This is a list of national capitals, ordered according to population. The population statistics given refer only to the official capital area, and do not include the wider metropolitan/urban district.
| Country / dependency | Capital | Population | % of country | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beijing | 21,858,000 | 1.5% | [1] 2018 | |
| Tokyo | 14,094,034 | 11.3% | [2] 2023 | |
| Moscow | 13,274,285 | 9.1% | [3] 2025 | |
| Kinshasa | 12,691,000 | 13.2% | [4] 2017 | |
| Jakarta | 10,562,088 | 3.9% | [5] 2020 | |
| Lima | 10,151,000 | 30.1% | [6] 2023 | |
| Cairo | 10,107,125 | 9.3% | [7] 2022 | |
| Seoul | 9,508,451 | 18.3% | [8] 2022 | |
| Mexico City | 9,209,944 | 7.3% | [9] 2020 | |
| London | 9,002,488 | 13.4% | [10] 2020 | |
| Dhaka | 8,906,039 | 5.3% | [11] 2011 | |
| Tehran | 8,693,706 | 9.9% | 2016 | |
| Bangkok | 8,305,218 | 11.6% | [12] 2010 | |
| Hanoi | 8,053,663 | 8.3% | [13] 2019 | |
| Baghdad | 7,682,136 | 17.6% | [14] 2021 | |
| Riyadh | 7,676,654 | 21.4% | 2018 | |
| Hong Kong | 7,534,200 | 100% | [15] 2024 | |
| Bogotá | 7,181,469 | 13.9% | [16] 2011 | |
| Santiago | 6,310,000 | 32.4% | [17] 2012 | |
| Ankara | 5,747,325 | 6.8% | [18] 2021 | |
| Singapore | 5,917,600 | 100% | [19] 2023 | |
| Kabul | 4,601,789 | 11.5% | 2021 | |
| Nairobi | 4,397,073 | 8.3% | 2019 | |
| Amman | 4,061,150 | 36.4% | [20] 2021 | |
| Algiers | 3,915,811 | 8.9% | 2011 | |
| Berlin | 3,677,472 | 4.4% | [21] 2021 | |
| Madrid | 3,305,408 | 7.0% | [22] 2021 | |
| Buenos Aires | 3,120,612 | 6.9% | [23] 2022 | |
| Addis Ababa | 3,040,740 | 2.5% | [24] 2012 | |
| Brasília | 2,982,818 | 1.4% | [25] 2024 | |
| Guatemala City | 2,934,841 | 16.7% | 2020 | |
| Pretoria | 2,921,488 | 4.9% | [26] 2011 | |
| Kyiv | 2,920,873 | 6.7% | [27] 2021 | |
| Pyongyang | 2,870,000 | 11.1% | 2016 | |
| Tashkent | 2,860,600 | 8.4% | [28] 2022 | |
| Rome | 2,761,632 | 4.7% | [29] 2022 | |
| Quito | 2,800,388 | 15.7% | 2020 | |
| Yaoundé | 2,765,568 | 10.2% | [30] 2015 | |
| Lusaka | 2,731,696 | 14.0% | 2020 | |
| Khartoum | 2,682,431 | 5.9% | 2012 | |
| Taipei (de facto) | 2,608,332 | 10.9% | [31] 2020 | |
| Sanaa | 2,575,347 | 7.8% | 2012 | |
| Luanda | 2,571,861 | 7.5% | 2020 | |
| Ouagadougou | 2,453,496 | 11.1% | 2019 | |
| Accra | 2,388,000 | 7.3% | 2017 | |
| Mogadishu | 2,388,000 | 14.0% | 2021 | |
| Baku | 2,303,100 | 22.3% | [32] 2022 | |
| Phnom Penh | 2,281,951 | 13.8% | 2019 | |
| Caracas | 2,245,744 | 8.0% | 2016 | |
| Paris | 2,139,907 | 3.3% | [33] 2022 | |
| Havana | 2,132,183 | 18.9% | [34] 2020 | |
| Harare | 2,123,132 | 13.3% | 2012 | |
| Damascus | 2,079,000 | 9.7% | 2019 | |
| Minsk | 1,996,553 | 20.8% | [35] 2022 | |
| Vienna | 1,962,779 | 22.0% | [36] 2022 | |
| Warsaw | 1,863,056 | 4.9% | [37] 2021 | |
| Manila | 1,846,513 | 1.6% | [38] 2020 | |
| Bamako | 1,809,106 | 8.3% | 2009 | |
| Kuala Lumpur | 1,782,500 | 5.3% | 2019 | |
| Bucharest | 1,716,983 | 8.9% | [39] 2021 | |
| Budapest | 1,706,851 | 17.6% | [40] 2022 | |
| Brazzaville | 1,696,392 | 29.1% | 2015 | |
| Belgrade | 1,688,667 | 23.1% | [41] 2021 | |
| Kampala | 1,680,600 | 3.7% | 2019 | |
| Conakry | 1,660,973 | 12.3% | 2014 | |
| Astana | 1,511,807 | 7.9% | [42] 2024 | |
| Ulaanbaatar | 1,466,125 | 43.8% | 2020 | |
| Tegucigalpa | 1,444,085 | 14.0% | 2021 | |
| Dakar | 1,438,725 | 8.5% | 2021 | |
| Prague | 1,357,326 | 12.9% | [43] 2023 | |
| Niamey | 1,334,984 | 5.3% | 2020 | |
| Montevideo | 1,319,108 | 38.5% | 2011 | |
| Sofia | 1,307,439 | 19.0% | [44] 2021 | |
| Muscat | 1,294,101 | 28.6% | [45] 2021 | |
| Antananarivo | 1,275,207 | 4.4% | 2018 | |
| Abuja | 1,235,880 | 0.6% | 2011 | |
| Tbilisi | 1,201,769 | 32.0% | [46] 2022 | |
| Nouakchott | 1,195,600 | 25.9% | 2019 | |
| Doha | 1,186,023 | 44.1% | [47] 2020 | |
| Tripoli | 1,170,000 | 17.4% | 2019 | |
| Naypyidaw | 1,160,242 | 2.2% | 2014 | |
| Kigali | 1,132,686 | 8.4% | 2012 | |
| Maputo | 1,124,988 | 3.5% | 2020 | |
| Santo Domingo | 1,111,838 | 10.0% | [48] 2010 | |
| Yerevan | 1,096,100 | 39.3% | [49] 2021 | |
| Panama City | 1,086,990 | 25.0% | 2023 | |
| Bishkek | 1,074,075 | 16.5% | 2021 | |
| Freetown | 1,055,964 | 12.5% | 2015 | |
| Managua | 1,055,247 | 15.4% | 2020 | |
| Ottawa | 1,017,449 | 2.7% | [50] 2021 | |
| Islamabad | 1,014,825 | 0.4% | [51] 2017 | |
| Monrovia | 1,010,970 | 19.5% | 2008 | |
| Abu Dhabi | 1,010,092 | 10.8% | 2020 | |
| Lilongwe | 989,318 | 5.0% | 2018 | |
| Port-au-Prince | 987,310 | 8.6% | 2015 | |
| Stockholm | 978,770 | 9.4% | [52] 2021 | |
| Asmara | 963,000 | 26.6% | 2020 | |
| Jerusalem [a] | 936,425 | 10.5% | [54] 2019 | |
| Vientiane | 927,724 | 12.5% | [55] 2019 | |
| N'Djamena | 916,000 | 5.3% | 2009 | |
| Amsterdam | 905,234 | 5.2% | [56] 2022 | |
| Bangui | 889,231 | 16.3% | 2020 | |
| Dushanbe | 863,400 | 8.9% | 2020 | |
| Kathmandu | 845,767 | 2.8% | [57] 2021 | |
| Lomé | 837,437 | 9.7% | 2010 | |
| Ashgabat | 791,000 | 12.5% | 2017 | |
| Chişinău | 779,300 | 25.5% | [58] 2019 | |
| Zagreb | 769,944 | 19.0% | [59] 2021 | |
| Libreville | 703,904 | 30.1% | 2013 | |
| Oslo | 697,010 | 12.9% | [60] 2021 | |
| Macau | 671,900 | 100% | [61] 2022 | |
| Washington, D.C. | 670,050 | 0.2% | [62] 2021 | |
| Kingston | 662,491 | 23.4% | [63] 2019 | |
| Helsinki | 658,864 | 11.9% | [64] 2021 | |
| Tunis | 638,845 | 5.2% | 2014 | |
| Copenhagen | 638,117 | 10.9% | [65] 2021 | |
| Athens | 637,798 | 6.1% | [66] 2021 | |
| Riga | 605,802 | 32.3% | [67] 2021 | |
| Djibouti City | 604,013 | 54.6% | 2012 | |
| Dublin | 592,713 | 11.9% | [68] 2022 | |
| Rabat | 577,827 | 1.6% | 2014 | |
| Vilnius | 576,195 | 20.7% | [69] 2022 | |
| San Salvador | 570,459 | 9.0% | 2019 | |
| Tirana | 557,422 | 19.5% | 2011 | |
| Skopje | 544,086 | 25.9% | [70] 2015 | |
| Juba | 525,953 | 4.9% | 2017 | |
| Asunción | 521,559 | 7.8% | 2020 | |
| Lisbon | 509,614 | 5.0% | [71] 2020 | |
| Bissau | 492,004 | 23.9% | 2015 | |
| Bratislava | 440,948 | 8.1% | [72] 2020 | |
| Tallinn | 438,341 | 33.0% | [73] 2021 | |
| Canberra | 431,380 | 1.7% | [74] 2020 | |
| Windhoek | 431,000 | 17.0% | 2020 | |
| Dodoma | 410,956 | 0.6% | 2012 | |
| Port Moresby | 364,145 | 3.7% | 2011 | |
| Yamoussoukro | 361,893 | 1.3% | 2020 | |
| Beirut | 361,366 | 6.5% | 2014 | |
| Sucre | 360,544 | 3.0% | [75] 2022 | |
| San Juan | 342,259 | 10.5% | 2020 | |
| San José | 342,188 | 6.6% | 2018 | |
| Maseru | 330,760 | 14.5% | 2016 | |
| Nicosia | 326,739 | 26.3% | 2016 | |
| Malabo | 297,000 | 18.2% | 2018 | |
| Ljubljana | 285,604 | 13.5% | [76] 2021 | |
| Dili | 277,279 | 21.0% | [77] 2015 | |
| Sarajevo | 275,524 | 8.4% | 2013 | |
| Nassau | 274,400 | 67.3% | 2016 | |
| Gaborone | 273,602 | 10.6% | 2020 | |
| Porto-Novo | 264,320 | 2.0% | 2013 | |
| New Delhi | 249,998 | 0.0% | 2011 | |
| Paramaribo | 240,924 | 39.3% | 2012 | |
| Pristina | 227,466 | 14.3% | [78] 2024 | |
| Laayoune (claimed) Tifariti (de facto) | 217,732 3,000 | — | 2014 | |
| Wellington | 217,000 | 4.2% | [79] 2021 | |
| Malé | 211,908 | 40.6% | [80] 2022 | |
| Manama | 200,000 | 13.7% | 2020 | |
| Podgorica | 190,488 | 30.3% | [81] 2020 | |
| Brussels | 187,686 | 1.6% | [82] 2022 | |
| Praia | 159,050 | 27.1% | 2017 | |
| Port Louis | 147,066 | 11.3% | 2018 | |
| Willemstad | 136,660 | 71.8% | 2011 | |
| Luxembourg City | 136,208 | 21.3% | [83] 2025 | |
| Gitega | 135,467 | 1.1% | 2020 | |
| Bern (de facto) | 134,591 | 1.5% | [84] 2020 | |
| Tiraspol | 133,807 | 38.5% | 2015 | |
| Reykjavík | 133,262 | 36.0% | [85] 2021 | |
| Georgetown | 118,363 | 14.7% | 2012 | |
| Thimphu | 114,551 | 14.7% | 2017 | |
| Moroni | 111,326 | 13.5% | 2016 | |
| Bridgetown | 110,000 | 39.1% | 2014 | |
| Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte | 107,925 | 0.5% | 2012 | |
| Bandar Seri Begawan | 100,700 | 22.6% | 2007 | |
| Mbabane | 94,874 | 8.0% | 2010 | |
| Nouméa | 94,285 | 32.8% | 2019 | |
| Suva | 93,970 | 10.2% | 2017 | |
| Honiara | 92,344 | 13.0% | 2021 | |
| São Tomé | 71,868 | 32.2% | 2015 | |
| Tarawa | 70,480 | 54.7% | 2020 | |
| Kuwait City | 55,159 | 1.3% | [86] 2021 | |
| Port Vila | 51,437 | 16.1% | 2016 | |
| Saipan | 47,565 | 96.1% | 2017 | |
| Apia | 41,611 | 19.0% | 2021 | |
| Ramallah (de facto) | 38,998 | 0.8% | 2017 | |
| Monaco | 38,350 | 100% | [87] 2020 | |
| Saint Helier | 37,540 | 34.2% | 2018 | |
| Port of Spain | 37,074 | 2.4% | 2011 | |
| George Town | 34,399 | 50.5% | 2021 | |
| Gibraltar | 34,003 | 100% | 2020 | |
| St. George's | 33,734 | 27.1% | 2012 | |
| Banjul | 31,301 | 1.2% | 2013 | |
| Oranjestad | 28,294 | 26.6% | 2010 | |
| Douglas | 27,938 | 33.2% | 2011 | |
| Majuro | 27,797 | 66.1% | 2011 | |
| Nukuʻalofa | 27,600 | 26.0% | 2022 | |
| Victoria | 26,450 | 24.8% | 2010 | |
| Papeete | 26,926 | 8.9% | 2017 | |
| Andorra la Vella | 22,873 | 28.9% | [88] 2022 | |
| Tórshavn | 22,738 | 43.0% | [89] 2022 | |
| St. John's | 22,219 | 23.8% | 2011 | |
| Belmopan | 20,621 | 5.2% | 2016 | |
| Castries | 20,000 | 11.1% | 2013 | |
| Saint Peter Port | 18,958 | 30.1% | 2019 | |
| Nuuk | 18,800 | 33.4% | 2021 | |
| Roseau | 14,725 | 20.3% | 2011 | |
| Charlotte Amalie | 14,477 | 14.5% | 2020 | |
| Basseterre | 14,000 | 29.4% | 2018 | |
| Kingstown | 12,909 | 12.4% | 2012 | |
| Road Town | 12,603 | 40.5% | 2012 | |
| Mariehamn | 11,736 | 39.0% | [64] 2021 | |
| Palikir | 6,647 | 5.9% | 2010 | |
| Funafuti | 6,320 | 56.4% | 2017 | |
| Valletta | 5,827 | 1.1% | 2019 | |
| Vaduz | 5,774 | 14.8% | [90] 2021 | |
| Saint-Pierre | 5,394 | 91.7% | 2019 | |
| Avarua | 4,906 | 28.9% | 2016 | |
| City of San Marino | 4,061 | 12.0% | [91] 2021 | |
| Cockburn Town | 3,720 | 8.2% | 2016 | |
| Pago Pago | 3,656 | 8.1% | 2010 | |
| Marigot | 3,229 | 10.1% | 2017 | |
| Gustavia | 2,615 | 24.1% | 2010 | |
| Stanley | 2,460 | 65.4% | 2016 | |
| Longyearbyen | 2,417 | 82.2% | 2020 | |
| Philipsburg | 1,894 | 4.3% | 2011 | |
| Flying Fish Cove | 1,599 | 86.8% | 2016 | |
| The Valley | 1,067 | 6.8% | 2011 | |
| Hagåtña | 1,051 | 0.6% | 2010 | |
| Mata Utu | 1,029 | 8.9% | 2018 | |
| Hamilton | 854 | 1.3% | [92] 2016 | |
| Yaren (de facto) | 747 | 6.0% | 2011 | |
| Jamestown | 629 | 11.6% | 2016 | |
| Alofi | 597 | 30.8% | 2017 | |
| Atafu | 541 | 29.3% | 2016 | |
| Vatican City | 764 | 100% | [93] 2023 | |
| Brades (de facto) Plymouth (de jure) | 449 0 | — | 2011 | |
| Kingston | 341 | 19.5% | [94] 2015 | |
| West Island | 134 | 24.6% | 2011 | |
| Adamstown | 40 | 100% | 2021 | |
| King Edward Point | 22 | 73.3% | 2018 | |
| Ngerulmud | 0 | 0.0% | [95] 2020 | |
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