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COUNTRIES & THEIR CAPITALS

Country Capital Akrotiri ; also serves as capital of Dhekelia Algeria Algiers American Samoa Pago Pago Andorra Angola Luanda The Valley Antigua and Saint John's (Antigua) Barbuda Argentina Buenos Aires Aruba Oranjestad Canberra (Baki) Bahamas, The Nassau Barbados Bridgetown Belarus Belize Belmopan Benin Porto-Novo is the official capital; Cotonou is the Hamilton Bolivia (seat of government); Sucre (legal capital and seat of judiciary)

Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Gaborone Brazil Brasilia British Virgin Road Islands 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 Cameroon Yaounde Canada Ottawa Cape Verde Praia George Town (Grand Cayman) Central African Bangui Chad N'Djamena Chile The Settlement Cocos (Keeling) West Island Islands Colombia Bogota Comoros Moroni Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic Brazzaville of the

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 Cuba Dhekelia Episkopi Cantonment; located in Akrotiri Djibouti Dominica Roseau Dominican Santo Domingo Republic Ecuador Quito El Salvador San Salvador Equatorial Malabo Guinea Eritrea Asmara Ethiopia Brussels, Belgium note: the Council of the European Union meets in Brussels, the European Parliament meets in Strasbourg, , and the Court of Justice of the European Communities meets in Stanley (Islas Malvinas) Faroe Islands Torshavn

Fiji Suva (Viti Levu) France French Guiana Cayenne French Polynesia Papeete Gabon Libreville Gambia, The Banjul T'bilisi Ghana Accra Gibraltar Greenland Nuuk (Godthab) Grenada Saint George's Guadeloupe Basse-Terre Guam Hagatna (Agana) Guatemala Guatemala Guinea Conakry Guinea- Bissau Guyana Georgetown Haiti Port-au-Prince Holy See (Vatican City) Honduras Tegucigalpa Iceland Reykjavik

Iraq Ireland Douglas ; note - Israel proclaimed Jerusalem as its capital in 1950, but the US, like nearly all other countries, maintains its Embassy in Tel Aviv Jamaica Kingston Saint ' Astana; note - the government moved from Almaty to Astana in December 1998 Kenya Nairobi Kiribati Tarawa Korea, North Korea, South Kuwait Lesotho Maseru Liberia Monrovia Libya Tripoli Liechtenstein Luxembourg Luxembourg Macedonia Madagascar Antananarivo Malawi Lilongwe

Malaysia note: is referred to as administrative center not capital; Parliament meets in Kuala Lumpur Male Mali Bamako 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 Plymouth (abandoned in 1997 due to volcanic activity; interim government buildings have been built at Estate, in the Carr's Bay/Little Bay vicinity at the northwest end of Montserrat) Rabat Mozambique Namibia Windhoek Nauru no official capital; government offices in Yaren District ; The Hague is the seat of government Netherlands Willemstad; note - located on Curacao, the largest of the Antilles 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 Saipan Mariana Islands Norway Palau Koror; note - a new capital is being built about 20 km northeast of Koror Panama Panama Papua New Port Moresby Guinea Paraguay Asuncion Peru Lima Adamstown Puerto Rico San Juan Reunion Saint-Denis Rwanda Kigali Saint Helena Jamestown Saint Kitts and Basseterre Nevis Saint Lucia Castries

Saint Pierre and Saint-Pierre Miquelon Saint Vincent and the Kingstown Grenadines Samoa Apia San Marino San Marino Sao Tome and Sao Tome Principe Senegal and Seychelles Victoria Sierra Leone Freetown Singapore Solomon Islands Honiara Somalia South Africa ; note - Cape Town is the legislative center and Bloemfontein the judicial center Colombo; note - Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte is the legislative capital Sudan Suriname Paramaribo Svalbard Swaziland Mbabane; note - Lobamba is the royal and legislative capital Switzerland

Taiwan 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 Togo Lome Tokelau none; each atoll has its own administrative center Tonga Nuku'alofa Trinidad and Port-of-Spain Tobago Tunisia Tunis Turks and Caicos Grand Turk Islands Tuvalu Funafuti; note - administrative offices are located in Vaiaku Village on Fongafale Islet Uganda Kampala Ukraine Kiev (Kyyiv) United Arab Washington, DC Uruguay Montevideo (Toshkent) Vanuatu Port-Vila (Efate) Venezuela Caracas Charlotte Amalie Wallis and Mata-Utu (on Ile Uvea) Futuna

Western Sahara none Zambia Lusaka Zimbabwe Harare