World Capitals Find the capitals of every country in the world and their population. Country City, Population Afghanistan Kabul, 2,206,300 Albania Tirana, 353,400 Algeria Algiers, 3,917,000 (metro. area), 1,742,800 (city proper) Andorra Andorra la Vella, 23,000 Angola Luanda, 2,297,200 Antigua and Barbuda St. Johns, 23,500 Argentina Buenos Aires, 13,349,000 (metro. area), 2,768,772 (city proper) Armenia Yerevan, 1,462,700 (metro. area), 1,267,600 (city proper) Australia Canberra, 327,700 Austria Vienna, 2,041,300 (metro area), 1,523,600 (city proper) Azerbaijan Baku, 2,118,600 (metro area), 1,235,400 (city proper), a port on the Caspian Sea Bahamas Nassau, 222,200 Bahrain Al-Manámah, 527,000 (metro area), 149,900 (city proper) Bangladesh Dhaka, 12,560,000 (metro.area), 5,378,023 (city proper) Barbados Bridgetown, 98,900 Belarus Mensk (Minsk), 1,769,500 Belgium Brussels, 1,750,600 (metro area), 981,200 (city proper) Belize Belmopan, 8,700 Benin Porto-Novo (official), 231,600; Largest city and seat of government: Cotonou 734,600 Bhutan Thimphu (official), 60,200 Bolivia Sucre, 204,200; Administrative capital: La Paz, 1,576,100 (metro. area), 830,500 (city proper) Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo, 581,500 (unofficial) Botswana Gaborone, 195,000 Brazil Brasília, 2,160,100 Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan, 78,000 Bulgaria Sofia, 1,088,700 Burkina Faso Ouagadougou, 962,100 Burundi Bujumbura, 331,700 Cambodia Phnom Penh, 1,169,800 Cameroon Yaoundé, 1,395,200 (metro. area), 1,154,400 (city proper) Canada Ottawa, Ontario, 1,142,700 (metro. area) Cape Verde Praia, 99,400 Central African Republic Bangui, 810,000 (metro. area), 669,800 (city proper) Chad NDjamena, 609,600 Chile Santiago, 5,333,100 (metro. area), 4,372,800 (city proper) China Beijing, 10,849,000 (metro. area), 8,689,000 (city proper) Colombia Santafé de Bogotá, 7,594,000 (metro. area), 7,185,889 (city proper) Comoros Moroni (on Grande Comoro), 60,200 Congo, Democratic Republic of the Kinshasa, 6,541,300 Congo, Republic of Brazzaville, 1,169,900 Costa Rica San José, 1,527,300 (metro. area), 337,200 (city proper) Côte dIvoire Yamoussoukro (official), 185,600; Largest city and administrative center: Abidjan, 4,113,600 (metro. area), 3,427,500 (city proper) Croatia Zagreb, 685,500 Cuba Havana, 2,686,000 (metro. area), 2,343,700 (city proper) Cyprus Lefkosia (Nicosia) (in government-controlled area), 197,600 Czech Republic Prague, 1,378,700 (metro. area), 1,169,800 (city proper) Denmark Copenhagen, 1,094,400 Djibouti Djibouti, 383,000 Dominica Roseau, 20,000 Dominican Republic Santo Domingo, 2,851,300 (metro. area), 2,252,400 (city proper) East Timor Dili, 50,800 Ecuador Quito 1,780,700 (metro. area), 1,443,900 (city proper) Egypt Cairo, 11,146,000 (metro. area), 7,629,866 (city proper) El Salvador San Salvador, 1,791,700 (metro. area), 504,700 (city proper) Equatorial Guinea Malabo, 92,900 Eritrea Asmara, 899,000 (metro. area), 400,000 (city proper) Estonia Tallinn, 379,000 Ethiopia Addis Ababa, 2,716,200 Fiji Suva (on Viti Levu), 177,300 Finland Helsinki, 1,162,900 (metro. area), 582,600 (city proper) France Paris, 9,854,000 (metro. area), 2,110,400 (city proper) Gabon Libreville, 661,600 Gambia Banjul, 46,700 Georgia Tbilisi, 1,440,000 (metro. area), 1,240,200 (city proper) Germany Berlin (capital since Oct. 3, 1990), 3,933,300 (metro. area), 3,274,500 (city proper) Ghana Accra, 2,825,800 (metro. area), 1,661,400 (city proper) Greece Athens, 3,247,000 (metro. area), 747,300 (city proper) Grenada St. Georges, 4,300 Guatemala Guatemala City, 2,655,900 (metro. area), 1,128,800 (city proper) Guinea Conakry, 1,767,200 Guinea-Bissau Bissau, 296,900 Guyana Georgetown, 227,700 Haiti Port-au-Prince, 1,764,000 (metro. area), 1,119,000 (city proper) Honduras Tegucigalpa, 1,436,000 (metro. area), 1,248,300 (city proper) Hungary Budapest, 2,597,000 (metro. area), 1,769,500 (city proper) Iceland Reykjavik, 184,200 (metro. area), 114,800 (city proper) India New Delhi, 15,334,000 (metro. area), 9,817,439 (city proper) Indonesia Jakarta, 13,194,000 (metro. area), 8,389,443 (city proper) Iran Tehran, 7,796,257 (city proper) Iraq Baghdad, 6,777,300 (metro. area), 5,772,000 (city proper) Ireland Dublin, 1,018,500 Israel Jerusalem, 695,500 Note: Israel proclaimed Jerusalem as its capital in 1950, but the U.S., like nearly all other countries, maintains its embassy in Tel Aviv. Italy Rome, 3,550,900 (metro. area), 2,455,600 (city proper) Jamaica Kingston, 937,700 (metro. area), 590,500 (city proper) Japan Tokyo, 35,327,000 (metro. area), 8,483,050 (city proper) Jordan Amman, 2,677,500 (metro. area), 1,293,200 Kazakhstan Astana, 288,200 (formerly Aqmola; capital since 1997) Kenya Nairobi, 3,064,800 (metro. area), 2,411,900 (city proper) Kiribati Tarawa, 26,600 Korea, North Pyongyang, 3,222,000 (metro. area), 2,767,900 Korea, South Seoul, 10,287,847 (city proper) Kosovo Pristina, 400,000 (est.) Kuwait Kuwait, 1,709,800 (metro. area), 32,600 (city proper) Kyrgyzstan Bishkek (formerly Frunze), 824,900 Laos Vientiane, 194,200 Latvia Riga, 867,700 (metro. area), 706,200 (city proper) Lebanon Beirut, 1,916,100 (metro. area), 1,171,000 (city proper) Lesotho Maseru 173,700 Liberia Monrovia, 1,348,900 (metro. area), 550,200 (city proper) Libya Tripoli, 2,357,800 (metro. area), 1,269,700 (city proper) Liechtenstein Vaduz, 5,300 Lithuania Vilnius, 543,500 Luxembourg Luxembourg, 78,800 Macedonia Skopje, 587,300 (metro. area), 452,500 (city proper) Madagascar Antananarivo, 1,390,800 Malawi Lilongwe, 499,200 Malaysia Kuala Lumpur, 3,688,200 (metro. area), 1,403,400 Maldives Malé, 81,600 Mali Bamako, 1,323,200 (metro. area), 935,400 Malta Valletta, 194,200 (metro. area) 6,900 (city proper) Marshall Islands Majuro, 20,500 Mauritania Nouakchott, 661,400 Mauritius Port Louis, 577,200 (metro. area), 143,800 (city proper) Mexico Mexico City, 19,013,000 (metro. area), 8,591,309 (city proper) Micronesia Palikir 11,600 Moldova Chisinau, 772,500 (metro. area), 709,900 (city proper) Monaco Monaco, 1,400 Mongolia Ulaan Baatar, 804,200 Montenegro Podgorica (administrative capital), 117,875; Cetinje (capital city), 14,700 Morocco Rabat, 1,636,600 Mozambique Maputo, 1,691,000 (metro. area), 1,114,000 (city proper) Myanmar Rangoon (Yangon), 4,344,100 Namibia Windhoek, 221,000. Summer capital: Swakopmund, 26,200 Nauru Yaren, 4,900 Nepal Kathmandu, 1,203,100 (metro. area), 729,000 (city proper) Netherlands Amsterdam (official), 737,900; The Hague (administrative capital), 465,900 New Zealand Wellington, 342,500 (metro. area), 165,100 (city proper) Nicaragua Managua, 1,390,500 (metro. area), 1,146,000 (city proper) Niger Niamey, 748,600 Nigeria Abuja, 590,400 (metro. area), 165,700 (city proper) Norway Oslo, 791,500 Oman Muscat, 797,000 (metro. area), 54,800 (city proper) Pakistan Islamabad, 601,600 Palau Koror, 11,100 Palestinian State (proposed) Undetermined Panama Panama City, 1,053,500 (metro. area), 437,200 (city proper) Papua New Guinea Port Moresby, 324,900 Paraguay Asunción, 1,482,200 (metro. area), 525,100 Peru Lima, 8,180,000 (metro. area), 7,029,928 (city proper) Philippines Manila, 10,677,000 (metro. area), 1,581,082 (city proper) Poland Warsaw, 2,201,900 (metro. area), 1,607,600 (city proper) Portugal Lisbon, 2,618,100 (metro. area), 559,400 Qatar Doha, 550,700 (metro. area), 318,500 (city proper) Romania Bucharest, 2,210,800 (metro. area), 1,906,800 (city proper) Russia Moscow, 10,672,000 (metro. area), 10,101,500 (city proper) Rwanda Kigali, 298,100 St. Kitts and Nevis Basseterre (on St. Kitts), 11,500 St. Lucia Castries, 60,300 St. Vincent and the Grenadines Kingstown, 17,600 Samoa Apia, 35,900 San Marino San Marino, 4,300 São Tomé and Príncipe São Tomé, 53,300 Saudi Arabia Riyadh, 3,724,100 Senegal Dakar, 2,476,400 Serbia Belgrade, 1,717,800 (metro. area), 1,285,200 (city proper) Seychelles Victoria, 23,000 Sierra Leone Freetown, 1,051,000 Singapore Singapore, 3,438,600 Slovakia Bratislava, 428,800 Slovenia Ljubljana, 258,000 Solomon Islands Honiara (on Guadalcanal), 54,600 Somalia Mogadishu, 1,208,800 South Africa Pretoria, 1,541,300 (metro. area), 1,249,700 (city proper); Legislative capital and largest city: Cape Town, 3,140,600 (metro. area), 2,733,000 (city proper). Judicial capital: Bloemfontein, 378,000. No decision has been made to relocate the seat of government. South Africa is demarcated into nine provinces, consisting of the Gauteng, Northern Province, Mpumalanga, North West, KwaZulu/Natal, Eastern Cape, Western Cape, Northern Cape, and Free State. Each province has its own capital South Sudan, Republic of Juba, 372,413 Spain Madrid, 5,130,000 (metro. area), 3,169,400 (city proper) Sri Lanka Colombo, 2,436,000 (metro. area), 656,100 (city proper). Legislative and judicial capital: Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, 118,300 Sudan Khartoum, 5,717,300 (metro. area), 1,397,900 (city proper) Suriname Paramaribo, 217,300 Swaziland Mbabane, 69,000; Royal and legislative capital: Lobamba, circa 5,000 Sweden Stockholm, 1,622,300 (metro. area), 1,251,900 (city proper) Switzerland Bern, 122,700 Syria Damascus, 2,381,800 (metro. area), 1,861,900 Taiwan Taipei, 7,871,900 (metro. area), 2,722,600 (city proper) Tajikistan Dushanbe, 817,100 (metro. area), 590,300 (city proper) Tanzania Dodoma, 164,500. Largest city (2003 est.): Dar es Salaam, 2,489,800 Thailand Bangkok, 6,320,174 (city proper) Togo Lomé, 749,700 (metro. area), 676,400 (city proper) Tonga Nukualofa, 24,500 Trinidad and Tobago Port-of-Spain, 263,800 (metro. area), 45,300 (city proper) Tunisia Tunis, 1,660,300 (metro. area), 699,700 (city proper) Turkey Ankara, 3,582,000 (metro. area), 3,456,100 (city proper) Turkmenistan Ashgabat, 727,700 Tuvalu Funafuti, 5,300 Uganda Kampala, 1,461,600 (metro. area), 1,244,000 (city proper) Ukraine Kyiv (Kiev), 3,296,100 (metro. area), 2,588,400 (city proper) United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi, 539,800 United Kingdom London, 7,615,000 (metro. area), 7,429,200 (city proper) United States Washington, DC, 570,898 Uruguay Montevideo, 1,745,100 (metro. area), 1,347,600 (city proper) Uzbekistan Tashkent, 3,457,500 (metro. area), 2,155,400 (city proper) Vanuatu Port Vila, 35,300 Venezuela Caracas, 3,517,300 (metro. area), 1,741,400 (city proper) Vietnam Hanoi, 2,543,700 (metro. area), 1,396,500 (city proper) Western Sahara (proposed state) El Aaiun 198,200 Yemen Sanaá, 1,778,900 Zambia Lusaka, 1,773,300 (metro. area), 1,265,000 (city proper) Zimbabwe Harare, 2,331,400 (metro. area), 1,919,700 (city proper) Read more: World Capitals | Infoplease infoplease/ipa/A0855603.html#ixzz2jDCw5Euv
Posted on: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 13:30:56 +0000
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