LIST OF COUNTRIES AND CAPITALS A ND CURRENCY Head of Country Name Capital Currency Official Language Government Dari Persian; Chief Executive – Afghanistan Kabul Afghani Pashto Abdullah Abdullah Prime Minister – Edi Albania Tirane Lek Albanian Rama Arabic; Tamazight; Prime Minister – Algeria Algiers Dinar French Ahmed Ouyahia Andorra Andorra la Vella Euro Catalan Antoni Martí President – João Angola Luanda New Kwanza Portuguese Lourenço Antigua and East Caribbean Prime Minister – Saint John's English Barbuda dollar Gaston Browne President – Argentina Buenos Aires Peso Spanish Mauricio Macri Prime Minister – Armenia Yerevan Dram Armenian Karen Karapetyan Prime Minister – Australia Canberra Australian dollar English Malcolm Turnbull Federal Euro (formerly Austria Vienna German Chancellor – schilling) Christian Kern Prime Minister – Azerbaijan Baku Manat Azerbaijani Artur Rasizade Prime Minister – The Bahamas Nassau Bahamian dollar English Hubert Minnis Prime Minister – Bahrain Manama Bahrain dinar Arabic Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa Bangladesh Dhaka Taka Bangla Prime Minister – Bankexamstoday.com Page 1 Sheikh Hasina Prime Minister – Barbados Bridgetown Barbados dollar English Freundel Stuart Prime Minister – Belarus Minsk Belorussian ruble Belarusian; Russian Andrei Kobyakov Euro (formerly Dutch; French; Prime Minister – Belgium Brussels Belgian franc) German Charles Michel Prime Minister – Belize Belmopan Belize dollar English Dean Barrow President – Patrice Benin Porto-Novo CFA Franc French Talon Prime Minister – Bhutan Thimphu Ngultrum Dzongkha Tshering Tobgay La Paz President – Evo Spanish; Quechua; Bolivia (administrative); Boliviano Morales Aymara Sucre (judicial) Chairman of the Bosnia and Bosnian; Croatian; Council of Sarajevo Marka Herzegovina Serbian Ministers – Denis Zvizdić President – Ian Botswana Gaborone Pula English; Tswana Khama President – Michel Brazil Brasilia Real Portuguese Temer[ε] Sultan and Prime Bandar Seri Brunei Brunei dollar Malay Minister – Hassanal Begawan Bolkiah Prime Minister – Bulgaria Sofia Lev Bulgarian Boyko Borisov Prime Minister – Burkina Faso Ouagadougou CFA Franc French Paul Kaba Thieba President – Pierre Burundi Bujumbura Burundi franc Kirundi; French Nkurunziza Prime Minister – Cambodia Phnom Penh Riel Khmer Hun Sen Prime Minister – Cameroon Yaounde CFA Franc French; English Philémon Yang Bankexamstoday.com Page 2 Prime Minister – Canada Ottawa Canadian dollar English; French Justin Trudeau Prime Minister – Cape Verdean Cape Verde Praia Portuguese Ulisses Correia e escudo Silva Central African Prime Minister – Bangui CFA Franc Sango; French Republic Simplice Sarandji Prime Minister – Chad N'Djamena CFA Franc French; Arabic Albert Pahimi Padacké President – Michelle Chile Santiago Chilean Peso Spanish Bachelet Premier of the China Beijing Yuan/Renminbi Mandarin State Council – Li Keqiang President – Juan Colombia Bogota Colombian Peso Spanish Manuel Santos Comorian; Arabic; President – Azali Comoros Moroni Franc French Assoumani Congo, Republic of Prime Minister – Brazzaville CFA Franc French the Bruno Tshibala Congo, Democratic Prime Minister – Kinshasa Congolese franc French Republic of the Clément Mouamba President – Luis Costa Rica San Jose Colón Spanish Guillermo Solís Yamoussoukro Incumbent Amadou Cote d'Ivoire (official); Abidjan CFA Franc French Gon (de facto) Prime Minister – Croatia Zagreb Kuna Kuna Andrej Plenković Cuba Havana Cuban Peso Spanish Raúl Castro President – Nicos Cyprus Nicosia Cyprus pound Greek; Turkish Anastasiades Prime Minister – Czech Republic Prague Koruna Czech; Slovak Bohuslav Sobotka Denmark Copenhagen Krone Danish Prime Minister – Bankexamstoday.com Page 3 Lars Løkke Rasmussen Prime Minister – Djibouti Djibouti Djibouti franc Arabic; French Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed East Caribbean English; French; Prime Minister – Dominica Roseau dollar Antillean Creole Roosevelt Skerrit President – Danilo Dominican Republic Santo Domingo Dominican Peso Spanish Medina East Timor (Timor- Tetum; Portuguese; Prime Minister – Dili U.S. dollar Leste) Iindonesian Mari Alkatiri President – Lenín Ecuador Quito U.S. dollar Spanish Moreno Prime Minister – Egypt Cairo Egyptian pound Arabic Sherif Ismail President – El Salvador San Salvador Colón; U.S. dollar Spanish Salvador Sánchez Cerén Prime Minister – Spanish; French; Equatorial Guinea Malabo CFA Franc Francisco Pascual Portuguese Obama Asue Arabic; Tigrinya; President – Isaias Eritrea Asmara Nakfa English Afwerki Prime Minister – Estonia Tallinn Kroon Estonian Jüri Ratas Prime Minister – Ethiopia Addis Ababa Birr Amharic Hailemariam Desalegn Prime Minister – English; Bau Fijian; Fiji Suva Fiji dollar Frank Hindi Bainimarama Euro (formerly Prime Minister – Finland Helsinki Finnish; Swedish markka) Juha Sipilä Euro (formerly Prime Minister – France Paris French French franc) Édouard Philippe Prime Minister – Gabon Libreville CFA Franc French Emmanuel Issoze- Bankexamstoday.com Page 4 Ngondet President – Adama The Gambia Banjul Dalasi English Barrow Prime Minister – Georgia Tbilisi Lari Georgian Giorgi Kvirikashvili Euro (formerly Chancellor – Angela Germany Berlin German Deutsche mark) Merkel President – Nana Ghana Accra Cedi English Akufo-Addo Euro (formerly Prime Minister – Greece Athens Greek drachma) Alexis Tsipras East Caribbean Prime Minister – Grenada Saint George's English; Patois dollar Keith Mitchell President – Jimmy Guatemala Guatemala City Quetzal Spanish Morales Prime Minister – Guinea Conakry Guinean franc French Mamady Youla Prime Minister – Guinea-Bissau Bissau CFA Franc Portuguese Umaro Sissoco Embaló Prime Minister – Guyana Georgetown Guyanese dollar English Moses Nagamootoo Haitian Creole; Prime Minister – Haiti Port-au-Prince Gourde French Jack Guy Lafontant President – Juan Honduras Tegucigalpa Lempira Spanish Orlando Hernández Prime Minister – Hungary Budapest Forint Hungarian Viktor Orbán Prime Minister – Iceland Reykjavik Icelandic króna Icelandic Bjarni Benediktsson Prime Minister – India New Delhi Rupee Hindi; English Narendra Modi President – Joko Indonesia Jakarta Rupiah Indonesian Widodo President – Hassan Iran Tehran Rial Persian Rouhani Iraq Baghdad Iraqi Dinar Arabic; Kurdish Prime Minister – Bankexamstoday.com Page 5 Haider al-Abadi Euro (formerly Irish Taoiseach – Leo Ireland Dublin English; Irish pound [punt]) Varadkar Prime Minister – Israel Jerusalem* Shekel Hebrew; Arabic Benjamin Netanyahu President of the Council of Italy Rome Euro (formerly lira) Italian Ministers – Paolo Gentiloni Prime Minister – Jamaica Kingston Jamaican dollar English Andrew Holness Prime Minister – Japan Tokyo Yen Japanese Shinzō Abe Prime Minister – Jordan Amman Jordanian dinar Arabic Hani Al-Mulki Prime Minister – Kazakhstan Astana Tenge Kazakh; Russian Bakhytzhan Sagintayev President – Uhuru Kenya Nairobi Kenya shilling Swahili; English Kenyatta President – Taneti Kiribati Tarawa Atoll Australian dollar English; Gilbertese Mamau Premier of the Korea, North Pyongyang Won Korean Cabinet – Pak Pong-ju Prime Minister – Korea, South Seoul Won Korean Lee Nak-yeon Euro (German Mark Prime Minister – Kosovo Pristina Albanian; Serbian prior to 2002) Ramush Haradinaj Prime Minister – Sheikh Jaber Al- Kuwait Kuwait City Kuwaiti dinar Arabic; English Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah Prime Minister – Kyrgyzstan Bishkek Som Kyrgyz; Russian Sapar Isakov Prime Minister – Laos Vientiane New Kip Lao (Laotian) Thongloun Sisoulith Bankexamstoday.com Page 6 Prime Minister – Latvia Riga Lats Latvian Māris Kučinskis President of the Council of Lebanon Beirut Lebanese pound Arabic; French Ministers – Saad Hariri Prime Minister – Lesotho Maseru Maluti Sesotho; English Tom Thabane President – Ellen Liberia Monrovia Liberian dollar English Johnson Sirleaf Prime Minister – Libya Tripoli Libyan dinar Arabic Fayez al-Sarraj Liechtenstein Vaduz Swiss franc German Adrian Hasler Prime Minister – Lithuania Vilnius Litas Lithuanian Saulius Skvernelis Euro (formerly German; French; Prime Minister – Luxembourg Luxembourg Luxembourg franc) Luxembourgish Xavier Bettel President of the Macedonia Skopje Denar Macedonian Government – Zoran Zaev Prime Minister – Malagasy; French; Madagascar Antananarivo Malagasy franc Olivier Mahafaly English Solonandrasana President – Peter Malawi Lilongwe Kwacha English Mutharika Prime Minister – Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Ringgit Malay Najib Razak President – Abdulla Maldives Male Rufiya Dhivehi Yameen Prime Minister – Mali Bamako CFA Franc French Abdoulaye Idrissa Maïga Prime Minister – Malta Valletta Maltese lira Maltese; English Joseph Muscat Marshallese; President – Hilda Marshall Islands Majuro U.S. Dollar English Heine Prime Minister – Mauritania Nouakchott Ouguiya Arabic Yahya Ould Hademine Bankexamstoday.com Page 7 Prime Minister – Mauritius Port Louis Mauritian rupee English Pravind Jugnauth President – Enrique Mexico Mexico City Mexican peso Spanish Peña Nieto Micronesia, President – Peter M. Federated States Palikir U.S. Dollar English Christian of Moldovan Prime Minister – Moldova Chisinau Leu (Romanian) Pavel Filip French; Italian; Minister of State – Monaco Monaco Euro English Serge Telle Prime Minister – Mongolia Ulaanbaatar Tugrik Mongolian Ukhnaa Khurelsukh Prime Minister – Montenegro Podgorica Euro Montenegrin Duško Marković Saadeddine Morocco Rabat Dirham Arabic Othmani Prime Minister – Mozambique Maputo Metical Portuguese Carlos Agostinho do Rosário Rangoon (Yangon); State Counsellor – Naypyidaw or Nay Aung San Suu Kyi Myanmar (Burma) Kyat Burmese Pyi Taw (administrative) Prime Minister – English;