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List of national capitals by area

This is a list of national capitals, ordered according to total area. Capitals of dependent territories and disputed territories are marked in italics. The area of the capital city only includes the area occupied by the city and not the wider urban/metropolitan district or administrative division created solely for the city.

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Rank Country/Territory Capital Area
(km2) (sq mi)
1   Turkey Ankara 24,521 9,468
2   People's Republic of China Beijing[1] 16,410.5 6,336
3   Myanmar (Burma) Naypyidaw[2] 7,054 2,724
4   Brazil Brasília 5,802 2,240
5   Namibia Windhoek 5,133 1,982
6   Mongolia Ulaanbaatar 4,704.4 1,816.3
7   Vietnam Hà Nội 3,358.6 1,296.8
8   North Korea Pyongyang 3,194 1,233
9   Egypt Cairo 3,085.12 1,191.17
10   Canada Ottawa 2,970.30 1,077.34
11   Hong Kong (China) Central 2,754.97 2,754.97
11   Peru Lima 2,672.3 1,031.8
12   Tanzania[3] Dodoma (official and legislative capital) 2,576 995
13   Russia Moscow 2,511 970
14   Japan Tokyo 2,194.07[4] 847.14[4]
15   Azerbaijan Baku 2,140 830
18   Côte d'Ivoire[3] Abidjan (de facto) 2,119 818
19   Côte d'Ivoire Yamoussoukro 2,075 801
20   Saudi Arabia Riyadh 1,973 76
21   Bolivia[3] Sucre (constitutional and judicial capital) 1,768 683
22   Jordan Amman 1,680 650
23   United Kingdom London 1,572 607
24   Thailand Bangkok 1,568.737 605.693
25   Libya Tripoli 1,507 582
26   Honduras[3] Tegucigalpa (de facto and official constitutional capital) and Comayagüela (official constitutional capital) 1,502 v580
27   Tanzania[3] Dar es Salaam (de facto and jurisdictional capital) 1,493 576
28   Mexico Mexico City 1,485 573
29   Italy Rome 1,285 496.3
2   Sudan Khartoum 1,010 390
24   Colombia Bogotá 307.36 118.67
31   Iran Tehran 615 237
32   Mauritania Nouakchott 401 155
33   United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi 972 375
34   Zimbabwe Harare 960.6 370.9
35   Montenegro Cetinje (seat of President of Montenegro) 910 910
36   Germany Berlin 891.7 344.3
37   Ukraine Kyiv 780 300
38   Australia Canberra 814.2 314.4
39   Kazakhstan Astana 722 278.8
41   Yemen[3] Aden (temporary capital)[5] 760 290
42   Rwanda Kigali 730 281.8
43   Cuba Havana 728.26 281.18
44   Malawi Lilongwe 727.79 281.00
45   Singapore Central Area 17.84 6.89
46   Finland Helsinki 715.48 276.25
47   Nigeria Abuja 713 275
48   Kenya Nairobi 696 269
49   Greenland (Denmark) Nuuk 690 265
50   South Africa[3] Pretoria (administrative and executive capital) 687.54 265.46
51   Cambodia Phnom Penh 679 262
52   Iraq Baghdad 673 260
53   Indonesia Jakarta 662.3 255.7
54   Chile[3] Santiago (official) 641 247.6
55   Croatia Zagreb 641 247.6
56   South Korea Seoul 605.21 233.67
57   Spain Madrid 604.31 233.33
58   Democratic Republic of the Congo Kinshasa 600 200
59   Ethiopia Addis Ababa 527 203
60   Hungary Budapest 525.2 202.8
61   Kosovo Prishtina 523.13 201.98
62   Poland Warsaw 517.24 199.71
63   Georgia Tbilisi 504.2 194.7
64   Kiribati South Tarawa 15.76 6.08
65   Czech Republic Prague 496 192
66   Bulgaria Sofia 492 189
67   Norway Oslo 480.75 185.62
68   Jamaica Kingston 22.7 8.8
69   Bolivia[3] La Paz (seat of national executive, legislative and electoral bodies) 216 83
70   Guinea Conakry 190 73
71   New Zealand Wellington 289.91 111.93
72   Turkmenistan Ashgabat 834 322
73   Venezuela Caracas 433 167
74   Zambia Lusaka 360 140
75   Austria Vienna 414.78 160.15
76   Belarus Minsk 409.5 158.1
77   Chile Valparaíso (seat of national legislature) 47.33 18.27
78   Lithuania Vilnius 401 155
79   South Africa[3] Cape Town (legislative capital) 400.28 154.55
80   Ecuador Quito 372.39 143.78
81   Slovakia Bratislava 367.584 141.925
82   Algeria Algiers 363 140
83   Serbia Belgrade 359.9 139.0
84   Mozambique Maputo 347.69 134.24
85   North Macedonia Skopje 337.80 130.43
86   Uzbekistan Tashkent 334.8 129.3
87   Latvia Riga 304[6] 117.375[citation needed]
88   Bangladesh Dhaka 305.47 117.94
89   Afghanistan Kabul 1,028.24 397.01
90   Panama Panama City 275 106
91   Oman Muscat 273.9 105.8
92   Iceland Reykjavík 273 105
93   Republic of China Taipei 271.80 104.94
94   Nicaragua Managua 267.17 103.15
  Scotland (United Kingdom) Edinburgh 264 102
95   Republic of the Congo Brazzaville 263.9 101.9
96   Mali Bamako 245.0 94.6
97   Malaysia[3] Kuala Lumpur (official, royal capital, seat of national legislature) 243 94
98   Papua New Guinea Port Moresby 240 92.66
99   Niger Niamey 239.30 92.39
100   Romania Bucharest 238 92
101   South Africa Bloemfontein (judicial capital) 236.17 91.19
102   Armenia Yerevan 223 86
103   Pakistan Islamabad 220.15 85
104   Guatemala Guatemala City 219.9 84.9
105   Netherlands Amsterdam (de jure capital under the Constitution of the Netherlands) 219.32 84.68
106   Tunisia Tunis 212.63 82.10
107   Bahamas Nassau 207 80
108   Argentina Buenos Aires 203 78
109   Uruguay Montevideo 201 77.5
110   Kuwait Kuwait City 130 50
111   Puerto Rico (United States) San Juan 199 77.0
112   Liberia Monrovia 20 7.7
113   Uganda Kampala 189[citation needed] 73[citation needed]
114   Sweden Stockholm 188 72.5
115   Suriname Paramaribo 182 70.27
116   Cameroon Yaoundé 180[citation needed] 70[citation needed]
117   Denmark Copenhagen 179.8 69.4
118   United States Washington, D.C. 177.0 68.34
119   Ghana Accra 173[citation needed] 67[citation needed]
120   Faroe Islands (Denmark) Tórshavn 172.9 66.8
121   Kyrgyzstan Bishkek 169.9 65.6
122   Botswana Gaborone 169 65
123   Slovenia Ljubljana 163.8 63.2
124   Estonia Tallinn 159.2 61.5
125   Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo 141.5 54.6
126   Lesotho Maseru 138 53
127   Qatar Doha 132 51
128   Lao People's Democratic Republic Vientiane 130[citation needed] 50[citation needed]
129   Yemen[3] Sana'a (official capital, under the control of the Houthis)[5] 126 49
130   Israel Jerusalem[7][8] 125.126 48.323
131   Tajikistan Dushanbe 124.6 48.1
132   Samoa Apia 60 23
133   Moldova Chișinău 123 47
134   Morocco Rabat 117[citation needed] 45.17[citation needed]
135   Paraguay Asunción 117 45.17
136   Angola Luanda 116 45
137   Northern Mariana Islands (United States) Saipan 115.4 44.55
138   Macau (China) Macau 118 45.560055
139   Ireland Dublin 117.8 45.5
140   Benin[3] Porto-Novo (official and legislative capital) 110[citation needed] 42.47[citation needed]
141   Montenegro[3] Podgorica (official capital) 108 42
142   France Paris 105.4 40.7
143   Syria Damascus 105 40.5
144   Dominican Republic Santo Domingo 104.44 40.32
145   Chad N'Djamena 104[citation needed] 40[citation needed]
146   Cabo Verde Praia 42.5 16.4
147   Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan 100.36 38.75
148   Portugal Lisbon 100.05 38.63
149   Togo Lomé 99.14[citation needed] 38.28[citation needed]
150   Netherlands[3] The Hague (seat of government) 98.12 37.88
151   Northern Cyprus North Nicosia 92.8 35.8
152   Somalia Mogadishu 204[citation needed] 78.7[citation needed]
153   Madagascar Antananarivo 88[citation needed] 34[citation needed]
154   Senegal Dakar 83 32
155   eSwatini[3] Mbabane (administrative capital) 81.76 31.57
156   Sierra Leone Freetown 81.48 31.46
157   Benin Cotonou (de facto and judicial capital) 79[citation needed] 30.5[citation needed]
158   Saint Lucia Castries 79[citation needed] 30.5[citation needed]
159   Guinea-Bissau Bissau 77.5 29.9
160   El Salvador San Salvador 72.25[citation needed] 27.90[citation needed]
161   Guyana Georgetown 70[citation needed] 27.02[citation needed]
162   Central African Republic Bangui 67 26
163   Gabon Libreville 65.42[citation needed] 25.26[citation needed]
164   Transnistria Tiraspol 55.56[citation needed] 21.45[citation needed]
165   South Sudan Juba 52[citation needed] 20[citation needed]
166   Switzerland[9] Berne (de facto) 51.62 19.93
167   Luxembourg Luxembourg City 51.46 19.87
168   Cyprus Nicosia 51.06 19.71
169   Nepal Kathmandu 49.45 19.09
170   Malaysia[3] Putrajaya (administrative and judicial capital) 49 19
171   East Timor Dili 48.27[citation needed] 18.64[citation needed]
172   Mauritius Port Louis 46.7 18.0
173   Niue (New Zealand) Alofi 46.48[citation needed] 17.95[citation needed]
174   New Caledonia (France) Nouméa 45.7[citation needed] 17.6[citation needed]
175   Eritrea Asmara 45[citation needed] 17.37[citation needed]
176   Costa Rica San José 44.62 17.23
177   Philippines Manila 42.88 16.56
29   India New Delhi 42.7 16.5
179   Albania Tirana 41.8 16.1
180   Barbados Bridgetown 40[citation needed] 15.444[citation needed]
181   Greece Athens 38.964 15.044
182   Sri Lanka[3] Colombo (executive and judicial capital) 37.31 14.41
183   Haiti Port-au-Prince 36.04 13.92
184   Belize Belmopan 32.78 12.66
185   Belgium Brussels 32.61 12.59
186   Bahrain Manama 30[citation needed] 11.58[citation needed]
187   Comoros Moroni 30[citation needed] 11.58[citation needed]
188   Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Stepanakert 29.12 11.24
189   Cayman Islands (United Kingdom) George Town 29[citation needed] 11[citation needed]
190   Fiji Suva 26.24
191   Bhutan Thimphu 26.1[citation needed] 10.1[citation needed]
192   Djibouti Djibouti City 26[citation needed] 10[citation needed]
193   Saint Pierre and Miquelon (France) Saint Pierre 25[citation needed] 9.65[citation needed]
194   Vanuatu Port Vila 23.6[citation needed] 9.1[citation needed]
195   Burundi Gitega 22[citation needed] 8.49[citation needed]
196   Solomon Islands Honiara 22 8.49
197   Equatorial Guinea Malabo 21[citation needed] 8.10[citation needed]
198   Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic[3] El Aaiún (declared capital) 21[citation needed] 8.10[citation needed]
199   Åland (Finland) Mariehamn 20.75[citation needed] 8.01[citation needed]
200   Seychelles Victoria 20.1[citation needed] 7.8[citation needed]
201   Lebanon Beirut 19.8 7.6
202   French Polynesia (France) Papeete 17.4 6.718
203   Turks and Caicos Islands (United Kingdom) Cockburn Town 17.39 6.71
204   Liechtenstein Vaduz 17.3 6.7
205   São Tomé and Príncipe São Tomé 17[citation needed] 6.56[citation needed]
206   Sri Lanka[3] Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (legislative capital) 17[citation needed] 6.56[citation needed]
207   Palestine Ramallah (de facto) 16.3 6.3
208   Andorra Andorra la Vella 12 5
209   The Gambia Banjul 12[citation needed] 5[citation needed]
210   Trinidad and Tobago Port of Spain 12 5
211   Jersey (United Kingdom) Saint Helier 10.6 4.1
212   Antigua and Barbuda Saint John's 10 4
213   Marshall Islands Majuro 9.7 3.7
214   San Marino City of San Marino 7.09 2.74
215   Gibraltar (United Kingdom) Gibraltar 6.7 2.6
216   Guernsey (United Kingdom) Saint Peter Port 6.5 2.5
217   Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Australia) West Island 6.23 2.41
218   Saint Kitts and Nevis Basseterre 6.1 2.35
219   Pitcairn Islands (United Kingdom) Adamstown 4.6 1.8
220   Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom) Jamestown 3.6 1.4
221   Saint Barthélemy (France) Gustavia 3.4 1.3
222   United States Virgin Islands (United States) Charlotte Amalie 3.14 1.213
223   Guam (United States) Hagåtña 3 1.15
224   Falkland Islands (United Kingdom) Stanley 2.5 1.0
225   Tuvalu Funafuti 2.4 0.9
226   Monaco Monaco 2.1 0.81
227   Maldives Malé 1.95 0.75
228   Nauru Yaren (de facto)[10] 1.5 0.6
229   Bermuda (United Kingdom) Hamilton 0.7 0.28
230   Malta Valletta 0.61 0.24
231   Vatican City Vatican City 0.44 0.17
232   American Samoa (United States) Pago Pago 2.09 n/a
233   Anguilla (United Kingdom) The Valley 1.5 0.6
234   Aruba (Netherlands) Oranjestad 30 11
235   British Virgin Islands (United Kingdom) Road Town 7.17 n/a
236   Christmas Island (Australia) Flying Fish Cove 17 6.6
237   Collectivity of Saint Martin (France) Marigot 2 0.8
238   Cook Islands (New Zealand) Avarua 12 4.6
239   Dominica Roseau 12 4.6
240   Eswatini[3] Lobamba (legislative and royal capital) 34 13.1
241   Federated States of Micronesia Palikir 7 2.7
242   Grenada Saint George's 1.8 0.7
243   Isle of Man (United Kingdom) Douglas 4 1.5
244   Montserrat (United Kingdom)[3] Brades (de facto)[11] 0.36 0.14
245   Norfolk Island (Australia) Kingston (de facto) 2.3 0.89
246   Palau Ngerulmud 0.5 0.2
247   Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic[3] Tifariti (temporary capital) 0.47[12] n/a
248   Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Kingstown 2.5 0.97
249   Sint Maarten (Netherlands) Philipsburg 2.65 1.02
250   South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (United Kingdom) King Edward Point 1.4 0.54
251   Svalbard and Jan Mayen (Norway) Longyearbyen 4.9 1.9
252   Tonga Nuku'alofa 17.6 6.8
253   Wallis and Futuna (France) Mata Utu 2.5 0.97

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  1. ^ "Doing Business in China – Survey". Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China. Archived from the original on 26 May 2014. Retrieved 5 August 2013.
  2. ^ "Burma's new capital stages parade". BBC News. 2006-03-27. Retrieved 2006-06-24.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w One of the few countries with more than 1 capital. See more.
  4. ^ a b The city of Tokyo includes the entire of the prefecture of Tokyo, without including the Greater Tokyo Metropolis.
  5. ^ a b The official capital of Yemen is Sana'a. However, due to the Yemeni Civil War, its temporary capital is Aden.
  6. ^ "Reģionu, novadu, pilsētu un pagastu kopējā un sauszemes platība gada sākumā 2022 - 2024". Oficiālās statistikas portāls (in Latvian). Retrieved 2024-08-29.
  7. ^ The Jerusalem Law states that "Jerusalem, complete and united, is the capital of Israel" and the city serves as the seat of the government, home to the President's residence, government offices, supreme court, and parliament. The United Nations and most countries do not accept the Jerusalem Law (see Kellerman 1993, p. 140) and maintain their embassies in other cities such as Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan, and Herzliya (see the CIA Factbook and Map of Israel) The Palestinian Authority sees East Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state and the city's final status awaits future negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (see "Negotiating Jerusalem", University of Maryland Archived 2006-05-14 at the Wayback Machine). See Positions on Jerusalem for more information.
  8. ^ Figures do not include East Jerusalem, disputed with the State of Palestine.
  9. ^ Switzerland has no de jure capital. Bern is referred to as "federal city" (German: Bundesstadt, French: ville fédérale, Italian: città federale). Swiss law does not designate a capital as such, but the federal parliament and government are located in Bern, while the federal courts are located in other cities.
  10. ^ Nauru has no de jure capital. Yaren District contains most of Nauru's government and administrative buildings.
  11. ^ The official and de jure capital is Plymouth. However, due to the eruption of Soufrière Hills, a volcano, Plymouth was destroyed and the de facto capital and main administration is in Brades.
  12. ^ "Citation Needed", Retcon Game, University Press of Mississippi, 2017-04-03, doi:10.14325/mississippi/9781496811325.003.0047, ISBN 978-1-4968-1132-5, retrieved 2024-07-13

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