26/01/2005 | Capital Cities of the World with population
W.A Staff
Current population temporarily unavailable for some cities
Country, Capital City, Population Afghanistan, Kabul Albania, Tirane, 300,000 Algeria, Algiers Andorra, Andorra la Vella, 22,390 Angola, Luanda, 2,000,000 Antigua and Barbuda, St. John's, 21,514; Codrington (capital of Barbuda), est. pop. 1,000 Argentina, Buenos Aires: city 3,000,000; metro 12,000,000 Armenia, Yerevan, 1,226,000 Australia, Canberra, 307,700 Austria, Vienna, 1,600,000
Azerbaijan, Baku, 1,713,300 Bahamas, Nassau, 171,542 Bahrain, Manama, 140,401 Bangladesh, Dhaka: city 3,839,000; metro area 8,500,000 Barbados, Bridgetown, 6,700 Belarus, Minsk, 1,666,000 Belgium, Brussels, 949,070 (metro) Belize, Belmopan, 5,845 Benin, Porto-Novo (official), 177,660; Cotonou (de facto capital) 33,212 Bhutan, Thimphu 30,340
Bolivia, Sucre, 131,800; Administrative capital: La Paz, 713,400 Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, 310,000 Botswana, Gaborone, 138,000 Brazil, Brasilia, 1,800,000 Brunei, Darussalam Bandar Seri Begawan, 52,300 Bulgaria, Sofia, 1,113,674 Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou, 500,000 Burundi, Bujumbura, 300,000 Cambodia, Phnom Penh, 900,000 Cameroon, Yaounde
Canada, Ottawa, Ontario (unavailable) Cape Verde, Praia, 61,797 Central African Republic, Bangui, 706,000 Chad, N'Djamena, 529,555 Chile, Santiago, 4,601,434 China, Beijing, 12,033,000 Colombia, Bogota 1,945,448 Comoros, Moroni (on Grande Comoro), 23,432 Congo, Brazzaville, 937,580 Congo, Democratic Republic of the Kinshasa, 4,655,313
Palau, Koror, 12,299 Palestinian State, Panama, Panama City, 450,668 Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, 250,000 Paraguay, Asuncion, 502,426 Peru, Lima, city 5,681,941; metro 7,443,000 Philippines, Manila, city 1,654,761, metro 9,280,000 Poland, Warsaw, 1,642,700 Portugal, Lisbon, 677,790 Qatar, Doha, 300,000
Romania, Bucharest, 2,351,000 Russian Federation, Moscow: city 8,415,549, metro 9,299,000 Rwanda, Kigali, 232,733 St. Kitts and Nevis, Basseterre, 19,000 St. Lucia, Castries, 13,600 St. Vincent and The Grenadines, Kingstown, 15,466 Samoa, Apia, 32,859 San Marino, San Marino, 2,397 Sao Tome and Principe, Sao Tome, 43,420 Saudi Arabia, Riyadh
Senegal, Dakar, 1,729,823 Seychelles, Victoria, 25,000 Sierra Leone, Freetown, 1,300,000 Singapore, Singapore, 3,044,000 Slovakia, Bratislava, 446,600 Slovenia, Ljubljana, 330,000 Solomon Islands, Honiara, 35,288 Somalia, Mogadishu, 900,000 South Africa, (official) Pretoria, (legislative) Cape Town, (judicial) Bloemfontein Spain, Madrid, 2,947,228
Sri Lanka, Colombo, (official) 1,994,000, Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (legislative and judicial), 107,000 Sudan, Khartoum, 924,505 Suriname, Paramaribo, 200,970 Swaziland, Mbabane 47,020 Sweden, Stockholm, 703,627 Switzerland, Bern, 129,423 Syria, Damascus, 1,549,932 Taiwan, Taipei, 2,643,439 Tajikistan, Dushanbe, 524,000 Tanzania, Dar es Salaam (administrative), 1,360,850, Dodoma (official) 45,807
United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi, 363,432 United Kingdom, London, 7,007,091 United States, Washington, D.C., 606,900 Uruguay, Montevideo, 1,330,440 Uzbekistan, Tashkent, 2,106,000 Vanuatu, Port Vila, 26,100 Venezuela, Caracas Vietnam, Hanoi Western Sahara, El Aaiun, 20,010 Yemen, Sana, 1,972,011