List of capital cities by altitude

This is a list of national capital cities ranked by altitude. The altitude of the cities affects the people and buildings of the place. In many cases, the cold climate in winter means a particular style of house with heating and a different lifestyle is needed to fit to the weather.

The first country in this list, Bolivia, is a country with many capitals - Sucre (constitutional capital) and La Paz (seat of government). If we consider La Paz as the national capital, then Bolivia will be ranked as number 1 in the List, but if you consider Sucre, then the capital of Ecuador - Quito - will be the highest national capital.


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CountryCapitalHeight (m)La Paz (and Sucre) 3640 (and 2750)Quito 2850Thimphu 2320Bogota 2625Addis Ababa 2355Asmara 2325Sana'a 2250Mexico City 2240Nairobi 1795Kabul 1790Windhoek 1721Maseru 1673Kigali 1567Guatemala 1529Gitega 1504Harare 1480Andorra la Vella 1409Kathmandu 1298Antananarivo 1288Ulan Bator 1284Pretoria 1271Lusaka 1270Mbabane 1243Kampala 1202Dodoma 1148San Jose 1146Teheran 1138Brasilia 1079Yerevan 1032Lilongwe 1024Gaborone 1014Tegucigalpa 980Ankara 938Caracas 909Dushanbe 789Abuja 777Bishkek 771Amman 759Yaoundé 726Damascus 691San Salvador 658Riyadh 624Canberra 605Vaduz 601Sofia 591Madrid 588Jerusalem 580Sarajevo 577Santiago 521Bern 513Islamabad 507Tashkent 459Tbilisi 451Khartoum 377Bangui 369Bamako 349Nur-Sultan 338San Marino 328Ouagadougou 305N'Djamena 298Ljubljana 281Luxembourg 273Prague 244Skopje 243Kinshasa 240Yamoussoukro 217Asgabat 215New Delhi 210Niamey 207Palikir 207Castries 204Minsk 198Vienna 170Kyiv 168Brazzaville 155Athens 153Vientiane 148Sao Tome 141Nicosia 134Port Louis 134Bratislava 131Zagreb 130Vilnius 124Moscow 124Belgrade 116Moroni 110Lima 107Malabo 107Tirana 104Budapest 102Port-au-Prince 98Accra 98Warsaw 93Chisinau 80Pyinmana 77Brussels 76Freetown 76Managua 75Ottawa 74Bucharest 70Muscat 68Beijing 63Maputo 63Lome 63Podgorica 61Kuala Lumpur 60Belmopan 59Beirut 55Asuncion 54Kingston 53Rabat 53Montevideo 43Baghdad 40Port Moresby 39Porto-Novo 38Tallinn 37Dakar 37Paris 34Berlin 34Seoul 33Honiara 29Mogadishu 28Helsinki 25Hanoi 25Saint George's 25Cairo 22Wellington 20Tokyo 17Reykjavik 15Lisbon 15Stockholm 15Phnom Penh 15Rome 14London 14Doha 13Abu Dhabi 13Oslo 12Dili 11Buenos Aires 10Yaren 9Dublin 8Riga 8Manila 7Manama 6Pyongyang 6Bridgetown 6Luanda 6Tripoli 6Nouakchott 6Kuwait 5Colombo 4Havana 4Dhaka 3Jakarta 3Majuro 3Nassau 2Washington, D.C. 2Bangkok 1Paramaribo 1Copenhagen 0Valletta 0Monaco 0Bandar Seri Begawan 0Male 0Singapore 0Saint John's 0Roseau 0Santo Domingo 0Georgetown 0Panama 0Basseterre 0Kingstown 0Port of Spain 0Alger 0Praia 0Djibouti 0Libreville 0Banjul 0Conakry 0Bissau 0Monrovia 0Victoria 0Tunis 0Suva 0Bairiki 0Melekeok 0Apia 0Nuku'alofa 0Vaiaku 0Port Vila 0Amsterdam -1Baku -28

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