List of national capitals by population

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This is a list of national capitals, ordered according to population. Capitals of a dependent territories and disputed territories are marked in italics. The population statistics given refer only to the official capital area, and do not include the wider metropolitan/urban district.

List

Beijing, China
Tokyo, Japan
Jakarta, Indonesia
Lima, Peru
Kyiv, Ukraine
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Brasilia, Brazil
Luanda, Angola
Pretoria, South Africa
Paris, France
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Bucharest, Romania
Budapest, Hungary
Warsaw, Poland
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Kuwait City, Kuwait
Brussels, Belgium & EU Capital
Ottawa, Canada
Jerusalem, Israel
Kingston, Jamaica
(Washington) District of Columbia, United States
Asuncion, Paraguay
Riga, Latvia
Vilnius, Lithuania
New Delhi, India
Nicosia, Cyprus
Rank Country/Territory Capital Population Year Percent of Population
1  China Beijing 20,693,000[1] 2012 1.52%
2  Japan Tokyo 13,189,000[2] 2011 10.32%
3  Russia Moscow 11,541,000[3] 2011 8.07%
4  India New Delhi 11,007,835 2011[4] 0.90%
5  South Korea Seoul 10,369,593[5] 2014 20.47%
6  Indonesia Jakarta 10,187,595[6] 2011 4.18%
7  Mexico Mexico City 8,851,080[7] 2010 7.51%
8  United Kingdom London 8,630,100[8] 2015 7.32%
9  Peru Lima 8,481,415[9] 2012 28.29%
10  Thailand Bangkok 8,249,117[10] 2010 12.42%
11  Iran Tehran 8,154,051 2011 10.81%
12  Colombia Bogotá 7,613,303[11] 2011 16.17%
13  Egypt Cairo 7,438,376 9.06%
14  Hong Kong Hong Kong 7,298,600[12] 2015 ---
15  Iraq Baghdad 7,216,040[13] 21.59%
16  Vietnam Hanoi 7,087,700[14] 2014 7.59%
17  Bangladesh Dhaka 6,970,105 [15] 2011 4.56%
18  Singapore Singapore 5,535,000[16] 2015 ---
19  Turkey Ankara 5,150,072 2014 6.72%
20  Chile Santiago 5,084,038[17] 2012 29.12%
21  Saudi Arabia Riyadh 4,878,723[18] 2009 18.20%
22  Democratic Republic of the Congo Kinshasa 4,385,264 6.50%
23  Germany Berlin 3,520,000[19] 2012 4.38%
24  Syria Damascus 3,500,000 15.32%
25  Spain Madrid 3,233,527[20] 2012 6.84%
26  North Korea Pyongyang 3,144,005 12.63%
27  Afghanistan Kabul 3,140,853 10.28%
28  Kenya Nairobi 3,138,369 2010 7.67%
29  Greece Athens 3,090,508 28.02%
30  Ethiopia Addis Ababa 3,040,740[21] 2012 3.31%
31  Argentina Buenos Aires 2,891,082[22] 2010 7.16%
32  Italy Rome 2,868,104[23] 2014 4.72%
33  Ukraine Kyiv 2,847,200[24] 2013 6.26%
34  Taiwan Taipei 2,686,516[25] 2013 11.53%
35  Brazil Brasília 2,648,532[26] 2012 1.33%
36  Jordan Amman 2,600,603 40.26%
37  Angola Luanda 2,453,779 11.43%
38  South Africa Pretoria 2,345,908 4.43%
39  France Paris 2,241,346[27] 2014 3.38%
40  Uzbekistan Tashkent 2,207,850 7.30%
41  Sweden Stockholm 2,171,459[28] 2014 22.33%
42  Cuba Havana 2,135,498[29] 2010 18.93%
43  Cambodia Phnom Penh 2,011,725 13.29%
44  Romania Bucharest 1,942,254[30] 9.73%
45  Azerbaijan Baku 1,879,251 19.96%
46  Venezuela Caracas 1,838,939 6.05%
47  Morocco Rabat 1,789,635 5.42%
48  Austria Vienna 1,749,673[31] 2013 20.65%
49  Sudan Khartoum 1,740,661 4.59%
50  Hungary Budapest 1,729,040[32] 2011 17.34%
51  Poland Warsaw 1,711,324[33] 2012 4.42%
52  Belarus Minsk 1,702,061 17.98%
53  Philippines Manila 1,652,171[34] 2010 1.77%
54  Uganda Kampala 1,659,600 4.42%
55  Ghana Accra 1,640,507 6.33%
56  Cameroon Yaoundé 1,616,000 [35][needs update] 7.26%
57  Madagascar Antananarivo 1,613,375[36][unreliable source?] 7.04%
58  Lebanon Beirut 1,574,387 35.25%
59  Algeria Algiers 1,518,083 3.87%
60  Ecuador Quito 1,504,991 9.65%
61  Zimbabwe Harare 1,487,028 10.51%
62  Qatar Doha 1,450,000 66.85%
63  Yemen Sana'a 1,431,649 5.87%
64  Guinea Conakry 1,399,981 11.91%
65  Malaysia Kuala Lumpur 1,381,830 4.65%
66  Uruguay Montevideo 1,369,797 40.21%
67  Zambia Lusaka 1,331,254 9.16%
68  Mali Bamako 1,289,626 8.43%
69  Czech Republic Prague 1,241,664[37] 2011 11.83%
70  Haiti Port-au-Prince 1,235,227 11.97%
71  Libya Tripoli 1,184,045 19.09%
72  Kuwait Kuwait City 1,171,880 34.78%
73  Serbia Belgrade 1,154,589 16.12%
74  Dominican Republic Santo Domingo 1,111,838[38] 2010 11.10%
75  Somalia Mogadishu 1,097,133 10.45%
76  Bulgaria Sofia 1,090,295 15.02%
77  Congo Brazzaville 1,088,044 1.61%
78  Belgium Brussels 1,080,790[39] 9.65%
79  Armenia Yerevan 1,080,487[36][unreliable source?] 36.29%
80  Mozambique Maputo 1,076,689 4.17%
81  Sierra Leone Freetown 1,070,200 17.57%
82  Ireland Dublin 1,045,769 22.76%
83  Georgia Tbilisi 1,044,993 23.34%
84  Senegal Dakar 1,030,594 7.29%
85  Guatemala Guatemala City 1,022,000 2001 8.90%
86  Liberia Monrovia 1,010,970 23.54%
87  Burkina Faso Ouagadougou 1,005,231 5.94%
88    Nepal Kathmandu 1,003,285 2011[40] 3.69%
89  Pakistan Islamabad 955,629 0.48%
90  Nicaragua Managua 926,883 15.24%
91  Myanmar Naypyidaw[41] 925,000[42] 1.74%
92  Mongolia Ulan Bator 907,802 31.98%
93  Malawi Lilongwe 902,388 5.52%
94  Canada Ottawa 898,150[43] 2.55%
95  Bolivia La Paz 877,363 8.22%
96  Kyrgyzstan Bishkek 843,240 14.74%
97  Kazakhstan Astana 835,153 2014 4.79%
98  Togo Lomé 824,738 12.10%
99  Panama Panama City 813,097 21.04%
100  Netherlands Amsterdam 810,909[44] 4.83%
101  Croatia Zagreb 804,200[45] 18.91%
102  Oman Muscat 797,000[46] 21.94%
103  Niger Niamey 794,814[44] 4.46%
104  Moldova Chişinău 794,800 [47] 22.33%
105  Israel Jerusalem[48] 780,200[49] 9.68%
106  Nigeria Abuja 778,567 [50] 0.45%
107  Albania Tirana 763,634 27.53%
108  Tunisia Tunis 767,629 7.05%
109  Turkmenistan Ashgabat 763,537 14.57%
110  Chad N'Djamena 751,288 5.86%
111  Honduras Tegucigalpa 735,982 9.09%
112  Central African Republic Bangui 731,548 14.79%
113  Mauritania Nouakchott 719,167 18.49%
114  Rwanda Kigali 718,414 6.10%
115  Latvia Riga 713,016 35.42%
116  Jamaica Kingston 701,063 25.82%
117  Macedonia Skopje 668,518[51] 24.70%
118  United States District of Columbia 658,893 2014 0.21%
119  Norway Oslo 645,701[52] 2013 12.70%
120  Finland Helsinki 596,661[53] 10.97%
121  United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi 585,097[54] 6.27%
122  Tajikistan Dushanbe 582,496 7.10%
123  Portugal Lisbon 564,657 5.40%
124  Denmark Copenhagen 562,253 10.02%
125  Lithuania Vilnius 556,723 18.83%
126  Gabon Libreville 556,425 33.28%
127  Eritrea Asmara 543,707 5.20%
128  El Salvador San Salvador 521,366 8.22%
129  Paraguay Asunción 520,722 7.66%
130  Macau (China) Macau 520,400[55] ---
131  Djibouti Djibouti (city) 475,332 54.45%
132  Côte d'Ivoire Yamoussoukro 454,929 2.24%
133  Guinea-Bissau Bissau 452,640 26.56%
134  Estonia Tallinn 440,206[56] 33.22%
135  Slovakia Bratislava 424,207 7.84%
136  Puerto Rico (USA) San Juan 421,356 ---
137  Burundi Bujumbura 384,461[57] 3.78%
138  Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo 383,604 10.02%
139  New Zealand Wellington 381,900[58] 8.54%
140  South Sudan Juba 372,410 3.30%
141  Australia Canberra 354,644[59] 1.53%
142  Costa Rica San José 328,195 6.74%
143  Papua New Guinea Port Moresby 299,396[60][unreliable source?] 4.09%
144  Laos Vientiane 287,579 4.25%
145  Tanzania Dodoma 287,200 2002 est.[61] 0.80%
146  Lesotho Maseru 267,652[60] 12.91%
147  Cyprus Nicosia (south) 270,000 late 2004[62] 26.57%
148  Slovenia Ljubljana 280,140 13.60%
149  Suriname Paramaribo 254,147 47.13%
150  Namibia Windhoek 252,721 10.97%
151  Bahamas Nassau 248,948 65.97%
152  Botswana Gaborone 225,656[63] 11.17%
153  Benin Porto-Novo 223,552 [64] 2.17%
154  Kosovo Prishtina 198,214 ---
155  Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic El Aaiún(claimed)
Tifariti(factual)
194,668
3,000 [65]

2009
---
156  Transnistria Tiraspol 159,163 ---
157  Mauritius Port Louis 147,251[66] 12.28%
158  Montenegro Podgorica 141,854 22.83%
159  Bahrain Manama 140,616 10.56%
160  Guyana Georgetown 134,599 16.83%
161  Cape Verde Praia 125,464 25.15%
162   Switzerland Berne (de facto) 121,631 [67] 1.51%
163  Sri Lanka Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte 118,556[68] 0.58%
164  Iceland Reykjavík 115,000[69] 35.60%
165  Barbados Bridgetown 110,000 39.06%
166  Maldives Malé 103,693 30.05%
167  Bhutan Thimphu 101,259 [68] 13.43%
168  Equatorial Guinea Malabo 100,677 [70] 13.30%
169  New Caledonia (France) Nouméa 89,207[71] ---
170  Northern Cyprus Nicosia (north) 84,893 ---
171  Fiji Suva 84,410[71] 9.58%
172  Swaziland Mbabane 81,594 6.53%
173  Luxembourg Luxembourg 76,420[72] 14.07%
174  Saint Lucia Castries 70,000[73] 38.40%
175  Northern Mariana Islands (USA) Saipan 62,392 (2000)[74] ---
176  Comoros Moroni 60,200 8.19%
177  Solomon Islands Honiara 59,288[71] 10.56%
178  East Timor Dili 59,069 5.01%
179  São Tomé and Príncipe Sao Tome 56,166 29.10%
180  American Samoa (USA) Pago Pago 52,000 (2003)[75] ---
181  Trinidad and Tobago Port of Spain 50,479 3.76%
182  Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Stepanakert 49,986 ---
183  Curaçao (Netherlands) Willemstad 49,885 [76] ---
184  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Kingstown 40,020 36.59%
185  Samoa Apia 39,813[77] 20.91%
186  Vanuatu Port Vila 38,000 [78] 15.03%
187  Monaco Monaco 35,986 (2011 est.)[79] ---
188  Gambia Banjul 34,828 1.88%
189  Kiribati Tarawa 30,000[80] 29.31%
190  Aruba (Netherlands) Oranjestad 29,998[81] ---
191  Seychelles Victoria 29,298 32.86%
192  Gibraltar (UK) Gibraltar 29,286 ---
193  Jersey (UK) Saint Helier 28,380 ---
194  Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan 28,135 6.73%
195  Cayman Islands (UK) George Town 26,798 ---
196  Isle of Man (UK) Douglas 26,600 ---
197  French Polynesia (France) Papeete 26,200 [82] ---
198  West Bank (Israel/PNA) Ramallah (de facto) 25,500[83] ---
199  Marshall Islands Majuro 25,400 48.26%
200  Andorra Andorra la Vella 22,884 28.89%
201  Antigua and Barbuda St. John's 22,679[84] 25.20
202  Tonga Nukuʻalofa 22,400 21.27%
203  Faroe Islands (Denmark) Tórshavn 18,573 [85] ---
204  Guernsey (UK) St. Peter Port 16,701 ---
205  Belize Belmopan 16,451[86] 4.96%
206  Greenland Nuuk (Godthåb) 15,469 ---
207  Dominica Roseau 14,847 [87] 20.62%
208  Saint Kitts and Nevis Basseterre 13,043 24.07%
209  Åland (Finland) Mariehamn 11,296 [53] ---
210  United States Virgin Islands (US) Charlotte Amalie 10,817 ---
211  Federated States of Micronesia Palikir 9,900 9.56%
212  British Virgin Islands (UK) Road Town 9,400 ---
213  Grenada St. George's 7,500 7.08%
214  Malta Valletta 6,675[88] 2013 1.58%
215  Collectivity of Saint Martin (France) Marigot 5,700 ---
216  Saint Pierre and Miquelon (France) Saint-Pierre 5,509 ---
217  Cook Islands (NZ) Avarua 5,445 ---
218  Liechtenstein Vaduz 5,248 14.21%
219  San Marino City of San Marino 4,493 ---
220  Tuvalu Funafuti 4,492 45.48%
221  Turks and Caicos Islands (UK) Cockburn Town 3,700 ---
222  Saint Barthélemy (France) Gustavia 6,000 ---
223  Falkland Islands (UK) Stanley 2,115 [89] ---
224  Svalbard (Norway) Longyearbyen 2,075 ---
225  Christmas Island (Australia) Flying Fish Cove 1,493 [90] ---
226  Sint Maarten (Netherlands) Philipsburg 1,338 ---
227  Wallis and Futuna (France) Mata-Utu 1,191 ---
228  Anguilla (UK) The Valley 1,169 ---
229  Nauru Yaren (de facto) 1,100[91] 10.91%
230  Guam (USA) Hagåtña 1,100 ---
231  Montserrat (UK) Brades (de facto) 391 ---
232  Bermuda (UK) Hamilton 969 ---
233  Norfolk Island (Australia) Kingston 880 [92] ---
234  Holy See The Vatican 826 (2009 est.)[93] ---
235  Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (UK) Jamestown 714 ---
236  Niue (NZ) Alofi 616 ---
237  Tokelau (NZ) Nukunonu (de facto) 426 ---
238  Palau Ngerulmud 391 1.87%
239  Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Australia) West Island 120 ---
240  Pitcairn Islands (UK) Adamstown 45 ---
241  South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (UK) King Edward Point 18 ---

See also

Notes and references

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