List of national capitals by population
List

List of national capitals by population

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Rank	Country/Territory	Capital	Population	Year	% of country's population

1	China PR	Beijing	20,693,000	2012	1.52%

2	India	New Delhi	16,787,949	2014	1.10%

3	Japan	Tokyo	13,491,000	2015	10.67%

4	Philippines	Manila	12,877,253	2015	12.8%

5	Russia	Moscow	11,541,000	2011	8.07%

6	Egypt	Cairo	10,230,350	2012	11.10%

7	Indonesia	Jakarta	10,187,595	2011	4.18%

8	DR Congo	Kinshasa	10,125,000	2012	12.30%

9	South Korea	Seoul	9,989,795	2015	20.47%

10	Bangladesh	Dhaka	8,906,000	2011	5.56%

11	Mexico	Mexico City	8,851,080	2010	7.51%

12	Iran	Tehran	8,846,782	2014	9.91%

13	England	London	8,630,100	2015	13.25%

14	Peru	Lima	8,481,415	2012	28.29%

15	Thailand	Bangkok	8,249,117	2010	12.42%

16	Colombia	Bogotá	7,613,303	2011	16.17%

17	Vietnam	Hanoi	7,587,800	2014	8.22%

18	Hong Kong (China)	Hong Kong	7,298,600	2015	100%

19	Iraq	Baghdad	7,216,040	21.59%

20	Singapore	Singapore	5,535,000	2015	100%

21	Turkey	Ankara	5,150,072	2014	6.72%

22	Chile	Santiago	5,084,038	2012	29.12%

23	Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	4,878,723	2009	18.20%

24	Germany	Berlin	3,520,000	2012	4.38%

25	Syria	Damascus	3,500,000	15.32%

26	Algeria	Algiers	3,415,811	8.45%

27	Spain	Madrid	3,233,527	2012	6.84%

28	North Korea	Pyongyang	3,144,005	12.63%

29	Afghanistan	Kabul	3,140,853	10.28%

30	Kenya	Nairobi	3,138,369	2010	7.67%

31	Greece	Athens	3,090,508	28.02%

32	Ethiopia	Addis Ababa	3,040,740	2012	3.31%

33	Argentina	Buenos Aires	2,891,082	2010	7.16%

34	Italy	Rome	2,868,104	2014	4.72%

35	Ukraine	Kiev	2,847,200	2013	6.26%

36	Cameroon	Yaoundé	2,765,568	2015	11.65%

37	Taiwan	Taipei	2,686,516	2013	11.53%

38	Brazil	Brasília	2,648,532	2012	1.33%

39	Jordan	Amman	2,600,603	40.26%

40	Angola	Luanda	2,453,779	11.43%

41	South Africa	Pretoria	2,345,908	4.43%

42	France	Paris	2,241,346	2014	3.38%

43	Uzbekistan	Tashkent	2,207,850	7.30%

44	Azerbaijan	Baku	2,204,200	2015	22.96%

45	Cuba	Havana	2,135,498	2010	18.93%

46	Cambodia	Phnom Penh	2,011,725	13.29%

47	Romania	Bucharest	1,942,254	9.73%

48	Venezuela	Caracas	1,838,939	6.05%

49	Congo	Brazzaville	1,827,000	2014	39.19%

50	Morocco	Rabat	1,789,635	5.42%

51	Austria	Vienna	1,749,673	2013	20.65%

52	Sudan	Khartoum	1,740,661	4.59%

53	Hungary	Budapest	1,729,040	2011	17.34%

54	Poland	Warsaw	1,711,324	2012	4.42%

55	Belarus	Minsk	1,702,061	17.98%

56	Uganda	Kampala	1,659,600	4.42%

57	Ghana	Accra	1,640,507	6.33%

58	Madagascar	Antananarivo	1,613,375	[unreliable source?]	7.04%

59	Lebanon	Beirut	1,574,387	35.25%

60	Sweden	Stockholm	1,515,017	2014	22.33%

61	Ecuador	Quito	1,504,991	9.65%

62	Zimbabwe	Harare	1,487,028	10.51%

63	Qatar	Doha	1,450,000	66.85%

64	Yemen	Sana'a	1,431,649	5.87%

65	Guinea	Conakry	1,399,981	11.91%

66	Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur	1,381,830	4.65%

67	Uruguay	Montevideo	1,369,797	40.21%

68	Zambia	Lusaka	1,331,254	9.16%

69	Mali	Bamako	1,289,626	8.43%

70	Czech Republic	Prague	1,241,664	2011	11.83%

71	Haiti	Port-au-Prince	1,235,227	11.97%

72	Libya	Tripoli	1,184,045	19.09%

73	Kuwait	Kuwait City	1,171,880	34.78%

74	Serbia	Belgrade	1,154,589	16.12%

75	Dominican Republic	Santo Domingo	1,111,838	2010	11.10%

76	Somalia	Mogadishu	1,097,133	10.45%

77	Bulgaria	Sofia	1,090,295	15.02%

78	Belgium	Brussels	1,080,790	9.65%

79	Armenia	Yerevan	1,080,487	[unreliable source?]	36.29%

80	Mozambique	Maputo	1,076,689	4.17%

81	Sierra Leone	Freetown	1,070,200	17.57%

82	Ireland	Dublin	1,173,179	24.63%

83	Georgia	Tbilisi	1,044,993	23.34%

84	Senegal	Dakar	1,030,594	7.29%

85	Kazakhstan	Astana	1,029,556	2017	5.67%

86	Guatemala	Guatemala City	1,022,000	2001	8.90%

87	Liberia	Monrovia	1,010,970	23.54%

88	Burkina Faso	Ouagadougou	1,005,231	5.94%

89	Nepal	Kathmandu	1,003,285	2011	3.69%

90	Pakistan	Islamabad	955,629	0.48%

91	Canada	Ottawa	934,243	2016	2.55%

92	-	Hewler	932,800	2018	15%

93	Nicaragua	Managua	926,883	15.24%

94	Myanmar	Naypyidaw	925,000	1.74%

95	Mongolia	Ulaanbaatar	907,802	31.98%

96	Malawi	Lilongwe	902,388	5.52%

96	Bolivia	La Paz	877,363	8.22%

97	Kyrgyzstan	Bishkek	843,240	14.74%

99	Togo	Lomé	824,738	12.10%

100	Panama	Panama City	813,097	21.04%

101	Netherlands	Amsterdam	855,965	4.97%

102	Croatia	Zagreb	804,200	18.91%

103	Oman	Muscat	797,000	21.94%

104	Niger	Niamey	794,814	4.46%

105	Moldova	Chişinău	794,800	22.33%

106	Israel	Jerusalem	780,200	9.68%

107	Nigeria	Abuja	778,567	0.45%

108	Albania	Tirana	763,634	27.53%

109	Tunisia	Tunis	767,629	7.05%

110	Turkmenistan	Ashgabat	763,537	14.57%

111	Chad	N'Djamena	751,288	5.86%

112	Honduras	Tegucigalpa	735,982	9.09%

113	Central African Republic	Bangui	731,548	14.79%

114	Mauritania	Nouakchott	719,167	18.49%

115	Rwanda	Kigali	718,414	6.10%

116	Latvia	Riga	713,016	35.42%

117	Jamaica	Kingston	701,063	25.82%

118	United States	Washington, D.C.	658,893	2014	0.21%

119	Norway	Oslo	645,701	2013	12.70%

120	Finland	Helsinki	635,591	2016	11.55%

121	United Arab Emirates	Abu Dhabi	585,097	6.27%

122	Tajikistan	Dushanbe	582,496	7.10%

123	Portugal	Lisbon	564,657	5.40%

124	Denmark	Copenhagen	562,253	10.02%

125	Lithuania	Vilnius	556,723	18.83%

126	Gabon	Libreville	556,425	33.28%

127	Eritrea	Asmara	1,258,001	5.20%

128	El Salvador	San Salvador	521,366	8.22%

129	North Macedonia	Skopje	521,000	25%

130	Paraguay	Asunción	520,722	7.66%

131	Macau (China)	Macau	520,400	100%

132	Scotland	Edinburgh	492,680	9.30%

133	Djibouti	Djibouti (city)	475,332	54.45%

134	Côte d'Ivoire	Yamoussoukro	454,929	2.24%

135	Guinea-Bissau	Bissau	452,640	26.56%

136	Estonia	Tallinn	440,206	33.22%

137	Slovakia	Bratislava	424,207	7.84%

138	Puerto Rico (US)	San Juan	421,356	12.37%

139	New Zealand	Wellington	405,000	2015	8.66%

140	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sarajevo	395,133	2013	11.19%

141	South Sudan	Juba	372,410	3.30%

142	Australia	Canberra	354,644	1.53%

143	Wales	Cardiff	346,100	11.30%

144	Northern Ireland	Belfast	333,871	18.44%

145	Costa Rica	San José	328,195	6.74%

146	Papua New Guinea	Port Moresby	299,396	[unreliable source?]	4.09%

147	Laos	Vientiane	287,579	4.25%

148	Tanzania	Dodoma	287,200	2002 est.	0.80%

149	Lesotho	Maseru	267,652	12.91%

150	Cyprus	Nicosia (south)	270,000	late 2004	26.57%

151	Slovenia	Ljubljana	280,140	13.60%

152	Suriname	Paramaribo	254,147	47.13%

153	Namibia	Windhoek	252,721	10.97%

154	Bahamas	Nassau	248,948	65.97%

155	Botswana	Gaborone	225,656	11.17%

156	Benin	Porto-Novo	223,552	2.17%

157	Kosovo	Prishtina	198,214	10.32%

158	Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic	El Aaiún (claimed) Tifariti (factual)	194,668 3,000	2009	--

159	Transnistria	Tiraspol	159,163	28.53%

160	Mauritius	Port Louis	147,251	12.28%

161	Montenegro	Podgorica	141,854	22.83%

162	Bahrain	Manama	140,616	10.56%

163	Guyana	Georgetown	134,599	16.83%

164	Cape Verde	Praia	125,464	25.15%

165	Switzerland	Berne (de facto)	121,631	1.51%

166	Sri Lanka	Colombo	118,556	0.58%

167	Iceland	Reykjavík	115,000	35.60%

168	Barbados	Bridgetown	110,000	39.06%

169	Maldives	Malé	103,693	30.05%

170	Bhutan	Thimphu	101,259	13.43%

171	Equatorial Guinea	Malabo	100,677	13.30%

172	New Caledonia (France)	Nouméa	89,207	32.03%

173	Northern Cyprus	Nicosia (north)	84,893	18.83%

174	Fiji	Suva	84,410	9.58%

175	Eswatini (Swaziland)	Mbabane	81,594	6.53%

176	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	76,420	14.07%

177	Saint Lucia	Castries	70,000	38.40%

178	Northern Mariana Islands (USA)	Saipan	62,392 (2000)	100%

179	Comoros	Moroni	60,200	8.19%

180	Solomon Islands	Honiara	59,288	10.56%

181	East Timor	Dili	59,069	5.01%

182	São Tomé and Príncipe	São Tomé	56,166	29.10%

183	American Samoa (USA)	Pago Pago	52,000 (2003)	6.57%

184	Trinidad and Tobago	Port of Spain	50,479	3.76%

185	Nagorno-Karabakh Republic	Stepanakert	49,986	36.57%

186	Curaçao (Netherlands)	Willemstad	49,885	93.74%

187	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Kingstown	40,020	36.59%

188	Samoa	Apia	39,813	20.91%

189	Vanuatu	Port Vila	38,000	15.03%

190	Monaco	Monaco	35,986	2011 est.	100%

191	Gambia	Banjul	34,828	1.88%

192	Kiribati	Tarawa	30,000	29.31%

193	Aruba (Netherlands)	Oranjestad	29,998	--

194	Seychelles	Victoria	29,298	32.86%

195	Gibraltar (UK)	Gibraltar	29,286	--

196	Jersey (UK)	Saint Helier	28,380	--

197	Brunei	Bandar Seri Begawan	28,135	6.73%

198	Cayman Islands (UK)	George Town	26,798	41.1%

199	Isle of Man (UK)	Douglas	26,600	--

200	French Polynesia (France)	Papeete	26,200	--

201	Palestine	Ramallah (de facto)	25,500	0.53%

202	Marshall Islands	Majuro	25,400	48.26%

203	Burundi	Gitega	23,000	2012	0.22%

204	Andorra	Andorra la Vella	22,884	28.89%

205	Antigua and Barbuda	St. John's	22,679	25.20%

206	Tonga	Nukuʻalofa	22,400	21.27%

207	Faroe Islands (Denmark)	Tórshavn	18,573	--

208	Guernsey (UK)	St. Peter Port	16,701	--

209	Belize	Belmopan	16,451	4.96%

210	Greenland (Denmark)	Nuuk (Godthåb)	15,469	31.85%

211	Dominica	Roseau	14,847	20.62%

212	Saint Kitts and Nevis	Basseterre	13,043	24.07%

213	Åland (Finland)	Mariehamn	11,296	--

214	United States Virgin Islands (US)	Charlotte Amalie	10,817	--

215	Federated States of Micronesia	Palikir	9,900	9.56%

216	British Virgin Islands (UK)	Road Town	9,400	--

217	Grenada	St. George's	7,500	7.08%

218	Malta	Valletta	6,444	2014	1.45%

219	-	Gustavia	6,000	--

220	-	Marigot	5,700	--

221	-	Saint-Pierre	5,509	--

222	Cook Islands (NZ)	Avarua	5,445	--

223	Liechtenstein	Vaduz	5,248	14.21%

224	San Marino	City of San Marino	4,493	--

225	Tuvalu	Funafuti	4,492	45.48%

226	Turks and Caicos Islands (UK)	Cockburn Town	3,700	--

227	Falkland Islands (UK)	Stanley	2,115	--

228	Svalbard (Norway)	Longyearbyen	2,075	--

229	Christmas Island (Australia)	Flying Fish Cove	1,493	--

230	Sint Maarten (Netherlands)	Philipsburg	1,338	--

231	-	Mata-Utu	1,191	--

232	Anguilla (UK)	The Valley	1,169	--

233	Nauru	Yaren (de facto)	1,100	10.91%

234	Guam (US)	Hagåtña	1,100	--

235	Montserrat (UK)	Brades (de facto)	391	--

236	Bermuda (UK)	Hamilton	1,010	--

237	Norfolk Island (Australia)	Kingston	880	[unreliable source?]	--

238	Vatican City	Vatican City (city-state)	826 (2009 est.)	100%

239	Saint Helena (UK)	Jamestown	714	--

240	Niue (NZ)	Alofi	616	--

241	Tokelau (NZ)	Atafu	524	34.96%

242	Palau	Ngerulmud	391	1.87%

243	Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Australia)	West Island	120	22.06%

244	Pitcairn Islands (UK)	Adamstown	56	100%

245	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (UK)	King Edward Point	18	100%

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Adamstown is the second smallest capital.

final_sentence: Adamstown is the second smallest capital.