List of national capitals

This is a list of national capitals in alphabetical order, including territories and dependencies, non-sovereign states including associated states, and entities whose sovereignty is disputed. Sovereign states are shown in bolded text.

City	Country	Notes
Abu Dhabi	United Arab Emirates
Abuja	Nigeria
Accra	Ghana
Adamstown	Pitcairn Islands	British Overseas Territory
Addis Ababa	Ethiopia
Algiers	Algeria
Alofi	Niue
Amman	Jordan
Amsterdam	Netherlands (official)
Andorra la Vella	Andorra
Ankara	Turkey
Antananarivo	Madagascar
Apia	Samoa
Ashgabat	Turkmenistan
Asmara	Eritrea
Astana	Kazakhstan
Asunción	Paraguay
Athens	Greece
Avarua	Cook Islands
Baghdad	Iraq
Baku	Azerbaijan
Bamako	Mali
Bandar Seri Begawan	Brunei [a]
Bangkok	Thailand
Bangui	Central African Republic
Banjul	Gambia
Basseterre	Saint Kitts and Nevis
Beijing	People's Republic of China [b]
Beirut	Lebanon
Belfast	Northern Ireland
Belgrade	Serbia
Belmopan	Belize
Berlin	Germany
Bern	Switzerland
Bishkek	Kyrgyzstan
Bissau	Guinea-Bissau
Bogotá	Colombia
Brasília	Brazil
Bratislava	Slovakia
Brazzaville	Republic of the Congo
Bridgetown	Barbados
Brussels	Belgium
Bucharest	Romania
Budapest	Hungary
Buenos Aires	Argentina
Bujumbura	Burundi
Cairo	Egypt
Canberra	Australia
Caracas	Venezuela
Cardiff	Wales
Castries	Saint Lucia
Charlotte Amalie	United States Virgin Islands
Chisinau	Moldova
Cockburn Town	Turks and Caicos Islands	British Overseas Territory
Conakry	Guinea
Copenhagen	Denmark
Dakar	Senegal
Damascus	Syria
Dhaka	Bangladesh
Dili	East Timor (Timor-Leste)
Djibouti	Djibouti
Dodoma	Tanzania (official)
Doha	Qatar
Douglas	Isle of Man	British Crown Dependency
Dublin	Ireland
Dushanbe	Tajikistan
Edinburgh	Scotland
Episkopi Cantonment	Akrotiri and Dhekelia	British Overseas Territory
Flying Fish Cove	Christmas Island
Freetown	Sierra Leone
Funafuti	Tuvalu
Gaborone	Botswana
George Town	Cayman Islands
Georgetown	Guyana
Gibraltar	Gibraltar	British Overseas Territory
Grytviken	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	British Overseas Territory
Guatemala City	Guatemala
Gustavia	Saint Barthélemy
Hagåtña	Guam
Hamilton	Bermuda	British Overseas Territory
Hanoi	Vietnam
Harare	Zimbabwe
Hargeisa	Somaliland [c]	De facto independent state not diplomatically recognized by any other state, claimed in whole by the Somali Republic.[1]
Havana	Cuba
Helsinki	Finland
Honiara	Solomon Islands
Islamabad	Pakistan
Jakarta	Indonesia
Jamestown	Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha	British Overseas Territory
Jerusalem	Israel [i]
Jerusalem	Palestine [i]	Palestine has observer status at United Nations General Assembly and maintains a permanent observer mission at the UN Headquarters.[2] The unilaterally declared State of Palestine received diplomatic recognition from around 100 countries.[3][4][5] The proclaimed state has no agreed territorial borders, nor effective control on the territory which it claims.
Kabul	Afghanistan
Kampala	Uganda
Kathmandu	Nepal
Khartoum	Sudan
Kiev	Ukraine
Kigali	Rwanda
Kingston	Jamaica
Kingston	Norfolk Island
Kingstown	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Kinshasa	Democratic Republic of the Congo
Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia (official)
Kuwait City	Kuwait
La Paz	Bolivia (administrative)
Laâyoune (El Aaiún)	Western Sahara [d]	De facto independent state recognized by 81 other states. The territories under its control, the so-called Free Zone, are claimed in whole by Morocco. The government resides in exile in Tindouf, Algeria.
Libreville	Gabon
Lilongwe	Malawi
Lima	Peru
Lisbon	Portugal
Ljubljana	Slovenia
Lomé	Togo
London	United Kingdom;  England
Luanda	Angola
Lusaka	Zambia
Luxembourg City	Luxembourg
Madrid	Spain
Majuro	Marshall Islands
Malabo	Equatorial Guinea
Malé	Maldives
Mamoudzou	Mayotte
Managua	Nicaragua
Manama	Bahrain
Manila	Philippines
Maputo	Mozambique
Marigot	Saint Martin
Maseru	Lesotho
Mata-Utu	Wallis and Futuna
Mbabane	Swaziland (administrative)
Mexico City [e]	Mexico
Minsk	Belarus
Mogadishu	Somalia
Monaco	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
Nicosia	Northern Cyprus	De facto independent state that is recognised only by Turkey. Northern Cyprus is claimed in whole by the Republic of Cyprus.[6]
Nouakchott	Mauritania
Nouméa	New Caledonia
Nukuʻalofa	Tonga
Nuuk	Greenland
Oranjestad	Aruba
Oslo	Norway
Ottawa	Canada
Ouagadougou	Burkina Faso
Pago Pago	American Samoa
Palikir	Federated States of Micronesia
Panama City	Panama
Papeete	French Polynesia
Paramaribo	Suriname
Paris	France
Phnom Penh	Cambodia
Plymouth [f]	Montserrat	British Overseas Territory
Podgorica	Montenegro
Port Louis	Mauritius
Port Moresby	Papua New Guinea
Port Vila	Vanuatu
Port-au-Prince	Haiti
Port of Spain	Trinidad and Tobago
Porto-Novo	Benin (official)
Prague	Czech Republic
Praia	Cape Verde
Pretoria	South Africa (official)
Pristina	Kosovo[j]	De facto independent state that is recognised by 72 UN member states and by Taiwan (Republic of China). Claimed in whole by the Republic of Serbia as part of its Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija. Republic of Kosovo has de facto control over most of the territory, with limited control in North Kosovo.
Putrajaya	Malaysia (administrative)
Pyongyang	North Korea
Quito	Ecuador
Rabat	Morocco
Reykjavík	Iceland
Riga	Latvia
Riyadh	Saudi Arabia
Road Town	British Virgin Islands	British Overseas Territory
Rome	Italy
Roseau	Dominica
Saipan	Northern Mariana Islands
San José	Costa Rica
San Juan	Puerto Rico
San Marino	San Marino
San Salvador	El Salvador
Sanaá	Yemen
Santiago	Chile
Santo Domingo	Dominican Republic
São Tomé	São Tomé and Príncipe
Sarajevo	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Seoul	South Korea
Singapore	Singapore
Skopje	Macedonia
Sofia	Bulgaria
South Tarawa	Kiribati
Sri Jayawardenepura [g]	Sri Lanka (legislative)
St. George's	Grenada	British Overseas Territory
St. Helier	Jersey	British Crown Dependency
St. John's	Antigua and Barbuda
St. Peter Port	Guernsey	British Crown Dependency
St. Pierre	Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Stanley	Falkland Islands	British Overseas Territory
Stockholm	Sweden
Sucre	Bolivia
Suva	Fiji
Taipei	Republic of China (Taiwan)	A state competing for recognition with the People's Republic of China as the government of China since 1949. The Republic of China controls the island of Taiwan and associated islands Quemoy, Matsu, the Pratas and part of the Spratly Islands[7] The territory of the Republic of China is claimed in whole by the People's Republic of China.[8] The Republic of China participates in the World Health Organization and a number of non-UN international organizations such as the World Trade Organization, International Olympic Committee and others under a variety of pseudonyms, most commonly Chinese Taipei.
Tallinn	Estonia
Tashkent	Uzbekistan
Tbilisi	Georgia
Tegucigalpa	Honduras
Tehran	Iran
Thimphu	Bhutan
Tirana	Albania
Tiraspol	Transnistria
Tokyo	Japan
Tórshavn	Faroe Islands
Tripoli	Libya
Tskhinvali	South Ossetia
Tunis	Tunisia
Ulaanbaatar	Mongolia
Vaduz	Liechtenstein
Valletta	Malta
The Valley	Anguilla	British Overseas Territory
Vatican City	Vatican City [h]
Victoria	Seychelles
Vienna	Austria
Vientiane	Laos
Vilnius	Lithuania
Warsaw	Poland
Washington, D.C.	United States
Wellington	New Zealand
West Island	Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Willemstad	Netherlands Antilles
Windhoek	Namibia
Yamoussoukro	Côte d'Ivoire (official)
Yaoundé	Cameroon
Yaren	Nauru (administrative)
Yerevan	Armenia
Zagreb	Croatia

Notes

• a.  ^{^} That is, the State of Brunei Darussalam.
• b.  ^{^} See also List of historical capitals of China.
• c.  ^{^} Unrecognized, self-declared country.
• d.  ^{^} Unofficial; see Politics of Western Sahara.
• e.  ^{^} The Spanish name is "México D.F." or just "D.F." (for "Distrito Federal").
• f.  ^{^} Plymouth was abandoned after the eruption of the Soufriere Hills volcano in 1997. Government offices since then have been moved to Brades Estate, which is in the northwestern part of Montserrat.
• g.  ^{^} Also known as "Kotte". 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.
• h.  ^{^} Also known as the "Holy See" for diplomatic and religious purposes.
• i.  ^{^} See Positions on Jerusalem.
• j.  ^{^} Kosovo proclaimed independence from Serbia on 17. February 2008 by temporary governing institutions. That independence is against the current UNSC's resolution regarding Kosovo (1244).

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