list of sovereign states

This is a list of sovereign states and their capitals.

For the purposes of this list economic sovereignty is not considered.

Australia and the Pacific

• Australia (Canberra)
• Fiji (Suva)
• Kiribati (Tarawa)
• Marshall Islands (Majuro)
• Micronesia (Palikir)
• Nauru
• New Zealand (Wellington)
• Palau (Koror)
• Papua New Guinea (Port Moresby)
• Samoa (Apia)
• Solomon Islands (Honiara)
• Tonga (Nuku'alofa)
• Tuvalu (Funafuti)
• Vanuatu (Port Vila)

Caribbean

• Antigua and Barbuda (Saint John's)
• The Bahamas (Nassau)
• Barbados (Bridgetown)
• Cuba (Havana)
• Dominica (Roseau)
• Dominican Republic (Santo Domingo)
• Grenada (Saint George's)
• Haiti (Port-au-Prince)
• Jamaica (Kingston)
• Saint Kitts and Nevis (Basseterre)
• Saint Lucia (Castries)
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (Kingstown)
• Trinidad and Tobago (Port of Spain)

Central America

• Belize (Belmopan)
• Costa Rica (San José)
• El Salvador (San Salvador)
• Guatemala (Guatemala)
• Honduras (Tegucigalpa)
• Mexico (México)
• Nicaragua (Managua)
• Panama (Panamá)

Central Asia

• Kazakhstan (Astana)
• Kyrgyzstan (Bishkek)
• Mongolia (Ulaanbaatar)
• Tajikistan (Dushanbe)
• Turkmenistan (Ashgabat)
• Uzbekistan (Tashkent)

East Africa

• Burundi (Bujumbura)
• Djibouti (Djibouti)
• Eritrea (Asmara)
• Ethiopia (Addis Ababa)
• Kenya (Nairobi)
• Rwanda (Kigali)
• Somalia (Mogadishu, Jowhar)
• Sudan (Khartoum)
• Tanzania (Dar es Salaam, Dodoma)
• Uganda (Kampala)

East Asia

• China (Beijing)
• Japan (Tokyo)
• North Korea (Pyongyang)
• Philippines (Manila)
• South Korea (Seoul)
• Taiwan (Taipei)

Eastern Europe

• Albania (Tirana)
• Armenia (Yerevan)
• Azerbaijan (Baku)
• Belarus (Minsk)
• Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo)
• Bulgaria (Sofia)
• Croatia (Zagreb)
• Czech Republic (Prague)
• Estonia (Tallinn)
• Georgia (Tbilisi)
• Hungary (Budapest)
• Latvia (RÄ«ga)
• Lithuania (Vilnius)
• Macedonia (Skopje)
• Moldova (ChiÅŸinău)
• Montenegro (Podgorica)
• Poland (Warsaw)
• Romania (Bucharest)
• Russia (Moscow)
• Serbia (Belgrade)
• Slovakia (Bratislava)
• Slovenia (Ljubljana)
• Ukraine (Kiev)

Middle East

• Bahrain (Manama)
• Iran (Tehran)
• Iraq (Baghdad)
• Israel (Jerusalem, Tel Aviv)
• Jordan (Amman)
• Kuwait (Kuwait)
• Lebanon (Beirut)
• Oman (Muscat)
• Palestine (Jerusalem, Ramallah)
• Qatar (Doha)
• Saudi Arabia (Riyadh)
• Syria (Damascus)
• Turkey (Ankara)
• United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi)
• Yemen (Sanaa)

North Africa

• Algeria (Algiers)
• Egypt (Cairo)
• Libya (Tripoli)
• Mauritania (Nouakchott)
• Morocco (Rabat)
• Tunisia (Tunis)
• Western Sahara (El Aaiún)

North America

• Canada (Ottawa)
• United States (Washington)

Scandinavia and Finland

• Denmark (Copenhagen)
• Finland (Helsinki)
• Iceland (Reykjavík)
• Norway (Oslo)
• Sweden (Stockholm)

South America

• Argentina (Buenos Aires)
• Bolivia (La Paz, Sucre)
• Brazil (Brasília)
• Chile (Santiago, Valparaíso)
• Colombia (Bogotá)
• Ecuador (Quito)
• Guyana (Georgetown)
• Paraguay (Asunción)
• Peru (Lima)
• Suriname (Paramaribo)
• Uruguay (Montevideo)
• Venezuela (Caracas)

South Asia

• Afghanistan (Kabul)
• Bangladesh (Dhaka)
• Bhutan (Thimphu)
• India (New Delhi)
• Maldives (Malé)
• Nepal (Kathmandu)
• Pakistan (Islamabad)
• Sri Lanka (Colombo, Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte)

Southeast Asia

• Brunei Darussalam (Bandar Seri Begawan)
• Cambodia (Phnom Penh)
• East Timor (Dili)
• Indonesia (Jakarta)
• Laos (Vientiane)
• Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya)
• Myanmar (Naypyidaw)
• Singapore (Singapore)
• Thailand (Bangkok)
• Vietnam (Hanoi)

Southern Africa

• Angola (Luanda)
• Botswana (Gaborone)
• Comoros (Moroni)
• Congo (Kinshasa)
• Lesotho (Maseru)
• Madagascar (Antananarivo)
• Malawi (Lilongwe)
• Mauritius (Port Louis)
• Mozambique (Maputo)
• Namibia (Windhoek)
• Seychelles (Victoria)
• South Africa (Pretoria, Cape Town, Bloemfontein)
• Swaziland (Mbabane, Lobamba)
• Zambia (Lusaka)
• Zimbabwe (Harare)

West Africa

• Benin (Porto-Novo, Cotonou)
• Burkina Faso (Ouagadougou)
• Cameroon (Yaoundé)
• Cape Verde (Praia)
• Central African Republic (Bangui)
• Chad (N'Djamena)
• Congo (Brazzaville)
• Côte d'Ivoire (Yamoussoukro, Abidjan)
• Equatorial Guinea (Malabo)
• Gabon (Libreville)
• The Gambia (Banjul)
• Ghana (Accra)
• Guinea (Conakry)
• Guinea-Bissau (Bissau)
• Liberia (Monrovia)
• Mali (Bamako)
• Niger (Niamey)
• Nigeria (Abuja)
• São Tomé and Príncipe (São Tomé)
• Senegal (Dakar)
• Sierra Leone (Freetown)
• Togo (Lomé)

Western Europe

• Andorra (Andorra la Vella)
• Austria (Vienna)
• Belgium (Brussels)
• Cyprus (Nicosia)
• France (Paris)
• Germany (Berlin)
• Greece (Athens)
• Ireland (Dublin)
• Italy (Rome)
• Liechtenstein (Vaduz)
• Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
• Malta (Valletta)
• Monaco
• Netherlands (Amsterdam, The Hague)
• Portugal (Lisbon)
• San Marino (San Marino)
• Spain (Madrid)
• Switzerland (Bern)
• United Kingdom (London)

Unrecognized states with territorial control

• Abkhazia
• Nagorno-Karabakh
• Puntland
• Somaliland
• South Ossetia
• Transnistria
• Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus

Some historical sovereign states

• Anjouan
• Biafra
• Bophuthatswana
• Bougainville
• Ciskei
• Czechoslovakia
• East Germany
• Far Eastern Republic
• Hawaii
• Hejaz
• Katanga
• Mali Federation
• Manchukuo
• Mohéli
• Nejd
• North Vietnam
• North Yemen
• Peru-Bolivian Confederation
• Rhodesia
• South Vietnam
• South Yemen
• Tanganyika
• Tannu Tuva
• Texas
• Transkei
• United Arab Republic
• United Provinces of Central America
• Venda
• Yugoslavia
• Zanzibar