Countries & Their Capitals
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COUNTRIES & THEIR CAPITALS Country Capital Afghanistan Kabul Akrotiri Episkopi Cantonment; also serves as capital of Dhekelia Albania Tirana Algeria Algiers American Samoa Pago Pago Andorra Andorra la Vella Angola Luanda Anguilla The Valley Antigua and Saint John's (Antigua) Barbuda Argentina Buenos Aires Armenia Yerevan Aruba Oranjestad Australia Canberra Austria Vienna Azerbaijan Baku (Baki) Bahamas, The Nassau Bahrain Manama Bangladesh Dhaka Barbados Bridgetown Belarus Minsk Belgium Brussels Belize Belmopan Benin Porto-Novo is the official capital; Cotonou is the seat of government Bermuda Hamilton Bhutan Thimphu Bolivia La Paz (seat of government); Sucre (legal capital and seat of judiciary) Bosnia and Sarajevo Herzegovina Botswana Gaborone Brazil Brasilia British Virgin Road Town Islands Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan Bulgaria Sofia 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 Cambodia Phnom Penh Cameroon Yaounde Canada Ottawa Cape Verde Praia Cayman Islands George Town (Grand Cayman) Central African Bangui Republic Chad N'Djamena Chile Santiago China Beijing Christmas Island The Settlement Cocos (Keeling) West Island Islands Colombia Bogota Comoros Moroni Congo, Democratic Kinshasa 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 Croatia Zagreb Cuba Havana Cyprus Nicosia Czech Republic Prague Denmark Copenhagen Dhekelia Episkopi Cantonment; located in Akrotiri Djibouti Djibouti Dominica Roseau Dominican Santo Domingo Republic East Timor Dili Ecuador Quito Egypt Cairo El Salvador San Salvador Equatorial Malabo Guinea Eritrea Asmara Estonia Tallinn Ethiopia Addis Ababa European Union Brussels, Belgium note: the Council of the European Union meets in Brussels, the European Parliament meets in Strasbourg, France, and the Court of Justice of the European Communities meets in Luxembourg Falkland Islands Stanley (Islas Malvinas) Faroe Islands Torshavn Fiji Suva (Viti Levu) Finland Helsinki France Paris French Guiana Cayenne French Polynesia Papeete Gabon Libreville Gambia, The Banjul Georgia T'bilisi Germany Berlin Ghana Accra Gibraltar Gibraltar Greece Athens Greenland Nuuk (Godthab) Grenada Saint George's Guadeloupe Basse-Terre Guam Hagatna (Agana) Guatemala Guatemala Guernsey Saint Peter Port Guinea Conakry Guinea-Bissau Bissau Guyana Georgetown Haiti Port-au-Prince Holy See Vatican City (Vatican City) Honduras Tegucigalpa Hungary Budapest Iceland Reykjavik India New Delhi Indonesia Jakarta Iran Tehran Iraq Baghdad Ireland Dublin Isle of Man Douglas Israel Jerusalem; note - Israel proclaimed Jerusalem as its capital in 1950, but the US, like nearly all other countries, maintains its Embassy in Tel Aviv Italy Rome Jamaica Kingston Japan Tokyo Jersey Saint Helier Jordan 'Amman Kazakhstan Astana; note - the government moved from Almaty to Astana in December 1998 Kenya Nairobi Kiribati Tarawa Korea, North Pyongyang Korea, South Seoul Kuwait Kuwait 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 note: Putrajaya is referred to as administrative center not capital; Parliament meets in Kuala Lumpur Maldives Male Mali Bamako Malta Valletta 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 Monaco Mongolia Ulaanbaatar Montserrat Plymouth (abandoned in 1997 due to volcanic activity; interim government buildings have been built at Brades Estate, in the Carr's Bay/Little Bay vicinity at the northwest end of Montserrat) Morocco Rabat Mozambique Maputo Namibia Windhoek Nauru no official capital; government offices in Yaren District Nepal Kathmandu Netherlands Amsterdam; 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 Oslo Oman Muscat Pakistan Islamabad 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 Philippines Manila Pitcairn Islands Adamstown Poland Warsaw Portugal Lisbon Puerto Rico San Juan Qatar Doha Reunion Saint-Denis Romania Bucharest Russia Moscow 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 Saudi Arabia Riyadh Senegal Dakar Serbia and Belgrade Montenegro Seychelles Victoria Sierra Leone Freetown Singapore Singapore Slovakia Bratislava Slovenia Ljubljana Solomon Islands Honiara Somalia Mogadishu South Africa Pretoria; note - Cape Town is the legislative center and Bloemfontein the judicial center Spain Madrid Sri Lanka Colombo; note - Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte is the legislative capital Sudan Khartoum Suriname Paramaribo Svalbard Longyearbyen Swaziland Mbabane; note - Lobamba is the royal and legislative capital Sweden Stockholm Switzerland Bern Syria Damascus Taiwan Taipei Tajikistan Dushanbe 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 Thailand Bangkok Togo Lome Tokelau none; each atoll has its own administrative center Tonga Nuku'alofa Trinidad and Port-of-Spain Tobago Tunisia Tunis Turkey Ankara Turkmenistan Ashgabat 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 Abu Dhabi Emirates United Kingdom London United States Washington, DC Uruguay Montevideo Uzbekistan Tashkent (Toshkent) Vanuatu Port-Vila (Efate) Venezuela Caracas Vietnam Hanoi Virgin Islands Charlotte Amalie Wallis and Mata-Utu (on Ile Uvea) Futuna Western Sahara none Yemen Sanaa Zambia Lusaka Zimbabwe Harare .