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Countries- Capital, Currency and Language Countries- Capital, Currency And Language COUNTRIES - CAPITAL, CURRENCY AND LANGUAGE Country Name Capital Currency Official Language Head of Government Afghanistan Kabul Afghani Dari Persian; President - Ashraf Ghani Pashto Albania Tirane Lek Albanian Prime Minister – Edi Rama Algeria Algiers Dinar Arabic; Tamazight; Prime Minister – French Abdelaziz Djerad Andorra Andorra la Vella Euro Catalan Prime Minister - Xavier Espot Zamora Angola Luanda New Kwanza Portuguese President – João Lourenço Antigua and Saint John's East Caribbean English Prime Minister – Gaston Barbuda dollar Browne Argentina Buenos Aires Peso Spanish President – Alberto Fernández Armenia Yerevan Dram Armenian President – Armen Sarksyan Australia Canberra Australian dollar English Prime Minister – Scott Morrison Austria Vienna Euro (formerly German President - Alexander schilling) Van der Bellen Azerbaijan Baku Manat Azerbaijani Prime Minister – Ali Asadov The Bahamas Nassau Bahamian dollar English Prime Minister – Hubert Minnis Bahrain Manama Bahrain dinar Arabic Prime Minister – Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa Bangladesh Dhaka Taka Bangla Prime Minister – Sheikh Hasina Barbados Bridgetown Barbados dollar English Prime Minister – Mia Mottley Belarus Minsk Belorussian ruble Belarusian; President - Alexander Russian Lukashenko Belgium Brussels Euro (formerly Dutch; French; Prime Minister – Belgian franc) German Alexander De Croo Belize Belmopan Belize dollar English Prime Minister – Johnny www.BankExamsToday.com Page 1 Countries- Capital, Currency And Language Briceño Benin Porto-Novo CFA Franc French President - Patrice Talon Bhutan Thimphu Ngultrum Dzongkha Prime Minister – Lotay Tshering Bolivia La Paz Boliviano Spanish; Quechua; President – Luis Arce (administrative); Aymara Sucre (judicial) Bosnia and Sarajevo Convertible Mark Bosnian; Croatian; Chairman of the Council Herzegovina Serbian of Ministers - Zoran Tegeltija Botswana Gaborone Pula English; Tswana President – Mokgweetsi Masisi Brazil Brasilia Real Portuguese President – Jair Bolsonaro Brunei Bandar Seri Brunei dollar Malay Sultan and Prime Begawan Minister – Hassanal Bolkiah Bulgaria Sofia Lev Bulgarian Prime Minister – Boyko Borisov Burkina Faso Ouagadougou CFA Franc French Prime Minister - Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré Burundi Gitega Burundi franc Kirundi; French President – Évariste Ndayishimiye Cambodia Phnom Penh Riel Khmer Prime Minister – Hun Sen Cameroon Yaounde CFA Franc French; English Prime Minister – Joseph Ngute Canada Ottawa Canadian dollar English; French Prime Minister – Justin Trudeau Cape Verde Praia Cape Verdean Portuguese Prime Minister – Ulisses escudo Correia e Silva Central African Bangui CFA Franc Sango; French Prime Minister – Henri- Republic Marie Dondra Chad N'Djamena CFA Franc French; Arabic President - Mahamat Déby Chile Santiago Chilean Peso Spanish President – Sebastián Piñera China Beijing Chinese Yuan Mandarin President - Xi Jinping Colombia Bogota Colombian Peso Spanish President – Iván Duque Márquez www.BankExamsToday.com Page 2 Countries- Capital, Currency And Language Comoros Moroni Franc Comorian; Arabic; President – Azali French Assoumani Republic of the Brazzaville CFA Franc French Prime Minister –Anatole Congo Collinet Makosso Congo, Kinshasa Congolese franc French Prime Minister –Jean- Democratic Michel Sama Lukonde Republic of the Costa Rica San Jose Colón Spanish President – Carlos Alvarado Quesada Cote d'Ivoire Yamoussoukro CFA Franc French President - Alassane (official); Abidjan Ouattara (de facto) Croatia Zagreb Croatian Kuna Prime Minister – Andrej Plenković Cuba Havana Cuban Peso Spanish Prime Minister-Manuel Marrero Cruz Cyprus Nicosia Euro Greek; Turkish President – Nicos Anastasiades Czech Republic Prague Koruna Czech; Slovak Prime Minister – Andrej Babiš Denmark Copenhagen Danish Krone Danish Prime Minister – Mette Frederiksen Djibouti Djibouti Djiboutian franc Arabic; French Prime Minister – Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed Dominica Roseau East Caribbean English; French; Prime Minister – dollar Antillean Creole Roosevelt Skerrit Dominican Santo Domingo Dominican Peso Spanish President – Luis Republic Abinader East Timor Dili U.S. dollar Tetum; Prime Minister – Taur (Timor-Leste) Portuguese; Matan Ruak Iindonesian Ecuador Quito U.S. dollar Spanish President – Guillermo Lasso Egypt Cairo Egyptian pound Arabic Prime Minister – Moustafa Madbouly El Salvador San Salvador Colón; U.S. dollar Spanish President – Nayib Bukele Equatorial Malabo CFA Franc Spanish; French; Prime Minister – Guinea Portuguese Francisco Pascual Obama Asue www.BankExamsToday.com Page 3 Countries- Capital, Currency And Language Eritrea Asmara Nakfa Arabic; Tigrinya; President – Isaias English Afwerki Estonia Tallinn Estonia Kroon; Estonian Prime Minister – Kaja Euro Kallas Ethiopia Addis Ababa Birr Amharic Prime Minister – Abiy Ahmed Fiji Suva Fiji dollar English; Bau Fijian; Prime Minister – Frank Hindi Bainimarama Finland Helsinki Euro (formerly Finnish; Swedish Prime Minister – Sanna markka) Marin France Paris Euro (formerly French Prime Minister- Jean French franc) Castex Gabon Libreville CFA Franc French Prime Minister – Rose Christiane Raponda The Gambia Banjul Dalasi English President – Adama Barrow Georgia Tbilisi Lari Georgian Prime Minister – Irakli Garibashvili Germany Berlin Euro (formerly German Chancellor – Frank- Deutsche mark) Walter Steinmeier Ghana Accra Cedi English President - Nana Akufo- Addo Greece Athens Euro (formerly Greek Prime Minister – drachma) Kyriakos Mitsotakis Grenada Saint George's East Caribbean English; Patois Prime Minister – Keith dollar Mitchell Guatemala Guatemala City Quetzal Spanish President – Alejandro Giammattei Guinea Conakry Guinean franc French Prime Minister – Ibrahima Kassory Fofana Guinea-Bissau Bissau CFA Franc Portuguese Prime Minister –Nuno Gomes Nabiam Guyana Georgetown Guyanese dollar English President - Mohamed Irfaan Ali Haiti Port-au-Prince Gourde Haitian Creole; Prime Minister – Claude French Joseph Honduras Tegucigalpa Lempira Spanish President – Juan Orlando Hernández Hungary Budapest Forint Hungarian Prime Minister – Viktor Orbán www.BankExamsToday.com Page 4 Countries- Capital, Currency And Language Iceland Reykjavik Icelandic króna Icelandic President - Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson India New Delhi Indian Rupee Hindi; English Prime Minister – Narendra Modi Indonesia Jakarta Rupiah Indonesian President – Joko Widodo Iran Tehran Rial Persian President – Ebrahim Raisi Iraq Baghdad Iraqi Dinar Arabic; Kurdish Prime Minister – Mustafa Al Kadhimi Ireland Dublin Euro (formerly English; Irish Prime Minister- Irish pound [punt]) Taoiseach – Micheal Martin Israel Jerusalem* Shekel Hebrew; Arabic Prime Minister – Naftali Bennett Italy Rome Euro (formerly Italian Prime Minister – Mario lira) Draghi Ivory Coast Yamoussoukro West African CFA French Prime Minister – Patrick franc Achi Jamaica Kingston Jamaican dollar English Prime Minister – Andrew Holness Japan Tokyo Yen Japanese Prime Minister – Yoshihide Suga Jordan Amman Jordanian dinar Arabic Prime Minister – Bishr Al-Khasawneh Kazakhstan Nur Sultan Tenge Kazakh; Russian Prime Minister – Askar Mamin Kenya Nairobi Kenya shilling Swahili; English President – Uhuru Kenyatta Kiribati Tarawa Atoll Kiribati dollar English; Gilbertese President – Taneti Mamau Korea, North Pyongyang Won Korean Premier of the Cabinet – Kim Jong-un Korea, South Seoul Won Korean Prime Minister – Kim Boo Kyum Kosovo Pristina Euro (German Albanian; Serbian Prime Minister –Albin Mark prior to Kurti 2002) Kuwait Kuwait City Kuwaiti Dollar Arabic; English Prime Minister – Sheikh Sabah Al-Khalid Al- Sabah www.BankExamsToday.com Page 5 Countries- Capital, Currency And Language Kyrgyzstan Bishkek Som Kyrgyz; Russian Prime Minister- Ulukbek Maripov Laos Vientiane New Kip Lao (Laotian) Prime Minister – Thongloun Sisoulith Latvia Riga Lats Latvian Prime Minister – Krišjānis Kariņš Lebanon Beirut Lebanese pound Arabic; French Prime Minister –Hassan Diab Lesotho Maseru Maluti Sesotho; English Prime Minister - Moeketsi Majoro Liberia Monrovia Liberian dollar English President – George Weah Libya Tripoli Libyan dinar Arabic Prime Minister – Abdul Hamid Al-Dabaib Liechtenstein Vaduz Swiss franc German Prime Minister-Daniel Risch Lithuania Vilnius Litas Lithuanian Prime Minister – Ingrida Šimonytė Luxembourg Luxembourg Euro (formerly German; French; Prime Minister – Xavier Luxembourg Luxembourgish Bettel franc) Macedonia Skopje Denar Macedonian President of the Government – Stevo Pendarovski Madagascar Antananarivo Malagasy Ariary Malagasy; French; Prime Minister – English Christian Ntsay Malawi Lilongwe Kwacha English President – Lazarus Chakwera Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Ringgit Malay Prime Minister – Muhyiddin Yassin Maldives Male Rufiyaa Dhivehi President – Ibrahim Mohamed Solih Mali Bamako CFA Franc French Prime Minister- Choguel Kokalla Maiga Malta Valletta Euro Maltese; English Prime Minister – Robert Abela Marshall Islands Majuro U.S. Dollar Marshallese; Prime Minister – Stefan English Löfven Mauritania Nouakchott Ouguiya Arabic Prime Minister – Mohamed Ould Bilal Mauritius Port Louis Mauritian rupee English Prime Minister – www.BankExamsToday.com Page 6 Countries- Capital, Currency And Language Pravind Jugnauth Mexico Mexico City Mexican peso Spanish President – Andrés Manuel López Obrador Micronesia, Palikir U.S. Dollar English President – David W. Federated States Panuelo of Moldova Chisinau Leu Moldovan Prime Minister – Aureliu (Romanian) Ciocoi Monaco Monte Carlo Euro French; Italian; Minister of State – English
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