Map - Capital city

Capital city
A capital city or capital is the municipality holding primary status in a country, state, province, department, or other subnational entity, usually as its seat of the government. A capital is typically a city that physically encompasses the government's offices and meeting places; the status as capital is often designated by its law or constitution. In some jurisdictions, including several countries, different branches of government are in different settlements. In some cases, a distinction is made between the official (constitutional) capital and the seat of government, which is in another place.

English-language news media often use the name of the capital city as an alternative name for the government of the country of which it is the capital, as a form of metonymy. For example, "relations between Washington and London" refers to "relations between the United States and the United Kingdom".

The word capital derives from the Latin word caput (genitive capitis), meaning 'head'.

In several English-speaking states, the terms county town and county seat are also used in lower subdivisions. In some unitary states, subnational capitals may be known as 'administrative centres'. The capital is often the largest city of its constituent, though not always.

Africa
Country Capital city Population Greenwich Mean Time
 Algeria (DZ) 		Algiers 1977663 UTC/GMT 1 Hour
 Angola (AO) 		Luanda 2776168 UTC/GMT 1 Hour
 Benin (BJ) 		Porto-Novo 234168 UTC/GMT 1 Hour
 Botswana (BW) 		Gaborone 208411 UTC/GMT 2 Hour
 Burkina Faso (BF) 		Ouagadougou 1086505 UTC/GMT 0 Hour
 Burundi (BI) 		Bujumbura 331700 UTC/GMT 2 Hour
 Cameroon (CM) 		Yaoundé 1299369 UTC/GMT 1 Hour
 Cape Verde (CV) 		Praia 113364 UTC/GMT -1 Hour
 Central African Republic (CF) 		Bangui 542393 UTC/GMT 1 Hour
 Chad (TD) 		N'Djamena 721081 UTC/GMT 1 Hour
 Comoros (KM) 		Moroni 42872 UTC/GMT 3 Hour
 Côte d'Ivoire (CI) 		Yamoussoukro 194530 UTC/GMT 0 Hour
 Democratic Republic of the Congo (CD) 		Kinshasa 7785965 UTC/GMT 1 Hour
 Djibouti (DJ) 		Djibouti 623891 UTC/GMT 3 Hour
 Equatorial Guinea (GQ) 		Malabo 155963 UTC/GMT 1 Hour
 Eritrea (ER) 		Asmara 563930 UTC/GMT 3 Hour
 Ethiopia (ET) 		Addis Ababa 2757729 UTC/GMT 3 Hour
 Gabon (GA) 		Libreville 578156 UTC/GMT 1 Hour
 Ghana (GH) 		Accra 1963264 UTC/GMT 0 Hour
 Guinea (GN) 		Conakry 1767200 UTC/GMT 0 Hour
 Guinea-Bissau (GW) 		Bissau 388028 UTC/GMT 0 Hour
 Kenya (KE) 		Nairobi 2750547 UTC/GMT 3 Hour
 Lesotho (LS) 		Maseru 118355 UTC/GMT 2 Hour
 Liberia (LR) 		Monrovia 939524 UTC/GMT 0 Hour
 Libya (LY) 		Tripoli 1150989 UTC/GMT 2 Hour
 Madagascar (MG) 		Antananarivo 1391433 UTC/GMT 3 Hour
 Malawi (MW) 		Lilongwe 646750 UTC/GMT 2 Hour
 Mali (ML) 		Bamako 1297281 UTC/GMT 0 Hour
 Mauritania (MR) 		Nouakchott 661400 UTC/GMT 0 Hour
 Mauritius (MU) 		Port Louis 155226 UTC/GMT 4 Hour
 Mayotte (YT) 		Mamoudzou 54831 UTC/GMT 3 Hour
 Morocco (MA) 		Rabat 1655753 UTC/GMT 0 Hour
 Mozambique (MZ) 		Maputo 1191613 UTC/GMT 2 Hour
 Namibia (NA) 		Windhoek 268132 UTC/GMT 2 Hour
 Niger (NE) 		Niamey 774235 UTC/GMT 1 Hour
 Nigeria (NG) 		Abuja 590400 UTC/GMT 1 Hour
 Republic of the Congo (CG) 		Brazzaville 1284609 UTC/GMT 1 Hour
 Rwanda (RW) 		Kigali 745261 UTC/GMT 2 Hour
 Réunion (RE) 		Saint-Denis 137195 UTC/GMT 4 Hour
 Senegal (SN) 		Dakar 2476400 UTC/GMT 0 Hour
 Seychelles (SC) 		Victoria 22881 UTC/GMT 4 Hour
 Sierra Leone (SL) 		Freetown 802639 UTC/GMT 0 Hour
 Somalia (SO) 		Mogadishu 2587183 UTC/GMT 3 Hour
 South Africa (ZA) 		Pretoria 1619438 UTC/GMT 2 Hour
 South Sudan (SS) 		Juba 300000 UTC/GMT 3 Hour
 St Helena (SH) 		Jamestown 637 UTC/GMT 0 Hour
 Sudan (SD) 		Khartoum 1974647 UTC/GMT 3 Hour
 Swaziland (SZ) 		Mbabane 76218 UTC/GMT 2 Hour
 São Tomé and Príncipe (ST) 		São Tomé 53300 UTC/GMT 0 Hour
 Tanzania (TZ) 		Dodoma 180541 UTC/GMT 3 Hour
 The Gambia (GM) 		Banjul 34589 UTC/GMT 0 Hour
 Togo (TG) 		Lomé 749700 UTC/GMT 0 Hour
 Tunisia (TN) 		Tunis 693210 UTC/GMT 1 Hour
 Uganda (UG) 		Kampala 1353189 UTC/GMT 3 Hour
 United Arab Republic (EG) 		Cairo 7734614 UTC/GMT 2 Hour
 Western Sahara (EH) 		El Aaiún 196331 UTC/GMT 0 Hour
 Zambia (ZM) 		Lusaka 1267440 UTC/GMT 2 Hour
 Zimbabwe (ZW) 		Harare 1542813 UTC/GMT 2 Hour
Antarctica
Country Capital city Population Greenwich Mean Time
 French Southern and Antarctic Lands (TF) 		Port-aux-Français 45 UTC/GMT 5 Hour
 South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands (GS) 		Grytviken 2 UTC/GMT -2 Hour
Asia
Country Capital city Population Greenwich Mean Time
 Afghanistan (AF) 		Kabul 3043532 UTC/GMT 4.5 Hour
 Armenia (AM) 		Yerevan 1093485 UTC/GMT 4 Hour
 Azerbaijan (AZ) 		Baku 1116513 UTC/GMT 4 Hour
 Bahrain (BH) 		Manama 147074 UTC/GMT 3 Hour
 Bangladesh (BD) 		Dhaka 10356500 UTC/GMT 6 Hour
 Bhutan (BT) 		Thimphu 98676 UTC/GMT 6 Hour
 Brunei (BN) 		Bandar Seri Begawan 64409 UTC/GMT 8 Hour
 Burma (MM) 		Naypyidaw 925000 UTC/GMT 6.5 Hour
 China (CN) 		Beijing 11716620 UTC/GMT 8 Hour
 Christmas Island (CX) 		Flying Fish Cove 500 UTC/GMT 7 Hour
 Cocos (CC) 		West Island 120 UTC/GMT 6.5 Hour
 Georgia (GE) 		Tbilisi 1049498 UTC/GMT 4 Hour
 Hk (HK) 		Hong Kong 7012738 UTC/GMT 8 Hour
 India (IN) 		New Delhi 317797 UTC/GMT 5.5 Hour
 Indonesia (ID) 		Jakarta 8540121 UTC/GMT 7 Hour
 Iran (IR) 		Tehran 7153309 UTC/GMT 3.5 Hour
 Japan (JP) 		Tokyo 8336599 UTC/GMT 9 Hour
 Jordan (JO) 		Amman 1275857 UTC/GMT 2 Hour
 Kazakhstan (KZ) 		Astana 345604 UTC/GMT 6 Hour
 Khmer Republic (KH) 		Phnom Penh 1573544 UTC/GMT 7 Hour
 Kuwait (KW) 		Kuwait City 60064 UTC/GMT 3 Hour
 Kyrgyzstan (KG) 		Bishkek 900000 UTC/GMT 6 Hour
 Laos (LA) 		Vientiane 196731 UTC/GMT 7 Hour
 Lebanon (LB) 		Beirut 1916100 UTC/GMT 2 Hour
 Macau (MO) 		Macau 520400 UTC/GMT 8 Hour
 Malaysia (MY) 		Kuala Lumpur 1453975 UTC/GMT 8 Hour
 Maldives (MV) 		Malé 103693 UTC/GMT 5 Hour
 Mesopotamia (IQ) 		Baghdad 5672513 UTC/GMT 3 Hour
 Mongolia (MN) 		Ulan Bator 844818 UTC/GMT 8 Hour
 Nepal (NP) 		Kathmandu 1442271 UTC/GMT 5.75 Hour
 North Korea (KP) 		Pyongyang 3222000 UTC/GMT 9 Hour
 Oman (OM) 		Muscat 797000 UTC/GMT 4 Hour
 Pakistan (PK) 		Islamabad 601600 UTC/GMT 5 Hour
 Philippines (PH) 		Manila 10444527 UTC/GMT 8 Hour
 Qatar (QA) 		Doha 344939 UTC/GMT 3 Hour
 Saudi Arabia (SA) 		Riyadh 4205961 UTC/GMT 3 Hour
 Singapore (SG) 		Singapore 3547809 UTC/GMT 8 Hour
 South Korea (KR) 		Seoul 10349312 UTC/GMT 9 Hour
 Sri Lanka (LK) 		Colombo 648034 UTC/GMT 5.5 Hour
 Syria (SY) 		Damascus 1569394 UTC/GMT 2 Hour
 Taiwan (TW) 		Taipei 7871900 UTC/GMT 8 Hour
 Tajikistan (TJ) 		Dushanbe 679400 UTC/GMT 5 Hour
 Thailand (TH) 		Bangkok 5104476 UTC/GMT 7 Hour
 Turkey (TR) 		Ankara 3517182 UTC/GMT 2 Hour
 Turkmenistan (TM) 		Ashgabat 727700 UTC/GMT 5 Hour
 United Arab Emirates (AE) 		Abu Dhabi 603492 UTC/GMT 4 Hour
 Uzbekistan (UZ) 		Tashkent 1978028 UTC/GMT 5 Hour
 Vietnam (VN) 		Hanoi 1431270 UTC/GMT 7 Hour
 Yemen (YE) 		Sana'a 1937451 UTC/GMT 3 Hour
Europe
Country Capital city Population Greenwich Mean Time
 Albania (AL) 		Tirana 374801 UTC/GMT 1 Hour
 Andorra (AD) 		Andorra la Vella 20430 UTC/GMT 1 Hour
 Austria (AT) 		Vienna 1691468 UTC/GMT 1 Hour
 Belarus (BY) 		Minsk 1742124 UTC/GMT 3 Hour
 Belgium (BE) 		City of Brussels 1019022 UTC/GMT 1 Hour
 Bosnia and Herzegovina (BA) 		Sarajevo 696731 UTC/GMT 1 Hour
 Bulgaria (BG) 		Sofia 1152556 UTC/GMT 2 Hour
 Croatia (HR) 		Zagreb 698966 UTC/GMT 1 Hour
 Cyprus (CY) 		Nicosia 200452 UTC/GMT 2 Hour
 Czech Republic (CZ) 		Prague 1165581 UTC/GMT 1 Hour
 Denmark (DK) 		Copenhagen 1153615 UTC/GMT 1 Hour
 Estonia (EE) 		Tallinn 394024 UTC/GMT 2 Hour
 Faroe Island (FO) 		Tórshavn 13200 UTC/GMT 0 Hour
 Finland (FI) 		Helsinki 558457 UTC/GMT 2 Hour
 France (FR) 		Paris 2138551 UTC/GMT 1 Hour
 Germany (DE) 		Berlin 3426354 UTC/GMT 1 Hour
 Gibraltar (GI) 		Gibraltar 26544 UTC/GMT 1 Hour
 Greece (GR) 		Athens 729137 UTC/GMT 2 Hour
 Guernsey (GG) 		Saint Peter Port 16488 UTC/GMT 0 Hour
 Hungary (HU) 		Budapest 1696128 UTC/GMT 1 Hour
 Iceland (IS) 		Reykjavík 118918 UTC/GMT 0 Hour
 Ireland (IE) 		Dublin 1024027 UTC/GMT 0 Hour
 Isle of Man (IM) 		Douglas 26218 UTC/GMT 0 Hour
 Italy (IT) 		Rome 2318895 UTC/GMT 1 Hour
 Jersey (JE) 		Saint Helier 28000 UTC/GMT 0 Hour
 Kosovo (XK) 		Pristina 550000 UTC/GMT 1 Hour
 Latvia (LV) 		Riga 742572 UTC/GMT 2 Hour
 Liechtenstein (LI) 		Vaduz 5197 UTC/GMT 1 Hour
 Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic (LT) 		Vilnius 542366 UTC/GMT 2 Hour
 Luxembourg (LU) 		Luxembourg 76684 UTC/GMT 1 Hour
 Malta (MT) 		Valletta 6794 UTC/GMT 1 Hour
 Moldova (MD) 		Chişinău 635994 UTC/GMT 2 Hour
 Monaco (MC) 		Monaco 32965 UTC/GMT 1 Hour
 Montenegro (ME) 		Podgorica 136473 UTC/GMT 1 Hour
 Netherlands (NL) 		Amsterdam 741636 UTC/GMT 1 Hour
 Norway (NO) 		Oslo 580000 UTC/GMT 1 Hour
 Poland (PL) 		Warsaw 1702139 UTC/GMT 1 Hour
 Portugal (PT) 		Lisbon 517802 UTC/GMT 0 Hour
 Republic of Macedonia (MK) 		Skopje 474889 UTC/GMT 1 Hour
 Romania (RO) 		Bucharest 1877155 UTC/GMT 2 Hour
 Russia (RU) 		Moscow 10381222 UTC/GMT 4 Hour
 San Marino (SM) 		City of San Marino 4500 UTC/GMT 1 Hour
 Serbia (RS) 		Belgrade 1273651 UTC/GMT 1 Hour
 Slovakia (SK) 		Bratislava 423737 UTC/GMT 1 Hour
 Slovenia (SI) 		Ljubljana 272220 UTC/GMT 1 Hour
 Spain (ES) 		Madrid 3255944 UTC/GMT 1 Hour
 Svalbard and Jan Mayen (SJ) 		Longyearbyen 2060 UTC/GMT 1 Hour
 Sweden (SE) 		Stockholm 1253309 UTC/GMT 1 Hour
 Switzerland (CH) 		Bern 121631 UTC/GMT 1 Hour
 Ukraine (UA) 		Kiev 2797553 UTC/GMT 2 Hour
 United Kingdom (GB) 		London 7556900 UTC/GMT 0 Hour
 Vatican City (VA) 		Vatican City 829 UTC/GMT 1 Hour
 Åland Islands (AX) 		Mariehamn 10682 UTC/GMT 2 Hour
North_America
Country Capital city Population Greenwich Mean Time
 Anguilla (AI) 		The Valley 1169 UTC/GMT -4 Hour
 Antigua and Barbuda (AG) 		St. John's 24226 UTC/GMT -4 Hour
 Aruba (AW) 		Oranjestad 29998 UTC/GMT -4 Hour
 Barbados (BB) 		Bridgetown 98511 UTC/GMT -4 Hour
 Belize (BZ) 		Belmopan 13381 UTC/GMT -6 Hour
 Bermuda (BM) 		Hamilton 902 UTC/GMT -4 Hour
 British Virgin Islands (VG) 		Road Town 8449 UTC/GMT -4 Hour
 Canada (CA) 		Ottawa 812129 UTC/GMT -5 Hour
 Caribbean Netherlands (BQ) 		Kralendijk 3081 UTC/GMT -4 Hour
 Cayman Islands (KY) 		George Town 29370 UTC/GMT -5 Hour
 Costa rica (CR) 		San José 335007 UTC/GMT -6 Hour
 Cuba (CU) 		Havana 2163824 UTC/GMT -5 Hour
 Curaçao (CW) 		Willemstad 125000 UTC/GMT -4 Hour
 Dominica (DM) 		Roseau 16571 UTC/GMT -4 Hour
 Dominican Republic (DO) 		Santo Domingo 2201941 UTC/GMT -4 Hour
 El Salvador (SV) 		San Salvador 525990 UTC/GMT -6 Hour
 Greenland (GL) 		Nuuk 14798 UTC/GMT -3 Hour
 Grenada (GD) 		St. George's 7500 UTC/GMT -4 Hour
 Guadeloupe (GP) 		Basse-Terre 11472 UTC/GMT -4 Hour
 Guatemala (GT) 		Guatemala City 994938 UTC/GMT -6 Hour
 Haiti (HT) 		Port-au-Prince 1234742 UTC/GMT -5 Hour
 Honduras (HN) 		Tegucigalpa 850848 UTC/GMT -6 Hour
 Jamaica (JM) 		Kingston 937700 UTC/GMT -5 Hour
 Martinique (MQ) 		Fort-de-France 89995 UTC/GMT -4 Hour
 Mexico (MX) 		Mexico City 12294193 UTC/GMT -6 Hour
 Montserrat (MS) 		Plymouth 0 UTC/GMT -4 Hour
 Nicaragua (NI) 		Managua 973087 UTC/GMT -6 Hour
 Panama (PA) 		Panama City 408168 UTC/GMT -5 Hour
 Puerto Rico (PR) 		San Juan 418140 UTC/GMT -4 Hour
 Saint Barthélemy (BL) 		Gustavia 5988 UTC/GMT -4 Hour
 Saint Kitts and Nevis (KN) 		Basseterre 12920 UTC/GMT -4 Hour
 Saint Lucia (LC) 		Castries 20000 UTC/GMT -4 Hour
 Saint Martin (MF) 		Marigot 5700 UTC/GMT -4 Hour
 Saint Pierre and Miquelon (PM) 		Saint-Pierre 6200 UTC/GMT -3 Hour
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (VC) 		Kingstown 24518 UTC/GMT -4 Hour
 Sint Maarten (SX) 		Philipsburg 1400 UTC/GMT -4 Hour
 The Bahamas (BS) 		Nassau 227940 UTC/GMT -5 Hour
 Trinidad and Tobago (TT) 		Port of Spain 49031 UTC/GMT -4 Hour
 Turks and Caicos Islands (TC) 		Cockburn Town 3720 UTC/GMT -5 Hour
 United States (US) 		Washington 601723 UTC/GMT -5 Hour
 United States Virgin Islands (VI) 		Charlotte Amalie 20000 UTC/GMT -4 Hour
Oceania
Country Capital city Population Greenwich Mean Time
 American Samoa (AS) 		Pago Pago 11500 UTC/GMT -11 Hour
 Australia (AU) 		Canberra 367752 UTC/GMT 11 Hour
 Cook Islands (CK) 		Avarua 13373 UTC/GMT -10 Hour
 East Timor (TL) 		Dili 150000 UTC/GMT 9 Hour
 Federated States of Micronesia (FM) 		Palikir 0 UTC/GMT 11 Hour
 Fiji (FJ) 		Suva 77366 UTC/GMT 12 Hour
 French Polynesia (PF) 		Papeete 26357 UTC/GMT -10 Hour
 Guam (GU) 		Hagåtña 1051 UTC/GMT 10 Hour
 Kiribati (KI) 		South Tarawa 40311 UTC/GMT 12 Hour
 Marshall Islands (MH) 		Majuro 25400 UTC/GMT 12 Hour
 Nauru (NR) 		Yaren District 1100 UTC/GMT 12 Hour
 New Caledonia (NC) 		Nouméa 93060 UTC/GMT 11 Hour
 New Hebrides (VU) 		Port Vila 35901 UTC/GMT 11 Hour
 New Zealand (NZ) 		Wellington 381900 UTC/GMT 13 Hour
 Niue (NU) 		Alofi 624 UTC/GMT -11 Hour
 Norfolk Island (NF) 		Kingston 880 UTC/GMT 11.5 Hour
 Northern Mariana Islands (MP) 		Saipan 48220 UTC/GMT 10 Hour
 Palau (PW) 		Koror 0 UTC/GMT 9 Hour
 Palau (PW) 		Melekeok 0 UTC/GMT 9 Hour
 Palau (PW) 		Ngerulmud 0 UTC/GMT 9 Hour
 Papua New Guinea (PG) 		Port Moresby 283733 UTC/GMT 10 Hour
 Pitcairn Islands (PN) 		Adamstown 46 UTC/GMT -8 Hour
 Samoan Islands (WS) 		Apia 40407 UTC/GMT 14 Hour
 Solomon Islands (SB) 		Honiara 56298 UTC/GMT 11 Hour
 Tonga (TO) 		Nukuʻalofa 22400 UTC/GMT 13 Hour
 Tuvalu (TV) 		Funafuti 4492 UTC/GMT 12 Hour
 Wallis and Futuna (WF) 		Mata-Utu 1200 UTC/GMT 12 Hour
South_America
Country Capital city Population Greenwich Mean Time
 Argentina (AR) 		Buenos Aires 13076300 UTC/GMT -3 Hour
 Bolivia (BO) 		Sucre 224838 UTC/GMT -4 Hour
 Brazil (BR) 		Brasília 2207718 UTC/GMT -2 Hour
 Chile (CL) 		Santiago 4837295 UTC/GMT -3 Hour
 Colombia (CO) 		Bogotá 7102602 UTC/GMT -5 Hour
 Ecuador (EC) 		Quito 1399814 UTC/GMT -5 Hour
 Falkland Islands (FK) 		Stanley 2213 UTC/GMT -3 Hour
 French Guiana (GF) 		Cayenne 61550 UTC/GMT -3 Hour
 Guyana (GY) 		Georgetown 235017 UTC/GMT -4 Hour
 Paraguay (PY) 		Asunción 1482200 UTC/GMT -3 Hour
 Peru (PE) 		Lima 7737002 UTC/GMT -5 Hour
 Suriname (SR) 		Paramaribo 223757 UTC/GMT -3 Hour
 Uruguay (UY) 		Montevideo 1270737 UTC/GMT -2 Hour
 Venezuela (VE) 		Caracas 3000000 UTC/GMT -4.5 Hour
Language
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Stolica (Polski) 
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首都 (日本語) 
Столиця (Українська) 
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수도 (한국어) 
Pääkaupunki (Suomi) 
Ibu kota (Bahasa Indonesia) 
Sostinė (Lietuvių) 
Hovedstad (Dansk) 
Hlavní město (Česky) 
Başkent (Türkçe) 
Главни град (Српски / Srpski) 
Pealinn (Eesti keel) 
Hlavné mesto (Slovenčina) 
Főváros (Magyar) 
Glavni grad (Hrvatski) 
เมืองหลวง (ไทย) 
Glavno mesto (Slovenščina) 
Galvaspilsēta (Latviešu) 
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