List of national capitals

Below is a complete listing of the 196 official independent countries of the world and their capital cities. 

Afghanistan - KabulThe countries of the world and capitals of every country follow:

Albania - Tirana

Algeria - Algiers
Andorra - Andorra la Vella
Angola - Luanda
Antigua and Barbuda - Saint John's
Argentina - Buenos Aires
Armenia - Yerevan
Australia - Canberra
Austria - Vienna
Azerbaijan - Baku
The Bahamas - Nassau
Bahrain - Manama
Bangladesh - Dhaka
Barbados - Bridgetown
Belarus - Minsk
Belgium - Brussels
Belize - Belmopan
Benin - Porto-Novo
Bhutan - Thimphu
Bolivia - La Paz (administrative); Sucre (judicial)
Bosnia and Herzegovina - Sarajevo
Botswana - Gaborone
Brazil - Brasilia
Brunei - Bandar Seri Begawan
Bulgaria - Sofia
Burkina Faso - Ouagadougou
Burundi - Bujumbura
Cambodia - Phnom Penh
Cameroon - Yaounde
Canada - Ottawa
Cape Verde - Praia
Central African Republic - Bangui
Chad - N'Djamena
Chile - Santiago
China - Beijing
Colombia - Bogota
Comoros - Moroni
Congo, Republic of the - Brazzaville
Congo, Democratic Republic of the - Kinshasa
Costa Rica - San Jose
Cote d'Ivoire - Yamoussoukro (official); Abidjan (de facto)
Croatia - Zagreb
Cuba - Havana
Cyprus - Nicosia
Czech Republic - Prague
Denmark - Copenhagen
Djibouti - Djibouti
Dominica - Roseau
Dominican Republic - Santo Domingo
East Timor (Timor-Leste) - Dili
Ecuador - Quito
Egypt - Cairo
El Salvador - San Salvador
Equatorial Guinea - Malabo
Eritrea - Asmara
Estonia - Tallinn
Ethiopia - Addis Ababa
Fiji - Suva
Finland - Helsinki
France - Paris
Gabon - Libreville
The Gambia - Banjul
Georgia - Tbilisi
Germany - Berlin
Ghana - Accra
Greece - Athens
Grenada - Saint George's
Guatemala - Guatemala City
Guinea - Conakry
Guinea-Bissau - Bissau
Guyana - Georgetown
Haiti - Port-au-Prince
Honduras - Tegucigalpa
Hungary - Budapest
Iceland - Reykjavik
India - New Delhi
Indonesia - Jakarta
Iran - Tehran
Iraq - Baghdad
Ireland - Dublin
Israel - Jerusalem*
Italy - Rome
Jamaica - Kingston
Japan - Tokyo
Jordan - Amman
Kazakhstan - Astana
Kenya - Nairobi
Kiribati - Tarawa Atoll
Korea, North - Pyongyang
Korea, South - Seoul
Kosovo - Pristina
Kuwait - Kuwait City
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
Maldives - Male
Mali - Bamako
Malta - Valletta
Marshall Islands - Majuro
Mauritania - Nouakchott
Mauritius - Port Louis
Mexico - Mexico City
Micronesia, Federated States of - Palikir
Moldova - Chisinau
Monaco - Monaco
Mongolia - Ulaanbaatar
Montenegro - Podgorica
Morocco - Rabat
Mozambique - Maputo
Myanmar (Burma) - Rangoon (Yangon); Naypyidaw or Nay Pyi Taw (administrative)
Namibia - Windhoek
Nauru - no official capital; government offices in Yaren District
Nepal - Kathmandu
Netherlands - Amsterdam; The Hague (seat of government)
New Zealand - Wellington
Nicaragua - Managua
Niger - Niamey
Nigeria - Abuja
Norway - Oslo
Oman - Muscat
Pakistan - Islamabad
Palau - Melekeok
Panama - Panama City
Papua New Guinea - Port Moresby
Paraguay - Asuncion
Peru - Lima
Philippines - Manila
Poland - Warsaw
Portugal - Lisbon
Qatar - Doha
Romania - Bucharest
Russia - Moscow
Rwanda - Kigali
Saint Kitts and Nevis - Basseterre
Saint Lucia - Castries
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Kingstown
Samoa - Apia
San Marino - San Marino
Sao Tome and Principe - Sao Tome
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 (administrative); Cape Town (legislative); Bloemfontein (judiciary)
South Sudan - Juba (Relocating to Ramciel)
Spain - Madrid
Sri Lanka - Colombo; Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte (legislative)
Sudan - Khartoum
Suriname - Paramaribo
Swaziland - Mbabane
Sweden - Stockholm
Switzerland - Bern
Syria - Damascus
Taiwan - Taipei
Tajikistan - Dushanbe
Tanzania - Dar es Salaam; Dodoma (legislative)
Thailand - Bangkok
Togo - Lome
Tonga - Nuku'alofa
Trinidad and Tobago - Port-of-Spain
Tunisia - Tunis
Turkey - Ankara
Turkmenistan - Ashgabat
Tuvalu - Vaiaku village, Funafuti province
Uganda - Kampala
Ukraine - Kyiv
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
United Kingdom - London
United States of America - Washington D.C.
Uruguay - Montevideo
Uzbekistan - Tashkent
Vanuatu - Port-Vila
Vatican City (Holy See) - Vatican City
Venezuela - Caracas
Vietnam - Hanoi
Yemen - Sanaa
Zambia - Lusaka
Zimbabwe - Harare

There are a significant number of countries that have multiple capital cities. Where that occurs, the additional capital cities are listed as well. (Note that the word "capitol" refers to the building and not to the city).

Twelve countries around the world have multiple capital cities for a variety of reasons. Most split administrative, legislative, and judicial headquarters between two or more cities.

Benin

Porto-Novo is the official capital of Benin but Cotonou is the seat of government.

Bolivia

The administrative capital of Bolivia is La Paz while the legislative and judicial (also known as constitutional) capital is Sucre.

Cote d'Ivoire

In 1983, President Felix Houphouet-Boigny moved the capital of Cote d'Ivoire from Abidjan to his hometown of Yamoussoukro. This made the official capital Yamoussoukro but many government offices and embassies (including the United States) remain in Abidjan.

In 1950, Israel proclaimed Jerusalem as their capital city. However, all countries (including the United States) maintain their embassies in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, which was Israel's capital from 1948 to 1950.

Malaysia

Malaysia has moved many administrative functions from Kuala Lumpur to a suburb of Kuala Lumpur called Putrajaya. Putrajaya is a new high-technology complex 25km (15 miles) south of Kuala Lumpur. The Malaysian government has relocated administrative offices and the Prime Minister's official residence. Nonetheless, Kuala Lumpur remains the official capital.

Putrajaya is part of a regional "Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC)." The MSC itself is also home to Kuala Lumpur International Airport and the Petronas Twin Towers.

Myanmar

On Sunday, November 6, 2005 civil servants and government officials were ordered to move immediately from Rangoon to a new capital, Nay Pyi Taw (also known as Naypyidaw), 200 miles north. While governmental buildings in Nay Pyi Taw had been under construction for more than two years, its construction was not widely publicized. Some report the timing of the move was related to astrological recommendations. The transition to Nay Pyi Taw continues so both Rangoon and Nay Pyi Taw retain capital status. Other names might be seen or used to represent the new capital and nothing is solid as of this writing.” 

Netherlands

Though the legal (de jure) capital of the Netherlands is Amsterdam, the actual (de facto) seat of government and residence of the monarchy is The Hague.

Nigeria

The capital of Nigeria was officially moved from Lagos to Abuja in December 2, 1991 but some offices remain in Lagos.

South Africa

South Africa is a very interesting situation, it has three capitals. Pretoria is the administrative capital, Cape Town is the legislative capital, and Bloemfontein is the home of the judiciary.

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka has moved the legislative capital to Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte, a suburb of the official capital Colombo.

Swaziland

Mbabane is the administrative capital and Lobamba is the royal and legislative capital.

Tanzania

Tanzania officially designated its capital as Dodoma but only the legislature meets there, leaving Dar es Salaam as the de facto capital city.

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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	Self-governing in free association with New Zealand.
Amman	Jordan
Amsterdam	Netherlands	The Dutch constitution refers to Amsterdam as the "capital". The Dutch government is located in The Hague. See Capital of the Netherlands.
Andorra la Vella	Andorra
Ankara	Turkey
Antananarivo	Madagascar
Apia	Samoa
Ashgabat	Turkmenistan
Asmara	Eritrea
Astana	Kazakhstan
Asunción	Paraguay
Athens	Greece
Avarua	Cook Islands	Self-governing in free association with New Zealand.
Baghdad	Iraq
Baku	Azerbaijan
Bamako	Mali
Bandar Seri Begawan	Brunei
Bangkok	Thailand
Bangui	Central African Republic
Banjul	Gambia
Basseterre	Saint Kitts and Nevis
Beijing	China	See also: List of historical capitals of China
Beirut	Lebanon
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	Also the de facto capital of the  European Union
Bucharest	Romania
Budapest	Hungary
Buenos Aires	Argentina
Bujumbura	Burundi
Cairo	Egypt
Canberra	Australia
Caracas	Venezuela
Castries	Saint Lucia
Cayenne	French Guiana	Overseas department of France
Charlotte Amalie	United States Virgin Islands	Territory of the United States
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 (official, legislative)	Tanzania	Dar es Salaam, the former capital and largest city continues to serve as the de facto seat of government hosting the presidency, government ministries, judiciary and diplomatic missions.
Doha	Qatar
Douglas	Isle of Man	British Crown Dependency
Dublin	Ireland
Dushanbe	Tajikistan
Edinburgh of the Seven Seas	Tristan da Cunha	Part of the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
El Aaiún (declared)	Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic [c]	The Sahrawi Republic, recognised by 82 states, claims the mostly Moroccan controlledWestern Sahara. Moroccan controlled territory includes El Aaiún, and Morocco claims allSahrawi controlled territory. The Sahrawi government resides in exile in Tindouf, Algeria.[1]See Politics of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
Episkopi Cantonment	Akrotiri and Dhekelia	British Overseas Territory
Flying Fish Cove	Christmas Island	External territory of Australia
Freetown	Sierra Leone
Funafuti	Tuvalu
Gaborone	Botswana
George Town	Cayman Islands	British Overseas Territory
Georgetown	Ascension Island	Part of the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
Georgetown	Guyana
Gibraltar	Gibraltar	British Overseas Territory
Guatemala City	Guatemala
Gustavia	Saint Barthélemy	Overseas collectivity of France
Hagåtña	Guam	Territory of the United States
Hamilton	Bermuda	British Overseas Territory
Hanga Roa	Easter Island	Special territory of Chile
Hanoi	Vietnam
Harare	Zimbabwe
Hargeisa	Somaliland	De facto independent state not diplomatically recognized by any other state, claimed in whole by the Somali Republic.[2]
Havana	Cuba
Helsinki	Finland
Honiara	Solomon Islands
Islamabad	Pakistan
Jakarta	Indonesia
Jamestown	Saint Helena	Part of the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
Jerusalem (declared, de facto)	Israel	Jerusalem Law states that "Jerusalem, complete and united, is the capital of Israel", and the city serves as the seat of the government, home to the president's residence, government offices, supreme court, and parliament. United Nations Security Council Resolution 478 declared the Jerusalem Law "null and void" and called on member states to withdraw their diplomatic missions from Jerusalem. The United Nations and all member states maintain their embassies in other cities such as Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan, andHerzliya, and do not recognise Jerusalem as the capital.[3] Many countries officially adhere to the proposal that Jerusalem have international status, as called for in thePartition Plan of 1947.[4] The Palestinian National Authority claims East Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state. See Positions on Jerusalem.
Jerusalem (declared) Ramallah and Gaza (de facto)	State of Palestine	The State of Palestine claims the territories occupied by Israel since the Six-Day War in 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital. The proclaimed state is currently occupied by Israel and has no effective control over the territories it claims. Administration is based inRamallah and Gaza, rather than Jerusalem. Most members of the United Nations regard East Jerusalem as occupied territory, and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, theArab League and the Non-Aligned Movement recognise it as the capital of a future Palestinian state.[5] See Positions on Jerusalem.
Juba	South Sudan
Kabul	Afghanistan
Kampala	Uganda
Kathmandu	Nepal
Khartoum	Sudan
Kiev	Ukraine
Kigali	Rwanda
King Edward Point	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	British Overseas Territory
Kingston	Jamaica
Kingston	Norfolk Island	External territory of Australia
Kingstown	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Kinshasa	Democratic Republic of the Congo
Kuala Lumpur (official, legislative and royal) Putrajaya (administrative and judicial)	Malaysia
Kuwait City	Kuwait
Libreville	Gabon
Lilongwe	Malawi
Lima	Peru	[Note 1]
Lisbon	Portugal
Ljubljana	Slovenia
Lomé	Togo
London	United Kingdom	Prior to the Acts of Union in 1707, London was the capital of England only. Edinburgh was the capital of the Kingdom of Scotland
Luanda	Angola
Lusaka	Zambia
Luxembourg	Luxembourg
Madrid	Spain
Majuro	Marshall Islands	Self-governing in free association with United States.
Malabo	Equatorial Guinea
Malé	Maldives
Managua	Nicaragua
Manama	Bahrain
Manila	Philippines
Maputo	Mozambique
Marigot	Saint Martin	Overseas collectivity of France
Maseru	Lesotho
Mata-Utu	Wallis and Futuna	Overseas collectivity of France
Mbabane (administrative) Lobamba (royal and legislative)	Swaziland
Mexico City	Mexico
Minsk	Belarus
Mogadishu	Somalia
Monaco	Monaco	City-state
Monrovia	Liberia
Montevideo	Uruguay
Moroni	Comoros
Moscow	Russia
Muscat	Oman
Nairobi	Kenya
Nassau	Bahamas
Naypyidaw	Burma
N'Djamena	Chad
New Delhi	India
Ngerulmud	Palau	Self-governing in free association with United States.
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	Sui generis collectivity of France
Nukuʻalofa	Tonga
Nuuk	Greenland	Self-governing country within the Kingdom of Denmark
Oranjestad	Aruba	Self-governing country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Oslo	Norway
Ottawa	Canada
Ouagadougou	Burkina Faso
Pago Pago	American Samoa	Territory of the United States
Palikir	Federated States of Micronesia	Self-governing in free association with United States.
Panama City	Panama
Papeete	French Polynesia	Overseas collectivity of France
Paramaribo	Suriname
Paris	France
Philipsburg	Sint Maarten	Self-governing country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Phnom Penh	Cambodia
Plymouth (official) Brades Estate (de facto)	Montserrat	British Overseas Territory. 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.
Podgorica (official) Cetinje (seat of thePresident)	Montenegro
Port Louis	Mauritius
Port Moresby	Papua New Guinea
Port Vila	Vanuatu
Port-au-Prince	Haiti
Port of Spain	Trinidad and Tobago
Porto-Novo (official) Cotonou (de facto)	Benin
Prague	Czech Republic
Praia	Cape Verde
Pretoria (executive) Bloemfontein (judicial) Cape Town (legislative)	South Africa
Pristina	Kosovo[g]	De facto independent state that is recognised by 108 UN member states and by Taiwan. 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.
Pyongyang	North Korea
Quito	Ecuador	Highest official capital.[7]
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	Territory of the United States
San José	Costa Rica
San Juan	Puerto Rico	Territory of the United States
San Marino	San Marino
San Salvador	El Salvador
Sana'a	Yemen
Santiago (official) Valparaíso (legislative)	Chile
Santo Domingo	Dominican Republic
São Tomé	São Tomé and Príncipe
Sarajevo	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Seoul	South Korea
Singapore	Singapore	City-state
Skopje	Macedonia
Sofia	Bulgaria
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (official) Colombo (former capital; has some government offices)	Sri Lanka	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.
St. George's	Grenada
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	Overseas collectivity of France
Stanley	Falkland Islands	British Overseas Territory
Stepanakert	Nagorno-Karabakh Republic	The self-declared country remains diplomatically unrecognised by UN-member states, including Armenia. Transnistria, South Ossetia, and Abkhazia, all UN non-member states, recognise the state. Claimed in whole by Azerbaijan.
Stockholm	Sweden
Sucre (constitutional) La Paz (administrative)	Bolivia	La Paz is the highest administrative capital, higher than Quito.[7]
Sukhumi	Abkhazia	De facto independent state recognised by Russia, Nauru, Nicaragua, Venezuela, South Ossetia and Transnistria. Claimed in whole by Republic of Georgia as the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia.
Suva	Fiji
Taipei	Taiwan	Officially the Republic of China (ROC), it has been competing for recognition with thePeople's Republic of China (PRC) as the sole Chinese government since 1949. Taiwan controls the island of Taiwan and its associated islands, Quemoy, Matsu, the Pratas, and part of the Spratly Islands[Note 2] The territory of Taiwan is claimed in whole by the People's Republic of China.[Note 3] 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
Tarawa Atoll	Kiribati
Tashkent	Uzbekistan
Tbilisi (official) Kutaisi (legislative)	Georgia
Tegucigalpa	Honduras
Tehran	Iran
Thimphu	Bhutan
Tirana	Albania
Tiraspol	Transnistria	De facto independent state, not recognized by any UN-member, but by Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Claimed in whole by the Republic of Moldova as the Territorial Unit of Transnistria.
Tokyo	Japan
Tórshavn	Faroe Islands	Self-governing country within the Kingdom of Denmark
Tripoli	Libya
Tskhinvali	South Ossetia	De facto independent state recognised by Russia, Nicaragua, Nauru, Venezuela, Abkhazia and Transnistria. Claimed in whole by the Republic of Georgia as theProvisional Administrative Entity of South Ossetia.
Tunis	Tunisia
Ulan Bator	Mongolia
Vaduz	Liechtenstein
Valletta	Malta
The Valley	Anguilla	British Overseas Territory
Vatican City	Vatican City	City-state
Victoria	Seychelles
Vienna	Austria
Vientiane	Laos
Vilnius	Lithuania
Warsaw	Poland
Washington, D.C.	United States
Wellington	New Zealand
West Island	Cocos (Keeling) Islands	External territory of Australia
Willemstad	Curaçao	Self-governing country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Windhoek	Namibia
Yamoussoukro (official) Abidjan (former capital; still has many government offices)	Ivory Coast
Yaoundé	Cameroon
Yaren (de facto)	Nauru	Country does not have an official capital; however, the government offices are in Yaren.
Yerevan	Armenia
Zagreb	Croatia