
Cambodia	Phnom Penh
Cameroon	Yaounde
Canada	Ottawa
Cape Verde	Praia
Central African Republic	Bangui
Chad	Ndjamena
Chile	Santiago
China	Beijing
Colombia	Bogota
Comoros	Moroni
Congo, Democratic Republic	Kinshasa
Congo, Republic	Brazzaville
Costa Rica	San Jos?
Cote 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	Asmare
Estonia	Tallinn
Ethiopia	Addis Ababa
Federated States of Micronesia	Palikir
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
Haiti	Port-au-Prince
Honduras	Tegucigalpa
Hungary	Budapest
Iceland	Reykjavik
India	New Delhi
Indonesia	Jakarta
Iran	Tehran
Iraq	Baghdad
Ireland	Dublin
Israel	Jerusalem
Italy	Rome
Jamaica	Kingston
Japan	Tokyo
Jordan	Amman
Kazakhstan	Astana
Kenya	Nairobi
Kiribati	South Tarawa
Kuwait	Kuwait City
Kyrgyzstan	Bishkek
Laos	Vientiane
Latvia	Riga
Lebanon	Beirut
Lesotho	Maseru
Liberia	Monrovia
Libya	Tripoli
Liechtenstein	Vaduz
Lithuania	Vilnius
Luxembourg	Luxembourg
Macedonia	Skopje
Madagascar	Antananarivo
Malawi	Lilongwe
Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur
Maldives	Male
Mali	Bamako
Malta	Valletta
Marshall Islands	Majuro
Mauritania	Nouakchott
Mauritius	Port Louis
Mexico	Mexico City
Moldova	Chisinau
Monaco	Monaco
Mongolia	Ulaanbaatar
Montenegro	Podgorica
Morocco	Rabat
Mozambique	Maputo
Myanmar	Naypyidaw
Namibia	Windhoek
Nauru	Yaren
Nepal	Kathmandu
Netherlands	Amsterdam
New Zealand	Wellington
Nicaragua	Managua
Niger	Niamey
Nigeria	Abuja
North Korea	Pyongyang
Norway	Oslo
Oman	Muscat
Pakistan	Islamabad
Palau	Melekeok
Panama	Panama City
Papua New Guinea	Port Moresby
Paraguay	Asuncion
Peru	Lima
Philippines	Manila
Poland	Warsaw
Portugal	Lisbon
Qatar	Doha
Romania	Bucharest
Russia	Moscow
Rwanda	Kigali
S?o Tom? and Pr?ncipe	S?o Tom?
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Basseterre
Saint Lucia	Castries
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Kingstown
Samoa	Apia
San Marino	San Marino
Saudi Arabia	Riyadh
Senegal	Dakar
Serbia	Belgrade
Seychelles	Victoria
Sierra Leone	Freetown
Singapore	Singapore
Slovakia	Bratislava
Slovenia	Ljubljana
Solomon Islands	Honiara
Somalia	Mogadishu
South Africa	Pretoria
South Korea	Seoul
Spain	Madrid
Sri Lanka	Colombo
Sudan	Khartoum
Suriname	Paramaribo
Swaziland	Mbabane
Sweden	Stockholm
Switzerland	Bern
Syria	Damascus
Tajikistan	Dushanbe
Tanzania	Dodoma
Thailand	Bangkok
Togo	Lom?
Tonga	Nuku’alofa
Trinidad and Tobago	Port of Spain
Tunisia	Tunis
Turkey	Ankara
Turkmenistan	Ashgabat
Tuvalu	Funafuti
Uganda	Kampala
Ukraine	Kiev
United Arab Emirates	Abu Dhabi
United Kingdom	London
United States	Washington
Uruguay	Montevideo
Uzbekistan	Tashkent
Vanuatu	Port Vila
Vatican City	Vatican City
Venezuela	Caracas
Vietnam	Hanoi
Yemen	Sana?
Zambia	Lusaka
Zimbabwe	Harare