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List of national capitals

This is a list of national capitals of the world in alphabetical order. There are also a list of national capitals by country and a list of capitals of subnational entities.

Note: there is a separate list of former capitals at the bottom of this page.


A
Abidjan	Côte d'Ivoire (administrative)
Abu Dhabi	United Arab Emirates
Abuja	Nigeria
Accra	Ghana
Addis Ababa	Ethiopia
Algiers	Algeria
Amman	Jordan
Amsterdam	Netherlands (official)
Andorra la Vella	Andorra
Ankara	Turkey
Antananarivo	Madagascar
Apia	Samoa
Ashgabat	Turkmenistan
Asmara	Eritrea
Astana	Kazakhstan
Asunción	Paraguay
Athens	Greece

B
Baghdad	Iraq
Baky	Azerbaijan
Bamako	Mali
Bandar Seri Begawan	Brunei Darussalam
Bangkok	Thailand
Bangui	Central African Republic
Banjul	The Gambia
Basseterre	Saint Kitts and Nevis
Beijing	People's Republic of China, see also Capital of China
Beirut	Lebanon
Belgrade	Serbia
Belmopan	Belize
Berlin	Germany
Berne	Switzerland
Bishkek	Kyrgyzstan
Bissau	Guinea-Bissau
Bloemfontein	South Africa (judicial)
Santafé de Bogotá	Colombia
Brasília	Brazil
Bratislava	Slovakia
Brazzaville	Republic of the Congo
Bridgetown	Barbados
Brussels	Belgium
Bucharest	Romania
Budapest	Hungary
Buenos Aires	Argentina
Bujumbura	Burundi

C
Cairo	Egypt
Canberra	Australia
Cape Town	South Africa (legislative)
Caracas	Venezuela
Castries	Saint Lucia
Chisinau	Moldova
Colombo	Sri Lanka (official)
Conakry	Guinea
Copenhagen	Denmark
Cotonou	Benin (de facto)

D
Dakar	Senegal
Damascus	Syria
Dar es Salaam	Tanzania (administrative)
Dhaka	Bangladesh
Dili	East Timor
Djibouti	Djibouti
Dodoma	Tanzania (official)
Doha	Qatar
Douglas[?]	Isle of Man
Dublin	Republic of Ireland
Dushanbe	Tajikistan

F
Freetown	Sierra Leone
Funafuti	Tuvalu

G
Gaborone	Botswana
Georgetown	Guyana
Guatemala City	Guatemala

H
The Hague	Netherlands
Hanoi	Vietnam
Harare	Zimbabwe
Havana	Cuba
Helsinki	Finland
Honiara	Solomon Islands

I
Islamabad	Pakistan

J
Jakarta	Indonesia
Jerusalem	Israel

K
Kabul	Afghanistan
Kampala	Uganda
Kathmandu	Nepal
Khartoum	Sudan
Kiev	Ukraine
Kigali	Rwanda
Kingston	Jamaica
Kingstown	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Kinshasa	Democratic Republic of the Congo
Koror	Palau
Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia
Kuwait City	Kuwait

L
La Paz	Bolivia (official)
Libreville	Gabon
Lilongwe	Malawi
Lima	Peru
Lisbon	Portugal
Ljubljana	Slovenia
Lomé	Togo
London	United Kingdom
Luanda	Angola
Lusaka	Zambia
Luxembourg	Luxembourg

M
Madrid	Spain
Majuro	Marshall Islands
Malabo	Equatorial Guinea
Malé	Maldives
Managua	Nicaragua
Manama	Bahrain
Manila	The Philippines
Maputo	Mozambique
Maseru	Lesotho
Mbabane	Swaziland
Mexico City	Mexico
Minsk	Belarus
Mogadishu	Somalia
Monaco City	Monaco
Monrovia	Liberia
Montevideo	Uruguay
Moroni	Comoros
Moscow	Russia
Muscat	Oman

N
Nairobi	Kenya
Nassau	Bahamas
N'Djamena	Chad
New Delhi	India
Niamey	Niger
Nicosia	Cyprus
Nouakchott	Mauritania
Nuku'alofa	Tonga

O
Oslo	Norway
Ottawa	Canada
Ouagadougou	Burkina Faso

P
Palikir	Micronesia
Panama City	Panama
Paramaribo	Suriname
Paris	France
Phnom Penh	Cambodia
Podgorica	Montenegro
Port Louis	Mauritius
Port Moresby	Papua New Guinea
Port Vila	Vanuatu
Port-au-Prince	Haiti
Port-of-Spain	Trinidad and Tobago
Porto-Novo	Benin (official)
Prague	Czech Republic
Praia	Cape Verde
Pretoria	South Africa (official)
P'yongyang	North Korea

Q
Quito	Ecuador

R
Rabat	Morocco
Rangoon	Myanmar
Reykjavík	Iceland
Riga	Latvia
Riyadh	Saudi Arabia
Rome	Italy
Roseau	Dominica

S
San José	Costa Rica
San Marino[?]	San Marino
San Salvador	El Salvador
Sanaá	Yemen
Santiago	Chile
Santo Domingo	Dominican Republic
São Tomé	São Tomé and Príncipe
Sarajevo	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Seoul	South Korea
Singapore	Singapore
Skopje	Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Sofia	Bulgaria
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte[?]	Sri Lanka (legislative and judicial)
St. George's	Grenada
St. John's	Antigua and Barbuda
Stockholm	Sweden
Sucre	Bolivia (administrative)
Suva	Fiji

T
Taipei	Taiwan, Republic of China, see also Capital of China (provisional)
Tallinn	Estonia
Tarawa	Kiribati
Tashkent	Uzbekistan
Tbilisi	Georgia
Tegucigalpa	Honduras
Tehran	Iran
The Hague	The Netherlands (administrative)
Thimphu	Bhutan
Tirana	Albania
Tokyo	Japan
Tripoli	Libya
Tunis	Tunisia

U
Ulaanbaatar	Mongolia

V
Vaduz	Liechtenstein
Valletta	Malta
Vatican City	Holy See
Victoria[?]	Seychelles
Vienna	Austria
Vientiane	Laos
Vilnius	Lithuania

W
Warsaw	Poland
Washington, DC	United States of America
Wellington	New Zealand
Windhoek	Namibia

Y
Yamoussoukro	Côte d'Ivoire (official)
Yaoundé	Cameroon
Yerevan	Armenia

Z
Zagreb	Croatia

Historical list of national capitals

In this list are cities that once where capitals, but now are not any more. That can be because the country ceased to exist, the capital moved, or the capital was renamed. Sorted on country and date.

Former capital city	Country, empire	Since	Until	Change, reason
Melbourne/Sydney	Australia	1901	1908	alternated as capitals until Canberra became ready
St. George[?]	Bermuda (Brit.)		1815	moved to Hamilton[?]
Salvador da Baía	Brazil (Portuguese)		1763	moved to Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro	Brazil		1960	moved to Brasilia
Belize City	British Honduras		1970	moved to Belmopan
Kingston	Canada	1841	1843	moved to Montreal
Montreal	Canada	1843	1849	moved to Toronto
Toronto	Canada	1849	1859	moved to Quebec City
Quebec City	Canada	1859	1865	moved to Ottawa
	China			see: Capital of China
Léopoldville	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	1960	1966	renamed to Kinshasa
Large-Bassam[?]	Côte d'Ivoire	1893	1900	moved to Bingerville[?]
Bingerville[?]	Côte d'Ivoire	1900	1933	moved to Abidjan
Abidjan	Côte d'Ivoire	1933	1983	moved to Yamoussoukro
Winchester	England	3rd century?	9th century	moved to London
Lavuka[?]	Fiji (Brit.)			moved to Suva
Bonn	Germany	1949	1994	moved to Berlin
Cape Coast[?]	Gold Coast (Brit.)		1877	moved to Accra
Nafplion[?]	Greece	1821	1836	moved to Athens
Lahaina	Hawaii (Hawaiian monarchy)		1840	moved to Hawaii
Calcutta	India (British)		1912	moved to New Delhi
Torino	Italy, Kingdom of	1861	1865	moved to Florence
Florence	Italy, Kingdom of	1865	1871	moved to Rome
Heijo-kyo (Nara)	Japan (Nara period)		784
Kyoto	Japan		1868	moved to Tokyo
Alma-Atta	Kazakhstan	1992	1993	renamed to Almaty
Almaty (Alma-Atta)	Kazakhstan	1993	1998	moved to Astana
Auckland	New Zealand		1865	moved to Wellington
Lagos	Nigeria		1991	moved to Abuja
Bergen	Norway (medieval)		1299	moved to Oslo
Christiana	Norway		1924	renamed to Oslo
Karachi	Pakistan		1967	moved to Islamabad
Quezon City[?]	Philippines	1948	1976	moved to Manila
Guimarães[?]	Portugal, Kingdom of		1255
Saint Petersburg	Russian empire		1914	renamed to Petrograd
Petrograd	Russia		1918	moved to Moscow
Dariyah[?]	Saudi[?] state		1818	moved to Riyadh
Tulaghi[?]	Solomon Islands			moved to Honiara
New York City	United States	1785	1790
Philadelphia	United States	1790	1800
Bursa	Ottoman empire	1335	1365	moved to Edirne
Edirne	Ottoman empire	1365	1453	moved to Constantinople (Istanbul)
Constantinople	Ottoman empire	1453	1923	country ceased to exist
Port-of-Spain	West Indies Federation	1958	1962	country ceased to exist

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