Lists of capitals
• in alphabetic order
• by country
• by continent
• Former national capitals
• Purpose-built capitals
• Capitals and
 largest cities by country
• Capitals outside the
 territories they serve
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This is a list of national capitals in the world in alphabetical order by country:

Contents

Countries

In case that the capital is not the largest city, the third column gives the cities that are larger.

Country Capital Cities larger than the capital
A
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 Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Newcastle, Gold Coast
Austria Vienna
Azerbaijan Baku
B
Bahamas Nassau
Bahrain Manama
Bangladesh Dhaka
Barbados Bridgetown
Belarus Minsk
Belgium Brussels
Belize Belmopan Belize City, Corozal Town, Dangriga, Orange Walk Town, San Ignacio Cayo
Benin Porto-Novo (official), Cotonou (administrative) Cotonou
Bhutan Thimphu
Bolivia Sucre (official), La Paz (administrative) Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz is larger than La Paz; La Paz is larger than Sucre; metropolitan La Paz is larger than Santa Cruz)
Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo
Botswana Gaborone
Brazil Brasília São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte (metropolitan area), Salvador
Brunei Darussalam Bandar Seri Begawan
Bulgaria Sofia
Burkina Faso Ouagadougou
Burundi Bujumbura
C
Cambodia Phnom Penh
Cameroon Yaoundé Douala
Canada Ottawa Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary
Cape Verde Praia
Central African Republic Bangui
Chad N'Djamena
Chile Santiago (official), Valparaíso (legislative) Santiago
China, People's Republic of Beijing Shanghai
Colombia Bogotá
Comoros Moroni
Congo Republic Brazzaville
Congo Democratic Republic Kinshasa
Costa Rica San José
Côte d'Ivoire Yamoussoukro (official), Abidjan (administrative) Abidjan
Croatia Zagreb
Cuba Havana
Cyprus Nicosia
Czech Republic Prague
D
Denmark Copenhagen
Djibouti Djibouti City
Dominica Roseau
Dominican Republic Santo Domingo
E
East Timor Dili
Ecuador Quito Guayaquil
Egypt Cairo
El Salvador San Salvador
Equatorial Guinea Malabo
Eritrea Asmara
Estonia Tallinn
Ethiopia Addis Ababa
F
Fiji Suva
Finland Helsinki
France Paris
G
Gabon Libreville
Gambia, The Banjul
Georgia Tbilisi
Germany Berlin[1]
Ghana Accra
Greece Athens
Grenada St. George's
Guatemala Guatemala City
Guinea Conakry
Guinea-Bissau Bissau
Guyana Georgetown
H
Haiti Port-au-Prince
Honduras Tegucigalpa
Hungary Budapest
I
Iceland Reykjavík
India New Delhi (Metropolitan area rank) Mumbai (Bombay)(1st), (Old) Delhi(2nd), Kolkata(3rd), Chennai(4th), Bangalore(5th), Hyderabad(6th), Ahmedabad, Pune, Lucknow, Jaipur, Kanpur, Nagpur, Vadodara, Cochin,Trivandrum (metropolitan ).
Indonesia Jakarta
Iran Tehran
Iraq Baghdad
Ireland, Republic of Dublin
Israel Jerusalem
Italy Rome
J
Jamaica Kingston
Japan Tokyo
Jordan Amman
K
Kazakhstan Astana Almaty
Kenya Nairobi
Kiribati South Tarawa
Korea, North Pyongyang
Korea, South Seoul
Kosovo Pristina
Kuwait Kuwait City
Kyrgyzstan Bishkek
L
Laos Vientiane
Latvia Riga
Lebanon Beirut
Lesotho Maseru
Liberia Monrovia
Libya Tripoli
Liechtenstein Vaduz Schaan
Lithuania Vilnius
Luxembourg Luxembourg City
M
Macedonia Skopje
Madagascar Antananarivo
Malawi Lilongwe Blantyre
Malaysia Kuala Lumpur (legislative; de facto), Putrajaya (administrative) Kuala Lumpur
Maldives Malé
Mali Bamako
Malta Valletta Birkirkara, Mosta, Qormi, Żabbar, St. Paul's Bay, Sliema, San Ġwann, Naxxar, Rabat, Żejtun, Żebbuġ, Fgura, Attard, Żurrieq, Ħamrun, Marsaskala, Birżebbuġa, Paola (Raħal Ġdid), Swieqi, Siġġiewi, St. Julian's, Msida, Tarxien, Mellieħa, Gżira, Victoria (Gozo)
Marshall Islands Majuro
Mauritania Nouakchott
Mauritius Port Louis
Mexico Mexico City
Micronesia Palikir Weno
Moldova Chişinău
Monaco Monaco-Ville Monte-Carlo, La Condamine
Mongolia Ulaanbaatar
Montenegro Podgorica
Morocco Rabat Casablanca
Mozambique Maputo
Myanmar Naypyidaw (Pyinmana) Yangon, Mandalay etc
N
Namibia Windhoek
Nauru None (government offices in Yaren District)
Nepal Kathmandu
Netherlands Amsterdam (official),
The Hague (administrative, legislative, and judicial)		 Rotterdam (Larger than The Hague; Amsterdam is the largest city)
New Zealand Wellington Auckland, Christchurch, Manukau, North Shore, Waitakere[2]
Nicaragua Managua
Niger Niamey
Nigeria Abuja Lagos, Ibadan, Kano, Ilorin, Port Harcourt, Ogbomosho
Norway Oslo
O
Oman Muscat
P
Pakistan Islamabad Karachi, Lahore, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Multan, Hyderabad, Peshawar
Palau Melekeok Koror
Panama Panama City
Papua New Guinea Port Moresby
Paraguay Asunción
Peru Lima
Philippines Manila Metro Manila(Quezon City by population, Makati City by economic), Davao City by land area
Poland Warsaw
Portugal Lisbon
Q
Qatar Doha
R
Romania Bucharest
Russia Moscow
Rwanda Kigali
S
Saint Kitts and Nevis Basseterre
Saint Lucia Castries
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Kingstown
Samoa Apia
San Marino San Marino Serravalle
São Tomé and Príncipe São Tomé
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 (official, administrative, and executive),
Cape Town (legislative), Bloemfontein (judicial)		 Johannesburg is the largest city, Durban is slightly smaller than Cape Town but larger than Pretoria and Bloemfontein combined
Spain Madrid
Sri Lanka Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte (official) Kotte is suburb of Colombo
Sudan Khartoum Omdurman
Suriname Paramaribo
Swaziland Mbabane (official), Lobamba (legislative and royal) Manzini
Sweden Stockholm
Switzerland Bern Zürich, Geneva, Basel
Syria Damascus
T
Taiwan (Republic of China) Taipei
Tajikistan Dushanbe
Tanzania Dodoma (official), Dar es Salaam (administrative) Dar es Salaam, Mwanza
Thailand Bangkok
Togo Lomé
Tonga Nukuʻalofa
Trinidad and Tobago Port of Spain Chaguanas, San Fernando, San Juan
Tunisia Tunis
Turkey Ankara Istanbul
Turkmenistan Ashgabat
Tuvalu Funafuti
U
Uganda Kampala
Ukraine Kiev
United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi Dubai, Sharjah
United Kingdom London (note: The City of London is the second-smallest city in the United Kingdom. What is commonly regarded internationally as "London" is the City of London combined with the surrounding governmental area known as Greater London, which contains 32 boroughs surrounding "The City" proper. The British government is actually based in the City of Westminster.)
United States Washington, D.C. New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Philadelphia, San Antonio, San Diego, Dallas, San Jose, Detroit, Jacksonville, Indianapolis, San Francisco, Columbus, Austin, Memphis, Ft. Worth, Baltimore, Charlotte, El Paso, Milwaukee, Boston, Seattle, Denver, (Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area ranks 4th)
Uruguay Montevideo
Uzbekistan Tashkent
V
Vanuatu Port Vila
Vatican City Vatican City
Venezuela Caracas
Vietnam Hanoi Ho Chi Minh City
Y
Yemen Sanaá
Z
Zambia Lusaka
Zimbabwe Harare

Dependent territories

List of capitals and larger cities of dependent territories:

Territory Capital Cities larger than the capital
A
Anguilla The Valley
American Samoa Pago Pago Tafuna, Nu'uuli, Leone, Ili'ili, Aua
Aruba Oranjestad
B
Bermuda Hamilton
British Virgin Islands Road Town
C
Cayman Islands George Town
Christmas Island The Settlement
Cook Islands Avarua
F
Falkland Islands Stanley
Faroe Islands Tórshavn
French Guiana Cayenne
French Polynesia Papeete
G
Gibraltar Gibraltar
Greenland Nuuk
Guadeloupe Basse-Terre
Guam Hagåtña Tamuning, Mangilao, Yigo and 15 others
Guernsey St Peter Port
J
Jersey Saint Helier
M
Man, Isle of Douglas
Martinique Fort-de-France
Mayotte Mamoudzou
Montserrat Plymouth (Capital abandoned due to volcanic eruption)
N
Netherlands Antilles Willemstad
New Caledonia Nouméa
Niue Alofi
Norfolk Island Kingston Burnt Pine
Northern Mariana Islands Saipan
P
Pitcairn Island Adamstown
Puerto Rico San Juan
R
Réunion Saint-Denis
S
Saint Helena Jamestown
Saint-Pierre and Miquelon Saint-Pierre
Svalbard Longyearbyen
T
Tokelau None
Turks and Caicos Islands Cockburn Town
U
U.S. Virgin Islands Charlotte Amalie
W
Wallis and Futuna Matâ'Utu

Aspirant states

List of capitals of aspirant states:

Note: whilst these entities aspire to statehood and have significant territory, they are not recognised by a majority of other states, and do not have a seat at the United Nations
Entity Capital Cities larger than the capital
Abkhazia Sukhumi
Biafra Enugu
Kosovo Priština
Kurdistan Erbil
Nagorno Karabakh Stepanakert
Northern Cyprus Nicosia
South Ossetia Tskhinvali
Somaliland Hargeisa
Tamil Eelam Killinochchi Jaffna, Batticaloa, Trincomalee, Vavuniya, Mannar
Transnistria Tiraspol

Footnotes

  1. ^ Bonn was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and is smaller than West Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Essen, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Bremen, Stuttgart, Duisburg, Nuremberg, Wuppertal, and Bochum.
  2. ^ Although Wellington is the second-largest urban area, it is sixth-largest city in New Zealand.

See also

External links

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_capitals_and_largest_cities_by_country"


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