List of national capitals by area

Last updated October 21, 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; except Ankara, which is a metropolitan municipality, so its entire metro area is within the capital city of Turkey, according to the Turkish administrative system.^[1]

List

Rank	Country/Territory	Capital	Area
Rank	Country/Territory	Capital	(km²)	(sq mi)
1	Turkey	Ankara	25,632	9,897
2	China	Beijing ^[2]	16,410.5	6,336
3	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Kinshasa	9,965	3,848
4	Myanmar	Naypyidaw ^[3]	7,054	2,724
5	Brazil	Brasília	5,802	2,240
6	Namibia	Windhoek	5,133	1,982
7	Mongolia	Ulaanbaatar	4,704.4	1,816.3
8	Laos	Vientiane	3,920	1,510
9	Oman	Muscat	3,500	1,400
10	Vietnam	Hanoi	3,358.6	1,296.8
11	Egypt	Cairo	3,085.12	1,191.17
12	Canada	Ottawa	2,970.30	1,077.34
	Hong Kong (China)	Hong Kong (Central - de facto; Victoria City – statutory)‌	2,754.97	1,063.70
13	Peru	Lima	2,672.3	1,031.8
14	Tanzania ^[4]	Dodoma (official and legislative capital)	2,576	995
15	Russia	Moscow	2,561.4	989
16	South Africa ^[4]	Cape Town (legislative capital)	2,461	950
17	Japan	Tokyo	2,194.07^[5]	847.14^[5]
18	Azerbaijan	Baku	2,140	830
19	Panama	Panama City	2,082	804
20	Ivory Coast	Yamoussoukro	2,075	801
21	Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	1,973	76
22	Bolivia ^[4]	Sucre (constitutional and judicial capital)	1,768	683
23	Jordan	Amman	1,680	650
24	Colombia	Bogotá	1587	613
25	United Kingdom	London	1,572	607
26	Thailand	Bangkok	1,568.737	605.693
27	Libya	Tripoli	1,507	582
28	Dominican Republic	Santo Domingo	1,502	580
28	Honduras ^[4]	Tegucigalpa (de facto and official constitutional capital) and Comayagüela (official constitutional capital)	1,502	580
30	Mexico	Mexico City	1,485	573
31	Nigeria	Abuja	1,476	570
32	Italy	Rome	1,287.36	497.05
33	Albania	Tirana	1,110	430
34	Mauritania	Nouakchott	1,000	400
35	Guatemala	Guatemala City	997	385
36	Zimbabwe	Harare	982.3	379.3
37	United Arab Emirates	Abu Dhabi	972	375
38	Germany	Berlin	891.3	344.1
39	Kuwait	Kuwait City	860	330
40	Ukraine	Kyiv	839	324
41	North Korea	Pyongyang	829.1	320.1
42	Australia	Canberra	814.2	314.4
43	Kazakhstan	Astana	810.2	312.8
	Yemen ^[4]	Aden (temporary capital)^[6]	760	290
44	Singapore	Singapore	735.7	284.1
45	Rwanda	Kigali	730	280
46	Cuba	Havana	728.26	281.18
47	Malawi	Lilongwe	727.79	281.00
48	Finland	Helsinki	715.48	276.25
49	Kenya	Nairobi	696.1	268.8
50	South Africa ^[4]	Pretoria (administrative and executive capital)	687.54	265.46
51	Cambodia	Phnom Penh	679	262
52	Iraq	Baghdad	673	260
53	Indonesia	Jakarta	660.982	255.207
54	Croatia	Zagreb	641.2	247.6
55	Chile ^[4]	Santiago (official)	641	247.6
56	Uzbekistan	Tashkent	631.29	243.74
57	Iran	Tehran	615	237
58	South Korea	Seoul	605.21	233.67
59	Spain	Madrid	604.31	233.33
60	Republic of the Congo	Brazzaville	588	227
61	North Macedonia	Skopje	571.46	220.64
62	Niger	Niamey	552.27	213.23
63	Ethiopia	Addis Ababa	527	203
64	Hungary	Budapest	525.2	202.8
65	Kosovo	Pristina	523.13	201.98
66	Poland	Warsaw	517.24	199.71
67	Georgia	Tbilisi	504.3	194.7
68	Bulgaria	Sofia	500	200
69	Czech Republic	Prague	496.21	191.59
70	Norway	Oslo	480	190
71	Bolivia ^[4]	La Paz (seat of national executive, legislative and electoral bodies)	472	182
72	Turkmenistan	Ashgabat	470	180
73	Guinea	Conakry	450	170
74	Venezuela	Caracas	433	167
75	Austria	Vienna	414.78	160.15
76	Belarus	Minsk	409.53	158.12
77	Lithuania	Vilnius	401	155
78	Serbia	Belgrade	389.12	150.24
79	Kyrgyzstan	Bishkek	386	149
80	Afghanistan	Kabul	381.3	147.9
81	Somalia	Mogadishu	370	140
82	Slovakia	Bratislava	367.584	141.925
83	Algeria	Algiers	363	140
84	Zambia	Lusaka	360	140
85	Mozambique	Maputo	347.69	134.24
86	Sudan	Khartoum	322.7	124.6
87	Bangladesh	Dhaka	306	118
88	Latvia	Riga	304^[7]	117.375^{[ citation needed ]}
89	New Zealand	Wellington	289.91	111.93
90	Slovenia	Ljubljana	274.99	170.87
91	Taiwan	Taipei	271.80	104.94
92	Nicaragua	Managua	267	103
	Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic ^[4]	Laayoune (declared capital)	247.8	95.68
93	Mali	Bamako	245.0	94.6
94	Iceland	Reykjavík	244	94
95	Malaysia ^[4]	Kuala Lumpur (official, royal capital, seat of national legislature)	243	94
96	Romania	Bucharest	240	92.28
97	Papua New Guinea	Port Moresby	240	90
98	South Africa	Bloemfontein (judicial capital)	236.17	91.19
99	Armenia	Yerevan	223	86
100	Pakistan	Islamabad	220.15	85
101	Netherlands	Amsterdam (de jure capital under the Constitution of the Netherlands)	219.32	84.68
102	Tunisia	Tunis	212	82
103	Argentina	Buenos Aires	205.9	79.5
104	Tajikistan	Dushanbe	203	78
105	Uruguay	Montevideo	201	77.5
106	The Bahamas	Nassau	200	80
106	Djibouti	Djibouti City	200	80
	Puerto Rico (United States)	San Juan	199	77.0
108	Ecuador	Quito	197.5	76.3
109	Liberia	Monrovia	194.25	75
110	Uganda	Kampala	189^{[ citation needed ]}	73^{[ citation needed ]}
111	Sweden	Stockholm	188	72.5
112	Suriname	Paramaribo	182	70.27
113	Cameroon	Yaoundé	180^{[ citation needed ]}	70^{[ citation needed ]}
114	East Timor	Dili	178.62	68.97
115	United States	Washington, D.C.	177.0	68.35
	Faroe Islands (Denmark)	Tórshavn	173	67
116	Botswana	Gaborone	169	65.25
117	Belgium	Brussels	162.42	62.71
118	Estonia	Tallinn	159.2	61.5
119	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sarajevo	141.5	54.6
120	Lesotho	Maseru	137.5	53.1
121	Qatar	Doha	132	51
	Yemen ^[4]	Sana'a (official capital, under the control of the Houthis)^[6]	126	49
122	Israel & Palestine	Jerusalem ^[8]^[9]	125.126	48.323
123	Samoa	Apia	123.81	47.8
124	Moldova	Chișinău	123	47
	Macau (China)	Macau ‌	119.3	46.1
	Northern Mariana Islands (United States)	Saipan	118.98	45.94
125	Ireland	Dublin	117.8	45.5
126	Paraguay	Asunción	117	45.2
127	Morocco	Rabat	117^{[ citation needed ]}	45.17^{[ citation needed ]}
128	Angola	Luanda	116	45
129	Benin ^[4]	Porto-Novo (official and legislative capital)	110^{[ citation needed ]}	40
130	Montenegro ^[4]	Podgorica (official capital)	108	42
131	France	Paris	105.4	40.7
132	Syria	Damascus	105	41
133	Chad	N'Djamena	104^{[ citation needed ]}	40^{[ citation needed ]}
134	Cape Verde	Praia	102.6	39.6
135	Brunei	Bandar Seri Begawan	100.36	38.75
136	Portugal	Lisbon	100.05	38.63
137	Togo	Lomé	99.14^{[ citation needed ]}	38.28^{[ citation needed ]}
	Netherlands ^[4]	The Hague (seat of government)	98.13	37.89
	Northern Cyprus	North Nicosia	92.8	35.8
138	Denmark	Copenhagen	90.01	34.75
139	Madagascar	Antananarivo	85	33
140	Sierra Leone	Freetown	82.48	31.85
141	Eswatini ^[4]	Mbabane (administrative capital)	81.76	31.57
142	Senegal	Dakar	79.83	30.82
143	Saint Lucia	Castries	79^{[ citation needed ]}	30.5^{[ citation needed ]}
144	Guinea-Bissau	Bissau	77.5	29.9
145	El Salvador	San Salvador	72.25^{[ citation needed ]}	27.90^{[ citation needed ]}
146	Guyana	Georgetown	70^{[ citation needed ]}	30
147	Central African Republic	Bangui	67	26
148	Gabon	Libreville	65.42^{[ citation needed ]}	25.26^{[ citation needed ]}
	Transnistria	Tiraspol	55.56^{[ citation needed ]}	21.45^{[ citation needed ]}
149	South Sudan	Juba	52^{[ citation needed ]}	20^{[ citation needed ]}
150	Switzerland ^[10]	Bern (de facto)	51.62	19.93
151	Luxembourg	Luxembourg City	51.46	19.87
152	Nepal	Kathmandu	49.45	19.09
	Greenland (Denmark)	Nuuk	49	18.8
	Malaysia ^[4]	Putrajaya (administrative and judicial capital)	49	19
153	Mauritius	Port Louis	46.7	18.0
	Niue (New Zealand)	Alofi	46.48^{[ citation needed ]}	17.95^{[ citation needed ]}
	New Caledonia (France)	Nouméa	45.7^{[ citation needed ]}	17.6^{[ citation needed ]}
154	Eritrea	Asmara	45^{[ citation needed ]}	17
155	Costa Rica	San José	44.62	17.23
156	India	New Delhi	42.7	16.5
157	Philippines	Manila	42.34	16.35
158	Barbados	Bridgetown	40^{[ citation needed ]}	15
159	Greece	Athens	38.964	15.044
160	Sri Lanka ^[4]	Colombo (executive and judicial capital)	37.31	14.41
161	Haiti	Port-au-Prince	36.04	13.92
162	Belize	Belmopan	32.78	12.66
163	Kiribati	Tarawa	31.02	11.98
164	Bahrain	Manama	30^{[ citation needed ]}	10
164	Comoros	Moroni	30^{[ citation needed ]}	10
	Cayman Islands (United Kingdom)	George Town	29^{[ citation needed ]}	11^{[ citation needed ]}
	Cook Islands (New Zealand)	Avarua	28	11
166	Fiji	Suva	26.24
167	Bhutan	Thimphu	26.1^{[ citation needed ]}	10.1^{[ citation needed ]}
168	Jamaica	Kingston	25	10
	Saint Pierre and Miquelon (France)	Saint Pierre	25^{[ citation needed ]}	10
169	Vanuatu	Port Vila	23.6^{[ citation needed ]}	9.1^{[ citation needed ]}
	Aruba (Netherlands)	Oranjestad	23	9
170	Burundi	Gitega	22^{[ citation needed ]}	8
170	Solomon Islands	Honiara	22	8
	Collectivity of Saint Martin (France)	Marigot	21.6^[11]
172	Equatorial Guinea	Malabo	21^{[ citation needed ]}	8
	Åland (Finland)	Mariehamn	20.75^{[ citation needed ]}	8.01^{[ citation needed ]}
173	Ghana	Accra	20.4	7.9
174	Seychelles	Victoria	20.1^{[ citation needed ]}	7.8^{[ citation needed ]}
175	Cyprus	Nicosia	20.08	7.75
176	Lebanon	Beirut	19	7
	French Polynesia (France)	Papeete	17.4	6.7
	Turks and Caicos Islands (United Kingdom)	Cockburn Town	17.39	6.71
177	Liechtenstein	Vaduz	17.28	6.67
178	São Tomé and Príncipe	São Tomé	17^{[ citation needed ]}	7
	Sri Lanka ^[4]	Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (legislative capital)	17^{[ citation needed ]}	7
	Palestine	Ramallah ( de facto )	16.3	6.3
179	Andorra	Andorra la Vella	12	5
	The Gambia	Banjul	12^{[ citation needed ]}	5^{[ citation needed ]}
	Trinidad and Tobago	Port of Spain	12	5
182	Maldives	Malé	11.22	4.33
	Isle of Man (United Kingdom)	Douglas	11	4.1
	Jersey (United Kingdom)	Saint Helier	10.6	4.1
183	Antigua and Barbuda	Saint John's	10	4
184	Marshall Islands	Majuro	9.7	3.7
	American Samoa (United States)	Pago Pago	8.85	3.42
185	San Marino	City of San Marino	7.09	2.74
	Gibraltar (United Kingdom)	Gibraltar	6.8	2.6
	Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic	Tifariti (temporary capital)	6.78	2.62
	Guernsey (United Kingdom)	Saint Peter Port	6.5	2.5
	Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Australia)	West Island	6.23	2.41
186	Saint Kitts and Nevis	Basseterre	6.1	2.5
187	Dominica	Roseau	5.4	2.1
	Pitcairn Islands (United Kingdom)	Adamstown	4.6	1.8
	Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom)	Jamestown	3.6	1.4
	Saint Barthélemy (France)	Gustavia	3.4	1.3
	United States Virgin Islands (United States)	Charlotte Amalie	3.14	1.213
	Guam (United States)	Hagåtña	3	1
188	Tuvalu	Funafuti	2.79	1.08
	Anguilla (United Kingdom)	The Valley	2.72	1.05
	Falkland Islands (United Kingdom)	Stanley	2.5	1.0
189	Monaco	Monaco	2.08	0.80
190	Nauru	Yaren (de facto)^[12]	1.5	0.6
	Bermuda (United Kingdom)	Hamilton	0.7	0.28
191	Malta	Valletta	0.61	0.24
192	Vatican City	Vatican City	0.49	0.19
193	Palau	Ngerulmud	0.45	0.17
194	Grenada	Saint George's	n/a	n/a
	Montserrat (United Kingdom)^[4]	Brades (de facto)^[13]	n/a	n/a
	Norfolk Island (Australia)	Kingston (de facto)	n/a	n/a
	Wallis and Futuna (France)	Mata-Utu	n/a	n/a
	British Virgin Islands (United Kingdom)	Road Town	n/a	n/a
	Christmas Island (Australia)	Flying Fish Cove	n/a	n/a
	Eswatini ^[4]	Lobamba (legislative and royal capital)	n/a	n/a
195	Micronesia	Palikir	n/a	n/a

References

↑ http://www.lawsturkey.com/law/law-on-metropolitan-municipalities-5216
↑ "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 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.
↑ "Comparateur de territoires".
↑ 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.

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[1] ttp://www.lawsturkey.com/law/law-on-metropolitan-municipalities-5216

[2] "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.

[3] "Burma's new capital stages parade". BBC News. 2006-03-27. Retrieved 2006-06-24.

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

[:0-5] 1 2 The city of Tokyo includes the entire of the prefecture of Tokyo, without including the Greater Tokyo Metropolis.

[:2-6] 1 2 The official capital of Yemen is Sana'a. However, due to the Yemeni Civil War, its temporary capital is Aden.

[7] "Reģionu, novadu, pilsētu un pagastu kopējā un sauszemes platība gada sākumā 2022 - 2024". Oficiālās statistikas portāls (in Latvian). Retrieved 2024-08-29.

[8] 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.

[9] Figures do not include East Jerusalem, disputed with the State of Palestine.

[10] 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.

[11] "Comparateur de territoires".

[12] Nauru has no de jure capital. Yaren District contains most of Nauru's government and administrative buildings.

[:3-13] 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.

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