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All World Capital Cities by Population

Can you name every capital city of the world in the right order by population?
Numbers by urban area population (urban agglomerations, districts, subdistricts, parishes or similar categories have been used when data of urban areas were not available)
All capital cities of Bolivia and South Africa are to be guessed
Color-coded by continent
Source: https://www.citypopulation.de/
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Last updated: April 13, 2026
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Population
City
26,570,462
Manila
21,804,515
Mexico City
18,960,744
Beijing
16,349,831
Delhi
16,224,751
Buenos Aires
14,734,701
Dhaka
14,178,000
Tokyo
13,274,285
Moscow
11,166,200
Lima
11,019,357
Paris
10,562,088
Jakarta
10,558,797
London
10,248,385
Cairo
9,586,195
Seoul
8,693,706
Tehran
8,305,218
Bangkok
8,126,755
Baghdad
8,087,775
Kuala Lumpur
8,053,663
Hanoi
7,876,000
Bogotá
7,273,947
Kinshasa
7,009,120
Riyadh
6,759,313
Luanda
6,619,236
Madrid
6,160,040
Santiago
6,111,175
Singapore
5,209,921
Brasília
5,186,002
Ankara
5,174,759
Washington
5,132,639
Rabat
4,475,400
Berlin
4,434,550
Kabul
4,397,073
Nairobi
4,272,728
Khartoum
4,227,569
Bamako
3,860,000
Addis Ababa
3,762,900
Yaoundé
3,696,734
Amman
3,639,725
Guatemala City
3,632,000
Accra
3,452,520
Kuwait City
3,430,992
Cape Town
3,407,327
Conakry
3,254,500
Rome
3,186,088
Dakar
3,146,164
Athens
3,112,748
Tashkent
2,999,466
Pyongyang
2,952,301
Kyiv
2,752,784
Santo Domingo
2,690,000
Abuja
2,640,400
Baku
2,594,581
Taipei
2,504,304
Antananarivo
2,415,266
Ouagadougou
2,377,407
Vienna
2,364,230
Algiers
2,363,863
Islamabad
2,296,386
Port au Prince
2,212,301
Lusaka
2,189,460
Phnom Penh
2,188,376
Lomé
2,138,236
Brazzaville
2,137,847
Havana
2,112,474
Maputo
2,103,000
Damascus
Population
City
2,089,012
Caracas
2,041,587
Kathmandu
1,995,471
Minsk
1,979,861
Brussels
1,861,599
Warsaw
1,830,619
Lilongwe
1,797,722
Kampala
1,763,336
Pretoria
1,763,275
Quito
1,761,032
Monrovia
1,750,000
Abu Dhabi
1,745,555
Kigali
1,709,458
Bucharest
1,707,531
Sana'a
1,685,209
Budapest
1,682,720
Belgrade
1,650,227
Mogadishu
1,650,000
Beirut
1,563,371
San Salvador
1,539,252
Ulaanbaatar
1,491,754
Harare
1,453,500
San José
1,446,761
Nouakchott
1,397,880
Prague
1,396,899
Helsinki
1,396,508
Copenhagen
1,354,507
Astana
1,330,200
Tbilisi
1,326,460
Tegucigalpa
1,302,440
Muscat
1,293,016
Tripoli
1,287,452
Montevideo
1,263,219
Dublin
1,242,600
Dushanbe
1,209,700
Jerusalem
1,205,548
Sofia
1,186,023
Doha
1,141,100
Yerevan
1,136,210
Amsterdam
1,132,969
Panama City
1,129,322
Naypyidaw
1,120,827
Bishkek
1,110,887
Oslo
1,075,306
Tunis
1,068,821
Ottawa
1,055,111
Managua
1,030,063
Ashgabat
1,026,848
Niamey
995,574
Stockholm
951,418
Ndjamena
896,000
Asmara
888,043
Vilnius
847,162
Riga
812,407
Bangui
777,359
Zagreb
767,250
Djibouti
765,179
Dodoma
756,754
Port Moresby
750,225
La Paz
747,565
Banjul
720,128
Chisinau
703,940
Libreville
620,157
Vientiane
611,154
Kingston
609,174
Freetown
598,176
Tirana
Population
City
545,796
Lisbon
534,842
Gaborone
528,528
Gitega
526,376
Skopje
510,641
Canberra
486,186
Windhoek
478,040
Bratislava
464,591
Bloemfontein
462,241
Asunción
439,632
Tallinn
422,072
Yamoussoukro
387,909
Bissau
348,363
Sarajevo
343,541
Maseru
296,732
Nassau
290,903
Ljubljana
286,380
Bern
275,959
Sucre
267,623
Dili
266,682
Bandar Seri Begawan
264,320
Porto Novo
257,000
Malabo
255,350
Nicosia
240,924
Paramaribo
239,733
Reykjavik
230,195
Juba
211,908
Malé
209,800
Wellington
192,687
Luxembourg
185,913
Suva
179,505
Podgorica
169,721
Honiara
143,035
Manama
141,219
Praia
140,403
Port Louis
138,736
Thimphu
125,683
Georgetown
107,925
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
105,566
Belmopan
90,156
Valletta
77,394
Bridgetown
74,749
Moroni
66,888
Sao Tomé
60,691
Mbabane
51,737
St. John's
49,528
Port Vila
44,777
St. George's
44,643
South Tarawa
37,308
Monaco
37,074
Port of Spain
35,974
Apia
35,883
Castries
34,142
Nuku'alofa
29,664
Victoria
26,721
Kingstown
24,836
Andorra la Vella
23,156
Majuro
21,241
Roseau
12,635
Basseterre
6,647
Palikir
6,602
Funafuti
6,031
Vaduz
4,158
San Marino
803
Yaren
453
Vatican City
318
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2 Comments
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Level 21
Apr 12, 2026
Fun - but you're missing Dublin, and Juba has been categorised as Asia!
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Level 60
Apr 12, 2026
Thank you! Mistakes have been corrected. Taipei was missing too.