In case that the capital is not the largest city, the third column gives the cities that are larger.
| Country | Capital | Cities larger than the capital |
|---|
| A |
|---|
| Afghanistan | Kabul | |
| Albania | Tirana | |
| Algeria | Algiers | |
| Andorra | Andorra la Vella | |
| Angola | Luanda | |
| Antigua and Barbuda | St. John's | |
| Argentina | Buenos Aires | |
| Armenia | Yerevan | |
| Australia | Canberra | Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Newcastle, Gold Coast |
| Austria | Vienna | |
| Azerbaijan | Baku | |
| B | ||
|---|---|---|
| Bahamas | Nassau | |
| Bahrain | Manama | |
| Bangladesh | Dhaka | |
| Barbados | Bridgetown | |
| Belarus | Minsk | |
| Belgium | Brussels | |
| Belize | Belmopan | Belize City, Corozal Town, Dangriga, Orange Walk Town, San Ignacio Cayo |
| Benin | Porto-Novo (official), Cotonou (administrative) | Cotonou |
| Bhutan | Thimphu | |
| Bolivia | Sucre (official), La Paz (administrative) | Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz is larger than La Paz; La Paz is larger than Sucre; metropolitan La Paz is larger than Santa Cruz) |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Sarajevo | |
| Botswana | Gaborone | |
| Brazil | Brasília | São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Porto Alegre, Recife, Salvador |
| Brunei Darussalam | Bandar Seri Begawan | |
| Bulgaria | Sofia | |
| Burkina Faso | Ouagadougou | |
| Burundi | Bujumbura | |
| C | ||
|---|---|---|
| Cambodia | Phnom Penh | |
| Cameroon | Yaoundé | Douala |
| Canada | Ottawa | Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary |
| Cape Verde | Praia | |
| Central African Republic | Bangui | |
| Chad | N'Djamena | |
| Chile | Santiago (official), Valparaíso (legislative) | Santiago |
| China, People's Republic of | Beijing | Shanghai |
| Colombia | Bogotá | |
| Comoros | Moroni | |
| Congo, Republic of the | Brazzaville | |
| Congo, Democratic Republic of the | Kinshasa | |
| Costa Rica | San José | |
| Côte d'Ivoire | Yamoussoukro (official), Abidjan (administrative) | Abidjan |
| Croatia | Zagreb | |
| Cuba | Havana | |
| Cyprus | Nicosia | |
| Czech Republic | Prague | |
| D | ||
|---|---|---|
| Denmark | Copenhagen | |
| Djibouti | Djibouti City | |
| Dominica | Roseau | |
| Dominican Republic | Santo Domingo | |
| E | ||
|---|---|---|
| East Timor | Dili | |
| Ecuador | Quito | Guayaquil |
| Egypt | Cairo | |
| El Salvador | San Salvador | |
| Equatorial Guinea | Malabo | |
| Eritrea | Asmara | |
| Estonia | Tallinn | |
| Ethiopia | Addis Ababa | |
| F | ||
|---|---|---|
| Fiji | Suva | |
| Finland | Helsinki | |
| France | Paris | |
| G | ||
|---|---|---|
| Gabon | Libreville | |
| Gambia, The | Banjul | |
| Georgia | Tbilisi | |
| Germany | Berlin[1] | |
| Ghana | Accra | |
| Greece | Athens | |
| Grenada | St. George's | |
| Guatemala | Guatemala City | |
| Guinea | Conakry | |
| Guinea-Bissau | Bissau | |
| Guyana | Georgetown | |
| H | ||
|---|---|---|
| Haiti | Port-au-Prince | |
| Honduras | Tegucigalpa | |
| Hungary | Budapest | |
| I | ||
|---|---|---|
| Iceland | Reykjavík | |
| India | New Delhi | Mumbai, (Old) Delhi, Kolkata, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Pune, Lucknow, Jaipur, Kanpur, Nagpur, Vadodara, Cochin (metropolitan Delhi ranks 2nd to metropolitan Mumbai). |
| Indonesia | Jakarta | |
| Iran | Tehran | |
| Iraq | Baghdad | |
| Ireland, Republic of | Dublin | |
| Israel | Jerusalem[2] | |
| Italy | Rome | |
| J | ||
|---|---|---|
| Jamaica | Kingston | |
| Japan | Tokyo | |
| Jordan | Amman | |
| K | ||
|---|---|---|
| Kazakhstan | Astana | Almaty |
| Kenya | Nairobi | |
| Kiribati | South Tarawa | |
| Korea, North | Pyongyang | |
| Korea, South | Seoul | |
| Kuwait | Kuwait City | |
| Kyrgyzstan | Bishkek | |
| L | ||
|---|---|---|
| Laos | Vientiane | |
| Latvia | Riga | |
| Lebanon | Beirut | |
| Lesotho | Maseru | |
| Liberia | Monrovia | |
| Libya | Tripoli | |
| Liechtenstein | Vaduz | Schaan |
| Lithuania | Vilnius | |
| Luxembourg | Luxembourg City | |
| M | ||
|---|---|---|
| Macedonia, FYR | Skopje | |
| Madagascar | Antananarivo | |
| Malawi | Lilongwe | Blantyre |
| Malaysia | Putrajaya (administrative), Kuala Lumpur (legislative; de facto) | Kuala Lumpur |
| Maldives | Malé | |
| Mali | Bamako | |
| Malta | Valletta | Birkirkara, Mosta, Qormi, Żabbar, St. Paul's Bay, Sliema, San Ġwann, Naxxar, Rabat, Żejtun, Żebbuġ, Fgura, Attard, Żurrieq, Ħamrun, Marsascala, Birzebbugia, Paola, Swieqi, Siġġiewi, St. Julian's, Msida, Tarxien, Mellieħa, Gżira, Rabat (Victoria) |
| Marshall Islands | Majuro | |
| Mauritania | Nouakchott | |
| Mauritius | Port Louis | |
| Mexico | Mexico City | |
| Micronesia | Palikir | Weno |
| Moldova | Chişinău | |
| Monaco | Monaco-Ville | Monte-Carlo, La Condamine |
| Mongolia | Ulaanbaatar | |
| Montenegro | Podgorica | |
| Morocco | Rabat | Casablanca |
| Mozambique | Maputo | |
| Myanmar | Naypyidaw (Pyinmana) | Yangon, Mandalay etc |
| N | ||
|---|---|---|
| Namibia | Windhoek | |
| Nauru | None (government offices in Yaren District) | |
| Nepal | Kathmandu | |
| Netherlands | Amsterdam (official),
The Hague (administrative, legislative, and judicial) | Rotterdam (Larger than The Hague; Amsterdam is the largest city) |
| New Zealand | Wellington | Auckland, Christchurch |
| Nicaragua | Managua | |
| Niger | Niamey | |
| Nigeria | Abuja | Lagos, Ibadan, Kano, Ilorin, Port Harcourt, Ogbomosho |
| Northern Ireland | Belfast | |
| Norway | Oslo | |
| O | ||
|---|---|---|
| Oman | Muscat | |
| P | ||
|---|---|---|
| Pakistan | Islamabad | Karachi, Lahore, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Multan, Hyderabad, Peshawar, Quetta |
| Palau | Melekeok | Koror |
| Panama | Panama City | |
| Papua New Guinea | Port Moresby | |
| Paraguay | Asunción | |
| Peru | Lima | |
| Philippines | Manila | Quezon City (part of Metro Manila) |
| Poland | Warsaw | |
| Portugal | Lisbon | |
| Q | ||
|---|---|---|
| Qatar | Doha | |
| R | ||
|---|---|---|
| Romania | Bucharest | |
| Russia | Moscow | |
| Rwanda | Kigali | |
| S | ||
|---|---|---|
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | Basseterre | |
| Saint Lucia | Castries | |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Kingstown | |
| Samoa | Apia | |
| San Marino | San Marino | Serravalle |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | São Tomé | |
| Saudi Arabia | Riyadh | |
| Senegal | Dakar | |
| Serbia | Belgrade | |
| Seychelles | Victoria | |
| Sierra Leone | Freetown | |
| Singapore | Singapore | |
| Slovakia | Bratislava | |
| Slovenia | Ljubljana | |
| Solomon Islands | Honiara | |
| Somalia | Mogadishu | |
| South Africa | Pretoria (official, and administrative),
Cape Town (legislative), Bloemfontein (judicial) | Johannesburg |
| Spain | Madrid | |
| Sri Lanka | Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte (official), Colombo (legislative) | Kotte is suburb of Colombo |
| Sudan | Khartoum | Omdurman |
| Suriname | Paramaribo | |
| Swaziland | Mbabane (official), Lobamba (legislative and royal) | Manzini |
| Sweden | Stockholm | |
| Switzerland | Bern | Zürich, Geneva, Basel |
| Syria | Damascus | |
| T | ||
|---|---|---|
| Taiwan | Taipei | |
| Tajikistan | Dushanbe | |
| Tanzania | Dodoma (official), Dar es Salaam (administrative) | Dar es Salaam |
| Thailand | Bangkok | |
| Togo | Lomé | |
| Tonga | Nuku'alofa | |
| Trinidad and Tobago | Port of Spain | Chaguanas, San Fernando, San Juan |
| Tunisia | Tunis | |
| Turkey | Ankara | Istanbul |
| Turkmenistan | Ashgabat | |
| Tuvalu | Funafuti | |
| U | ||
|---|---|---|
| Uganda | Kampala | |
| Ukraine | Kiev | |
| United Arab Emirates | Abu Dhabi | Dubai, Sharjah |
| United Kingdom | London | (note: The City of London is the second-smallest city in the United Kingdom. What is commonly regarded internationally as "London" is the City of London combined with the surrounding governmental area known as Greater London. Even this combination does not comprise the entire London metropolitan area.) |
| United States | Washington, D.C. | New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and seventeen others (Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area ranks 4th) |
| Uruguay | Montevideo | |
| Uzbekistan | Tashkent | |
| V | ||
|---|---|---|
| Vanuatu | Port Vila | |
| Vatican City | Vatican City | |
| Venezuela | Caracas | |
| Vietnam | Hanoi | Ho Chi Minh City |
| Y | ||
|---|---|---|
| Yemen | Sanaá | |
| Z | ||
|---|---|---|
| Zambia | Lusaka | |
| Zimbabwe | Harare | |
:''Note: whilst these entities aspire to statehood and have significant territory, they are not recognised by a majority of other states, and do not have a seat at the United Nations''
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