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List of countries and capitals in native languages

The following chart lists the countries of the world, along with their capital cities, in English as well as in the country's native language (when different).

Notes:


Country (English) Capital (English) Country (Native) Capital (Native) Official Language(s) (Alphabet/Script)
Abkhazia Sukhumi Apsny
Апсны
Abkhaziya or Abhaziâ
Абха́зия
Sukhumi
???
Sukhumi
Сухуми
Abkhaz
(Cyrillic alphabet)
Russian
(Cyrillic alphabet)
Afghanistan Kabul Afghanestan
افغانستان
Kabul
???
Pashtu (Afghan), Dari (Persian)
(Arabic script)
Albania Tirana Shqipëria Tiranë Albanian
Algeria Algiers Al-Jazā'ir
الجمهورية الجزائرية
El-Jezair
الجزائر
Arabic
(Arabic script)
Åland Islands Mariehamn Åland Mariehamn Swedish
American Samoa Pago Pago Samoa
American Samoa
Pago Pago
Pago Pago
Samoan
English
Angola Luanda Portuguese
Anguilla The Valley English
Antigua and Barbuda Saint John's English
Argentina Buenos Aires Argentina Ciudad de Buenos Aires Spanish
Armenia Yerevan Hayastán
Հայաստան
Yerevan
Երևան
Armenian
(Armenian alphabet)
Aruba Oranjestad Dutch
Australia Canberra English
Austria Vienna Österreich Wien German
Azerbaijan Baku Azərbaycan
Азәрбајҹан
Bakı
Баку
Azeri
(Cyrillic alphabet)
Bahamas Nassau English
Bahrain Manama Al-Bahrayn
البحرين
Al-Manāmah
???
Arabic
(Arabic script)
Bangladesh Dhaka Bānglādesh
বাংলাদেশ
Dhaka
ধাক
Bengali
(Bengali script)
Barbados Bridgetown English
Belarus Minsk Belarus’
Белару́сь
Biełaruś
Belorussiya or Belorussiâ
Белору́ссия
Mensk or Minsk
Менск or Мінск
Miensk
Minsk
Минск
Belarusian
(Cyrillic alphabet)
(Latin Belarusian Alphabet)
Russian
(Cyrillic alphabet)
Belgium Brussels België
Belgique
Belgien
Brussel
Bruxelles
Brüssel
Dutch
French
German
Belize Belmopan English
Benin Porto-Novo Bénin Porto-Novo French
Bermuda Hamilton English
Bhutan Thimphu Druk Yul Thimphu Dzongkha
Bolivia La Paz Spanish
Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo Bosna i Hercegovina
Босна и Херцеговина
Sarajevo
Сарајево
Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian
(Cyrillic alphabet)
Botswana Gaborone English
Brazil Brasilia Portuguese
British Virgin Islands Road Town English
Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan Brunei
دار
Bandar Seri Begawan
???
Malay
(Jawi script)
Bulgaria Sofia Bulgariya or Bălgarija
България
Sofiya or Sofija
София1
Bulgarian1
(Cyrillic alphabet)
Burkina Faso Ouagadougou French
Burundi Bujumbura Kirundi
Cambodia Phnom Penh Kampuchea Phnom Penh Cambodian
Cameroon Yaoundé Cameroun
Cameroon
Yaoundé
Yaoundé
French
English
Canada Ottawa English
French
Cape Verde Praia Cabo Verde Praia Portuguese
Cayman Islands George Town English
Central African Republic Bangui République Centrafricaine Bangui French
Chad N'Djamena Tchad Ndjamena French
Chile Santiago Spanish
China Beijing Zhōnggúo
中国
Běijīng
北京
Chinese
(Jiantizi)
Christmas Island The Settlement English
Cocos Islands West Island English
Colombia Bogotá Spanish
Comoros Moroni Komori
Comoros
???
Comores
Moroni
Moroni
???
Moroni
Shikomor
Arabic
(Arabic script)
French
Congo-Brazzaville Brazzaville Congo Brazzaville French
Congo-Kinshasa Kinshasa Congo Kinshasa French
Cook Islands Avarua English
Costa Rica San José Spanish
Côte d'Ivoire Yamoussoukro French
Croatia Zagreb Hrvatska Zagreb Croatian
Cuba Havana Cuba La Habana Spanish
Cyprus Nicosia Kypros
Κυπρος
Kıbrıs
Levkòsia
Λευκωσία
Lefkoşa
Greek
(Greek alphabet)
Turkish
Czech Republic Prague Česko Praha Czech
Denmark Copenhagen Danmark København Danish
Djibouti Djibouti Jibuti
جيبوتي
Djibouti
Jibuti
جيبوتي
Djibouti
Arabic
(Arabic script)
French
Dominica Roseau English
Dominican Republic Santo Domingo República Dominicana Santo Domingo Spanish
East Timor Díli Timor Lorosa'e
Timor-Leste
Díli
Díli
Tetum
Portuguese
Ecuador Quito Spanish
Egypt Cairo Mişr or Maşr
مصر
Al-Qāhirah
القاهرة
Arabic
(Arabic script)
El Salvador San Salvador Spanish
Equatorial Guinea Malabo Guinea Ecuatorial Malabo Spanish
Eritrea Asmara Ertra
???
Asmara
???
Tigrignan
Arabic
Estonia Tallinn Eesti Tallinn Estonian
Ethiopia Addis Ababa Ityop'ia Addis Ababa Amharic
Falkland Islands Port Stanley English
Faröe Islands Tórshavn Føroyar Tórshavn Faroese
Fiji Suva English, Fijian, Hindustani
Finland Helsinki Suomi
Finland
Helsinki
Helsingfors
Finnish
Swedish
France Paris French
French Guiana Cayenne Guyane Cayenne French
French Polynesia Papeete Polynesie Papeete French
Gabon Libreville French
Gambia Banjul English
Georgia T'bilisi Sak'art'velo
საქართველო
T'bilisi
თბილისი
Georgian
(Georgian alphabet)
Germany Berlin Deutschland Berlin German
Ghana Accra English
Gibraltar English
Greece Athens Hellás
Έλλάς
Athína
Αθήνα
Greek
(Greek alphabet)
Greenland Nuuk Kalaallit Nunaat
Grønland
Nuuk
Godthåb
Greenlandic
Danish
Grenada Saint George's English
Guadeloupe Basse-Terre French
Guam Hagåtña English
Guatemala Guatemala City Guatemala La Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción Spanish
Guernsey St Peter Port English
Guinea Conakry Guinée Konakry French
Guinea-Bissau Bissau Guiné-Bissau Bissau Portuguese
Guyana Georgetown English
Haiti Port-au-Prince French
Honduras Tegucigalpa Spanish
Hungary Budapest Magyarország Budapest Hungarian
Iceland Reykjavík Ísland Reykjavík None, Icelandic is de facto
India New Delhi India
Bharat
भारत
New Delhi
???
???
English
Hindi
(Devanagari script)
Indonesia Jakarta Indonesian
Iran Tehran Irân
جمهور
Tehrãn
تهران / طهران
Persian
(Arabic script)
Iraq Baghdad Al-'Iraq
الجمهورية
Baghdad
بغداد
Arabic
(Arabic script)
Ireland Dublin Éire
Ireland
Baile Átha Cliath
Dublin
Irish
English
Isle of Man Douglas Isle of Man
Ellan Vannin
Douglas
Doolish
English
Manx
Israel Jerusalem Yisra'el
ישראל
Isra'il
دولة
Yerushaláyim
ירושלים
Al-Quds
القدس
Hebrew
(Hebrew alphabet)
Arabic
(Arabic script)
Italy Rome Italia Roma Italian
Jamaica Kingston English
Japan Tokyo Nippon or Nihon
日本
Tōkyō
東京
Japanese
(Kanji)
Jersey Saint Helier Jèrri Saint Hélyi English, Jèrriais
Jordan Amman Al-'Urdun
الأردنّيّة
Ammān
عمان
Arabic
(Arabic script)
Kazakhstan Astana Qazaqstan
Қазақстан
Kazakhstán
Казахстан
Astana
???
???
???
Kazakh
(Cyrillic alphabet)
Russian language
(Cyrillic alphabet)
Kenya Nairobi English, Swahili
Kiribati South Tarawa4
English, Gilbertese
Kuwait Kuwait City Al-Kuwayt
دولة
Al-Kuwait
الكويت
Arabic
(Arabic script)
Kyrgyzstan Bishkek Kyrgyzstan
Кыргызстан
Bishkek
???
Kyrgyz, Russian
Cyrillic alphabet
Laos Vientiane Lao
ລາວ
Vientiane or Vieng Chan Lao
Lao alphabet
Latvia Riga Latvija Rīga Latvian
Lebanon Beirut Al-Lubnan
الجمهوريّة
Bayrût
بيروت
Arabic
(Arabic script)
Lesotho Maseru Sesotho, English
Liberia Monrovia English
Libya Tripoli Al-Lībīyah
الليبية
Tarabulus
???
Arabic
(Arabic script)
Liechtenstein Vaduz German
Lithuania Vilnius Lietuva Vilnius Lithuanian
Luxembourg Luxembourg Lëtzebuerg
Luxemburg
Luxembourg
Lëtzebuerg
Luxemburg
Luxembourg
Luxembourgian
German
French
Macao Macau
ou3mun2 or ou3mun4
澳門
Portuguese
Cantonese
(Hanzi)
Macedonia Skopje Makedonija
Македонија
Skopje
Скопје / Скопље
Macedonian
(Cyrillic alphabet)
Madagascar Antananarivo Madagaskar
Madagascar
Antananarivo
Antananarivo
Malagasy
French
Malawi Lilongwe English, Chichewa
Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Malay
Maldives Malé Dhivehi Raajje
ހިވެދި ގުޖޭއްރާ
Malé
???
Dhivehi
Thaana script
Mali Bamako French
Malta Valletta Malta Valletta or Il-Belt Maltese
Marshall Islands Dalap-Uliga-Darrit English
Martinique Fort-de-France French
Mauritania Nouakchott Al-Muritaniyah
الجمهورية
Nouakchott
???
French
Arabic
(Arabic script)
Mauritius Port Louis Maurice Port Louis French
Mayotte Mamoutzou Mayotte Mamoudzou French
Mexico Mexico City México Ciudad de México Spanish
Micronesia Palikir English
Moldova Chişinău Moldova Chişinău Moldovan (Romanian
Monaco Munegu French
Mongolia Ulaanbaatar Mongol Uls
Монгол Улс
Ulaanbaatar
Улаанбатаар
Mongolian
(Cyrillic alphabet)
Montserrat Brades Estate 2 English
Morocco Rabat Al-Maghrib
المملكة
Rabat Arabic
(Arabic script)
Mozambique Maputo Moçambique Maputo Portuguese
Myanmar Yangôn Myanma Burmese
Nagorno-Karabakh Stepanakert Lernayin Gharabagh
Լեռնային Ղարաբաղ
Nagorno-Karabakh
Нагорный Карабах
Stepanakert

Xankendi
Xankəndi
Albanian
(Albanian alphabet)
Azeri
(Cyrillic alphabet)
Namibia Windhoek English
Nauru no capital3 Naoero
Nauruo
English
Nauruan
Nepal Kathmandu Nepal
नेपाल
Katmandu
काठमांडौ
Nepali
Devanagari
The Netherlands Amsterdam Nederland Amsterdam Dutch
Netherlands Antilles Willemstad Nederlandse Antillen Willemstad Dutch
New Caledonia Nouméa Nouvelle-Calédonie Nouméa French
New Zealand Wellington Aotearoa Te Whanganui-a-Tara English
Maori
Nicaragua Managua Spanish
Niger Niamey French
Nigeria Abuja English
Niue Alofi Niuean, English
Norfolk Island Kingston English
North Korea P'yŏngyang Chosŏn
조선
P'yŏngyang
평양 / 平壌
Korean
(Hangul)
Northern Cyprus Nicosia Kuzey Kıbrıs Lefkoşa Turkish
Northern Mariana Islands Saipan English
Norway Oslo Norge
Noreg
Oslo
Oslo
Norwegian (Bokmål & Nynorsk)
Sami
Oman Muscat Uman
سلطنة
Masqat
مسقط
Arabic
(Arabic script)
Pakistan Islamabad Pakistan
اسلامی
Islamabad
اسلاماباد
Urdu
Arabic script
Palau Koror Belau Koror or Oreor English, Palauan
Palestine Gaza City Filastīn
فلسطين
Palestina
פלשתינה
Ġazzah
غزة
Ġazza
עזה
Arabic
(Arabic script)
Hebrew
(Hebrew alphabet)
Panama Panama City Panamá Panamá Spanish
Papua New Guinea Port Moresby Papua New Guinea
Papua Nugini
???
Port Moresby
Pot Mosbi
???
English
Tok Pisin
Hiri Motu
Paraguay Asuncion Paraguay Asunción Spanish
Peru Lima Perú Lima Spanish
Philippines Manila Pilipinas
Philippines
Maynila
Manila
Filipino
English
Pitcairn Island Adamstown English
Poland Warsaw Polska
Pol'ŝa
Polen
Warszawa
Varšava
Warschau
Polish
Ukrainian
German
Portugal Lisbon Portugal Lisboa Portuguese
Puerto Rico San Juan Spanish, English
Puntland Garowe Somali
Qatar Doha Qatar
دولة
Ad-Dawhah
الدوحة
Arabic
(Arabic script)
Reunion Saint-Denis Réunion Saint-Denis French
Romania Bucharest România Bucureşti Romanian
Russia Moscow Rossiya or Rossiâ
Россия1
Moskva
Москва
Russian
(Cyrillic alphabet)
Rwanda Kigali French, Kinyarwanda, English
Saint-Pierre and Miquelon Saint-Pierre Saint-Pierre et Miquelon Saint-Pierre French
Saint Helena Jamestown English
Saint Kitts and Nevis Basseterre English
Saint Lucia Castries English
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Kingstown English
Samoa Apia
San Marino San Marino Italian
São Tomé and Príncipe São Tomé São Tomé e Príncipe São Tomé Portuguese
Saudi Arabia Riyadh Al-Arabiyah as Sa'udiyah
المملكة العربيّة
Ar-Riyád
رياض
Arabic
(Arabic script)
Senegal Dakar Sénégal Dakar
Serbia and Montenegro Belgrade Srbija i Crna Gora
Србија и Црна Гора
Beograd
Београд
Seychelles Port Victoria Sesel
Seychelles
Seychelles
Port Victoria or Victoria Seychellois Creole
French
English
Sierra Leone Freetown English
Singapore Singapura
Singapore
Xīnjīapō
新加坡
Singapur
சிங்கப்பூர்
Malay
English
Chinese (Mandarin)
(Chinese characters)
Tamil
(Tamil script)
Slovakia Bratislava Slovensko Bratislava
Slovenia Ljubljana Slovenija Ljubljana
Solomon Islands Honiara
Somalia Mogadishu Soomaaliya Muqdisho
Somaliland Hargeisa
South Africa Pretoria South Africa
Suid Afrika
Ningizimu Afrika
Pretoria
???
???
English
Afrikaans
Zulu
South Korea Seoul Hanguk
한국, 韓國
Seoul
서울
Korean
(Hangul)
South Ossetia Tskhinvali Xussar Iryston
Хуссар Ирыстон
Tskhinval
???
Ossetian
(Cyrillic alphabet)
Spain Madrid España Madrid Spanish
Sri Lanka Colombo Sri Lankā Kola-amba-thota
Sudan Khartoum As-Sudan
السودان
Al-Khartûm
الخرطوم
Arabic
(Arabic script)
Suriname Paramaribo Dutch
Svalbard Longyearbyen Norwegian
Swaziland Mbabane
Sweden Stockholm Sverige Stockholm Swedish
Switzerland Berne Schweiz
Suisse
Svizzera
Svizra
Bern
Berne
Berna
Berna
German
French
Italian
Romansh
Syria Damascus Al-Suriyah
الجمهوريّة
Dimashq Al-Sham
دمشق
Taiwan Taipei Táiwān
台灣
Táibĕi
台北
Chinese
(Hanzi)
Tajikistan Dushanbe Tojikistan
Тоҷикистон
Dushanbe
Tanzania Dodoma
Thailand Bangkok Muang Thai, Racha-aanaachak Thai
เมืองไทย, ราชอาณาจักรไทย
Krung Thep Mahanakhon
กรุงเทพฯ, กรุงเทพมหานคร
Tibet Lhasa
བོད་
Xīzàng
西藏
Lhasa

Lāsà
拉萨
Tibetan
(Tibetan script)
Chinese
(Chinese characters)
Togo Lomé French
Tokelau
Tonga Nuku'alofa
Transnistria Tiraspol Transnistria or Transdniester
Pridnestrove
пpиднecтpoвe
 ???
Tiraspol
Тирасполь
Moldovan
Russian
(Cyrillic alphabet)
Trinidad and Tobago Port-of-Spain English
Tunisia Tunis Al-Tounisiyya
التونسية
Tunis Arabic
(Arabic script)
Turkey Ankara Türkiye Ankara
Turkmenistan Ashgabat Turkmenostan Ashkhabad
Turks and Caicos Islands Cockburn Town English
Tuvalu Fongafale(in Funafuti)
Uganda Kampala
Ukraine Kiev Ukraїna Україна Kyїv Київ / Киев / Kijów
United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi Al-Imarat Al-Arabiyah Al-Muttahidah
الإمارات العربيّة المتّحدة
Abu Zaby
أبوظبي
Arabic
(Arabic script)
United Kingdom London United Kingdom
Teyrnas Unedig
Unitit Kinrick
Rìoghachd Aonaichte
Ríocht Aontaithe
London
Llundain
Lunnon
Lunnainn

???
None, English is de facto
Welsh
Scots
Scots Gaelic

Irish
United States Washington, D.C. United States or America
Estados Unidos or América
États-Unis or Amérique
Washington
Washington
Washington
None, English is de facto
Spanish
Cajun French
Uruguay Montevideo Spanish
Uzbekistan Tashkent O'zbekiston Toshkent
Vanuatu Port Vila Vanuatu Port-Vila
Vatican City Vaticanus Latin
Venezuela Caracas Spanish
Vietnam Hanoi Viêt Nam Hà Nôi
Virgin Islands Charlotte Amalie
Wallis and Futuna Mata-Utu Wallis-et-Futuna Mata-Utu French
Western Sahara Laayoune Al-Sahrāwīyâ
العربية
El- Aaiún Arabic
(Arabic script)
Yemen Sanaá Al-Yaman
الجمهوريّة
Şan‘ā’
‫ﺻﻨﻌﺎﺀ‬
Arabic
(Arabic script)
Zambia Lusaka English
Zimbabwe Harare English

Notes

About the names in the native language

See also

Last updated: 08-26-2005 14:42:51