The following chart lists countries and dependencies along with their capital cities, in English and non-English official language(s).
- In bold: internationally recognized sovereign states
- The 193 member states of the United Nations (UN)
- Vatican City (administered by the Holy See, a UN observer state), which is generally recognized as a sovereign state
- In bold italics: states with limited recognition and associated states not members of the United Nations
- De facto sovereign states with partial international recognition, such as Palestine, Kosovo and Taiwan
- De facto sovereign states lacking general international recognition
- Cook Islands and Niue, two associated states of New Zealand without UN membership
- In italics: non-sovereign territories that are recognized by the UN as part of some member state
- Dependent territories
- Special territories recognized by international treaty (such as the special administrative regions of China)
- Other territories often regarded as separate geographical territories even though they are integral parts of their mother countries (such as the overseas departments of France)
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{| style="text-align:center;" class="wikitable"
! style="width:175px;"|Country (exonym)
! style="width:175px;"|Capital (exonym)
! style="width:175px;"|Country (endonym)
! style="width:175px;"|Capital (endonym)
! style="width:175px;"|Official or native language(s) (alphabet/script)
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| Afghanistan || Kabul || <br/>|| <br/>|| Pashto/Dari<br/>(Arabic script)
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| Albania || Tirana || || || Albanian
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| Algeria || Algiers || <br/><br/>'<br/>|| <br/><br/>'<br/>|| Berber language<br/>(Tifinagh script)<br/>Arabic<br/>(Arabic script)
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| American Samoa || Pago Pago || <br/>American Samoa || <br/>Pago Pago|| Samoan<br/>English
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| Andorra || Andorra la Vella || || || Catalan
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| Angola || Luanda || <br/>|| <br/>'|| Portuguese<br/> Kongo
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| Anguilla || The Valley || Anguilla || The Valley || English
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| Antigua and Barbuda || Saint John's || <br/>Antigua and Barbuda
| <br/>St. John's
| Antiguan and Barbudan Creole<br/>English
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| Argentina || Buenos Aires || || || Spanish
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| Armenia || Yerevan || <br/>|| <br/>|| Armenian<br/>(Armenian alphabet)
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| Aruba || Oranjestad || || || Dutch, Papiamento
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| Australia || Canberra || Australia || Canberra || English/Aboriginal languages
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| Austria || Vienna || || || German
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| Åland || Mariehamn || <br/> || <br/> || Swedish<br/>Finnish
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| Azerbaijan || Baku || || || Azerbaijani
|}
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{| style="text-align:center;" class="wikitable"
! style="width:175px;"|Country (exonym)
! style="width:175px;"|Capital (exonym)
! style="width:175px;"|Country (endonym)
! style="width:175px;"|Capital (endonym)
! style="width:175px;"|Official or native language(s) (alphabet/script)
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| The Bahamas || Nassau || The Bahamas || Nassau || English
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| Bahrain || Manama || <br/>|| <br/>|| Arabic<br/>(Arabic script)
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| Bangladesh || Dhaka || <br/><big></big> || <br/><big></big> || Bengali<br/>(Bengali script)
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| Barbados || Bridgetown || Barbados || Bridgetown || English
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| Belarus || Minsk || <br/><br/><br/>|| <br/><br/><br/>|| Belarusian<br/>(Cyrillic script)<br/>Russian<br/>(Cyrillic script)
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| Belgium || Brussels || <br/><br/> || <br/><br/> || Dutch<br/>French<br/>German
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| Belize || Belmopan || Belize || Belmopan || English
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| Benin || Porto-Novo || || || French
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| Bermuda<br/>|| Bulgarian<br/>(Cyrillic script)
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| Burkina Faso || Ouagadougou || || || French
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| Burundi || Gitega ||<br/>||'<br/>|| Kirundi <br>French
|}
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{| style="text-align:center;" class="wikitable"
! style="width:175px;"|Country (exonym)
! style="width:175px;"|Capital (exonym)
! style="width:175px;"|Country (endonym)
! style="width:175px;"|Capital (endonym)
! style="width:175px;"|Official or native language(s) (alphabet/script)
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| Cambodia || Phnom Penh || <br/> || <br/> || Khmer<br/>(Khmer script)
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| Cameroon || Yaoundé || <br/>Cameroon || <br/>Yaoundé || French<br/>English
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| Canada || Ottawa || Canada || Ottawa || English, French
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| Cape Verde || Praia || || || Portuguese
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| Cayman Islands || Flying Fish Cove || Christmas Island|| Flying Fish Cove || English
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| Cocos Islands || Avarua ||Cook Islands<br/>||Avarua<br/>|| English <br/> Cook Islands Māori
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| Costa Rica || San José || || || Spanish
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| Croatia || Zagreb || || || Croatian
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| Cuba || Havana || || || Spanish
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| Curaçao || Tórshavn || <br/> || <br/> || Faroese<br/>Danish
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| Fiji || Suva || Fiji<br/><br/> || Suva<br/><br/>|| English<br/>Fijian<br/>Fiji Hindi
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| Finland || Helsinki || <br/> || <br/> || Finnish<br/>Swedish
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| France || Paris || || || French
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| French Guiana || Cayenne || || || French
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| French Polynesia || Papeete || <br/> || <br/><br/> || French<br/>Tahitian
|}
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{| style="text-align:center;" class="wikitable"
! style="width:175px;"|Country (exonym)
! style="width:175px;"|Capital (exonym)
! style="width:175px;"|Country (endonym)
! style="width:175px;"|Capital (endonym)
! style="width:175px;"|Official or native language(s) (alphabet/script)
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| Gabon || Libreville || || || French
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| The Gambia || Banjul || The Gambia<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/> || Banjul<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/> || English<br/>Mandinka<br/>Pulaar<br/>Wolof
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| Georgia || Tbilisi || <br/>|| <br/>|| Georgian<br/>(Georgian alphabet)
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| Germany || Berlin || || || German
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| Ghana || Accra || Ghana<br/><br/><br/>|| Accra<br/><br/><br/>|| English<br/>Akan<br/>Twi<br/>Ewe
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| Gibraltar || Saint Peter Port || Guernsey<br/>Guernési || Saint Peter Port<br/>Saint Pierre Port || English<br/>Guernésiais
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| Guinea || Conakry || <br/><br/><br/><br/>|| <br/><br/><br/><br/> || French<br/>Maninka, Susu<br/>Pular
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| Guinea-Bissau || Bissau || <br/><br/><br/><br/> || <br/><br/><br/><br/> || Portuguese<br/>Fula<br/>Mandinka
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| Guyana || Georgetown || Guyana || Georgetown || English
|}
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{| style="text-align:center;" class="wikitable"
! style="width:175px;"|Country (exonym)
! style="width:175px;"|Capital (exonym)
! style="width:175px;"|Country (endonym)
! style="width:175px;"|Capital (endonym)
! style="width:175px;"|Official or native language(s) (alphabet/script)
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| Haiti || Port-au-Prince || <br/> || <br/> || French<br/>Haitian Creole
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| Honduras || Tegucigalpa || || || Spanish
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| Hong Kong || Hong Kong || Hong Kong<br/><br/>|| Hong Kong<br/><br/>|| English<br/>Cantonese<br/>(Traditional Chinese characters)
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| Hungary || Budapest || || || Hungarian
|}
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{| style="text-align:center;" class="wikitable"
! style="width:175px;"|Country (exonym)
! style="width:175px;"|Capital (exonym)
! style="width:175px;"|Country (endonym)
! style="width:175px;"|Capital (endonym)
! style="width:175px;"|Official or native language(s) (alphabet/script)
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| Iceland || Reykjavík || || || Icelandic
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| India || New Delhi || <br/><br/><br/><br/>India<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>|| <br/><br/><br/><br/>New Delhi<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>|| Assamese<br/>(Assamese script)<br/>Bengali<br/>(Bengali script)<br/>English<br/>Gujarati<br/>(Gujarati script)<br/>Hindi<br/>(Devanagari script)<br/>Kannada<br/>(Kannada script)<br/>Konkani<br/>(Devanagari script)<br/>Malayalam<br/>(Malayalam script)<br/>Marathi<br/>(Devanagari script)<br/>Nepali<br/>(Devanagari script)<br/>Odia<br/>(Odia script)<br/>Punjabi<br/>(Gurmukhi script)<br/>Sanskrit<br/>(Devanagari script)<br/>Tamil<br/>(Tamil script)<br/>Telugu<br/>(Telugu script)
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| Indonesia || Jakarta || || || Indonesian
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| Iran || Tehran || <br/>
|| <br/>|| Persian<br/>(Persian script)
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| Iraq || Baghdad || <br/><br/><br/> || <br/><br/><br/>|| Arabic<br/>(Arabic script)<br/>Kurdish
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| Ireland || Dublin || '<br/>Ireland || '<br/>Dublin || Irish<br/>English
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| Isle of Man || Kiribati || Tarawa || English, Gilbertese
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| North Korea || Pyongyang || <small>as called in NK</small><br/> / <br/><br/>|| <br/> / || Korean<br/>(Hangul/Hanja)
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| South Korea || Seoul || <small>as called in SK</small><br/> / <br/><br/>|| <br/>|| Korean<br/>(Hangul/Hanja)
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| Kosovo || Pristina || <br/><br/>|| <br/><br/>|| Albanian <br/> Serbian (Latin) <br/> Serbian (Cyrillic)
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| Kuwait || Kuwait City || <br/><br/><br/>|| <br/><br><br>|| Arabic (Official)<br/>(Arabic script)<br/> Kuwaiti Gulf Arabic (native)<br/>(Arabic script)
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| Kyrgyzstan || Bishkek || <br/><br/><br/>|| <br/><br/><br/>|| Kyrgyz<br/>(Cyrillic script)<br/>Russian<br/>(Cyrillic script)
|}
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{| style="text-align:center;" class="wikitable"
! style="width:175px;"|Country (exonym)
! style="width:175px;"|Capital (exonym)
! style="width:175px;"|Country (endonym)
! style="width:175px;"|Capital (endonym)
! style="width:175px;"|Official or native language(s) (alphabet/script)
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| Laos || Vientiane || <br/>|| , or <br/>||Lao<br/>Lao alphabet
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| Latvia || Riga || || || Latvian
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| Lebanon || Beirut || <br/><br>|| <br/><br>|| Arabic<br/>(Arabic script)
French
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| Lesotho || Maseru || || || Sesotho, English
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| Liberia || Monrovia || Liberia || Monrovia || English
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| Libya || Tripoli || <br/><br/><br/>|| <br/><br/><br/>|| Berber language<br/>(Tifinagh script)<br/>Arabic<br/>(Arabic script)
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| Liechtenstein || Vaduz || || || German
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| Lithuania || Vilnius || || || Lithuanian
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| Luxembourg || Luxembourg || <br/><br/> || <br/><br/> || Luxembourgish<br/>German<br/>French
|}
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{| style="text-align:center;" class="wikitable"
! style="width:175px;"|Country (exonym)
! style="width:175px;"|Capital (exonym)
! style="width:175px;"|Country (endonym)
! style="width:175px;"|Capital (endonym)
! style="width:175px;"|Official or native language(s) (alphabet/script)
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| Macau ||Montserrat ||Brades Estate || English
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| Morocco || Rabat || <br/><br/><br/>|| <br/><br/><br/>|| Berber language<br/>(Tifinagh script)<br/>Arabic<br/>(Arabic script)
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| Mozambique || Maputo || <br/> || <br/> || Portuguese<br/>Tsonga
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| Myanmar (or Burma) || Naypyidaw || <br/>|| <br/>|| Burmese<br/>(Burmese alphabet)
|}
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{| style="text-align:center;" class="wikitable"
! style="width:175px;"|Country (exonym)
! style="width:175px;"|Capital (exonym)
! style="width:175px;"|Country (endonym)
! style="width:175px;"|Capital (endonym)
! style="width:175px;"|Official or native language(s) (alphabet/script)
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| Namibia || Windhoek || Namibia<br/><br/><br/><br/>|| Windhoek<br/><br/><br/><br/> || English<br/>German<br/>Afrikaans<br/>Damara/Nama<br/>Herero
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| Nauru || Yaren (de facto) || Nauru<br/> ||Yaren<br/> || English<br/>Nauruan
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| Nepal || Kathmandu || <br/>|| <br/>|| Nepali<br/>(Devanagari script)
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| Netherlands || Amsterdam || <br/> || <br/> || Dutch<br/>West Frisian
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| New Caledonia || Nouméa || || || French
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| New Zealand || Wellington || New Zealand<br/> || Wellington<br/>|| English<br/>Māori
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| Nicaragua || Managua || || || Spanish
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| Niger || Niamey || <br/> || <br/> || French<br/>Hausa
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| Nigeria || Abuja ||Nigeria<br/><br/><br/>|| Abuja<br/><br/><br/>|| English<br/>Hausa<br/>Igbo<br/>Yoruba
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| Niue || Longyearbyen || || || Norwegian
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| Sweden || Stockholm || || || Swedish
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| Switzerland || Bern (de facto) || || || || English, Tokelauan
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| Tonga || Nukualofa || || || Tongan, English
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| Trinidad and Tobago || Port of Spain || Trinidad and Tobago || Port of Spain || English
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| Tunisia || Tunis || <br/><br/><br/>|| <br/><br/><br/>|| Berber language<br/>(Tifinagh script)<br/>Arabic<br/>(Arabic script)
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| Turkey || Ankara || || || Turkish
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| Turkmenistan || Ashgabat || || || Turkmen
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| Turks and Caicos Islands however, in May 2018, the United States and Guatemala moved their official embassies to Jerusalem, and several other UN member states indicated that they were considering doing the same. Many countries officially adhere to the proposal that Jerusalem have international status, as called for in the Partition Plan of 1947. The Palestinian National Authority claims East Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state. See Positions on Jerusalem.
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