List of countries by continent
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The below list contains both states and dependent territories, see country, state, nation state for some explanation of the difference between these.
Countries listed by continent and their capitals:
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Africa
- Algeria (Al - Jaza'ir) - Algiers
- Angola - Luanda
- Benin - Porto Novo, Cotonou
- Botswana - Gaborone
- Burundi - Bujumbura
- Burkina Faso - Ouagadougou
- Cameroon (also spelled Cameroun) - Yaounde
- Central African Republic (Centrafrique)- Bangui
- Chad (Tchad) - N'Djamena
- Comoros - Moroni
- Republic of the Congo - Brazzaville
- Democratic Republic of the Congo - Kinshasa
- Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)- Yamoussoukro
- Djibouti - Djibouti
- Egypt (Misr) - Cairo
- Equatorial Guinea - Malabo
- Eritrea - Asmara
- Ethiopia (Itiopia) - Addis Ababa
- Gabon - Libreville
- The Gambia - Banjul
- Ghana - Accra
- Guinea - Conakry
- Guinea-Bissau - Bissau
- Kenya - Nairobi
- Lesotho - Maseru
- Liberia - Monrovia
- Libya - Tripoli
- Madagascar - Antananarivo
- Malawi - Lilongwe
- Mali - Bamako
- Mauritania - Nouakchott
- Mauritius - Port Louis
- Morocco (Al Maghrib) - Rabat
- Mozambique - Maputo
- Namibia - Windhoek
- Niger - Niamey
- Nigeria - Abuja
- Rwanda - Kigali
- Sao Tome and Principe - Sao Tome
- Senegal - Dakar
- Seychelles - Victoria, Seychelles
- Sierra Leone - Freetown
- Somalia - Mogadishu
- South Africa - Cape Town, Pretoria, Bloemfontein
- Sudan - Khartoum
- Swaziland - Mbabane
- Tanzania - Dar es Salaam, Dodoma
- Togo - Lome
- Tunisia - Tunis
- Uganda - Kampala
- Western Sahara *DISPUTED* - La'youn
- Zambia - Lusaka
- Zimbabwe - Harare
Asia
- Afghanistan - Kabul
- Armenia - Yerevan
- Azerbaijan - Baku
- Bahrain - Manama
- Bangladesh - Dhaka
- Bhutan - Thimphu
- Brunei - Bandar Seri Begawan
- Cambodia (Kampuchea) - Phnom Penh
- China, People's Republic of - Beijing
- China, Republic of (a.k.a. Taiwan) - Taipei
- East Timor(Timor Leste) - Dili
- Georgia (Sakartvelo) - Tbilisi
- India (Hindu: Bharat) - New Delhi
- Indonesia - Jakarta
- Iran - Teheran
- Iraq - Bagdad
- Israel (Yisra'el) - Jerusalem (disputed)
- Japan (Nihon) - Tokyo
- Jordan (Al Urdun) - Amman
- Kazakhstan - Astana
- Kuwait - Kuwait City
- Kyrgyzstan - Bishkek
- Laos - Vientiane
- Lebanon (Lubnan) - Beirut
- Malaysia - Kuala Lumpur
- Maldives - Male
- Mongolia - Ulan Bator
- Myanmar (Burma) - Yangon
- Nepal - Kathmandu
- North Korea - Pyongyang
- Oman - Muscat
- Pakistan - Islamabad
- Philippines (Pilipinas) - Manila
- Qatar - Doha
- Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
- Singapore - Singapore
- South Korea - Seoul
- Sri Lanka - Colombo, Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
- Syria - Damascus
- Tajikistan - Dushanbe
- Thailand (Muang Thai) - Bangkok
- Turkey - Ankara
- Turkmenistan - Ashgabat
- United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
- Uzbekistan - Tashkent
- Vietnam - Hanoi
- Yemen - Sana
Europe
- Albania (Shqipëria) - Tirana
- Andorra - Andorra la Vella
- Austria (Österreich) - Vienna
- Belarus - Minsk
- Belgium - Brussels
- Bosnia Herzegovina - Sarajevo
- Bulgaria - Sofia
- Croatia (Hrvatska) - Zagreb
- Cyprus (Kupros) - Nicosia
- Czech Republic - Prague
- Denmark (Danmark) - Copenhagen
- Estonia (Eesti) - Tallinn
- Finland (Suomi) - Helsinki
- France - Paris
- Germany (Deutschland) - Berlin
- Greece (Hellas) - Athens
- Hungary (Magyar Republic) - Budapest
- Iceland (Island) - Reykjavik
- Republic of Ireland (Eire) - Dublin
- Italy (Italia) - Rome
- Latvia - Riga
- Liechtenstein - Vaduz
- Lithuania - Vilnius
- Luxembourg - Luxembourg City
- Republic of Macedonia -- Skopje
- Malta - Valletta
- Moldova - Chisinau
- Monaco - Monaco
- Montenegro - Podgorica
- Netherlands (Nederland) - Amsterdam (Capital), The Hague (Location of Government)
- Norway (Norge) - Oslo
- Poland (Polska) - Warsaw
- Portugal - Lisbon
- Romania (România) - Bucharest
- Russia (Россия) - Moscow
- San Marino - San Marino
- Serbia - Belgrade
- Slovakia - Bratislava
- Slovenia (Slovenija) - Ljubljana
- Spain (España) - Madrid
- Sweden (Sverige) - Stockholm
- Switzerland - Bern
- Turkey - Ankara
- Ukraine - Kiev
- United Kingdom - London
- Vatican City - none
North and Central America
- Antigua and Barbuda - St. Johns
- Bahamas - Nassau
- Barbados - Bridgetown
- Belize - Belmopan
- Canada - Ottawa
- Costa Rica - San José
- Cuba - Havana
- Dominica - Roseau
- Dominican Republic (Republica Dominicana) - Santo Domingo
- El Salvador - San Salvador
- Grenada - St Georges
- Guatemala - Guatemala
- Haiti - Port-au-Prince
- Honduras - Tegucigalpa
- Jamaica - Kingston, Jamaica
- Mexico (México) - Mexico City
- Nicaragua - Managua
- Panama (Panamá) - Panama City
- Puerto Rico - San Juan
- Saint Kitts and Nevis - Basseterre
- Saint Lucia - Castries
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Kingstown
- Trinidad and Tobago - Port of Spain
- United States - Washington DC
Oceania
- Australia - Canberra
- Federated States of Micronesia - Palikir
- Fiji - Suva
- Kiribati - Tarawa
- Marshall Islands - Majuro
- Nauru - none
- New Zealand (Aotearoa) - Wellington
- Palau - Koror
- Papua New Guinea - Port Moresby
- Samoa - Apia
- Solomon Islands - Honiara
- Tonga - Nuku'alofa
- Tuvalu - Funafuti
- Vanuatu - Port Vila
South America
- Argentina - Buenos Aires
- Bolivia - La Paz, Sucre
- Brazil (Brasil) - Brasilia
- Chile - Santiago
- Colombia - Bogota
- Ecuador - Quito
- French Guiana - Cayenne (part of France)
- Guyana - Georgetown
- Paraguay - Asuncion
- Peru - Lima
- Suriname - Paramaribo
- Uruguay - Montevideo
- Venezuela - Caracas
