List of national capitals in alphabetical order

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

City	Country	Notes
Abu Dhabi	United Arab Emirates
Abuja	Nigeria	Lagos was the capital from 1914 to 1991.
Accra	Ghana
Adamstown	Pitcairn Islands	British Overseas Territory
Addis Ababa	Ethiopia
Algiers	Algeria
Alofi	Niue	Self-governing in free association with New Zealand.
Amman	Jordan
Amsterdam	Netherlands	The Dutch constitution refers to Amsterdam as the "capital". The Dutch government is located in the Hague. See Capital of the Netherlands.
Andorra la Vella	Andorra
Ankara	Turkey
Antananarivo	Madagascar
Apia	Samoa
Ashgabat	Turkmenistan
Asmara	Eritrea
Astana	Kazakhstan
Asuncion	Paraguay
Athens	Greece
Avarua	Cook Islands	Self-governing in free association with New Zealand.
Baghdad	Iraq
Baku	Azerbaijan
Bamako	Mali
Bandar Seri Begawan	Brunei
Bangkok	Thailand
Bangui	Central African Republic
Banjul	Gambia
Basse-Terre	Guadeloupe	Overseas department of France
Basseterre	Saint Kitts and Nevis
Beijing	China	See also: List of historical capitals of China
Beirut	Lebanon
Belgrade	Serbia
Belmopan	Belize
Berlin	Germany
Bern	Switzerland
Bishkek	Kyrgyzstan
Bissau	Guinea-Bissau
Bogotá	Colombia
Brasília	Brazil
Bratislava	Slovakia
Brazzaville	Republic of the Congo
Bridgetown	Barbados
Brussels	Belgium	Also the de facto capital of the European Union
Bucharest	Romania
Budapest	Hungary
Buenos Aires	Argentina
Bujumbura	Burundi
Cairo	Egypt
Canberra	Australia
Caracas	Venezuela
Castries	Saint Lucia
Cayenne	French Guiana	Overseas department of France
Charlotte Amalie	United States Virgin Islands	Territory of the U.S.
Chisinau	Moldova
Cockburn Town	Turks and Caicos Islands	British Overseas Territory
Conakry	Guinea
Copenhagen	Denmark
Dakar	Senegal
Damascus	Syria
Dhaka	Bangladesh
Dili	East Timor (Timor-Leste)
Djibouti	Djibouti
Dodoma (official, legislative)	Tanzania	Dar es Salaam, the former capital and largest city continues to serve as the de facto seat of government hosting the presidency, government ministries, judiciary and diplomatic missions.
Doha	Qatar
Douglas	Isle of Man	British Crown Dependency
Dublin	Ireland
Dushanbe	Tajikistan
East Jerusalem (declared) Ramallah (de facto)	State of Palestine	The State of Palestine claims the territories occupied by Israel since the Six-Day War in 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital. The proclaimed state is currently occupied by Israel and has no effective control over the territories it claims. Administration is based in Ramallah and Gaza, rather than Jerusalem. Most members of the United Nations regard East Jerusalem as occupied territory, and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, the Arab League and the Non-Aligned Movement recognise it as the capital of a future Palestinian state. See Positions on Jerusalem.
Edinburgh of the Seven Seas	Tristan da Cunha	Part of the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
Laayoune (declared) Tifariti (de facto)	Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic	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. Tifariti is factual temporary capital (instead of Bir Lehlou earlier) of the SADR. Some government and military structures resides in exile in Tindouf, Algeria. See Politics of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
Episkopi Cantonment	Akrotiri and Dhekelia	British Overseas Territory
Flying Fish Cove	Christmas Island	External territory of Australia
Fort-de-France	Martinique	Overseas department of France
Freetown	Sierra Leone
Funafuti	Tuvalu
Gaborone	Botswana
George Town	Cayman Islands	British Overseas Territory
Georgetown	Ascension Island	Part of the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
Georgetown	Guyana
Gibraltar	Gibraltar	British Overseas Territory
Guatemala City	Guatemala
Gustavia	Saint Barthélemy	Overseas collectivity of France
Hagåtña	Guam	Territory of the United States
Hamilton	Bermuda	British Overseas Territory
Hanga Roa	Easter Island	Special territory of Chile
Hanoi	Vietnam
Harare	Zimbabwe
Hargeisa	Somaliland	De facto independent state not diplomatically recognized by any other state, claimed in whole by the Somali Republic.
Havana	Cuba
Helsinki	Finland
Hong Kong	Hong Kong	Special administrative region of the People's Republic of China functioning as a City-state, former British dependent territory.
Honiara	Solomon Islands
Islamabad	Pakistan
Jakarta	Indonesia
Jamestown	Saint Helena	Part of the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
Jerusalem (declared, de facto)	Israel	Jerusalem Law states that "Jerusalem, complete and united, is the capital of Israel", and the city serves as the seat of the government, home to the president's residence, government offices, supreme court, and parliament. United Nations Security Council Resolution 478 declared the Jerusalem Law "null and void" and called on member states to withdraw their diplomatic missions from Jerusalem. The United Nations and all member states maintain their embassies in other cities such as Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan, and Herzliya, and do not recognise Jerusalem as the capital. Many countries officially adhere to the proposal that Jerusalem have international status, as called for in the Partition Plan of 1947. The Palestinian National Authority claims East Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state. See Positions on Jerusalem.
Juba	South Sudan
Kabul	Afghanistan
Kampala	Uganda
Kathmandu	Nepal
Khartoum	Sudan
Kiev	Ukraine
Kigali	Rwanda
King Edward Point	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	British Overseas Territory
Kingston	Jamaica
Kingston	Norfolk Island	External territory of Australia
Kingstown	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Kinshasa	Democratic Republic of the Congo
Kuala Lumpur (official, legislative and royal) Putrajaya (administrative and judicial)	Malaysia
Kuwait City	Kuwait
Libreville	Gabon
Lilongwe	Malawi
Lima	Peru	Cusco is declared as the "Historical Capital" (Spanish: 'Capital Histórica'), a merely symbolic statement, by Article 49 of the Peruvian Constitution.
Lisbon	Portugal
Ljubljana	Slovenia
Lomé	Togo
London	United Kingdom	Prior to the Acts of Union in 1707, London was the capital of England only. Edinburgh was the capital of the Kingdom of Scotland
Luanda	Angola
Lusaka	Zambia
Luxembourg	Luxembourg
Madrid	Spain
Majuro	Marshall Islands	Self-governing in free association with United States.
Malabo	Equatorial Guinea
Malé	Maldives
Mamoudzou	Mayotte	Overseas department of France
Managua	Nicaragua
Manama	Bahrain
Manila	Philippines
Maputo	Mozambique
Marigot	Saint Martin	Overseas collectivity of France
Maseru	Lesotho
Mata-Utu	Wallis and Futuna	Overseas collectivity of France
Mbabane (administrative) Lobamba (royal and legislative)	Swaziland
Mexico City	Mexico
Minsk	Belarus
Mogadishu	Somalia
Monaco	Monaco	City-state
Monrovia	Liberia
Montevideo	Uruguay
Moroni	Comoros
Moscow	Russia
Muscat	Oman
Nairobi	Kenya
Nassau	Bahamas
Naypyidaw	Myanmar
N'Djamena	Chad
New Delhi	India
Ngerulmud	Palau	Self-governing in free association with United States.
Niamey	Niger
Nicosia	Cyprus
Nicosia	Northern Cyprus	De facto independent state that is recognised only by Turkey. Northern Cyprus is claimed in whole by the Republic of Cyprus.
Nouakchott	Mauritania
Nouméa	New Caledonia	Sui generis collectivity of France
Nukuʻalofa	Tonga
Nuuk	Greenland	Self-governing country within the Kingdom of Denmark
Oranjestad	Aruba	Self-governing country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Oslo	Norway
Ottawa	Canada
Ouagadougou	Burkina Faso
Pago Pago	American Samoa	Territory of the United States
Palikir	Federated States of Micronesia	Self-governing in free association with United States.
Panama City	Panama
Papeete	French Polynesia	Overseas collectivity of France
Paramaribo	Suriname
Paris	France
Philipsburg	Sint Maarten	Self-governing country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Phnom Penh	Cambodia
Plymouth (official) Brades Estate (de facto)	Montserrat	British Overseas Territory. 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.
Podgorica (official) Cetinje (Old Royal Capital, present seat of the President)	Montenegro
Port Louis	Mauritius
Port Moresby	Papua New Guinea
Port Vila	Vanuatu
Port-au-Prince	Haiti
Port of Spain	Trinidad and Tobago
Porto-Novo (official) Cotonou (de facto)	Benin
Prague	Czech Republic
Praia	Cape Verde
Pretoria (executive) Bloemfontein (judicial) Cape Town (legislative)	South Africa
Pristina	Kosovo	De facto independent state that is recognised by 108 UN member states and by Taiwan. 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	North Korea
Quito	Ecuador	Highest official capital (2,850 m).
Rabat	Morocco
Reykjavík	Iceland
Riga	Latvia
Riyadh	Saudi Arabia
Road Town	British Virgin Islands	British Overseas Territory
Rome	Italy
Roseau	Dominica
Saint-Denis	Réunion	Overseas department of France
Saipan	Northern Mariana Islands	Territory of the United States
San José	Costa Rica
San Juan	Puerto Rico	Territory of the United States
San Marino	San Marino
San Salvador	El Salvador
Sana'a	Yemen
Santiago	Chile	The National Congress of Chile is located in Valparaíso
Santo Domingo	Dominican Republic
São Tomé	São Tomé and Príncipe
Sarajevo	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Seoul	South Korea
Singapore	Singapore	City-state
Skopje	Macedonia
Sofia	Bulgaria
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (official) Colombo (former capital; has some government offices)	Sri Lanka	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.
St. George's	Grenada
St. Helier	Jersey	British Crown Dependency
St. John's	Antigua and Barbuda
St. Peter Port	Guernsey	British Crown Dependency
St. Pierre	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	Overseas collectivity of France
Stanley	Falkland Islands	British Overseas Territory
Stepanakert	Nagorno-Karabakh Republic	The self-declared country remains diplomatically unrecognised by UN-member states, including Armenia. Transnistria, South Ossetia, and Abkhazia, all UN non-member states, recognise the state. Claimed in whole by Azerbaijan.
Stockholm	Sweden
Sucre (constitutional) La Paz (administrative)	Bolivia	La Paz is the highest administrative capital (3,650 m), higher than Quito.
Sukhumi	Abkhazia	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	Fiji
Taipei	Taiwan	Officially the Republic of China (ROC), it has been competing for recognition with the People's Republic of China (PRC) as the sole Chinese government since 1949. Taiwan controls the island of Taiwan and its associated islands, Quemoy, Matsu, the Pratas, and part of the Spratly Islands The territory of Taiwan is claimed in whole by the People's Republic of China. The Republic of China participates 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 variety of pseudonyms, most commonly Chinese Taipei.
Tallinn	Estonia
Tarawa Atoll	Kiribati
Tashkent	Uzbekistan
Tbilisi (official) Kutaisi (legislative)	Georgia
Tegucigalpa	Honduras
Tehran	Iran
Thimphu	Bhutan
Tirana	Albania
Tiraspol	Transnistria	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	Japan
Tórshavn	Faroe Islands	Self-governing country within the Kingdom of Denmark
Tripoli	Libya
Tskhinvali	South Ossetia	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	Tunisia
Ulaanbaatar	Mongolia
Vaduz	Liechtenstein
Valletta	Malta
The Valley	Anguilla	British Overseas Territory
Vatican City	Vatican City	City-state
Victoria	Seychelles
Vienna	Austria
Vientiane	Laos
Vilnius	Lithuania
Warsaw	Poland
Washington, D.C.	United States
Wellington	New Zealand
West Island	Cocos (Keeling) Islands	External territory of Australia
Willemstad	Curaçao	Self-governing country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Windhoek	Namibia
Yamoussoukro (official) Abidjan (former capital; still has many government offices)	Ivory Coast
Yaoundé	Cameroon
Yaren (de facto)	Nauru	Country does not have an official capital; however, the government offices are in Yaren.
Yerevan	Armenia
Zagreb	Croatia