Capital cities
Capitals A to Z
The 195 capital cities of the world start with 25 different letters. B has the most (25), and no capital starts with X. Pick a letter to see every capital that starts with it, with its country and flag.
Capital cities A to Z: top facts
- B is the most common first letter, with 25 capitals from Baghdad to Buenos Aires. M is next with 19.
- No capital city starts with X.
- Only one capital starts with E, I, Q, U, or Z: East Jerusalem (E), Islamabad (I), Quito (Q), Ulaanbaatar (U), and Zagreb (Z).
- Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (Sri Lanka) has the longest name, and Baku (Azerbaijan) one of the shortest.
All 195 capitals by first letter
A 16 capitals
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Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates) -
Abuja (Nigeria) -
Accra (Ghana) -
Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) -
Algiers (Algeria) -
Amman (Jordan) -
Amsterdam (Netherlands) -
Andorra la Vella (Andorra) -
Ankara (Turkey) -
Antananarivo (Madagascar) -
Apia (Samoa) -
Ashgabat (Turkmenistan) -
Asmara (Eritrea) -
Astana (Kazakhstan) -
Asunción (Paraguay) -
Athens (Greece)
B 25 capitals
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Baghdad (Iraq) -
Baku (Azerbaijan) -
Bamako (Mali) -
Bandar Seri Begawan (Brunei) -
Bangkok (Thailand) -
Bangui (Central African Republic) -
Banjul (Gambia) -
Basseterre (Saint Kitts and Nevis) -
Beijing (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) -
Bucharest (Romania) -
Budapest (Hungary) -
Buenos Aires (Argentina)
C 7 capitals
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Cairo (Egypt) -
Canberra (Australia) -
Caracas (Venezuela) -
Castries (Saint Lucia) -
Chișinău (Moldova) -
Conakry (Guinea) -
Copenhagen (Denmark)
D 9 capitals
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Dakar (Senegal) -
Damascus (Syria) -
Dhaka (Bangladesh) -
Dili (Timor-Leste) -
Djibouti (Djibouti) -
Dodoma (Tanzania) -
Doha (Qatar) -
Dublin (Ireland) -
Dushanbe (Tajikistan)
E 1 capital
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East Jerusalem (Palestine)
F 2 capitals
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Freetown (Sierra Leone) -
Funafuti (Tuvalu)
G 4 capitals
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Gaborone (Botswana) -
Georgetown (Guyana) -
Gitega (Burundi) -
Guatemala City (Guatemala)
H 5 capitals
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Hanoi (Vietnam) -
Harare (Zimbabwe) -
Havana (Cuba) -
Helsinki (Finland) -
Honiara (Solomon Islands)
I 1 capital
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Islamabad (Pakistan)
J 3 capitals
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Jakarta (Indonesia) -
Jerusalem (Israel) -
Juba (South Sudan)
K 11 capitals
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Kabul (Afghanistan) -
Kampala (Uganda) -
Kathmandu (Nepal) -
Khartoum (Sudan) -
Kigali (Rwanda) -
Kingston (Jamaica) -
Kingstown (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) -
Kinshasa (DR Congo) -
Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) -
Kuwait City (Kuwait) -
Kyiv (Ukraine)
L 10 capitals
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Libreville (Gabon) -
Lilongwe (Malawi) -
Lima (Peru) -
Lisbon (Portugal) -
Ljubljana (Slovenia) -
Lomé (Togo) -
London (United Kingdom) -
Luanda (Angola) -
Lusaka (Zambia) -
Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
M 19 capitals
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Madrid (Spain) -
Majuro (Marshall Islands) -
Malabo (Equatorial Guinea) -
Malé (Maldives) -
Managua (Nicaragua) -
Manama (Bahrain) -
Manila (Philippines) -
Maputo (Mozambique) -
Maseru (Lesotho) -
Mbabane (Eswatini) -
Mexico City (Mexico) -
Minsk (Belarus) -
Mogadishu (Somalia) -
Monaco (Monaco) -
Monrovia (Liberia) -
Montevideo (Uruguay) -
Moroni (Comoros) -
Moscow (Russia) -
Muscat (Oman)
N 10 capitals
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N'Djamena (Chad) -
Nairobi (Kenya) -
Nassau (Bahamas) -
Naypyidaw (Myanmar) -
New Delhi (India) -
Ngerulmud (Palau) -
Niamey (Niger) -
Nicosia (Cyprus) -
Nouakchott (Mauritania) -
Nukuʻalofa (Tonga)
O 3 capitals
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Oslo (Norway) -
Ottawa (Canada) -
Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)
P 16 capitals
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Palikir (Micronesia) -
Panama City (Panama) -
Paramaribo (Suriname) -
Paris (France) -
Phnom Penh (Cambodia) -
Podgorica (Montenegro) -
Port Louis (Mauritius) -
Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea) -
Port of Spain (Trinidad and Tobago) -
Port Vila (Vanuatu) -
Port-au-Prince (Haiti) -
Porto-Novo (Benin) -
Prague (Czechia) -
Praia (Cabo Verde) -
Pretoria (South Africa) -
Pyongyang (North Korea)
Q 1 capital
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Quito (Ecuador)
R 6 capitals
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Rabat (Morocco) -
Reykjavík (Iceland) -
Riga (Latvia) -
Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) -
Rome (Italy) -
Roseau (Dominica)
S 19 capitals
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San José (Costa Rica) -
San Marino (San Marino) -
San Salvador (El Salvador) -
Sana'a (Yemen) -
Santiago (Chile) -
Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) -
São Tomé (São Tomé and Príncipe) -
Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) -
Seoul (South Korea) -
Singapore (Singapore) -
Skopje (North Macedonia) -
Sofia (Bulgaria) -
South Tarawa (Kiribati) -
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (Sri Lanka) -
St. George's (Grenada) -
St. John's (Antigua and Barbuda) -
Stockholm (Sweden) -
Sucre (Bolivia) -
Suva (Fiji)
T 10 capitals
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Tallinn (Estonia) -
Tashkent (Uzbekistan) -
Tbilisi (Georgia) -
Tegucigalpa (Honduras) -
Tehran (Iran) -
Thimphu (Bhutan) -
Tirana (Albania) -
Tokyo (Japan) -
Tripoli (Libya) -
Tunis (Tunisia)
U 1 capital
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Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia)
V 7 capitals
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Vaduz (Liechtenstein) -
Valletta (Malta) -
Vatican City (Vatican City) -
Victoria (Seychelles) -
Vienna (Austria) -
Vientiane (Laos) -
Vilnius (Lithuania)
W 4 capitals
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Warsaw (Poland) -
Washington, D.C. (United States) -
Wellington (New Zealand) -
Windhoek (Namibia)
X 0 capitals
No capital starts with X.
Y 4 capitals
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Yamoussoukro (Côte d'Ivoire) -
Yaoundé (Cameroon) -
Yaren (Nauru) -
Yerevan (Armenia)
Z 1 capital
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Zagreb (Croatia)
Frequently asked questions
How many capital cities are there in the world?
One for each of the 195 countries, so this list has 195 capitals. A few countries have more than one: South Africa has three (Pretoria, Cape Town and Bloemfontein) and Bolivia two (Sucre and La Paz). Nauru has no official capital, so its government district, Yaren, is listed. The list uses each country's official capital and notes the others.
Which letter do the most capital cities start with?
B, with 25 capitals, including Baghdad, Baku, Bamako, Bandar Seri Begawan, and Bangkok. M is second with 19.
Is there a capital city that starts with X?
No. No capital starts with X. Only one starts with E, I, Q, U, or Z.
Which capital city has the longest name?
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, the official capital of Sri Lanka. Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is the official capital; Colombo is the commercial capital.
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