List of national capitals by population

This is a list of national capitals, ordered according to population. Capitals of a dependent territories and disputed territories are marked in italics. The population statistics given refer only to the official capital area, and do not include the wider metropolitan/urban district.

List

Beijing, China
New Delhi, India
Tokyo, Japan
Jakarta, Indonesia
Lima, Peru
London, United Kingdom
Berlin, Germany
Brasilia, Brazil
Luanda, Angola
Pretoria, South Africa
Paris, France
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Warsaw, Poland
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Kuwait City, Kuwait
Brussels, Belgium & EU Capital
Ottawa, Canada
Stockholm, Sweden
Jerusalem, Israel & Palestine
Kingston, Jamaica
(Washington) District of Columbia, United States
Asuncion, Paraguay
Tallinn, Estonia
Islamabad, Pakistan
Rank Country/Territory Capital Population Year
1  China Beijing 20,693,000[1] 2012
2  Japan Tokyo 13,189,000[2] 2011
3  Russia Moscow 11,541,000[3] 2011
4  South Korea Seoul 10,528,774[4] 2011
5  Indonesia Jakarta 10,187,595[5] 2011
6  Iran Tehran 9,110,347
7  Mexico Mexico City 8,851,080[6] 2010
8  Peru Lima 8,481,415[7] 2012
9  Thailand Bangkok 8,249,117[8] 2010
10  United Kingdom London 8,174,100[9] 2011
11  Colombia Bogotá 7,613,303[10] 2011
12  Egypt Cairo 7,438,376
13  Iraq Baghdad 7,216,040 [11]
14  Hong Kong (China) Hong Kong 7,136,300[12] 2012
15  Bangladesh Dhaka 6,080,671
16  Singapore Singapore 5,312,000[13] 2012
17  Turkey Ankara 5,150,072 2014
18  Chile Santiago 5,084,038[14] 2012
19  Saudi Arabia Riyadh 4,878,723[15] 2009
20  Democratic Republic of the Congo Kinshasa 4,385,264
21  Germany Berlin 3,520,000[16] 2012
22  Syria Damascus 3,500,000
23  Vietnam Hanoi 3,398,889[17]
24  Spain Madrid 3,233,527[18] 2012
25  North Korea Pyongyang 3,144,005
26  Afghanistan Kabul 3,140,853
27  Ethiopia Addis Ababa 3,040,740[19] 2012
28  Argentina Buenos Aires 2,891,082[20] 2010
29  Italy Rome 2,868,104[21] 2014
30  Ukraine Kiev 2,832,398[22] 2012
31  Kenya Nairobi 2,665,657
32  Brazil Brasília 2,648,532[23] 2012
33  Republic of China (Taiwan) Taipei 2,618,772[24] 2010
34  Jordan Amman 2,600,603
35  Angola Luanda 2,453,779
36  South Africa Pretoria 2,345,908
37  France Paris 2,268,265[25] 2010
38  Uzbekistan Tashkent 2,207,850
39  Sweden Stockholm 2,171,459[26] 2014
40  Cuba Havana 2,135,498[27] 2010
41  Cambodia Phnom Penh 2,011,725
42  Romania Bucharest 1,942,254[28]
43  Azerbaijan Baku 1,879,251
44  Venezuela Caracas 1,838,939
45  Morocco Rabat 1,789,635
46  Austria Vienna 1,749,673[29] 2013
47  Sudan Khartoum 1,740,661
48  Hungary Budapest 1,729,040[30] 2011
49  Poland Warsaw 1,711,324[31] 2012
50  Belarus Minsk 1,702,061
51  Philippines Manila 1,652,171[32] 2010
52  Uganda Kampala 1,659,600
53  Ghana Accra 1,640,507
54  Cameroon Yaoundé 1,616,000 [33]
55  Madagascar Antananarivo 1,613,375[34]
56  Lebanon Beirut 1,574,387
57  Algeria Algiers 1,518,083
58  Ecuador Quito 1,504,991
59  Zimbabwe Harare 1,487,028
60  Qatar Doha 1,450,000
61  Yemen Sana'a 1,431,649
62  Guinea Conakry 1,399,981
63  Malaysia Kuala Lumpur 1,381,830
64  Uruguay Montevideo 1,369,797
65  Zambia Lusaka 1,331,254
66  Somaliland Hargeisa 1,300,000
67  Mali Bamako 1,289,626
68  Czech Republic Prague 1,241,664[35] 2011
69  Haiti Port-au-Prince 1,235,227
70  Libya Tripoli 1,184,045
71  Kuwait Kuwait City 1,171,880
72  Serbia Belgrade 1,154,589
73  Dominican Republic Santo Domingo 1,111,838[36] 2010
74  Somalia Mogadishu 1,097,133
75  Bulgaria Sofia 1,090,295
76  Congo Brazzaville 1,088,044
77  Belgium Brussels 1,080,790[37]
78  Armenia Yerevan 1,080,487[34]
79  Mozambique Maputo 1,076,689
80  Sierra Leone Freetown 1,070,200
81  Georgia Tbilisi 1,044,993
82  Senegal Dakar 1,030,594
83  Burkina Faso Ouagadougou 1,005,231
84  Ireland Dublin 1,045,769
85  Liberia Monrovia 1,010,970
86  Guatemala Guatemala City 1,103,865 [38]
87  Pakistan Islamabad 955,629
88  Nicaragua Managua 926,883
89  Myanmar Naypyidaw[39] 925,000[40]
90  Mongolia Ulan Bator 907,802
91  Malawi Lilongwe 902,388
92  Canada Ottawa 898,150[41]
93  Bolivia La Paz 877,363
94  Kyrgyzstan Bishkek 843,240
95  Togo Lomé 824,738
96  Panama Panama City 813,097
97    Nepal Kathmandu 812,026
98  Netherlands Amsterdam 810,909[42]
99  Croatia Zagreb 804,200[43]
100  Oman Muscat 797,000[44]
101  Niger Niamey 794,814[42]
102  Moldova Chişinău 794,800 [45]
103  Israel/ Palestine Jerusalem[46] 780,200[47]
104  Nigeria Abuja 778,567 [48]
105  Albania Tirana 763,634
106  Tunisia Tunis 767,629
107  Turkmenistan Ashgabat 763,537
108  Chad N'Djamena 751,288
109  Honduras Tegucigalpa 735,982
110  Central African Republic Bangui 731,548
111  Greece Athens 721,477
112  Mauritania Nouakchott 719,167
113  Rwanda Kigali 718,414
114  Latvia Riga 713,016
115  Jamaica Kingston 701,063
116  Kazakhstan Astana 700,000 2007 est.[49]
117  Norway Oslo 645,701[50] 2013
118  United States District of Columbia 601,723
119  Finland Helsinki 596,661[51]
120  United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi 585,097[52]
121  Tajikistan Dushanbe 582,496
122  Lithuania Vilnius 556,723
123  Gabon Libreville 556,425
124  Eritrea Asmara 543,707
125  Portugal Lisbon 564,657
126  El Salvador San Salvador 521,366
127  Paraguay Asunción 520,722
128  Macau (China) Macau 520,400[53]
129  Macedonia Skopje 668,518[54]
130  Denmark Copenhagen 562,253
131  Djibouti Djibouti (city) 475,332
132  Côte d'Ivoire Yamoussoukro 454,929
133  Guinea-Bissau Bissau 452,640
134  Slovakia Bratislava 424,207
135  Puerto Rico (USA) San Juan 421,356
136  Estonia Tallinn 403,547[55]
137  Burundi Bujumbura 384,461[56]
138  Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo 383,604
139  New Zealand Wellington 381,900[57]
140  South Sudan Juba 372,410
141  Australia Canberra 354,644[58]
142  Costa Rica San José 328,195
143  Papua New Guinea Port Moresby 299,396[59]
144  Laos Vientiane 287,579
145  Tanzania Dodoma 287,200 2002 est.[60]
146  Lesotho Maseru 267,652[59]
147  Cyprus Nicosia (south) 270,000 late 2004[61]
148  Slovenia Ljubljana 280,140
149  Suriname Paramaribo 254,147
150  Namibia Windhoek 252,721
151  India New Delhi 249,998 2014
152  Bahamas Nassau 248,948
153  Botswana Gaborone 225,656[62]
154  Benin Porto-Novo 223,552 [63]
155  Kosovo Prishtina 198,214
156  Western Sahara El Aaiún 194,668 (2009 est.) [64]
157  Transnistria Tiraspol 159,163
158  Mauritius Port Louis 147,251[65]
159  Montenegro Podgorica 141,854
160  Bahrain Manama 140,616
161  Guyana Georgetown 134,599
162  Cape Verde Praia 125,464
163   Switzerland Berne (de facto) 121,631 [66]
164  Sri Lanka Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte 118,556[67]
165  Iceland Reykjavík 115,000[68]
166  Barbados Bridgetown 110,000
167  Maldives Malé 103,693
168  Bhutan Thimphu 101,259 [67]
169  Equatorial Guinea Malabo 100,677 [69]
170  New Caledonia (France) Nouméa 89,207[70]
171  Northern Cyprus Nicosia (north) 84,893
172  Fiji Suva 84,410[70]
173  Swaziland Mbabane 81,594
174  Luxembourg Luxembourg 76,420[71]
175  Saint Lucia Castries 70,000[72]
176  Northern Mariana Islands (USA) Saipan 62,392 (2000)[73]
177  Comoros Moroni 60,200
178  Solomon Islands Honiara 59,288[70]
179  East Timor Dili 59,069
180  São Tomé and Príncipe Sao Tome 56,166
181  American Samoa (USA) Pago Pago 52,000 (2003)[74]
182  Trinidad and Tobago Port of Spain 50,479
183  Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Stepanakert 49,986
184  Curaçao (Netherlands) Willemstad 49,885 [75]
186  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Kingstown 40,020
187  Samoa Apia 39,813[76]
188  Vanuatu Port Vila 38,000 [77]
189  Monaco Monaco 35,986 (2011 est.)[78]
190  Gambia Banjul 34,828
191  Kiribati Tarawa 30,000[79]
192  Aruba (Netherlands) Oranjestad 29,998[80]
193  Seychelles Victoria 29,298
194  Gibraltar (UK) Gibraltar 29,286
195  Jersey (UK) Saint Helier 28,380
196  Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan 28,135
197  Cayman Islands (UK) George Town 26,798
198  Isle of Man (UK) Douglas 26,600
199  French Polynesia (France) Papeete 26,200 [81]
200  West Bank (Israel/PNA) Ramallah (de facto) 25,500[82]
201  Marshall Islands Majuro 25,400
202  Andorra Andorra la Vella 22,884
203  Antigua and Barbuda St. John's 22,679[83]
204  Tonga Nukuʻalofa 22,400
205  Faroe Islands (Denmark) Tórshavn 18,573 [84]
206  Guernsey (UK) St. Peter Port 16,701
207  Belize Belmopan 16,451[85]
208  Greenland Nuuk (Godthåb) 15,469
209  Dominica Roseau 14,847 [86]
210  Saint Kitts and Nevis Basseterre 13,043 [87]
211  Åland (Finland) Mariehamn 11,296 [51]
212  United States Virgin Islands (US) Charlotte Amalie 10,817
213  Federated States of Micronesia Palikir 9,900
214  British Virgin Islands (UK) Road Town 9,400
215  Grenada St. George's 7,500
216  Malta Valletta 6,675[88] 2013
217  Collectivity of Saint Martin (France) Marigot 5,700
218  Saint Pierre and Miquelon (France) Saint-Pierre 5,509
219  Cook Islands (NZ) Avarua 5,445
220  Liechtenstein Vaduz 5,248
221  San Marino City of San Marino 4,493
222  Tuvalu Funafuti 4,492
223  Turks and Caicos Islands (UK) Cockburn Town 3,700
224  Saint Barthélemy (France) Gustavia 6,000
225  Falkland Islands (UK) Stanley 2,115 [89]
226  Svalbard (Norway) Longyearbyen 2,075
227  Christmas Island (Australia) Flying Fish Cove 1,493 [90]
228  Sint Maarten (Netherlands) Philipsburg 1,338
229  Wallis and Futuna (France) Mata-Utu 1,191
230  Anguilla (UK) The Valley 1,169
231  Nauru Yaren (de facto) 1,100[91]
232  Guam (USA) Hagåtña 1,100
233  Montserrat (UK) Brades (de facto) 1,000
234  Bermuda (UK) Hamilton 969
235  Norfolk Island (Australia) Kingston 880 [92]
236  Holy See The Vatican 826 (2009 est.)[93]
237  Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (UK) Jamestown 714
239  Niue (NZ) Alofi 616
239  Tokelau (NZ) Nukunonu (de facto) 426
240  Palau Ngerulmud 391
241  Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Australia) West Island 120
242  Pitcairn Islands (UK) Adamstown 45
243  South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (UK) King Edward Point 18

See also

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