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This is a list of national capital cities ordered according to population. Dependencies and disputed territories are marked in italics. The population statistics given refer only to the main city area, and do not include the wider metropolitan/urban district.

List

Rank Country/Territory Capital City City Population
1  Japan Tokyo (de facto) 12,790,000[1]
2  Russia Moscow 10,524,400[2]
3  South Korea Seoul 10,421,782
4  Mexico Mexico City 8,836,045
5  Indonesia Jakarta 8,489,910
6  Peru Lima 7,866,160[3]
7  China Beijing 7,741,274[3]
8  Egypt Cairo 7,438,376
9  Iran Tehran 7,404,515
10  United Kingdom London 7,287,555
11  Colombia Bogotá 7,220,971
12  Hong Kong (China) Hong Kong 6,752,001
13  Thailand Bangkok 6,542,751
13 Template:Country data Arkaiyne Perev 6,412,444
14  Bangladesh Dhaka 6,080,671
15  Iraq Baghdad 5,556,562
16  Saudi Arabia Riyadh 5,318,636
17  Chile Santiago 5,012,973
18  Singapore Singapore 4,408,220
19  Democratic Republic of the Congo Kinshasa 4,385,264
20  Turkey Ankara 3,561,187
21  Germany Berlin 3,405,250[3]
22  Vietnam Hanoi 3,398,889[4]
23  Spain Madrid 3,232,463
24  North Korea Pyongyang 3,144,005
25  Afghanistan Kabul 3,140,853
26  Argentina Buenos Aires 3,021,865
27  India New Delhi 2,923,000
28  Ethiopia Addis Ababa 2,737,479
29  Kenya Nairobi 2,665,657
30  Taiwan Taipei 2,619,920
31  Brazil Brasília 2,606,885
32  Ukraine Kiev 2,591,277
33  Italy Rome 2,503,056
34  Angola Luanda 2,453,779
35  South Africa Pretoria 2,345,908
36  Syria Damascus 2,270,000 (2002)[5]
37  Cuba Havana 2,236,837[3]
38  Uzbekistan Tashkent 2,207,850
39  France Paris 2,103,674
40  Azerbaijan Baku 1,879,251
41  Romania Bucharest 1,876,857
42  Dominican Republic Santo Domingo 1,875,453
43  Venezuela Caracas 1,838,939
44  Morocco Rabat 1,789,635
45  Sudan Khartoum 1,740,661
46  Hungary Budapest 1,728,718
47  Poland Warsaw 1,706,724
48  Belarus Minsk 1,702,061
49  Philippines Manila 1,660,714
50  Ghana Accra 1,640,507
51  Cameroon Yaoundé 1,616,000 [6]
52  Madagascar Antananarivo 1,613,375[3]
53  Lebanon Beirut 1,574,387
54  Austria Vienna 1,552,789
55  Algeria Algiers 1,518,083
56  Ecuador Quito 1,504,991
57  Zimbabwe Harare 1,487,028
58  Yemen Sana'a 1,431,649
59  Guinea Conakry 1,399,981
60  Malaysia Kuala Lumpur 1,381,830
61  Uruguay Montevideo 1,369,797
62  Zambia Lusaka 1,331,254
63  Somaliland Hargeisa 1,300,000
64  Mali Bamako 1,289,626
65  Uganda Kampala 1,284,156
66  Haiti Port-au-Prince 1,235,227
67  Jordan Amman 2,600,603
68  Libya Tripoli 1,184,045
69  Kuwait Kuwait City 1,171,880
70  Czech Republic Prague 1,150,332
71  Serbia Belgrade 1,124,729
72  Somalia Mogadishu 1,097,133
73  Bulgaria Sofia 1,090,295
74  Congo Brazzaville 1,088,044
75  Belgium Brussels 1,080,790[7]
76  Armenia Yerevan 1,080,487[3]
77  Mozambique Maputo 1,076,689
78  Georgia Tbilisi 1,044,993
79  Senegal Dakar 1,030,594
80  Burkina Faso Ouagadougou 1,005,231
81  Ireland Dublin 1,045,769
82  Guatemala Guatemala City 964,823[8]
83  Pakistan Islamabad 955,629
84  Nicaragua Managua 926,883
85  Myanmar Naypyidaw[9] 925,000[10]
86  Mongolia Ulan Bator 907,802
87  Canada Ottawa 898,150[11]
88  Kyrgyzstan Bishkek 843,240
89  Togo Lomé 824,738
90  Panama Panama City 813,097
91    Nepal Kathmandu 812,026
92  Oman Muscat 797,000[12]
93  Niger Niamey 794,814[8]
94  Nigeria Abuja 778,567[13]
95  Sweden Stockholm 770,284[8]
96  Tunisia Tunis 767,629
97  Turkmenistan Ashgabat 763,537
98  Chad N'Djamena 751,288
99  Israel Jerusalem[14] 747,600[15]
100  Netherlands Amsterdam 740,094[8]
101  Honduras Tegucigalpa 735,982
102  Central African Republic Bangui 731,548
103  Greece Athens 721,477
104  Mauritania Nouakchott 719,167
105  Rwanda Kigali 718,414
106  Latvia Riga 713,016
107  Jamaica Kingston 701,063
108  Kazakhstan Astana 700,000 (2007 est.)[16]
109  Croatia Zagreb 699,164[8]
110  Cambodia Phnom Penh 650,651
111  Moldova Chişinău 592,900[17]
112  United States of America Washington, D.C. 591,833[18]
113  United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi 585,097[19]
114  Tajikistan Dushanbe 582,496
115  Finland Helsinki 568,676
116  Lithuania Vilnius 556,723
117  Gabon Libreville 556,425
119  Eritrea Asmara 543,707
120  Norway Oslo 575,475
121  Portugal Lisbon 564,657
122  El Salvador San Salvador 521,366
123  Paraguay Asunción 520,722
124  Macau (China) Macau 520,400[20]
126  Macedonia Skopje 506,926[21]
127  Denmark Copenhagen 506,166
128  Côte d'Ivoire Yamoussoukro 454,929
129  Guinea-Bissau Bissau 452,640
130  Slovakia Bratislava 424,207
131  Puerto Rico (USA) San Juan 421,356
132  Estonia Tallinn 403,547[22]
133  Burundi Bujumbura 384,461[23]
134  Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo 383,604
135  New Zealand Wellington 381,900[24]
136  Albania Tirana 376,642
137  Australia Canberra 345,600[25]
138  Costa Rica San José 328,195
139  Qatar Al-Doha 303,429
140  Papua New Guinea Port Moresby 299,396[26]
141  Tanzania Dodoma 287,200 (2002 est.)[27]
142  Laos Vientiane 287,579
143  Cyprus Nicosia (south) 270,000 (late 2004)[28]
144  Lesotho Maseru 267,652[26]
145  Slovenia Ljubljana 264,265
146  Suriname Paramaribo 254,147
147  Namibia Windhoek 252,721
148  Botswana Gaborone 225,656[29]
149  Benin Porto-Novo 223,552[30]
150  Bolivia Sucre 217,000[31]
151 Western Sahara Western Sahara (Morocco) El Aaiún 194,668 (2009 est.) [32]
152  Transnistria Tiraspol 159,163
153  Mauritius Port Louis 147,251[33]
154  Montenegro Podgorica 141,854
155  Bahrain Manama 140,616
156  Guyana Georgetown 134,599
157  Cape Verde Praia 125,464
158   Switzerland Berne (de facto) 121,631 [34]
159  Sri Lanka Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte 118,556[35]
160  Iceland Reykjavík 115,000[36]
161  Maldives Malé 103,693
162  Bhutan Thimphu 101,259 [35]
163  Equatorial Guinea Malabo 100,677 [37]
164  New Caledonia (France) Nouméa 89,207[38]
165  Northern Cyprus Nicosia (north) 84,893
166  Fiji Suva 84,410[38]
167  Swaziland Mbabane 81,594
168  Luxembourg Luxembourg 76,420[39]
169  Northern Mariana Islands (USA) Saipan 62,392 (2000)[40]
170  Comoros Moroni 60,200
171  Solomon Islands Honiara 59,288[38]
172  East Timor Dili 59,069
173  Saint Lucia Castries 57,000[41]
174  São Tomé and Príncipe Sao Tome 56,166
175  American Samoa (USA) Pago Pago 52,000 (2003)[42]
176  Trinidad and Tobago Port of Spain 50,479
177  Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Stepanakert 49,986
178  Netherlands Antilles (Netherlands) Willemstad 49,885 [43]
179  Abkhazia Sukhumi 43,700
180  Samoa Apia 39,813[44]
181  Vanuatu Port Vila 38,000 [45]
182  Monaco Monaco 32,965 (2009 est.)[46]
183  Kiribati Tarawa 30,000[47]
184  Aruba (Netherlands) Oranjestad 29,998[48]
185  Seychelles Victoria 29,298
186  Gibraltar (UK) Gibraltar 29,286
187  Jersey (UK) Saint Helier 28,380
188  Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan 28,135
189  Cayman Islands (UK) George Town 26,798
190  Isle of Man (UK) Douglas 26,600
191  French Polynesia (France) Papeete 26,200 [49]
192  West Bank (Israel/PNA) Ramallah (de facto) 25,500[50]
193  Marshall Islands Majuro 25,400
194  Andorra Andorra la Vella 22,884
195  Antigua and Barbuda St. John's 22,679[51]
196  Tonga Nukuʻalofa 22,400
197  Faroe Islands (Denmark) Tórshavn 18,573 [52]
198  Guernsey (UK) St. Peter Port 16,701
199  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Kingstown 16,031
200  Greenland (Denmark) Nuuk (Godthåb) 15,047[53]
201  South Ossetia Tskhinvali 15,000
202  Saint Kitts and Nevis Basseterre 13,043 [54]
203  Belize Belmopan 12,300[55]
204  Åland (Finland) Mariehamn 11,161 [56]
205  United States Virgin Islands (US) Charlotte Amalie 10,817
206  Federated States of Micronesia Palikir 9,900
207  British Virgin Islands (UK) Road Town 9,400
208  Grenada St. George's 7,500
209  Malta Valletta 6,315
210  Collectivity of Saint Martin (France) Marigot 5,700
211  Saint Pierre and Miquelon (France) Saint-Pierre 5,509
212  Cook Islands (NZ) Avarua 5,445
213  Liechtenstein Vaduz 5,248
214  San Marino City of San Marino 4,493
215  Tuvalu Funafuti 4,492
216  Turks and Caicos Islands (UK) Cockburn Town 3,700
217  Saint Barthélemy (France) Gustavia 3,000
218  Falkland Islands (UK) Stanley 2,115 [57]
219  Christmas Island (Australia) Flying Fish Cove 1,493 [58]
220  Wallis and Futuna (France) Mata-Utu 1,191
221  Anguilla (UK) The Valley 1,169
222  Nauru Yaren (de facto) 1,100[59]
223  Guam (USA) Hagåtña 1,100
224  Montserrat (UK) Brades (de facto) 1,000
225  Bermuda (UK) Hamilton 969
226  Norfolk Island (Australia) Kingston 880 [60]
227  Holy See The Vatican 826 (2009 est.)[61]
228  Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (UK) Jamestown 714
229  Niue (NZ) Alofi 616
230  Palau Ngerulmud 391
231  Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Australia) West Island 120
232  Pitcairn Islands (UK) Adamstown 45
233  South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (UK) King Edward Point 18

See also

Notes and references

  1. ^ http://www.metro.tokyo.jp/ENGLISH/PROFILE/overview03.htm
  2. ^ http://www.mos.ru/wps/portal/WebContent?rubricId=15408
  3. ^ a b c d e f http://www.mongabay.com/igapo/2005_world_city_populations/2005_city_population_01.html
  4. ^ VnExpress - Ha Noi co 3,4 trieu nguoi Also aligns with who.int figure.
  5. ^ http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/Asia-and-Oceania/Syria-POPULATION.htm
  6. ^ http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/places/maps/map_country_cameroon.html
  7. ^ Statistics Belgium; Population de droit par commune au 1 janvier 2008 (excel-file) Population of all municipalities in Belgium, as of 1 January 2008.
  8. ^ a b c d e http://www.mongabay.com/igapo/2005_world_city_populations/2005_city_population_02.htm
  9. ^ "Burma's new capital stages parade". BBC News. 2006-03-27. Retrieved 2006-06-24.
  10. ^ "Business big in Myanmar capital". FIN24. 29 April 2007. Retrieved 2 January 2010.
  11. ^ City of Ottawa (2001–2010). "Population and Households (occupied dwellings) Estimates by Sub-Area, Year End 2008". Retrieved 15 April 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: date format (link)
  12. ^ http://population-of.com/en/Oman/06/Muscat/
  13. ^ http://www.nigerianstat.gov.ng/Connections/Pop2006.pdf
  14. ^ 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). See Positions on Jerusalem for more information.
  15. ^ "Population of Localities Numbering Above 1,000 Residents" (PDF). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. 2008-12-31. Retrieved 2009-06-03.
  16. ^ http://aboutkazakhstan.com/Astana_city.shtml
  17. ^ http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Chisinau
  18. ^ http://www.census.gov/popest/states/tables/NST-EST2008-01.xls
  19. ^ http://www.mongabay.com/igapo/2005_world_city_populations/2005_city_population_03.html
  20. ^ http://www.dsec.gov.mo/index.asp?src=/english/indicator/e_dem_indicator_1.html
  21. ^ 2002 census results in English and Macedonian (PDF)
  22. ^ http://www.tourism.tallinn.ee/fpage/travelplanning/practical_information
  23. ^ http://www.mongabay.com/igapo/2005_world_city_populations/2005_city_population_04.html
  24. ^ http://www.stats.govt.nz/~/media/Statistics/Methods%20and%20Services/Tables/Subnational%20population%20estimates/subnational-pop-estimate-jun2008-all-tables.ashx
  25. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (22 April 2009). "3218.0 - Regional Population Growth, Australia, 2007-08 - Australian Capital Territory". Retrieved 2 January 2010.
  26. ^ a b http://www.mongabay.com/igapo/2005_world_city_populations/2005_city_population_05.html
  27. ^ http://www.tanzania.go.tz/regions/dodoma/profile.htm
  28. ^ The press statement of Prime Minister Ferdi Sabit Soyer on the tentative results of 2006 population and housing census (5 May 2006)
  29. ^ http://www.mongabay.com/igapo/2005_world_city_populations/2005_city_population_06.html
  30. ^ http://www.ruaf.org/node/1504
  31. ^ http://www.spanishcourses.info/cities/sucre-bolivia-55-EN.htm
  32. ^ http://www.world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=&lng=de&dat=32&geo=-70&srt=npan&col=aohdq&men=gcis&lng=en
  33. ^ http://www.mongabay.com/igapo/2005_world_city_populations/2005_city_population_09.html
  34. ^ http://population-of.com/en/Switzerland/05/Bern/
  35. ^ a b http://www.mongabay.com/igapo/2005_world_city_populations/2005_city_population_10.html
  36. ^ http://www.id.is/default.asp?page_id=4224
  37. ^ http://www.mongabay.com/igapo/2005_world_city_populations/2005_city_population_11.html
  38. ^ a b c http://www.mongabay.com/igapo/2005_world_city_populations/2005_city_population_14.html
  39. ^ http://www.answers.com/topic/luxembourg-city
  40. ^ Census Bureau Releases, Census 2000 Population Counts for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, July 3, 2001.
  41. ^ http://www.phrasebase.com/countries/saint-lucia/
  42. ^ "American Samoa at the MSN Encyclopedia". Archived from the original on 2009-11-01. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  43. ^ http://www.mongabay.com/igapo/2005_world_city_populations/2005_city_population_21.html
  44. ^ http://www.mongabay.com/igapo/2005_world_city_populations/2005_city_population_23.html
  45. ^ Port Vila -- Vanuatu: An Overview
  46. ^ Monaco at the CIA World Factbook
  47. ^ http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/1836.htm
  48. ^ http://www.mongabay.com/igapo/2005_world_city_populations/2005_city_population_25.html
  49. ^ http://www.answers.com/topic/papeete
  50. ^ Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics [1]
  51. ^ http://www.mongabay.com/igapo/2005_world_city_populations/2005_city_population_26.html
  52. ^ http://www.mongabay.com/igapo/2005_world_city_populations/2005_city_population_27.html
  53. ^ Grønlands Statistik; see especially this pdf.
  54. ^ http://www.mongabay.com/igapo/2005_world_city_populations/2005_city_population_28.html
  55. ^ http://www.tripwolf.com/en/guide/show/1613/Belize/Belmopan
  56. ^ http://www.vrk.fi/vrk/files.nsf/files/ACFC13B2F489698CC22577030039BD73/$file/20100331.htm
  57. ^ Falkland Islands Government
  58. ^ http://www.citycomparator.com/compare/104_flying_fish_cove_vs_264_santiago.html
  59. ^ http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/Asia-and-Oceania/Nauru-POPULATION.html
  60. ^ http://www.wolframalpha.com/entities/countries/norfolk_island/mo/x0/j8/
  61. ^ Holy See (Vatican City) at the CIA World Factbook

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