Countries of the world/By continent

The below list contains both states and dependent territories, see country, state, nation state for some explanation of the difference between these.

Countries listed by continent and their capitals:

Africa

• Algeria (Al - Jaza'ir) - Algiers
• Angola - Luanda
• Benin - Porto Novo, Cotonou
• Botswana - Gaborone
• Burundi - Bujumbura
• Burkina Faso - Ouagadougou
• Cameroon (also spelled Cameroun) - Yaounde
• Central African Republic (Centrafrique)- Bangui
• Chad (Tchad) - N'Djamena
• Comoros - Moroni
• Republic of the Congo - Brazzaville
• Democratic Republic of the Congo - Kinshasa
• Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)- Yamoussoukro
• Djibouti - Djibouti
• Egypt (Misr) - Cairo
• Equatorial Guinea - Malabo
• Eritrea - Asmara
• Ethiopia (Itiopia) - Addis Ababa
• Gabon - Libreville
• The Gambia - Banjul
• Ghana - Accra
• Guinea - Conakry
• Guinea-Bissau - Bissau
• Kenya - Nairobi
• Lesotho - Maseru
• Liberia - Monrovia
• Libya - Tripoli
• Madagascar - Antananarivo
• Malawi - Lilongwe
• Mali - Bamako
• Mauritania - Nouakchott
• Mauritius - Port Louis
• Morocco (Al Maghrib) - Rabat
• Mozambique - Maputo
• Namibia - Windhoek
• Niger - Niamey
• Nigeria - Abuja
• Rwanda - Kigali
• Sao Tome and Principe - Sao Tome
• Senegal - Dakar
• Seychelles - Victoria, Seychelles
• Sierra Leone - Freetown
• Somalia - Mogadishu
• South Africa - Cape Town, Pretoria, Bloemfontein
• Sudan - Khartoum
• Swaziland - Mbabane
• Tanzania - Dar es Salaam, Dodoma
• Togo - Lome
• Tunisia - Tunis

• Uganda - Kampala
• Western Sahara *DISPUTED* - La'youn
• Zambia - Lusaka
• Zimbabwe - Harare

Asia

• Afghanistan - Kabul
• Armenia - Yerevan
• Azerbaijan - Baku
• Bahrain - Manama
• Bangladesh - Dhaka
• Bhutan - Thimphu
• Brunei - Bandar Seri Begawan
• Cambodia (Kampuchea) - Phnom Penh
• China, People's Republic of - Beijing
• China, Republic of (a.k.a. Taiwan) - Taipei
• East Timor (Timor Leste) - Dili
• Georgia (Sakartvelo) - Tbilisi
• India (Hindu: Bharat) - New Delhi
• Indonesia - Jakarta
• Iran - Teheran
• Iraq - Bagdad
• Israel (Yisra'el) - Jerusalem (disputed)
• Japan (Nihon) - Tokyo
• Jordan (Al Urdun) - Amman
• Kazakhstan - Astana
• Kuwait - Kuwait City
• Kyrgyzstan - Bishkek
• Laos - Vientiane
• Lebanon (Lubnan) - Beirut
• Malaysia - Kuala Lumpur
• Maldives - Male
• Mongolia - Ulan Bator
• Myanmar (Burma) - Yangon
• Nepal - Kathmandu
• North Korea - Pyongyang
• Oman - Muscat
• Pakistan - Islamabad
• Philippines (Pilipinas) - Manila
• Qatar - Doha
• Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
• Singapore - Singapore
• South Korea - Seoul
• Sri Lanka - Colombo, Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
• Syria - Damascus
• Tajikistan - Dushanbe
• Thailand (Muang Thai) - Bangkok
• Turkey - Ankara
• Turkmenistan - Ashgabat
• United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
• Uzbekistan - Tashkent
• Vietnam - Hanoi
• Yemen - Sana

Europe

• Albania (Shqipëria) - Tirana
• Andorra - Andorra la Vella
• Austria (Österreich) - Vienna
• Belarus - Minsk
• Belgium - Brussels
• Bosnia Herzegovina - Sarajevo
• Bulgaria - Sofia
• Croatia (Hrvatska) - Zagreb
• Cyprus (Kupros) - Nicosia
• Czech Republic (Česko) - Prague
• Denmark (Danmark) - Copenhagen
• Estonia (Eesti) - Tallinn
• Finland (Suomi) - Helsinki
• France - Paris
• Germany (Deutschland) - Berlin
• Greece (Hellas) - Athens
• Hungary (Magyar Republic) - Budapest
• Iceland (Island) - Reykjavik
• Republic of Ireland (Eire) - Dublin
• Italy (Italia) - Rome
• Latvia - Riga
• Liechtenstein - Vaduz
• Lithuania - Vilnius
• Luxembourg - Luxembourg City
• Republic of Macedonia -- Skopje
• Malta - Valletta
• Moldova - Chisinau
• Monaco - Monaco
• Montenegro - Podgorica
• Netherlands (Nederland) - Amsterdam (Capital), The Hague (Location of Government)
• Norway (Norge) - Oslo
• Poland (Polska) - Warsaw
• Portugal - Lisbon
• Romania (România) - Bucharest
• Russia (Россия) - Moscow
• San Marino - San Marino
• Serbia - Belgrade
• Slovakia - Bratislava
• Slovenia (Slovenija) - Ljubljana
• Spain (España) - Madrid
• Sweden (Sverige) - Stockholm
• Switzerland - Bern
• Turkey - Ankara
• Ukraine - Kiev
• United Kingdom - London
• Vatican City - none

North and Central America

• Antigua and Barbuda - St. Johns
• Bahamas - Nassau
• Barbados - Bridgetown
• Belize - Belmopan
• Canada - Ottawa
• Costa Rica - San José
• Cuba - Havana
• Dominica - Roseau
• Dominican Republic (Republica Dominicana) - Santo Domingo
• El Salvador - San Salvador
• Grenada - St Georges
• Guatemala - Guatemala
• Haiti - Port-au-Prince
• Honduras - Tegucigalpa
• Jamaica - Kingston, Jamaica
• Mexico (México) - Mexico City
• Nicaragua - Managua
• Panama (Panamá) - Panama City
• Puerto Rico - San Juan
• Saint Kitts and Nevis - Basseterre
• Saint Lucia - Castries
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Kingstown
• Trinidad and Tobago - Port of Spain
• United States - Washington DC

Oceania

• Australia - Canberra
• Federated States of Micronesia - Palikir
• Fiji - Suva
• Kiribati - Tarawa
• Marshall Islands - Majuro
• Nauru - none
• New Zealand (Aotearoa) - Wellington
• Palau - Koror
• Papua New Guinea - Port Moresby
• Samoa - Apia
• Solomon Islands - Honiara
• Tonga - Nuku'alofa
• Tuvalu - Funafuti
• Vanuatu - Port Vila

South America

• Argentina - Buenos Aires
• Bolivia - La Paz, Sucre
• Brazil (Brasil) - Brasilia
• Chile - Santiago
• Colombia - Bogota
• Ecuador - Quito
• French Guiana - Cayenne (part of France)
• Guyana - Georgetown
• Paraguay - Asuncion
• Peru - Lima
• Suriname - Paramaribo
• Uruguay - Montevideo
• Venezuela - Caracas

See also : List of countries

External links to information by country

• http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
• http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/
• http://www.world-gazetteer.com/home.htm
• http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/