Capitals of the world: the full list by continent

Updated 28 August 2026 · 8 min read · DailyGeo team

DailyGeo's atlas covers 172 capital cities, one for each country the game uses. They are listed below by continent, with city population, elevation and average winter and summer temperature, and each name links to a page of figures and sources for that capital.

Use this page two ways: as a reference, by looking up one capital and following it to its own figures, or as a study list, by taking one continent at a time and covering the capital column while you name each one.

Africa

The 51 capitals of Africa.
Capital	Country	Population	Winter / summer
Algiers	Algeria	3,900,000	12 / 25 °C
Luanda	Angola	8,300,000	22 / 27 °C
Porto-Novo	Benin	280,000	27 / 25 °C
Gaborone	Botswana	270,000	15 / 26 °C
Ouagadougou	Burkina Faso	2,500,000	26 / 28 °C
Gitega	Burundi	50,000	19 / 19 °C
Yaoundé	Cameroon	4,100,000	24 / 22 °C
Praia	Cape Verde	160,000	23 / 25 °C
Bangui	Central African Republic	890,000	28 / 25 °C
N'Djamena	Chad	1,600,000	25 / 29 °C
Moroni	Comoros	110,000	24 / 27 °C
Brazzaville	Congo	2,400,000	25 / 26 °C
Djibouti	Djibouti	600,000	25 / 35 °C
Kinshasa	DR Congo	15,600,000	25 / 25 °C
Cairo	Egypt	21,300,000	15 / 31 °C
Malabo	Equatorial Guinea	300,000	27 / 25 °C
Asmara	Eritrea	960,000	15 / 18 °C
Addis Ababa	Ethiopia	5,200,000	15 / 14 °C
Libreville	Gabon	840,000	26 / 25 °C
Banjul	Gambia	440,000	26 / 27 °C
Accra	Ghana	2,500,000	28 / 25 °C
Conakry	Guinea	1,900,000	27 / 25 °C
Bissau	Guinea-Bissau	490,000	27 / 27 °C
Abidjan	Ivory Coast	5,600,000	27 / 25 °C
Nairobi	Kenya	4,700,000	18 / 20 °C
Maseru	Lesotho	330,000	8 / 20 °C
Monrovia	Liberia	1,500,000	27 / 25 °C
Tripoli	Libya	1,200,000	14 / 27 °C
Antananarivo	Madagascar	3,600,000	15 / 21 °C
Lilongwe	Malawi	1,100,000	18 / 22 °C
Bamako	Mali	2,800,000	26 / 27 °C
Nouakchott	Mauritania	1,200,000	23 / 27 °C
Port Louis	Mauritius	150,000	22 / 27 °C
Rabat	Morocco	1,900,000	14 / 23 °C
Maputo	Mozambique	1,100,000	20 / 26 °C
Windhoek	Namibia	430,000	15 / 24 °C
Niamey	Niger	1,300,000	25 / 30 °C
Abuja	Nigeria	3,500,000	28 / 24 °C
Kigali	Rwanda	1,200,000	21 / 20 °C
Dakar	Senegal	3,100,000	23 / 26 °C
Freetown	Sierra Leone	1,200,000	27 / 25 °C
Mogadishu	Somalia	2,600,000	27 / 25 °C
Pretoria	South Africa	2,500,000	13 / 22 °C
Juba	South Sudan	450,000	31 / 26 °C
Khartoum	Sudan	5,800,000	24 / 33 °C
Dodoma	Tanzania	410,000	21 / 23 °C
Lomé	Togo	1,800,000	28 / 25 °C
Tunis	Tunisia	2,400,000	12 / 27 °C
Kampala	Uganda	3,300,000	22 / 21 °C
Lusaka	Zambia	3,300,000	17 / 22 °C
Harare	Zimbabwe	1,600,000	15 / 20 °C

Asia

The 46 capitals of Asia.
Capital	Country	Population	Winter / summer
Kabul	Afghanistan	4,600,000	0 / 24 °C
Yerevan	Armenia	1,080,000	1 / 26 °C
Baku	Azerbaijan	2,300,000	6 / 26 °C
Manama	Bahrain	660,000	19 / 35 °C
Dhaka	Bangladesh	21,000,000	20 / 28 °C
Thimphu	Bhutan	115,000	5 / 18 °C
Bandar Seri Begawan	Brunei	100,000	26 / 27 °C
Phnom Penh	Cambodia	2,100,000	27 / 28 °C
Beijing	China	21,500,000	-2 / 26 °C
Tbilisi	Georgia	1,200,000	4 / 25 °C
New Delhi	India	32,900,000	15 / 31 °C
Jakarta	Indonesia	11,200,000	27 / 26 °C
Tehran	Iran	9,500,000	5 / 31 °C
Baghdad	Iraq	7,500,000	13 / 38 °C
Jerusalem	Israel	950,000	10 / 25 °C
Tokyo	Japan	37,400,000	5 / 25 °C
Amman	Jordan	4,000,000	9 / 26 °C
Astana	Kazakhstan	1,200,000	-12 / 20 °C
Kuwait City	Kuwait	3,100,000	16 / 38 °C
Bishkek	Kyrgyzstan	1,050,000	-1 / 24 °C
Vientiane	Laos	950,000	23 / 27 °C
Beirut	Lebanon	2,400,000	14 / 27 °C
Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia	8,200,000	27 / 27 °C
Malé	Maldives	250,000	27 / 28 °C
Ulaanbaatar	Mongolia	1,600,000	-16 / 17 °C
Naypyidaw	Myanmar	920,000	23 / 26 °C
Kathmandu	Nepal	1,500,000	12 / 23 °C
Pyongyang	North Korea	3,000,000	-3 / 24 °C
Muscat	Oman	1,700,000	22 / 34 °C
Islamabad	Pakistan	1,200,000	12 / 29 °C
Manila	Philippines	14,400,000	26 / 28 °C
Doha	Qatar	2,400,000	19 / 36 °C
Riyadh	Saudi Arabia	7,600,000	16 / 37 °C
Singapore	Singapore	5,900,000	26 / 27 °C
Seoul	South Korea	9,700,000	-2 / 24 °C
Colombo	Sri Lanka	750,000	26 / 27 °C
Damascus	Syria	2,500,000	9 / 28 °C
Taipei	Taiwan	2,600,000	17 / 29 °C
Dushanbe	Tajikistan	900,000	3 / 27 °C
Bangkok	Thailand	10,700,000	27 / 28 °C
Ankara	Turkey	5,700,000	3 / 23 °C
Ashgabat	Turkmenistan	1,000,000	6 / 31 °C
Abu Dhabi	United Arab Emirates	1,500,000	21 / 35 °C
Tashkent	Uzbekistan	2,600,000	2 / 28 °C
Hanoi	Vietnam	8,100,000	18 / 29 °C
Sanaa	Yemen	3,000,000	15 / 22 °C

Europe

The 42 capitals of Europe.
Capital	Country	Population	Winter / summer
Tirana	Albania	520,000	8 / 25 °C
Andorra la Vella	Andorra	22,000	3 / 19 °C
Vienna	Austria	1,930,000	3 / 22 °C
Minsk	Belarus	2,000,000	-3 / 19 °C
Brussels	Belgium	2,080,000	5 / 19 °C
Sarajevo	Bosnia and Herzegovina	420,000	2 / 21 °C
Sofia	Bulgaria	1,280,000	2 / 22 °C
Zagreb	Croatia	810,000	3 / 22 °C
Nicosia	Cyprus	330,000	12 / 29 °C
Prague	Czechia	1,320,000	2 / 21 °C
Copenhagen	Denmark	1,340,000	3 / 17 °C
Tallinn	Estonia	440,000	-2 / 17 °C
Helsinki	Finland	1,300,000	-2 / 17 °C
Paris	France	11,100,000	6 / 20 °C
Berlin	Germany	3,700,000	3 / 20 °C
Athens	Greece	3,150,000	10 / 27 °C
Budapest	Hungary	1,750,000	2 / 23 °C
Reykjavik	Iceland	230,000	-0 / 10 °C
Dublin	Ireland	1,280,000	7 / 16 °C
Rome	Italy	4,300,000	9 / 26 °C
Riga	Latvia	610,000	-1 / 18 °C
Vilnius	Lithuania	580,000	-2 / 18 °C
Luxembourg	Luxembourg	130,000	3 / 18 °C
Valletta	Malta	6,000	14 / 26 °C
Chișinău	Moldova	640,000	1 / 23 °C
Monaco	Monaco	38,000	8 / 24 °C
Podgorica	Montenegro	190,000	7 / 26 °C
Amsterdam	Netherlands	1,160,000	5 / 18 °C
Skopje	North Macedonia	590,000	3 / 25 °C
Oslo	Norway	1,070,000	-2 / 17 °C
Warsaw	Poland	1,800,000	1 / 20 °C
Lisbon	Portugal	2,900,000	12 / 22 °C
Bucharest	Romania	1,800,000	2 / 24 °C
Moscow	Russia	12,600,000	-6 / 19 °C
Belgrade	Serbia	1,400,000	3 / 23 °C
Bratislava	Slovakia	440,000	2 / 22 °C
Ljubljana	Slovenia	290,000	2 / 21 °C
Madrid	Spain	6,700,000	7 / 26 °C
Stockholm	Sweden	1,680,000	-0 / 17 °C
Bern	Switzerland	430,000	2 / 19 °C
Kyiv	Ukraine	3,000,000	-1 / 21 °C
London	United Kingdom	9,500,000	6 / 18 °C

North America

The 16 capitals of North America.
Capital	Country	Population	Winter / summer
Nassau	Bahamas	270,000	23 / 29 °C
Bridgetown	Barbados	110,000	26 / 27 °C
Belmopan	Belize	23,000	23 / 27 °C
Ottawa	Canada	1,400,000	-6 / 20 °C
San José	Costa Rica	1,400,000	20 / 20 °C
Havana	Cuba	2,100,000	23 / 28 °C
Santo Domingo	Dominican Republic	3,300,000	24 / 27 °C
San Salvador	El Salvador	1,100,000	24 / 24 °C
Guatemala City	Guatemala	2,900,000	17 / 19 °C
Port-au-Prince	Haiti	2,800,000	27 / 30 °C
Tegucigalpa	Honduras	1,400,000	20 / 22 °C
Kingston	Jamaica	670,000	25 / 28 °C
Mexico City	Mexico	22,000,000	15 / 18 °C
Managua	Nicaragua	1,050,000	27 / 27 °C
Panama City	Panama	1,900,000	27 / 26 °C
Washington	United States	6,300,000	4 / 25 °C

South America

The 12 capitals of South America.
Capital	Country	Population	Winter / summer
Buenos Aires	Argentina	15,400,000	12 / 24 °C
La Paz	Bolivia	1,900,000	8 / 10 °C
Brasília	Brazil	4,800,000	21 / 23 °C
Santiago	Chile	6,800,000	11 / 22 °C
Bogotá	Colombia	11,000,000	14 / 13 °C
Quito	Ecuador	2,000,000	12 / 12 °C
Georgetown	Guyana	200,000	26 / 27 °C
Asunción	Paraguay	3,300,000	19 / 28 °C
Lima	Peru	10,700,000	17 / 22 °C
Paramaribo	Suriname	240,000	26 / 26 °C
Montevideo	Uruguay	1,700,000	12 / 22 °C
Caracas	Venezuela	2,900,000	21 / 23 °C

Oceania

The 5 capitals of Oceania.
Capital	Country	Population	Winter / summer
Canberra	Australia	460,000	6 / 20 °C
Suva	Fiji	180,000	23 / 26 °C
Wellington	New Zealand	420,000	11 / 17 °C
Port Moresby	Papua New Guinea	380,000	26 / 27 °C
Port Vila	Vanuatu	50,000	23 / 26 °C

How to work through this list

Learning 172 names in one sitting does not work. Take one continent, cover the capital column, and name each capital from its country before you check. Come back to the ones you missed the next day rather than restarting the whole table. The memorising method sets out the review schedule, and DailyGeo Capitals supplies one mystery capital a day so the recall practice happens without you having to organise it.

Sources

Capital names, countries and city populations are DailyGeo's own game data. Elevation is terrain height from the Copernicus DEM. Temperatures are ten-year means computed from ERA5 reanalysis via Open-Meteo, so a few capitals have no figure where the dataset has no coverage.
On the ranking: capital populations are not evenly spread. City sizes follow a power law, which is why the top of this list is so far ahead of its middle. Gabaix, X. (1999). Zipf's Law for Cities: An Explanation. The Quarterly Journal of Economics.
Hersbach, H., et al. (2020). The ERA5 global reanalysis. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.
Method and limits: How this data was collected sets out how every figure was collected, the years it refers to, and what the dataset does not cover.

The short answer

The 172 capitals in DailyGeo's atlas are listed by continent with population, elevation and seasonal temperatures. Africa has the most capitals of any continent, followed by Asia and Europe.

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Frequently asked questions

How many capital cities are there in the world?

It depends on the list. The United Nations has 193 member states, and DailyGeo's atlas uses 172 countries and their capitals. Some countries also have more than one capital city, and a few seats of government sit outside the official capital.

Which continent has the most capitals?

Africa, with 51 of the 172 capitals in this atlas, ahead of Asia with 46 and Europe with 42.

What is the best way to learn all the capitals?

Work continent by continent, retrieve each capital before checking it, and review the ones you get wrong after a day, three days and a week. Five minutes of recall a day beats one long session.

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