COUNTRIES & THEIR CAPITALS



COUNTRIES & THEIR CAPITALS

|Country |Capital |

|Afghanistan |Kabul |

|Akrotiri |Episkopi Cantonment; also serves as capital of Dhekelia |

|Albania |Tirana |

|Algeria |Algiers |

|American Samoa |Pago Pago |

|Andorra |Andorra la Vella |

|Angola |Luanda |

|Anguilla |The Valley |

|Antigua and Barbuda |Saint John's (Antigua) |

|Argentina |Buenos Aires |

|Armenia |Yerevan |

|Aruba |Oranjestad |

|Australia |Canberra |

|Austria |Vienna |

|Azerbaijan |Baku (Baki) |

|Bahamas, The |Nassau |

|Bahrain |Manama |

|Bangladesh |Dhaka |

|Barbados |Bridgetown |

|Belarus |Minsk |

|Belgium |Brussels |

|Belize |Belmopan |

|Benin |Porto-Novo is the official capital; Cotonou is the seat of government |

|Bermuda |Hamilton |

|Bhutan |Thimphu |

|Bolivia |La Paz (seat of government); Sucre (legal capital and seat of judiciary) |

|Bosnia and Herzegovina |Sarajevo |

|Botswana |Gaborone |

|Brazil |Brasilia |

|British Virgin Islands |Road Town |

|Brunei |Bandar Seri Begawan |

|Bulgaria |Sofia |

|Burkina Faso |Ouagadougou |

|Burma |Rangoon (government refers to capital as Yangon) |

| |note: junta began shifting seat of government to Pyinmana area of central Burma in |

| |November 2005 |

|Burundi |Bujumbura |

|Cambodia |Phnom Penh |

|Cameroon |Yaounde |

|Canada |Ottawa |

|Cape Verde |Praia |

|Cayman Islands |George Town (Grand Cayman) |

|Central African Republic |Bangui |

|Chad |N'Djamena |

|Chile |Santiago |

|China |Beijing |

|Christmas Island |The Settlement |

|Cocos (Keeling) Islands |West Island |

|Colombia |Bogota |

|Comoros |Moroni |

|Congo, Democratic Republic |Kinshasa |

|of the | |

|Congo, Republic of the |Brazzaville |

|Cook Islands |Avarua |

|Costa Rica |San Jose |

|Cote d'Ivoire |Yamoussoukro; note - although Yamoussoukro has been the official capital since 1983, |

| |Abidjan remains the commercial and administrative center; the US, like other countries,|

| |maintains its Embassy in Abidjan |

|Croatia |Zagreb |

|Cuba |Havana |

|Cyprus |Nicosia |

|Czech Republic |Prague |

|Denmark |Copenhagen |

|Dhekelia |Episkopi Cantonment; located in Akrotiri |

|Djibouti |Djibouti |

|Dominica |Roseau |

|Dominican Republic |Santo Domingo |

|East Timor |Dili |

|Ecuador |Quito |

|Egypt |Cairo |

|El Salvador |San Salvador |

|Equatorial Guinea |Malabo |

|Eritrea |Asmara |

|Estonia |Tallinn |

|Ethiopia |Addis Ababa |

|European Union |Brussels, Belgium |

| |note: the Council of the European Union meets in Brussels, the European Parliament |

| |meets in Strasbourg, France, and the Court of Justice of the European Communities meets|

| |in Luxembourg |

|Falkland Islands (Islas |Stanley |

|Malvinas) | |

|Faroe Islands |Torshavn |

|Fiji |Suva (Viti Levu) |

|Finland |Helsinki |

|France |Paris |

|French Guiana |Cayenne |

|French Polynesia |Papeete |

|Gabon |Libreville |

|Gambia, The |Banjul |

|Georgia |T'bilisi |

|Germany |Berlin |

|Ghana |Accra |

|Gibraltar |Gibraltar |

|Greece |Athens |

|Greenland |Nuuk (Godthab) |

|Grenada |Saint George's |

|Guadeloupe |Basse-Terre |

|Guam |Hagatna (Agana) |

|Guatemala |Guatemala |

|Guernsey |Saint Peter Port |

|Guinea |Conakry |

|Guinea-Bissau |Bissau |

|Guyana |Georgetown |

|Haiti |Port-au-Prince |

|Holy See (Vatican City) |Vatican City |

|Honduras |Tegucigalpa |

|Hungary |Budapest |

|Iceland |Reykjavik |

|India |New Delhi |

|Indonesia |Jakarta |

|Iran |Tehran |

|Iraq |Baghdad |

|Ireland |Dublin |

|Isle of Man |Douglas |

|Israel |Jerusalem; note - Israel proclaimed Jerusalem as its capital in 1950, but the US, like |

| |nearly all other countries, maintains its Embassy in Tel Aviv |

|Italy |Rome |

|Jamaica |Kingston |

|Japan |Tokyo |

|Jersey |Saint Helier |

|Jordan |'Amman |

|Kazakhstan |Astana; note - the government moved from Almaty to Astana in December 1998 |

|Kenya |Nairobi |

|Kiribati |Tarawa |

|Korea, North |Pyongyang |

|Korea, South |Seoul |

|Kuwait |Kuwait |

|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 |

| |note: Putrajaya is referred to as administrative center not capital; Parliament meets |

| |in Kuala Lumpur |

|Maldives |Male |

|Mali |Bamako |

|Malta |Valletta |

|Marshall Islands |Majuro |

|Martinique |Fort-de-France |

|Mauritania |Nouakchott |

|Mauritius |Port Louis |

|Mayotte |Mamoutzou |

|Mexico |Mexico (Distrito Federal) |

|Micronesia, Federated States|Palikir |

|of | |

|Moldova |Chisinau |

|Monaco |Monaco |

|Mongolia |Ulaanbaatar |

|Montserrat |Plymouth (abandoned in 1997 due to volcanic activity; interim government buildings have|

| |been built at Brades Estate, in the Carr's Bay/Little Bay vicinity at the northwest end|

| |of Montserrat) |

|Morocco |Rabat |

|Mozambique |Maputo |

|Namibia |Windhoek |

|Nauru |no official capital; government offices in Yaren District |

|Nepal |Kathmandu |

|Netherlands |Amsterdam; The Hague is the seat of government |

|Netherlands Antilles |Willemstad; note - located on Curacao, the largest of the islands |

|New Caledonia |Noumea |

|New Zealand |Wellington |

|Nicaragua |Managua |

|Niger |Niamey |

|Nigeria |Abuja; note - on 12 December 1991 the capital was officially transferred from Lagos to |

| |Abuja; most federal government offices have now moved to Abuja |

|Niue |Alofi |

|Norfolk Island |Kingston |

|Northern Mariana Islands |Saipan |

|Norway |Oslo |

|Oman |Muscat |

|Pakistan |Islamabad |

|Palau |Koror; note - a new capital is being built about 20 km northeast of Koror |

|Panama |Panama |

|Papua New Guinea |Port Moresby |

|Paraguay |Asuncion |

|Peru |Lima |

|Philippines |Manila |

|Pitcairn Islands |Adamstown |

|Poland |Warsaw |

|Portugal |Lisbon |

|Puerto Rico |San Juan |

|Qatar |Doha |

|Reunion |Saint-Denis |

|Romania |Bucharest |

|Russia |Moscow |

|Rwanda |Kigali |

|Saint Helena |Jamestown |

|Saint Kitts and Nevis |Basseterre |

|Saint Lucia |Castries |

|Saint Pierre and Miquelon |Saint-Pierre |

|Saint Vincent and the |Kingstown |

|Grenadines | |

|Samoa |Apia |

|San Marino |San Marino |

|Sao Tome and Principe |Sao Tome |

|Saudi Arabia |Riyadh |

|Senegal |Dakar |

|Serbia and Montenegro |Belgrade |

|Seychelles |Victoria |

|Sierra Leone |Freetown |

|Singapore |Singapore |

|Slovakia |Bratislava |

|Slovenia |Ljubljana |

|Solomon Islands |Honiara |

|Somalia |Mogadishu |

|South Africa |Pretoria; note - Cape Town is the legislative center and Bloemfontein the judicial |

| |center |

|Spain |Madrid |

|Sri Lanka |Colombo; note - Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte is the legislative capital |

|Sudan |Khartoum |

|Suriname |Paramaribo |

|Svalbard |Longyearbyen |

|Swaziland |Mbabane; note - Lobamba is the royal and legislative capital |

|Sweden |Stockholm |

|Switzerland |Bern |

|Syria |Damascus |

|Taiwan |Taipei |

|Tajikistan |Dushanbe |

|Tanzania |Dar es Salaam; note - legislative offices have been transferred to Dodoma, which is |

| |planned as the new national capital; the National Assembly now meets there on regular |

| |basis |

|Thailand |Bangkok |

|Togo |Lome |

|Tokelau |none; each atoll has its own administrative center |

|Tonga |Nuku'alofa |

|Trinidad and Tobago |Port-of-Spain |

|Tunisia |Tunis |

|Turkey |Ankara |

|Turkmenistan |Ashgabat |

|Turks and Caicos Islands |Grand Turk |

|Tuvalu |Funafuti; note - administrative offices are located in Vaiaku Village on Fongafale |

| |Islet |

|Uganda |Kampala |

|Ukraine |Kiev (Kyyiv) |

|United Arab Emirates |Abu Dhabi |

|United Kingdom |London |

|United States |Washington, DC |

|Uruguay |Montevideo |

|Uzbekistan |Tashkent (Toshkent) |

|Vanuatu |Port-Vila (Efate) |

|Venezuela |Caracas |

|Vietnam |Hanoi |

|Virgin Islands |Charlotte Amalie |

|Wallis and Futuna |Mata-Utu (on Ile Uvea) |

|Western Sahara |none |

|Yemen |Sanaa |

|Zambia |Lusaka |

|Zimbabwe |Harare |

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