List of national capitals by area

Last updated February 24, 2025

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.

List

Rank	Country/Territory	Capital	Area
Rank	Country/Territory	Capital	(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	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	580
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

References

↑ "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.
↑ "Burma's new capital stages parade". BBC News. 2006-03-27. Retrieved 2006-06-24.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 One of the few countries with more than 1 capital. See more.
1 2 The city of Tokyo includes the entire of the prefecture of Tokyo, without including the Greater Tokyo Metropolis.
1 2 The official capital of Yemen is Sana'a. However, due to the Yemeni Civil War, its temporary capital is Aden.
↑ "Reģionu, novadu, pilsētu un pagastu kopējā un sauszemes platība gada sākumā 2022 - 2024". Oficiālās statistikas portāls (in Latvian). Retrieved 2024-08-29.
↑ 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.
↑ Figures do not include East Jerusalem, disputed with the State of Palestine.
↑ 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.
↑ Nauru has no de jure capital. Yaren District contains most of Nauru's government and administrative buildings.
↑ 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.
↑ "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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[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.

[:1-3] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 One of the few countries with more than 1 capital. See more.

[:0-4] 1 2 The city of Tokyo includes the entire of the prefecture of Tokyo, without including the Greater Tokyo Metropolis.

[:2-5] 1 2 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.

[:3-11] 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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