List of countries by continent
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This is a list of the countries of the world by continent, displayed with their respective national flags and capitals. This list contains:

• Sovereign states (country names in bold), consisting of:
  • The member states of the United Nations (UN).
  • A UN-recognized non-member state: Vatican City.
  • States not recognized by the UN, but recognized by or maintaining de facto international relations with many UN members: the Republic of China and Kosovo.
• Territories de facto not independent, but recognized by many UN members as entitled to sovereignty (country names in bold italics): the Palestinian territories and Western Sahara.
• Dependent territories, including the overseas departments of France and the special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China (country names in italics).

However, this list does not contain de facto independent states that are generally unrecognized.

For a detailed discussion of how the world is divided into continents, see the articles Continent and Borders of the continents.

In this list, countries are classified according to the United Nations Statistics Division.^[1] There are countries that span more than one continent, according to either geographical or political and historical criteria. For the partition of countries into continents according to geographical criteria, see here.

Africa

Main article: List of African countries

•  Algeria – Algiers
•  Angola – Luanda
•  Benin – Porto-Novo (seat of government at Cotonou)
•  Botswana – Gaborone
•  Burkina Faso – Ouagadougou
•  Burundi – Bujumbura
•  Cameroon – Yaoundé
•  Cape Verde – Praia
•  Central African Republic – Bangui
•  Chad – N'Djamena
•  Comoros – Moroni
•  Congo, Democratic Republic of (also known as Congo-Kinshasa) – Kinshasa
•  Congo, Republic of (also known as Congo-Brazzaville) – Brazzaville
•  Côte d'Ivoire (also commonly known as Ivory Coast) – Yamoussoukro (seat of government at Abidjan)
•  Djibouti – Djibouti
•  Egypt – Cairo
•  Equatorial Guinea – Malabo
•  Eritrea – Asmara
•  Ethiopia – Addis Ababa
•  Gabon – Libreville
•  Gambia – Banjul
•  Ghana – Accra
•  Guinea – Conakry
•  Guinea-Bissau – Bissau
•  Kenya – Nairobi
•  Lesotho – Maseru
•  Liberia – Monrovia
•  Libya – Tripoli
•  Madagascar – Antananarivo
•  Malawi – Lilongwe
•  Mali – Bamako
•  Mauritania – Nouakchott
•  Mauritius – Port Louis
•  Mayotte (overseas territory of France) – Mamoudzou
•  Morocco – Rabat
•  Mozambique – Maputo
•  Namibia – Windhoek
•  Niger – Niamey
•  Nigeria – Abuja
•  Réunion (overseas department of France) – Saint-Denis
•  Rwanda – Kigali
•  Saint Helena (overseas territory of the United Kingdom; including the territories of Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha) – Jamestown
•  Sao Tome and Principe – São Tomé
•  Senegal – Dakar
•  Seychelles – Victoria
•  Sierra Leone – Freetown
•  Somalia – Mogadishu
•  South Africa – Pretoria (administrative), Cape Town (legislative), Bloemfontein (judicial)
•  Sudan – Khartoum
•  Swaziland – Mbabane (administrative), Lobamba (royal and legislative)
•  Tanzania – Dodoma (seat of government at Dar es Salaam)
•  Togo – Lomé
•  Tunisia – Tunis
•  Uganda – Kampala
•  Western Sahara – El Aaiún (unofficial)
•  Zambia – Lusaka
•  Zimbabwe – Harare

Eurasia

Asia

Main article: List of Asian countries

•  Afghanistan – Kabul
•  Armenia^[2] – Yerevan
•  Azerbaijan^[2] – Baku
•  Bahrain – Manama
•  Bangladesh – Dhaka
•  Bhutan – Thimphu
•  British Indian Ocean Territory^[3] (overseas territory of the United Kingdom)
•  Brunei – Bandar Seri Begawan
•  Cambodia – Phnom Penh
•  China, People's Republic of – Beijing
•  China, Republic of (commonly known as Taiwan) – Taipei
•  Christmas Island^[4] (overseas territory of Australia)
•  Cocos (Keeling) Islands^[4] (overseas territory of Australia)
•  Cyprus^[2] – Nicosia
•  Georgia^[2] – Tbilisi
•  Hong Kong (special administrative region of the People's Republic of China)
•  India – New Delhi
•  Indonesia – Jakarta
•  Iran – Tehran
•  Iraq – Baghdad
•  Israel – Jerusalem
•  Japan – Tokyo
•  Jordan – Amman
•  Kazakhstan – Astana
•  Korea, Democratic People's Republic of (commonly known as North Korea) – Pyongyang
•  Korea, Republic of (commonly known as South Korea) – Seoul
•  Kuwait – Kuwait City
•  Kyrgyzstan – Bishkek
•  Laos – Vientiane
•  Lebanon – Beirut
•  Macau (special administrative region of the People's Republic of China)
•  Malaysia – Kuala Lumpur (seat of government at Putrajaya)
•  Maldives – Malé
•  Mongolia – Ulaanbaatar
•  Myanmar (also commonly known as Burma) – Naypyidaw
•  Nepal – Kathmandu
•  Oman – Muscat
•  Pakistan – Islamabad
•  Palestinian territories (collectively the territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip)
•  Philippines – Manila
•  Qatar – Doha
•  Saudi Arabia – Riyadh
•  Singapore – Singapore^[5]
•  Sri Lanka – Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte
•  Syria – Damascus
•  Tajikistan – Dushanbe
•  Thailand – Bangkok
•  Timor-Leste (also commonly known as East Timor) – Dili
•  Turkey^[2] – Ankara
•  Turkmenistan – Ashgabat
•  United Arab Emirates – Abu Dhabi
•  Uzbekistan – Tashkent
•  Vietnam – Hanoi
•  Yemen – Sana'a

Europe

Main article: List of European countries

•  Albania – Tirana
•  Andorra – Andorra la Vella
•  Austria – Vienna
•  Belarus – Minsk
•  Belgium – Brussels
•  Bosnia and Herzegovina – Sarajevo
•  Bulgaria – Sofia
•  Croatia – Zagreb
•  Czech Republic – Prague
•  Denmark – Copenhagen
•  Estonia – Tallinn
•  Faroe Islands (overseas territory of Denmark) – Tórshavn
•  Finland – Helsinki
•  France – Paris
•  Germany – Berlin
•  Gibraltar (overseas territory of the United Kingdom) – Gibraltar^[5]
•  Greece – Athens
•  Guernsey (British crown dependency) – Saint Peter Port
•  Hungary – Budapest
•  Iceland – Reykjavík
•  Ireland – Dublin
•  Isle of Man (British crown dependency) – Douglas
•  Italy – Rome
•  Jersey (British crown dependency) – Saint Helier
•  Kosovo – Pristina
•  Latvia – Riga
•  Liechtenstein – Vaduz
•  Lithuania – Vilnius
•  Luxembourg – Luxembourg
•  Macedonia – Skopje
•  Malta – Valletta
•  Moldova – Chişinău
•  Monaco – Monaco^[5]
•  Montenegro – Podgorica
•  Netherlands – Amsterdam (seat of government at The Hague)
•  Norway – Oslo
•  Poland – Warsaw
•  Portugal – Lisbon
•  Romania – Bucharest
•  Russia^[6] – Moscow
•  San Marino – San Marino
•  Serbia – Belgrade
•  Slovakia – Bratislava
•  Slovenia – Ljubljana
•  Spain – Madrid
•  Sweden – Stockholm
•  Switzerland – Berne
•  Ukraine – Kiev
•  United Kingdom – London
•  Vatican City – Vatican City^[5]

Americas

North America

Main article: List of North American countries

•  Anguilla (overseas territory of the United Kingdom) – The Valley
•  Antigua and Barbuda – Saint John's
•  Aruba (overseas country in the Kingdom of the Netherlands) – Oranjestad
•  Bahamas – Nassau
•  Barbados – Bridgetown
•  Belize – Belmopan
•  Bermuda (overseas territory of the United Kingdom) – Hamilton
•  British Virgin Islands (overseas territory of the United Kingdom) – Road Town
•  Canada – Ottawa
•  Cayman Islands (overseas territory of the United Kingdom) – George Town
• Clipperton Island (overseas territory of France)
•  Costa Rica – San José
•  Cuba – Havana
•  Dominica – Roseau
•  Dominican Republic – Santo Domingo
•  El Salvador – San Salvador
•  Greenland (overseas territory of Denmark) – Nuuk
•  Grenada – Saint George's
•  Guadeloupe (overseas department of France) – Basse-Terre
•  Guatemala – Guatemala City
•  Haiti – Port-au-Prince
•  Honduras – Tegucigalpa
•  Jamaica – Kingston
•  Martinique (overseas department of France) – Fort-de-France
•  Mexico – Mexico City
•  Montserrat (overseas territory of the United Kingdom) – Plymouth (seat of government at Brades)
• Navassa Island (overseas territory of the United States)
•  Netherlands Antilles (overseas country in the Kingdom of the Netherlands) – Willemstad
•  Nicaragua – Managua
•  Panama – Panama City
•  Puerto Rico (overseas territory of the United States) – San Juan
•  Saint Barthélemy (overseas territory of France) – Gustavia
•  Saint Kitts and Nevis – Basseterre
•  Saint Lucia – Castries
•  Saint Martin (overseas territory of France) – Marigot
•  Saint Pierre and Miquelon (overseas territory of France) – Saint-Pierre
•  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines – Kingstown
•  Trinidad and Tobago – Port of Spain
•  Turks and Caicos Islands (overseas territory of the United Kingdom) – Cockburn Town
•  United States – Washington, D.C.
•  United States Virgin Islands (overseas territory of the United States) –