List of Capitals of the 193 UN Member States

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There are 193 United Nations Member States. This is a list of the 193 capitals.

Nomadic Backpacker in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda in 2023:

Nomadic Backpacker in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda

Beirut, capital of Lebanon, 2010:

Beirut Lebanon

As a traveller, I think it’s important to know your geography. There might be some surprises:

Dar es Salaam is not the capital of Tanzania, it’s Dodoma.

Ottawa is the capital of Canada, not Quebec City, not Vancouver or even Montreal.

Gitega is the capital of Burundi, the political capital. Bujumbura is the economic capital.

Back in 2023, when I was still drinking beer. Pic 1 at the Source du Nil Hotel, pic 2 at the Hotel Restaurant Tanganyika Lake View, both in Bujumbura, Burundi:

Drinking a beer at the Source du Nil Hotel in Bujumbura, Burundi
Drinking a beer at the Hotel Restaurant Tanganyika Lake View in Bujumbura, Burundi

Yamoussoukro is the capital of the Ivory Coast. Abidjan is the economic capital. The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro in 2020:

The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro

Andorra La Vella 2024:

Andorra la vella sign

Nomadic Backpacker at the Shah Faisal Masjid in Islamabad in 2010:

Nomadic Backpacker at the Shah Faisal Masjid in Islamabad

Backpacking the Capital of Honduras, Tegucigalpa, in 2022:

Nomadic Backpacker, backpacking Honduras, in front of the Iglesia Santa María de los Dolores

South Africa: Pretoria is the administrative capital, while Cape Town, as the seat of Parliament, is the legislative capital, and Bloemfontein is regarded as the judicial capital. I backpacked Pretoria, got attacked in Cape Town and changed buses in Bloemfontein.

Freak Street, Kathmandu, Nepal 2011:

Freak Street shop front in Kathmandu, Nepal

Eswatini, formerly Swaziland, Mbabane is the administrative capital,
Lobamba is the legislative and royal capital.

Sucre is the official capital of Bolivia, whilst La Paz is the seat of government.

Brasilia is the capital of Brazil. Would have got that wrong in a pub quiz.

Damascus, Syria 2010:

Nomadic Backpacker at the Grand Bazaar in Damascus, Syria

Do you know your World Capitals?

This is just the 193 UN Member State Capitals as of 2025:

  1. Afghanistan – Kabul
  2. Albania – Tirana
  3. Algeria – Algiers
  4. Andorra – Andorra la Vella
  5. Angola – Luanda
  6. Antigua and Barbuda – Saint John’s
  7. Argentina – Buenos Aires
  8. Armenia – Yerevan
  9. Australia – Canberra
  10. Austria – Vienna
  11. Azerbaijan – Baku
  12. Bahamas – Nassau
  13. Bahrain – Manama
  14. Bangladesh – Dhaka
  15. Barbados – Bridgetown
  16. Belarus – Minsk
  17. Belgium – Brussels
  18. Belize – Belmopan
  19. Benin – Porto-Novo
  20. Bhutan – Thimphu
  21. Bolivia – Sucre
  22. Bosnia and Herzegovina – Sarajevo
  23. Botswana – Gaborone
  24. Brazil – Brasilia
  25. Brunei – Bandar Seri Begawan
  26. Bulgaria – Sofia
  27. Burkina – Faso Ouagadougou
  28. Burundi – Gitega
  29. Cabo Verde – Praia
  30. Cambodia – Phnom Penh
  31. Cameroon – Yaounde
  32. Canada – Ottawa
  33. Central African Republic – Bangui
  34. Chad – N’Djamena
  35. Chile – Santiago
  36. China – Beijing
  37. Colombia – Bogotá
  38. Comoros Moroni
  39. Congo Republic of the – Brazzaville
  40. Costa Rica – San Jose
  41. Cote d’Ivoire – Yamoussoukro
  42. Croatia – Zagreb
  43. Cuba – Havana
  44. Cyprus – Nicosia
  45. Czechia – Prague
  46. Denmark – Copenhagen
  47. Djibouti – Djibouti (city)
  48. Dominica – Roseau
  49. Dominican Republic – Santo Domingo
  50. DRC – Kinshasa
  51. Ecuador – Quito
  52. Egypt – Cairo
  53. El Salvador – San Salvador
  54. Equatorial – Guinea Malabo
  55. Eritrea – Asmara
  56. Estonia – Tallinn
  57. Eswatini – Mbabane
  58. Ethiopia – Addis Ababa
  59. Fiji – Suva
  60. Finland – Helsinki
  61. France – Paris
  62. Gabon – Libreville
  63. Gambia – Banjul
  64. Georgia – Tbilisi
  65. Germany – Berlin
  66. Ghana – Accra
  67. Greece – Athens
  68. Grenada Saint – George’s
  69. Guatemala – Guatemala City
  70. Guinea – Conakry
  71. Guinea-Bissau – Bissau
  72. Guyana – Georgetown
  73. Haiti – Port-au-Prince
  74. Honduras – Tegucigalpa
  75. Hungary – Budapest
  76. Iceland – Reykjavik
  77. India – New Delhi
  78. Indonesia – Jakarta
  79. Iran – Tehran
  80. Iraq – Baghdad
  81. Ireland – Dublin
  82. Israel – Jerusalem
  83. Italy – Rome
  84. Jamaica – Kingston
  85. Japan – Tokyo
  86. Jordan – Amman
  87. Kazakhstan – Astana
  88. Kenya – Nairobi
  89. Kiribati – Tarawa
  90. Kuwait – Kuwait City
  91. Kyrgyzstan – Bishkek
  92. Laos – Vientiane
  93. Latvia – Riga
  94. Lebanon – Beirut
  95. Lesotho – Maseru
  96. Liberia – Monrovia
  97. Libya – Tripoli
  98. Liechtenstein – Vaduz
  99. Lithuania – Vilnius
  100. Luxembourg – Luxembourg (city)
  101. Madagascar – Antananarivo
  102. Malawi – Lilongwe
  103. Malaysia – Kuala Lumpur
  104. Maldives Male
  105. Mali – Bamako
  106. Malta – Valletta
  107. Marshall Islands – Majuro
  108. Mauritania Nouakchott
  109. Mauritius – Port Louis
  110. Mexico – Mexico City
  111. Micronesia – Palikir
  112. Moldova – Chisinau
  113. Monaco – Monaco
  114. Mongolia – Ulaanbaatar
  115. Montenegro – Podgorica
  116. Morocco – Rabat
  117. Mozambique – Maputo
  118. Myanmar – Naypyidaw
  119. Namibia – Windhoek
  120. Nauru – Yaren District (de facto)
  121. Nepal – Kathmandu
  122. Netherlands – Amsterdam
  123. New Zealand – Wellington
  124. Nicaragua – Managua
  125. Niger – Niamey
  126. Nigeria – Abuja
  127. North Korea – Pyongyang
  128. North Macedonia – Skopje
  129. Norway – Oslo
  130. Oman – Muscat
  131. Pakistan – Islamabad
  132. Palau – Ngerulmud
  133. Panama – Panama City
  134. Papua New Guinea – Port Moresby
  135. Paraguay – Asunción
  136. Peru – Lima
  137. Philippines – Manila
  138. Poland – Warsaw
  139. Portugal – Lisbon
  140. Qatar – Doha
  141. Romania – Bucharest
  142. Russia – Moscow
  143. Rwanda – Kigali
  144. Saint Kitts and Nevis – Basseterre
  145. Saint Lucia – Castries
  146. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines – Kingstown
  147. Samoa – Apia
  148. San Marino – San Marino
  149. Sao Tome and Principe São – Tomé
  150. Saudi Arabia – Riyadh
  151. Senegal – Dakar
  152. Serbia – Belgrade
  153. Seychelles – Victoria
  154. Sierra Leone – Freetown
  155. Singapore – Singapore
  156. Slovakia – Bratislava
  157. Slovenia – Ljubljana
  158. Solomon – Islands Honiara
  159. Somalia – Mogadishu
  160. South Africa – Pretoria
  161. South Korea – Seoul
  162. South Sudan – Juba
  163. Spain – Madrid
  164. Sri Lanka – Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
  165. Sudan – Khartoum
  166. Suriname – Paramaribo
  167. Sweden – Stockholm
  168. Switzerland – Bern
  169. Syria – Damascus
  170. Tajikistan – Dushanbe
  171. Tanzania – Dodoma
  172. Thailand – Bangkok
  173. Timor-Leste – Dili
  174. Togo – Lomé
  175. Tonga – Nukuʻalofa
  176. Trinidad and Tobago – Port of Spain
  177. Tunisia – Tunis
  178. Turkey – Ankara
  179. Turkmenistan – Ashgabat
  180. Tuvalu Funafuti
  181. Uganda – Kampala
  182. Ukraine – Kyiv
  183. United Arab Emirates – Abu Dhabi
  184. United Kingdom – London
  185. United States of America – Washington, D.C.
  186. Uruguay – Montevideo
  187. Uzbekistan – Tashkent
  188. Vanuatu – Port Vila
  189. Venezuela – Caracas
  190. Vietnam – Hanoi
  191. Yemen – Sana’a
  192. Zambia – Lusaka
  193. Zimbabwe – Harare

Of the 115 UN Member States I have visited, I have missed 17 of the capital cities.

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