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Capitals of Europe Country / territory Capital Population Coordinates Albania Tirana 418,495 41.3275°N, 19.8189°E Andorra Andorra la Vella 20,430 42.5078°N, 1.5211°E Austria Vienna 1,691,468 48.2085°N, 16.3721°E Belarus Minsk 1,742,124 53.9000°N, 27.5667°E Belgium Brussels 1,019,022 50.8505°N, 4.3488°E Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo 696,731 43.8486°N, 18.3564°E Bulgaria Sofia 1,152,556 42.6975°N, 23.3241°E Croatia Zagreb 663,592 45.8144°N, 15.9780°E Cyprus Nicosia 200,452 35.1753°N, 33.3642°E Czechia Prague 1,165,581 50.0880°N, 14.4208°E Denmark Copenhagen 1,153,615 55.6759°N, 12.5655°E Estonia Tallinn 394,024 59.4370°N, 24.7535°E Faroe Islands Tórshavn 13,200 62.0097°N, 6.7716°W Finland Helsinki 658,864 60.1695°N, 24.9354°E France Paris 2,138,551 48.8534°N, 2.3488°E Germany Berlin 3,426,354 52.5244°N, 13.4105°E Gibraltar Gibraltar 26,544 36.1447°N, 5.3526°W Greece Athens 664,046 37.9838°N, 23.7278°E Guernsey Saint Peter Port 16,488 49.4598°N, 2.5353°W Hungary Budapest 1,741,041 47.4984°N, 19.0404°E Iceland Reykjavík 118,918 64.1355°N, 21.8954°W Ireland Dublin 1,024,027 53.3331°N, 6.2489°W Isle of Man Douglas 26,218 54.1500°N, 4.4833°W Italy Rome 2,318,895 41.8919°N, 12.5113°E Jersey Saint Helier 28,000 49.1880°N, 2.1049°W Kosovo Pristina 550,000 42.6727°N, 21.1669°E Latvia Riga 742,572 56.9460°N, 24.1059°E Liechtenstein Vaduz 5,197 47.1415°N, 9.5215°E Lithuania Vilnius 542,366 54.6892°N, 25.2798°E Luxembourg Luxembourg 76,684 49.6117°N, 6.1300°E Malta Valletta 6,794 35.8997°N, 14.5148°E Moldova Chisinau 635,994 47.0056°N, 28.8575°E Monaco Monaco 32,965 43.7372°N, 7.4215°E Montenegro Podgorica 236,852 42.4411°N, 19.2636°E Netherlands Amsterdam Amsterdam is the constitutional capital; the government sits in The Hague. 741,636 52.3740°N, 4.8897°E North Macedonia Skopje 474,889 41.9965°N, 21.4314°E Norway Oslo 1,082,575 59.9127°N, 10.7461°E Poland Warsaw 1,702,139 52.2298°N, 21.0118°E Portugal Lisbon 517,802 38.7167°N, 9.1333°W Romania Bucharest 1,877,155 44.4323°N, 26.1063°E Russia Moscow 10,381,222 55.7522°N, 37.6156°E San Marino San Marino 4,500 43.9367°N, 12.4464°E Serbia Belgrade 1,273,651 44.8040°N, 20.4651°E Slovakia Bratislava 423,737 48.1482°N, 17.1067°E Slovenia Ljubljana 272,220 46.0511°N, 14.5051°E Spain Madrid 3,255,944 40.4165°N, 3.7026°W Svalbard and Jan Mayen Longyearbyen 2,368 78.2233°N, 15.6469°E Sweden Stockholm 1,515,017 59.3294°N, 18.0687°E Switzerland Bern Bern is the federal city and seat of government (Switzerland has no de jure capital). 121,631 46.9481°N, 7.4474°E Ukraine Kyiv 2,952,301 50.4547°N, 30.5238°E United Kingdom London 8,961,989 51.5085°N, 0.1257°W Vatican City Vatican City 829 41.9027°N, 12.4541°E Åland Islands Mariehamn 10,682 60.0973°N, 19.9348°E
Capitals of Asia Country / territory Capital Population Coordinates Afghanistan Kabul 4,434,550 34.5281°N, 69.1723°E Armenia Yerevan 1,144,700 40.1811°N, 44.5136°E Azerbaijan Baku 2,351,300 40.3777°N, 49.8920°E Bahrain Manama 147,074 26.2279°N, 50.5857°E Bangladesh Dhaka 10,356,500 23.7104°N, 90.4074°E Bhutan Thimphu 98,676 27.4661°N, 89.6419°E Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan 64,409 4.8903°N, 114.9401°E Cambodia Phnom Penh 1,573,544 11.5625°N, 104.9160°E China Beijing 18,960,744 39.9075°N, 116.3972°E Cocos (Keeling) Islands West Island 120 12.1568°S, 96.8225°E Georgia Tbilisi 1,049,498 41.6941°N, 44.8337°E Hong Kong Hong Kong 7,396,076 22.2783°N, 114.1747°E India New Delhi 317,797 28.6214°N, 77.2148°E Indonesia Jakarta Jakarta remains the capital while the planned new capital, Nusantara, is under construction. 8,540,121 6.2146°S, 106.8451°E Iran Tehran 7,153,309 35.6944°N, 51.4215°E Iraq Baghdad 7,216,000 33.3406°N, 44.4009°E Israel Jerusalem Israel designates Jerusalem as its capital; this status is not recognised by most countries, and most embassies are in Tel Aviv. 971,800 31.7690°N, 35.2163°E Japan Tokyo 9,733,276 35.6895°N, 139.6917°E Jordan Amman 1,275,857 31.9552°N, 35.9450°E Kazakhstan Astana 1,544,142 51.1801°N, 71.4460°E Kuwait Kuwait City 60,064 29.3697°N, 47.9783°E Kyrgyzstan Bishkek 900,000 42.8700°N, 74.5900°E Laos Vientiane 840,940 17.9667°N, 102.6000°E Lebanon Beirut 1,916,100 33.8933°N, 35.5016°E Macau Macau 649,335 22.2006°N, 113.5461°E Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur is the capital; many federal government offices are in Putrajaya. 1,453,975 3.1412°N, 101.6865°E Maldives Male 103,693 4.1752°N, 73.5092°E Mongolia Ulaanbaatar 844,818 47.9077°N, 106.8832°E Myanmar Nay Pyi Taw 925,000 19.7450°N, 96.1297°E Nepal Kathmandu 1,442,271 27.7017°N, 85.3206°E North Korea Pyongyang 3,222,000 39.0339°N, 125.7543°E Oman Muscat 797,000 23.5841°N, 58.4078°E Pakistan Islamabad 601,600 33.7215°N, 73.0433°E Palestinian Territories East Jerusalem (claimed) / RamallahEast Jerusalem is the claimed capital; the Palestinian Authority's administrative centre is Ramallah. Philippines Manila 1,600,000 14.6042°N, 120.9822°E Qatar Doha 344,939 25.2855°N, 51.5310°E Saudi Arabia Riyadh 4,205,961 24.6877°N, 46.7219°E Singapore Singapore 5,638,700 1.2897°N, 103.8501°E South Korea Seoul 10,349,312 37.5660°N, 126.9784°E Sri Lanka Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is the official legislative capital; Colombo is the commercial capital. 648,034 6.9355°N, 79.8487°E Syria Damascus 1,569,394 33.5102°N, 36.2913°E Taiwan Taipei 7,871,900 25.0478°N, 121.5319°E Tajikistan Dushanbe 679,400 38.5358°N, 68.7790°E Thailand Bangkok 5,104,476 13.7540°N, 100.5014°E Turkey Ankara 3,517,182 39.9199°N, 32.8543°E Turkmenistan Ashgabat 1,030,063 37.9500°N, 58.3833°E United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi 1,807,000 24.4512°N, 54.3970°E Uzbekistan Tashkent 1,978,028 41.2647°N, 69.2163°E Vietnam Hanoi 8,053,663 21.0245°N, 105.8412°E Yemen Sanaa 1,937,451 15.3547°N, 44.2067°E
Capitals of Africa Country / territory Capital Population Coordinates Algeria Algiers 2,364,230 36.7323°N, 3.0875°E Angola Luanda 2,776,168 8.8368°S, 13.2343°E Benin Porto-Novo Porto-Novo is the official capital; the seat of government is Cotonou. 264,320 6.4965°N, 2.6036°E Botswana Gaborone 246,325 24.6545°S, 25.9086°E Burkina Faso Ouagadougou 2,415,266 12.3657°N, 1.5339°W Burundi Gitega 64,904 3.4271°S, 29.9246°E Cabo Verde Praia 137,868 14.9315°N, 23.5125°W Cameroon Yaoundé 1,299,369 3.8667°N, 11.5167°E Central African Republic Bangui 812,407 4.3612°N, 18.5550°E Chad N'Djamena 1,359,526 12.1067°N, 15.0444°E Comoros Moroni 74,749 11.7022°S, 43.2551°E Democratic Republic of the Congo Kinshasa 16,000,000 4.3276°S, 15.3136°E Djibouti Djibouti 626,512 11.5890°N, 43.1450°E Egypt Cairo 9,606,916 30.0626°N, 31.2497°E Equatorial Guinea Ciudad de la Paz Ciudad de la Paz was designated the capital in January 2026, replacing Malabo. 2,000 1.5925°N, 10.8236°E Eritrea Asmara 563,930 15.3381°N, 38.9318°E Eswatini Mbabane 76,218 26.3167°S, 31.1333°E Ethiopia Addis Ababa 3,860,000 9.0250°N, 38.7469°E Gabon Libreville 846,090 0.3924°N, 9.4536°E Gambia Banjul 37,274 13.4527°N, 16.5780°W Ghana Accra 1,963,264 5.5560°N, 0.1969°W Guinea Conakry 1,928,389 9.5380°N, 13.6773°W Guinea-Bissau Bissau 439,704 11.8636°N, 15.5977°W Ivory Coast Yamoussoukro Yamoussoukro is the official capital; Abidjan is the largest city and economic centre. 275,686 6.8205°N, 5.2767°W Kenya Nairobi 4,397,073 1.2833°S, 36.8167°E Lesotho Maseru 359,753 29.3167°S, 27.4833°E Liberia Monrovia 1,542,549 6.3005°N, 10.7969°W Libya Tripoli 1,302,947 32.8874°N, 13.1873°E Madagascar Antananarivo 1,349,501 18.9137°S, 47.5361°E Malawi Lilongwe 1,115,815 13.9669°S, 33.7873°E Mali Bamako 4,227,569 12.6500°N, 8.0000°W Mauritania Nouakchott 1,184,530 18.0858°N, 15.9785°W Mauritius Port Louis 155,226 20.1619°S, 57.4989°E Mayotte Mamoudzou 54,831 12.7823°S, 45.2288°E Morocco Rabat 1,655,753 34.0132°N, 6.8326°W Mozambique Maputo 1,254,837 25.9655°S, 32.5832°E Namibia Windhoek 386,219 22.5594°S, 17.0832°E Niger Niamey 1,323,691 13.5137°N, 2.1098°E Nigeria Abuja 2,690,000 9.0579°N, 7.4951°E Republic of the Congo Brazzaville 1,982,000 4.2661°S, 15.2832°E Rwanda Kigali 1,132,686 1.9500°S, 30.0588°E Réunion Saint-Denis 154,765 20.8823°S, 55.4504°E Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Jamestown 637 15.9249°S, 5.7182°W Sao Tome and Principe São Tomé 53,300 0.3365°N, 6.7273°E Senegal Dakar 2,646,503 14.6937°N, 17.4441°W Seychelles Victoria 22,881 4.6200°S, 55.4550°E Sierra Leone Freetown 802,639 8.4871°N, 13.2356°W Somalia Mogadishu 2,587,183 2.0371°N, 45.3438°E South Africa Pretoria Pretoria is the executive capital; Parliament sits in Cape Town and the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein. 2,112,693 25.7449°S, 28.1878°E South Sudan Juba 450,000 4.8517°N, 31.5825°E Sudan Khartoum 1,974,647 15.5518°N, 32.5324°E Tanzania Dodoma Dodoma is the official capital; Dar es Salaam is the largest city. 765,179 6.1722°S, 35.7395°E Togo Lomé 2,188,376 6.1287°N, 1.2215°E Tunisia Tunis 693,210 36.8190°N, 10.1658°E Uganda Kampala 1,680,600 0.3163°N, 32.5822°E Western Sahara Laayoune 196,331 27.1418°N, 13.1880°W Zambia Lusaka 2,212,301 15.4067°S, 28.2871°E Zimbabwe Harare 1,542,813 17.8277°S, 31.0534°E
Capitals of North America Country / territory Capital Population Coordinates Anguilla The Valley 2,035 18.2170°N, 63.0578°W Antigua and Barbuda Saint John’s 51,737 17.1210°N, 61.8433°W Aruba Oranjestad 29,998 12.5240°N, 70.0270°W Bahamas Nassau 227,940 25.0582°N, 77.3431°W Barbados Bridgetown 98,511 13.1073°N, 59.6202°W Belize Belmopan 13,381 17.2500°N, 88.7667°W Bermuda Hamilton 902 32.2949°N, 64.7830°W British Virgin Islands Road Town 8,449 18.4269°N, 64.6208°W Canada Ottawa 1,017,449 45.4112°N, 75.6981°W Caribbean Netherlands Kralendijk 10,620 12.1500°N, 68.2667°W Cayman Islands George Town 29,370 19.2866°N, 81.3744°W Costa Rica San José 335,007 9.9333°N, 84.0833°W Cuba Havana 2,163,824 23.1330°N, 82.3830°W Curaçao Willemstad 125,000 12.1225°N, 68.8864°W Dominica Roseau 16,571 15.3017°N, 61.3881°W Dominican Republic Santo Domingo 2,201,941 18.4719°N, 69.8923°W El Salvador San Salvador 525,990 13.6893°N, 89.1872°W Greenland Nuuk 14,798 64.1835°N, 51.7216°W Grenada Saint George's 7,500 12.0529°N, 61.7523°W Guadeloupe Basse-Terre 11,472 15.9971°N, 61.7321°W Guatemala Guatemala City 994,938 14.6407°N, 90.5133°W Haiti Port-au-Prince 1,234,742 18.5435°N, 72.3388°W Honduras Tegucigalpa 850,848 14.0818°N, 87.2068°W Jamaica Kingston 937,700 17.9970°N, 76.7936°W Martinique Fort-de-France 89,995 14.6037°N, 61.0742°W Mexico Mexico City 12,294,193 19.4285°N, 99.1277°W Montserrat Plymouth Plymouth, abandoned after volcanic eruptions in 1995–97, remains the de jure capital; the government operates from Brades. N/A 16.7055°N, 62.2129°W Nicaragua Managua 973,087 12.1328°N, 86.2504°W Panama Panamá 408,168 8.9936°N, 79.5197°W Puerto Rico San Juan 418,140 18.4663°N, 66.1057°W Saint Barthélemy Gustavia 5,988 17.8962°N, 62.8498°W Saint Kitts and Nevis Basseterre 12,920 17.2955°N, 62.7250°W Saint Lucia Castries 20,000 13.9957°N, 61.0061°W Saint Martin Marigot 5,700 18.0682°N, 63.0830°W Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saint-Pierre 6,200 46.7791°N, 56.1773°W Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Kingstown 24,518 13.1553°N, 61.2274°W Sint Maarten Philipsburg 1,400 18.0260°N, 63.0458°W Trinidad and Tobago Port of Spain 49,031 10.6667°N, 61.5189°W Turks and Caicos Islands Cockburn Town 3,720 21.4612°N, 71.1419°W US Virgin Islands Charlotte Amalie 20,000 18.3419°N, 64.9307°W United States Washington, D.C. 689,545 38.8951°N, 77.0364°W
Capitals of South America Country / territory Capital Population Coordinates Argentina Buenos Aires 2,891,082 34.6131°S, 58.3772°W Bolivia Sucre Sucre is the constitutional capital; the government sits in La Paz. 224,838 19.0333°S, 65.2627°W Brazil Brasília 2,207,718 15.7797°S, 47.9297°W Chile Santiago 4,837,295 33.4569°S, 70.6483°W Colombia Bogotá 7,674,366 4.6097°N, 74.0817°W Ecuador Quito 2,781,641 0.2298°S, 78.5250°W Falkland Islands Stanley 2,213 51.6938°S, 57.8570°W French Guiana Cayenne 61,550 4.9333°N, 52.3333°W Guyana Georgetown 235,017 6.8045°N, 58.1553°W Paraguay Asunción 1,482,200 25.2865°S, 57.6470°W Peru Lima 7,737,002 12.0432°S, 77.0282°W Suriname Paramaribo 223,757 5.8664°N, 55.1668°W Uruguay Montevideo 1,270,737 34.9033°S, 56.1882°W Venezuela Caracas 3,000,000 10.4880°N, 66.8792°W
Capitals of Oceania Country / territory Capital Population Coordinates American Samoa Pago Pago 11,500 14.2781°S, 170.7025°W Australia Canberra 367,752 35.2835°S, 149.1281°E Christmas Island Flying Fish Cove 1,355 10.4217°S, 105.6791°E Cook Islands Avarua 13,373 21.2075°S, 159.7755°W Fiji Suva 77,366 18.1368°S, 178.4253°E French Polynesia Papeete 26,357 17.5347°S, 149.5684°W Guam Hagåtña 1,051 13.4719°N, 144.7498°E Kiribati Tarawa 40,311 1.3278°N, 172.9770°E Marshall Islands Majuro 25,400 7.0897°N, 171.3803°E Micronesia Palikir 6,942 6.9248°N, 158.1611°E Nauru Yaren Nauru has no official capital; government offices are in Yaren District. 1,100 0.5508°S, 166.9252°E New Caledonia Nouméa 93,060 22.2741°S, 166.4488°E New Zealand Wellington 381,900 41.2866°S, 174.7756°E Niue Alofi 624 19.0529°S, 169.9196°W Norfolk Island Kingston 880 29.0546°S, 167.9663°E Northern Mariana Islands Saipan 48,220 15.2123°N, 145.7545°E Palau Ngerulmud N/A 7.5008°N, 134.6238°E Papua New Guinea Port Moresby 283,733 9.4772°S, 147.1509°E Pitcairn Islands Adamstown 46 25.0660°S, 130.1015°W Samoa Apia 40,407 13.8333°S, 171.7667°W Solomon Islands Honiara 56,298 9.4333°S, 159.9500°E Timor-Leste Dili 150,000 8.5586°S, 125.5736°E Tonga Nuku‘alofa 22,400 21.1368°S, 175.2011°W Tuvalu Funafuti 6,320 8.5243°S, 179.1942°E Vanuatu Port-Vila 35,901 17.7365°S, 168.3137°E Wallis and Futuna Mata-Utu 1,200 13.2816°S, 176.1745°W
Sources: place names, coordinates, populations and time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0, data retrieved October 2026). Population figures are the latest values recorded in GeoNames; depending on the country they refer to the city proper, a municipality or a wider urban area, so they can differ from census or metro-area figures. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.