List of national capitals

This is a list of national capital cities in alphabetical order. It includes territories and dependencies, non-sovereign states including associated states, and entities whose sovereignty is disputed. Sovereign states are shown in bold text.

CityCountryNotes Abu Dhabi                 Abuja                      Accra                      Adamstown   British Overseas Territory Addis Ababa        Algiers                    Alofi                     Self-governing nation in free association with New Zealand. Amman                      Amsterdam (official); The Hague (de facto)                 Andorra la Vella           Ankara                     Antananarivo               Arbil                      Part of Iraq Apia           Ashgabat                   Asmara                     Astana                     Asunción                   Athens                     Avarua                    Self-governing nation in free association with New Zealand. Baghdad                    Baku                       Bamako                     Bandar Seri Begawan         Bangkok                    Bangui                     Banjul                     Basseterre                 Beijing                    Beirut                     Belfast                   Country of the United Kingdom Belgrade                   Belmopan                   Berlin                     Bern                       Bishkek                    Bissau                     Bogotá                     Brasília                   Bratislava                 Brazzaville                Bridgetown                 Brussels                   Bucharest                  Budapest                   Buenos Aires               Gitega                  Cairo                      Canberra                   Caracas                    Cardiff                   Country of the United Kingdom Castries                   Cayenne                    Overseas department of France Charlotte Amalie    Territory of the United States Chisinau                   City of London            City of London Territory of the United Kingdom Cockburn Town             British Overseas Territory Conakry                    Copenhagen                 Dakar                      Damascus                   Dhaka                      Dili                        Djibouti    Dodoma ; Dar es Salaam                  Doha                       Douglas   British Crown Dependency Dublin                     Dushanbe                   Edinburgh                 Country of the United Kingdom Edinburgh of the Seven Seas    British Overseas Territory El Aaiún (declared)     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. Episkopi Cantonment       British Overseas Territory Flying Fish Cove    External territory of Australia Freetown                   Funafuti                   Gaborone                   George Town   British Overseas Territory Georgetown   Georgetown              Gibraltar                 British Overseas Territory Guatemala City             Gustavia  Overseas collectivity of France Hagåtña                    Territory of the United States Hamilton   British Overseas Territory Hanga Roa   Special territory of Chile Hanoi                      Harare                     Hargeisa                  De facto independent state not diplomatically recognized by any other state, claimed in whole by the Somali Republic.See [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/3794847.stm Regions and territories: Somaliland] (30 December 2005). BBC News. Retrieved January 17, 2006.</ref>
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| Havana                  ||  ||
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| Helsinki                ||  ||
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| Honiara                 ||  ||
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| Islamabad               ||  ||
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| Jakarta                 ||  ||
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| Jamestown || || British Overseas Territory
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| Jerusalem (declared, de facto) ||  || Israel claims that Jerusalem, complete and united, is its capital. The city is the seat of the government, home to the president's residence, government offices, supreme court, and parliament. The United Nations Security Council in Resolution 478 does not accept this claim and called on member states to remove their diplomatic missions from Jerusalem. The United Nations and all member states have their embassies in other cities such as Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan, and Herzliya, and do not recognise Jerusalem as the capital.See the CIA Factbook  and Map of Israel Many countries officially accept a proposal that Jerusalem have international status, which was part of the Partition Plan of 1947.Sharkansky, Ira. Governing Jerusalem: again on the world's agenda, p 23. State University Press (1996). . The Palestinian National Authority claims East Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state.
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| Jerusalem (declared); Ramallah and Gaza (de facto)||  || The State of Palestine claims the territories occupied by Israel since the Six-Day War in 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital. This area is currently occupied by Israel and Palestine has no control over the territories it claims. Administration is based in Ramallah and Gaza, not Jerusalem. All members of the United Nations regard East Jerusalem as occupied territory. The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, the Arab League, the Non-Aligned Movement and the European Union recognise it as the capital of a future Palestinian state.See the following:
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| Juba  ||  South Sudan||
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| Kabul                   ||  ||
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| Kampala                 ||  ||
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| Kathmandu               ||  ||
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| Khartoum                ||  ||
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| Kigali                  ||  ||
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| King Edward Point               || || British Overseas Territory
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| Kingston        ||  ||
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| Kingston || || External territory of Australia
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| Kingstown ||  ||
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| Kinshasa                ||  ||
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| Kuala Lumpur            ||   ||
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| Kuwait City             ||  ||
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| Kyiv                    ||  ||
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| La Paz  ||   ||
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| Libreville              ||  ||
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| Lilongwe                ||  ||
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| Lima                    ||  ||
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| Lisbon                  ||  ||
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| Ljubljana               ||  ||
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| Lomé                    ||  ||
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| London ||  ; || London is both the capital of England, a Country of the United Kingdom, and of the United Kingdom itself, a sovereign state. 
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| Luanda                  ||  ||
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| Lusaka                  ||  ||
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| Luxembourg ||  ||
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| Madrid                  ||  ||
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| Majuro                  ||  ||
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| Malabo                  ||  ||
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| Malé                    ||  ||
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| Managua                 ||  ||
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| Manama                  ||  ||
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| Manila                  ||  ||
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| Maputo                  ||  ||
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| Marigot|| || Overseas collectivity of France
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| Maseru                  ||  ||
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| Mata-Utu                || || Overseas collectivity of France
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| Mbabane (administrative); Lobamba (royal and legislative)
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| Melekoek                ||  ||
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| Mexico City ||  ||
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| Minsk                   ||  ||
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| Mogadishu               ||  ||
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| Monaco                  ||  ||City-state
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| Monrovia                ||  ||
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| Montevideo              ||  ||
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| Moroni  ||  ||
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| Moscow                  ||  ||
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| Muscat     ||  ||
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| Nairobi                 ||  ||
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| Nassau  ||  ||
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| Naypyidaw               ||  ||
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| N'Djamena               ||  ||
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| New Delhi               ||  ||
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| Niamey                  ||  ||
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| Nicosia                 ||  ||
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| North Nicosia                 || ||De facto independent state that is recognised only by Turkey. Northern Cyprus is claimed in whole by the Republic of Cyprus.<ref>See The World Factbook|Cyprus  (10 January 2006). Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved January 17, 2006. Nouakchott                 Nouméa                    Sui generis collectivity of France Nukualofa    Nuuk                      Constituent country of the Kingdom of Denmark Oranjestad   Self-governing part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands Oslo                       Ottawa                     Ouagadougou                Pago Pago                 Territory of the United States Palikir                    Panama City                Papeete                   Overseas collectivity of France Paramaribo                 Paris                      Philipsburg    Self-governing part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands Phnom Penh                 Plymouth   (official); Brades Estate (de facto)   British Overseas Territory Podgorica                 Port Louis                 Port Moresby              Port Vila                  Port-au-Prince             Port of Spain              Porto-Novo (official); Cotonou (de facto)                 Prague                     Praia                      Pretoria (executive); Bloemfontein (judicial); Cape Town (legislative)                  Pristina                 De facto independent state that is recognised by UN member states and by Taiwan (Republic of China). 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                  Quito                      Rabat                      Reykjavík                  Riga                       Riyadh                    Road Town                 British Overseas Territory Rome                       Roseau    Saipan                     Territory of the United States San José        San Juan      Territory of the United States San Marino    San Salvador                Sana'a                       Santiago    Santo Domingo               São Tomé                    Sarajevo                    Seoul                       Singapore                  City-state Skopje                      Sofia                       South Tarawa                      Sri Jayawardenapura-Kotte  (legislative; largely de facto); Colombo (previous capital; has some government offices)     St. George's    St. Helier                 British Crown Dependency St. John's          St. Peter Port              British Crown Dependency St. Pierre   Overseas collectivity of France Stanley    British Overseas Territory Stockholm                   Sucre                       Sokhumi                       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                        Taipei                      (Taiwan)The Republic of China (Taiwan) has competed for recognition with the People's Republic of China as the government of China since 1949. The Republic of China controls the island of Taiwan and its islands of Quemoy, Matsu, the Pratas and part of the Spratly IslandsThe sovereignty over the Spratly Islands is claimed by People's Republic of China, the Republic of China, Vietnam, the Philippines (part), Malaysia (part), and Brunei (part). Except Brunei, each of these countries occupies part of the islands. The territory of the Republic of China is claimed in whole by the People's Republic of China.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 PRC. The political status of the ROC and the legal status of Taiwan and areas currently under ROC control are in dispute. In 1971, the United Nations gave the China seat to the PRC and the ROC withdrew from the UN. Most states recognize the PRC to be the  legitimate representative of all China. The UN classifies Taiwan as "Taiwan, Province of China". The ROC has de facto relations with most sovereign states. A large political movement within Taiwan wants Taiwan independence. The Republic of China takes part 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 number of different names, most commonly Chinese Taipei. Tallinn                     Tarawa                      Tashkent                    Tbilisi                     Tegucigalpa                 Tehran                      The Bottom                   Thimphu                     Tirana                      Tiraspol                   A 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                       Tórshavn                   Constituent country of the Kingdom of Denmark Tripoli                     Tskhinvali                 A 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                       Ulaanbaatar                 Vaduz                       Valletta                    The Valley   British Overseas Territory Vatican City                City-state Victoria      Vienna                      Vientiane                   Vilnius                     Warsaw                      Washington, D.C.            Wellington                  West Island   External territory of Australia Willemstad        Self-governing part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands Windhoek                    Yamoussoukro (official); Abidjan (former capital; still has many government offices)                Yaoundé                     Yaren (de facto)        Country does not have an official capital; however, the government offices are in Yaren. Yerevan                     Zagreb                     

Notes
a.  That is, the State of Brunei Darussalam.
b.  See also List of historical capitals of China.
c.  Unrecognized, self-declared country.
d.  See Politics of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
e.  The Spanish name is "México D.F." or just "D.F." (for "Distrito Federal").
f.  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.
g.  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.
h.  Also known as the "Holy See" for diplomatic and religious purposes.
i.  See Positions on Jerusalem.
j.   Kosovo proclaimed independence from Serbia on 17 February 2008 by temporary governing institutions. That independence is against the current UNSC's resolution regarding Kosovo (1244).

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