List of national capitals by latitude - wikipedia List of national capitals by latitude Lists of capitals Of countries in alphabetical order by latitude by population Former Purpose - built Capitals, largest and second - largest cities by country Countries whose capital is not their largest city Countries with multiple capitals Timeline of country and capital changes Of country subdivisions Capitals outside the territories they serve Purpose - built This is a list of official national capitals by latitude, including territories and dependencies, non-sovereign states including associated states and entities whose sovereignty is disputed. Sovereign states are shown in bolded text. City Latitude ( − indicates southern hemisphere ) Country Notes Abu Dhabi 24.47 United Arab Emirates Abuja 9.07 Nigeria Accra 5.55 Ghana Adamstown - 25.07 Pitcairn Islands British Overseas Territory Addis Ababa 9.02 Ethiopia Algiers 36.77 Algeria Alofi - 19.07 Niue Self - governing in free association with New Zealand Amman 31.93 Jordan Amsterdam 52.37 Netherlands The Dutch constitution refers to Amsterdam as the `` capital ''. The Dutch government is located in The Hague. See Capital of the Netherlands. Andorra la Vella 42.5 Andorra Ankara 39.87 Turkey Antananarivo - 18.93 Madagascar Apia - 13.83 Samoa Ashgabat 37.93 Turkmenistan Asmara 15.33 Eritrea Astana 51.17 Kazakhstan Asunción - 25.27 Paraguay Athens 37.97 Greece Avarua - 21.2 Cook Islands Self - governing in free association with New Zealand. Baghdad 33.33 Iraq Baku 40.38 Azerbaijan Bamako 12.65 Mali Bandar Seri Begawan 4.88 Brunei Bangkok 13.75 Thailand Bangui 4.37 Central African Republic Banjul 13.45 Gambia Basseterre 17.3 Saint Kitts and Nevis Beijing 39.9 China See also : List of historical capitals of China Beirut 33.88 Lebanon Belgrade 44.82 Serbia Belmopan 17.25 Belize Berlin 52.52 Germany Bern 46.95 Switzerland Bishkek 42.87 Kyrgyzstan Bissau 11.85 Guinea - Bissau Bogotá 4.58 Colombia Brasília - 15.78 Brazil Bratislava 48.13 Slovakia Brazzaville - 4.27 Republic of the Congo Bridgetown 13.1 Barbados Brussels 50.85 Belgium Also the de facto capital of the European Union Bucharest 44.42 Romania Budapest 47.47 Hungary Buenos Aires - 34.6 Argentina Bujumbura - 3.38 Burundi Cairo 30.05 Egypt Canberra - 35.3 Australia Cape Town ( legislative ) - 33.92 South Africa Caracas 10.5 Venezuela Castries 14.02 Saint Lucia Cayenne 4.92 French Guiana Overseas department of France Charlotte Amalie 18.35 United States Virgin Islands Territory of the United States Chişinău 47 Moldova Conakry 9.52 Guinea Copenhagen 55.67 Denmark Dakar 14.68 Senegal Damascus 33.5 Syria Dhaka 23.73 Bangladesh Dili - 8.57 East Timor ( Timor - Leste ) Djibouti 11.58 Djibouti Dodoma ( official ) Dar es Salaam ( former capital ; some government offices remaining ) - 6.17 Tanzania Doha 25.28 Qatar Douglas 54.13 Isle of Man British Crown Dependency Dublin 53.33 Ireland Dushanbe 38.53 Tajikistan Edinburgh of the Seven Seas - 37.07 Tristan da Cunha Part of the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha El Aaiún ( declared ) 27.15 Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic The Sahrawi Republic, recognised by 82 states, claims the mostly Moroccan controlled Western Sahara. Moroccan controlled territory includes El Aaiún, and Morocco claims all Sahrawi controlled territory. The Sahrawi government resides in exile in Tindouf, Algeria. See Politics of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. Episkopi Cantonment 34.67 Akrotiri and Dhekelia British Overseas Territory Flying Fish Cove - 10.42 Christmas Island External territory of Australia Freetown 8.48 Sierra Leone Funafuti - 8.52 Tuvalu Gaborone - 24.65 Botswana George Town 19.3 Cayman Islands British Overseas Territory Georgetown - 7.92 Ascension Island Part of the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Georgetown 6.8 Guyana Gibraltar 36.13 Gibraltar British Overseas Territory Guatemala City 14.6 Guatemala Gustavia 17.88 Saint Barthélemy Overseas collectivity of France Hagåtña 13.47 Guam Territory of the United States Hamilton 32.28 Bermuda British Overseas Territory Hanga Roa - 27.15 Easter Island Special territory of Chile Hanoi 21.03 Vietnam Harare - 17.85 Zimbabwe Hargeisa 10 Somaliland De facto independent state not diplomatically recognized by any other state, claimed in whole by the Somali Republic. Havana 23.13 Cuba Helsinki 60.17 Finland Honiara - 9.43 Solomon Islands Islamabad 33.72 Pakistan Jakarta - 6.2 Indonesia Jamestown - 15.92 Saint Helena Part of the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Jerusalem ( declared, de facto ) 31.78 Israel Jerusalem Law states that `` Jerusalem, complete and united, is the capital of Israel '', and the city serves as the seat of the government, home to the president 's residence, government offices, supreme court, and parliament. United Nations Security Council Resolution 478 declared the Jerusalem Law `` null and void '' and called on member states to withdraw their diplomatic missions from Jerusalem. The United Nations and all member states maintain their embassies in other cities such as Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan, and Herzliya, and do not recognise Jerusalem as the capital. Many countries officially adhere to the proposal that Jerusalem have international status, as called for in the Partition Plan of 1947. See Positions on Jerusalem. Jerusalem ( declared ) Ramallah and Gaza ( de facto ) 31.78 State of Palestine The State of Palestine claims the territories occupied by Israel since the Six - Day War in 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital. The proclaimed state is currently occupied by Israel and has no effective control over the territories it claims. Administration is based in Ramallah and Gaza, rather than Jerusalem. Most members of the United Nations regard East Jerusalem as occupied territory, and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, the Arab League and the Non-Aligned Movement recognise it as the capital of a future Palestinian state. See Positions on Jerusalem. Juba 4.85 South Sudan Kabul 34.53 Afghanistan Kampala 0.3 Uganda Kathmandu 27.7 Nepal Khartoum 15.63 Sudan Kigali - 1.93 Rwanda King Edward Point - 54.27 South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands British Overseas Territory Kingston 17.98 Jamaica Kingston - 29.05 Norfolk Island External territory of Australia Kingstown 13.15 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Kinshasa - 4.32 Democratic Republic of the Congo Kuala Lumpur ( official, legislative and royal ) Putrajaya ( administrative and judicial ) 3.13 Malaysia Kuwait City 29.37 Kuwait Kiev 50.45 Ukraine Libreville 0.38 Gabon Lilongwe - 13.98 Malawi Lima - 12.03 Peru Lisbon 38.7 Portugal Ljubljana 46.05 Slovenia Lomé 6.12 Togo London 51.5 United Kingdom Prior to the Acts of Union in 1707, London was the capital of England only. Edinburgh was the capital of the Kingdom of Scotland Longyearbyen 78.2 Svalbard Longyearbyen is the administrative center of Svalbard, a Norwegian Arctic unincorporated area. Luanda - 8.83 Angola Lusaka - 15.42 Zambia Luxembourg 49.6 Luxembourg Madrid 40.38 Spain Majuro 7.07 Marshall Islands Malabo 3.75 Equatorial Guinea Malé 4.17 Maldives Managua 12.13 Nicaragua Manama 26.22 Bahrain Manila 14.58 Philippines Maputo - 25.97 Mozambique Marigot 18.07 Saint Martin Overseas collectivity of France Maseru - 29.3 Lesotho Mata - Utu - 13.28 Wallis and Futuna Overseas collectivity of France Mbabane ( administrative ) Lobamba ( royal and legislative ) - 26.32 Swaziland Mexico City 19.43 Mexico Minsk 53.9 Belarus Mogadishu 2.03 Somalia Monaco 43.72 Monaco City - state Monrovia 6.3 Liberia Montevideo - 34.88 Uruguay Moroni - 11.68 Comoros Moscow 55.75 Russia Muscat 23.6 Oman Nairobi - 1.28 Kenya Nassau 25.07 Bahamas Naypyidaw 19.75 Myanmar N'Djamena 12.1 Chad New Delhi 28.6 India Ngerulmud 7.48 Palau Niamey 13.52 Niger Nicosia 35.17 Cyprus Nicosia 35.17 Northern Cyprus De facto independent state that is recognised only by Turkey. Northern Cyprus is claimed in whole by the Republic of Cyprus. Nouakchott 18.1 Mauritania Nouméa - 22.27 New Caledonia Sui generis collectivity of France Nuku ʻalofa - 21.13 Tonga Nuuk 64.17 Greenland Self - governing territory of the Danish Realm Oranjestad 12.52 Aruba Self - governing part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands Oslo 59.95 Norway Ottawa 45.42 Canada Ouagadougou 12.35 Burkina Faso Pago Pago - 14.27 American Samoa Territory of the United States Palikir 6.92 Federated States of Micronesia Panama City 8.98 Panama Papeete - 17.53 French Polynesia Overseas collectivity of France Paramaribo 5.87 Suriname Paris 48.85 France Philipsburg 18.02 Sint Maarten Self - governing part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands Phnom Penh 11.55 Cambodia Plymouth ( official ) Brades Estate ( de facto ) 16.7 Montserrat British Overseas Territory. Plymouth was abandoned after the eruption of the Soufriere Hills volcano in 1997. Government offices since then have been moved to Brades Estate, which is in the northwestern part of Montserrat. Podgorica ( official ) Cetinje ( seat of the President ) 42.43 Montenegro Port Louis - 20.15 Mauritius Port Moresby - 9.5 Papua New Guinea Port Vila - 17.75 Vanuatu Port - au - Prince 18.53 Haiti Port of Spain 10.67 Trinidad and Tobago Porto - Novo ( official ) Cotonou ( de facto ) 6.48 Benin Prague 50.08 Czech Republic Praia 14.92 Cape Verde Pretoria ( executive ) - 25.73 South Africa Pristina 42.67 Kosovo De facto independent state that is recognised by 112 UN member states and by Taiwan. Claimed in whole by the Republic of Serbia as part of its Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija. Republic of Kosovo has de facto control over most of the territory, with limited control in North Kosovo. Pyongyang 39.02 North Korea Quito - 0.25 Ecuador Highest official capital. Rabat 34.03 Morocco Reykjavík 64.13 Iceland Riga 56.93 Latvia Riyadh 24.63 Saudi Arabia Road Town 18.42 British Virgin Islands British Overseas Territory Rome 41.9 Italy Roseau 15.3 Dominica Saipan 15.17 Northern Mariana Islands Territory of the United States San José 9.93 Costa Rica San Juan 18.45 Puerto Rico Territory of the United States San Marino 43.93 San Marino San Salvador 13.68 El Salvador Sana'a 15.33 Yemen Santiago ( official ) Valparaíso ( legislative ) - 33.45 Chile Santo Domingo 18.47 Dominican Republic São Tomé 0.33 São Tomé and Príncipe Sarajevo 43.87 Bosnia and Herzegovina Seoul 37.55 South Korea Singapore 1.28 Singapore City - state Skopje 42 Macedonia Sofia 42.7 Bulgaria Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte ( official ) Colombo ( former capital ; has some government offices ) 6.9 Sri Lanka Also known as `` Kotte ''. Until the 1980s, the capital was Colombo, where many important governmental institutions still remain and which is still designated as the commercial capital of Sri Lanka. St. George 's 12.05 Grenada St. Helier 49.18 Jersey British Crown Dependency St. John 's 17.12 Antigua and Barbuda St. Peter Port 49.45 Guernsey British Crown Dependency St. Pierre 46.77 Saint Pierre and Miquelon Overseas collectivity of France Stanley - 51.68 Falkland Islands British Overseas Territory Stepanakert 39.8 Nagorno - Karabakh Republic The self - declared country remains diplomatically unrecognised by UN-member states, including Armenia. Transnistria, South Ossetia, and Abkhazia, all UN non-member states, recognise the state. Claimed in whole by Azerbaijan. Stockholm 59.32 Sweden Sucre ( constitutional ) La Paz ( administrative ) - 16.5 Bolivia La Paz is the highest administrative capital, higher than Quito. Sukhumi 43 Abkhazia De facto independent state recognised by Russia, Nauru, Nicaragua, Venezuela, South Ossetia and Transnistria. Claimed in whole by Republic of Georgia as the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia. Suva - 18.13 Fiji Taipei 25.03 Taiwan Officially the Republic of China ( ROC ), it has been competing for recognition with the People 's Republic of China ( PRC ) as the sole Chinese government since 1949. Taiwan controls the island of Taiwan and its associated islands, Quemoy, Matsu, the Pratas, and part of the Spratly Islands The territory of Taiwan is claimed in whole by China. The Republic of China participates in the World Health Organization and a number of non-UN international organizations such as the World Trade Organization, International Olympic Committee and others under a variety of pseudonyms, most commonly Chinese Taipei. Tallinn 59.43 Estonia Tarawa 1.43 Kiribati Tashkent 41.27 Uzbekistan Tbilisi ( official ) Kutaisi ( legislative ) 41.72 Georgia Tegucigalpa 14.1 Honduras Tehran 35.68 Iran Thimphu 27.47 Bhutan Tirana 41.32 Albania Tiraspol 46.85 Transnistria De facto independent state, not recognized by any UN-member, but by Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Claimed in whole by the Republic of Moldova as the Territorial Unit of Transnistria. Tokyo 35.68 Japan Tórshavn 62 Faroe Islands Self - governing territory of the Danish Realm Tripoli 32.9 Libya Tskhinvali 42.23 South Ossetia De facto independent state recognised by Russia, Nicaragua, Nauru, Venezuela, Abkhazia and Transnistria. Claimed in whole by the Republic of Georgia as the Provisional Administrative Entity of South Ossetia. Tunis 36.8 Tunisia Ulan Bator 47.92 Mongolia Vaduz 47.13 Liechtenstein Valletta 35.88 Malta The Valley 18.22 Anguilla British Overseas Territory Vatican City 41.9 Vatican City City - state Victoria - 4.62 Seychelles Vienna 48.2 Austria Vientiane 17.97 Laos Vilnius 54.68 Lithuania Warsaw 52.23 Poland Washington, D.C. 38.88 United States Wellington - 41.28 New Zealand West Island - 12.18 Cocos ( Keeling ) Islands External territory of Australia Willemstad 12.12 Curaçao Self - governing part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands Windhoek - 22.57 Namibia Yamoussoukro ( official ) Abidjan ( former capital ; still has many government offices ) 6.82 Ivory Coast Yaoundé 3.87 Cameroon Yaren ( de facto ) - 0.53 Nauru Country does not have an official capital ; however, the government offices are in Yaren. Yerevan 40.18 Armenia Zagreb 45.82 Croatia Notes ^ Cusco city was declared by the art. 49 of the Peruvian Constitution as `` Historical Capital '' ( in Spanish Capital Histórica ), a statement merely symbolic. ^ The sovereignty over the Spratly Islands is disputed by China, Taiwan, Vietnam, the Philippines ( part ), Malaysia ( part ), and Brunei ( part ). Except Brunei, each of these countries occupies part of the islands ( see List of territorial disputes ). ^ In 1949, the Republic of China government led by the Kuomintang ( KMT ) lost the Chinese Civil War to the Communist Party of China ( CPC ) and set up a provisional capital in Taipei. The CPC established the People 's Republic. As such, the political status of the ROC and the legal status of Taiwan ( alongside the territories currently under ROC jurisdiction ) are in dispute. In 1971, the United Nations gave the China seat to the PRC instead of the ROC : most states recognize the PRC to be the sole legitimate representative of all China, and the UN classifies Taiwan as `` Taiwan, Province of China ''. The ROC has de facto relations with most sovereign states. A significant political movement within Taiwan advocates Taiwan independence. References ^ https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/wi.html ^ See Regions and territories : Somaliland ( 30 December 2005 ). BBC News. Retrieved January 17, 2006. ^ See the CIA Factbook and Map of Israel ^ Sharkansky, Ira ( 1996 ). Governing Jerusalem : Again on the world 's agenda. Wayne State University Press. p. 23. ISBN 0 - 8143 - 2592 - 0. ^ See the following : Organisation of the Islamic Conference ( 13 -- 16 March 1989 ). `` Resolutions on Political, Legal and Information Affairs ''. The Eighteenth Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers ( Session of Islamic Fraternity and Solidarity ). Retrieved 2011 - 10 - 18. Agence France - Presse ( 6 September 2011 ). `` Non-Aligned movement confirms support for Palestinian statehood bid ''. Al Arabiya. Retrieved 2011 - 10 - 18. Council of the European Union, `` 17218 / 09 ( Presse 371 ) '' ( PDF ), Press release, 2985th Council meeting on Foreign Affairs, Press Office, retrieved 2011 - 08 - 02 ^ See The World Factbook Cyprus ( 10 January 2006 ). Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved January 17, 2006. ^ Jacobs, Frank ( 19 June 2012 ). `` Amazonia or Bust ! ''. New York Times. Retrieved 28 June 2012. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_national_capitals_by_latitude&oldid=793406341 '' Categories : Lists of countries Lists of capitals Lines of latitude Talk About Wikipedia Français اردو Edit links This page was last edited on 1 August 2017, at 15 : 02. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. 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