The following chart lists countries and dependencies along with their capital cities, in English and non-English official language(s).
In bold: internationally recognized sovereign states The 193 member states of the United Nations (UN) Vatican City (administered by the Holy See, a UN observer state), which is generally recognized as a sovereign state In bold italics: states with limited recognition and associated states not members of the United Nations De facto sovereign states with partial international recognition, such as Palestine, Kosovo and Taiwan De facto sovereign states lacking general international recognition Cook Islands and Niue, two associated states of New Zealand without UN membership In italics: non-sovereign territories that are recognized by the UN as part of some member state Dependent territories Special territories recognized by international treaty (such as the special administrative regions of China) Other territories often regarded as separate geographical territories even though they are integral parts of their mother countries (such as the overseas departments of France)
A Country (exonym)Capital (exonym)Country (endonym)Capital (endonym)Official or native language(s) (alphabet/script) Afghanistan Kabul Pashto/Dari(Arabic script) Albania Tirana Albanian Algeria Algiers Berber language(Tifinagh script)Arabic(Arabic script) American SamoaInsular area of the United States. Pago Pago American Samoa Pago Pago SamoanEnglish Andorra Andorra la Vella Catalan Angola Luanda Portuguese Kongo AnguillaBritish Overseas Territory. The Valley Anguilla The Valley English Antigua and Barbuda Saint John's Antigua and Barbuda St. John's Antiguan and Barbudan CreoleEnglish Argentina Buenos Aires Spanish Armenia Yerevan Armenian(Armenian alphabet) ArubaConstituent country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Oranjestad Dutch, Papiamento Australia Canberra Australia Canberra English/Aboriginal languages Austria Vienna German ÅlandAutonomous region of Finland. Mariehamn SwedishFinnish Azerbaijan Baku Azerbaijani
B Country (exonym)Capital (exonym)Country (endonym)Capital (endonym)Official or native language(s) (alphabet/script) The Bahamas Nassau The Bahamas Nassau English Bahrain Manama Arabic(Arabic script) Bangladesh Dhaka Bengali(Bengali script) Barbados Bridgetown Barbados Bridgetown English Belarus Minsk Belarusian(Cyrillic script)Russian(Cyrillic script) Belgium Brussels DutchFrenchGerman Belize Belmopan Belize Belmopan English Benin Porto-Novo French Bermuda Hamilton Bermuda Hamilton English Bhutan Thimphu Dzongkha(Tibetan alphabet) Bolivia La Paz SpanishQuechuaAymaraGuaraní Bonaire Kralendijk Dutch Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo Bosna i Hercegovina Sarajevo Bosnian, Croatian(Latin script)Serbian(Cyrillic script) Botswana Gaborone Botswana Gaborone English, Tswana Brazil Brasília Portuguese British Virgin Islands Road Town British Virgin Islands Road Town English Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan or Malay(Jawi script) Bulgaria Sofia or or Bulgarian and Russian can be transliterated in various ways, therefore the two most generally used transliterations are given here. Bulgarian(Cyrillic script) Burkina Faso Ouagadougou French Burundi Gitega Kirundi French
C Country (exonym)Capital (exonym)Country (endonym)Capital (endonym)Official or native language(s) (alphabet/script) Cambodia Phnom Penh Khmer(Khmer script) Cameroon Yaoundé Cameroon Yaoundé FrenchEnglish Canada Ottawa Canada Ottawa English, French Cape Verde Praia Portuguese Cayman Islands George Town Cayman Islands George Town English Central African Republic Bangui FrenchSango Chad N'Djamena FrenchArabic(Arabic script) Chile Santiago Spanish China (People's Republic of) Beijing Mandarin Chinese(Chinese characters) Christmas IslandExternal territory of Australia. Flying Fish Cove Christmas Island Flying Fish Cove English Cocos Islands West Island Cocos Islands West Island English Colombia Bogotá Spanish Comoros Moroni ShikomorArabic(Arabic script)French Republic of the Congo Brazzaville FrenchKongoLingala Democratic Republic of the Congo Kinshasa FrenchKongoLingalaSwahili Cook IslandsIn free association with New Zealand. Avarua Cook IslandsAvarua English Cook Islands Māori Costa Rica San José Spanish Croatia Zagreb Croatian Cuba Havana Spanish Curaçao Willemstad Curaçao Willemstad DutchPapiamento English Cyprus Nicosia Greek(Greek alphabet)Turkish Czech Republic Prague Czech
D Country (exonym)Capital (exonym)Country (endonym)Capital (endonym)Official or native language(s) (alphabet/script) Denmark Copenhagen Danish Djibouti Djibouti Arabic(Arabic script)FrenchSomaliAfar Dominica Roseau Dominica Roseau English Dominican Republic Santo Domingo Spanish
E Country (exonym)Capital (exonym)Country (endonym)Capital (endonym)Official or native language(s) (alphabet/script) East Timor Díli TetumPortuguese Ecuador Quito Spanish Egypt Cairo or Arabic(Arabic script) El Salvador San Salvador Spanish Equatorial Guinea Malabo SpanishFrenchPortuguese Eritrea Asmara Arabic(Arabic script)Tigrinya(Ge'ez script) Estonia Tallinn Estonian Eswatini(formerly Swaziland) Mbabane Eswatini Mbabane EnglishSwazi Ethiopia Addis Ababa Amharic(Ge'ez script)
F Country (exonym)Capital (exonym)Country (endonym)Capital (endonym)Official or native language(s) (alphabet/script) Falkland Islands Stanley Falkland Islands Stanley English Faroe IslandsConstituent country within the Kingdom of Denmark. Tórshavn FaroeseDanish Fiji Suva Fiji Suva EnglishFijianFiji Hindi Finland Helsinki FinnishSwedish France Paris French French GuianaOverseas department of France. Cayenne French French PolynesiaOverseas collectivity of France. Papeete FrenchTahitian
G Country (exonym)Capital (exonym)Country (endonym)Capital (endonym)Official or native language(s) (alphabet/script) Gabon Libreville French The Gambia Banjul The Gambia Banjul EnglishMandinkaPulaarWolof Georgia Tbilisi Georgian(Georgian alphabet) Germany Berlin German Ghana Accra Ghana Accra EnglishAkanTwiEwe Gibraltar Gibraltar Gibraltar Gibraltar English Greece Athens or or Greek(Greek alphabet) Greenland Nuuk GreenlandicDanish Grenada St. George's Grenada St. George's English Guadeloupe Basse-Terre French Guam Hagåtñaformerly Agaña Guam Hagåtña EnglishChamorro Guatemala Guatemala City Spanish GuernseyBritish Crown Dependency. Saint Peter Port GuernseyGuernési Saint Peter PortSaint Pierre Port EnglishGuernésiais Guinea Conakry FrenchManinka, SusuPular Guinea-Bissau Bissau PortugueseFulaMandinka Guyana Georgetown Guyana Georgetown English
H Country (exonym)Capital (exonym)Country (endonym)Capital (endonym)Official or native language(s) (alphabet/script) Haiti Port-au-Prince FrenchHaitian Creole Honduras Tegucigalpa Spanish Hong KongSpecial administrative regions of China recognized by international treaty. Hong Kong Hong Kong Hong Kong EnglishCantonese(Traditional Chinese characters) Hungary Budapest Hungarian
I Country (exonym)Capital (exonym)Country (endonym)Capital (endonym)Official or native language(s) (alphabet/script) Iceland Reykjavík Icelandic India New Delhi India New Delhi Assamese(Assamese script)Bengali(Bengali script)EnglishGujarati(Gujarati script)Hindi(Devanagari script)Kannada(Kannada script)Konkani(Devanagari script)Malayalam(Malayalam script)Marathi(Devanagari script)Nepali(Devanagari script)Odia(Odia script)Punjabi(Gurmukhi script)Sanskrit(Devanagari script)Tamil(Tamil script)Telugu(Telugu script) Indonesia Jakarta Indonesian Iran Tehran Persian(Persian script) Iraq Baghdad Arabic(Arabic script)Kurdish Ireland Dublin Ireland Dublin IrishEnglish Isle of Man Douglas Isle of Man or Mann Douglas EnglishManx Israel Jerusalem (declared) Hebrew(Hebrew script)Arabic(Arabic script) Italy Rome Italian Ivory Coast Yamoussoukro French
J Country (exonym)Capital (exonym)Country (endonym)Capital (endonym)Official or native language(s) (alphabet/script) Jamaica Kingston Jamaica Kingston English Japan Tokyo Japanese(Japanese characters) Jersey St. Helier Jersey St. Helier EnglishFrenchJèrriais Jordan Amman Arabic(Arabic script)
K Country (exonym)Capital (exonym)Country (endonym)Capital (endonym)Official or native language(s) (alphabet/script) Kazakhstan Astana Kazakh(Cyrillic script)Russian(Cyrillic script) Kenya Nairobi Kenya Nairobi English, Swahili Kiribati TarawaBairiki Village is the former capital of Kiribati and is still the seat of the Presidency, but the official capital is now South Tarawa. Kiribati Tarawa English, Gilbertese North Korea Pyongyang as called in NK / / Korean(Hangul/Hanja) South Korea Seoul as called in SK / Korean(Hangul/Hanja) KosovoNon-UN member state with limited international recognition as a sovereign state. Pristina Albanian Serbian (Latin) Serbian (Cyrillic) Kuwait Kuwait City Arabic (Official)(Arabic script) Kuwaiti Gulf Arabic (native)(Arabic script) Kyrgyzstan Bishkek Kyrgyz(Cyrillic script)Russian(Cyrillic script)
L Country (exonym)Capital (exonym)Country (endonym)Capital (endonym)Official or native language(s) (alphabet/script) Laos Vientiane , or LaoLao alphabet Latvia Riga Latvian Lebanon Beirut Arabic(Arabic script) French Lesotho Maseru Sesotho, English Liberia Monrovia Liberia Monrovia English Libya Tripoli Berber language(Tifinagh script)Arabic(Arabic script) Liechtenstein Vaduz German Lithuania Vilnius Lithuanian Luxembourg Luxembourg LuxembourgishGermanFrench
M Country (exonym)Capital (exonym)Country (endonym)Capital (endonym)Official or native language(s) (alphabet/script) Macau Macau Cantonese(Traditional Chinese characters)Portuguese Madagascar Antananarivo MalagasyFrench Malawi Lilongwe Malawi Lilongwe EnglishChichewa Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Malay Maldives Malé Dhivehi(Thaana script) Mali Bamako BambaraFula Malta Valletta Malta or Valletta MalteseEnglish Marshall Islands Majuro Marshall Islands Majuro Marshallese English Martinique Fort-de-France French Mauritania Nouakchott Berber language(Tifinagh script)Arabic(Arabic script) Mauritius Port Louis Mauritius Port Louis EnglishFrenchMauritian Creole Mayotte Mamoudzou FrenchShimaore Mexico Mexico City SpanishNahuatl Federated States of Micronesia Palikir Federated States of Micronesia Palikir English Moldova Chișinău Romanian Monaco Monaco FrenchMonégasque Mongolia Ulaanbaatar Mongolian(Cyrillic script)(Mongol script) Montenegro Podgorica Montenegrin Montserrat Brades EstateBrades Estate has been the de facto capital since a volcanic eruption in 1995 covered the official capital of Plymouth, leaving it uninhabitable. Montserrat Brades Estate English Morocco Rabat Berber language(Tifinagh script)Arabic(Arabic script) Mozambique Maputo PortugueseTsonga Myanmar (or Burma) Naypyidaw Burmese(Burmese alphabet)
N Country (exonym)Capital (exonym)Country (endonym)Capital (endonym)Official or native language(s) (alphabet/script) Namibia Windhoek Namibia Windhoek EnglishGermanAfrikaansDamara/NamaHerero Nauru Yaren (de facto)Nauru and Switzerland are the only United Nations member states without an official capital city. Nauru Yaren EnglishNauruan Nepal Kathmandu Nepali(Devanagari script) Netherlands Amsterdam DutchWest Frisian New CaledoniaSui generis collectivity of France. Nouméa French New ZealandThe country has a third official language in New Zealand Sign Language. Wellington New Zealand Wellington EnglishMāori Nicaragua Managua Spanish Niger Niamey FrenchHausa Nigeria Abuja Nigeria Abuja EnglishHausaIgboYoruba Niue Alofi Niue Alofi NiueanEnglish Norfolk Island Kingston Norfolk IslandKingston EnglishNorfuk North Macedonia Skopje Macedonian(Cyrillic script)Albanian Northern Mariana Islands Saipan Northern Mariana Islands Saipan EnglishChamorro Norway Oslo Norwegian BokmålNorwegian NynorskNorthern SámiLule SámiSouthern Sámi
O Country (exonym)Capital (exonym)Country (endonym)Capital (endonym)Official or native language(s) (alphabet/script) Oman Muscat Arabic(Arabic script)
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