Countries- Capital, Currency And Language

COUNTRIES - CAPITAL, CURRENCY AND LANGUAGE

Country Name Capital Currency Official Language Head of Government

Afghanistan Kabul Afghani Dari Persian; President - Ashraf Ghani
Pashto
Albania Tirane Lek Albanian Prime Minister – Edi
Rama
Algeria Algiers Dinar Arabic; Tamazight; Prime Minister –
French Abdelaziz Djerad

Andorra Andorra la Vella Euro Catalan Prime Minister - Xavier

Espot Zamora
Angola Luanda New Kwanza Portuguese President – João
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Lourenço
Antigua and Saint John's East Caribbean English Prime Minister – Gaston
Barbuda dollar Browne
Argentina Buenos Aires Peso Spanish President – Alberto
Fernández
Armenia Yerevan Dram Armenian President – Armen
imp
imp Sarkissian
Australia Canberra Australian dollar English Prime Minister – Scott
Morrison
Austria Vienna Euro (formerly German President - Alexander
schilling) Van der Bellen
imp
Azerbaijan Baku Manat Azerbaijani Prime Minister – Ali
imp
Asadov
imp
The Bahamas Nassau Bahamian dollar English Prime Minister – Hubert
imp Minnis
imp Bahrain Manama Bahrain dinar Arabic Prime Minister – Salman
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bin Hamad Al Khalifa
Bangladesh Dhaka Taka Bangla Prime Minister – Sheikh
Hasina
Barbados Bridgetown Barbados dollar English Prime Minister – Mia
Mottley
Belarus Minsk Belorussian ruble Belarusian; Russian President - Alexander
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Lukashenko
Belgium Brussels Euro (formerly Dutch; French; Prime Minister –
Belgian franc) German Alexander De Croo
Belize Belmopan Belize dollar English Prime Minister – Johnny

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Briceño
Benin Porto-Novo CFA Franc French President - Patrice Talon
Bhutan Thimphu Ngultrum Dzongkha Prime Minister – Lotay
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Tshering
Bolivia La Paz Boliviano Spanish; Quechua; Prime Minister – Luis
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(administrative); Aymara Arce
Sucre (judicial)
Bosnia and Sarajevo Convertible Mark Bosnian; Croatian; Chairman of the Council
Herzegovina Serbian of Ministers - Zoran
Tegeltija
Botswana Gaborone Pula English; Tswana President – Mokgweetsi
Masisi
imp Brazil Brasilia Real Portuguese President – Jair
Bolsonaro
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imp
Brunei Bandar Seri Brunei dollar Malay Sultan and Prime
Begawan Minister – Hassanal
Bolkiah
Bulgaria Sofia Lev Bulgarian Prime Minister – Boyko
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imp Borisov
Burkina Faso Ouagadougou CFA Franc French Prime Minister -
Christophe Joseph Marie
Dabiré
Burundi Gitega Burundi franc Kirundi; French President – Évariste
Ndayishimiye
Cambodia Phnom Penh Riel Khmer Prime Minister – Hun
imp
imp Sen
Cameroon Yaounde CFA Franc French; English Prime Minister – Joseph
Ngute
imp Canada Ottawa Canadian dollar English; French Prime Minister – Justin
Trudeau
Cape Verde Praia Cape Verdean Portuguese Prime Minister – Ulisses
escudo Correia e Silva
Central African Bangui CFA Franc Sango; French Prime Minister – Firmin
imp
imp Republic Ngrebada
Chad N'Djamena CFA Franc French; Arabic President - Idriss Deby
imp
Chile Santiago Chilean Peso Spanish President – Sebastián
imp Piñera
China Beijing Chinese Yuan Mandarin President - Xi Jinping
Colombia Bogota Colombian Peso Spanish President – Ivan Duque
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imp Marquez

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Comoros Moroni Franc Comorian; Arabic; President – Azali

French Assoumani
Republic of the Brazzaville CFA Franc French Prime Minister –
Congo Clément Mouamba
Congo, Kinshasa Congolese franc French Prime Minister –Jean-
Democratic Michel Sama Lukonde
Republic of the
imp Costa Rica San Jose Colón Spanish President – Carlos
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Alvarado Quesada
Cote d'Ivoire Yamoussoukro CFA Franc French President - Alassane
(official); Abidjan Ouattara
(de facto)
Croatia Zagreb Croatian Kuna Prime Minister – Andrej
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imp Plenković
Cuba Havana Cuban Peso Spanish Prime Minister-Manuel
Marrero Cruz
Cyprus Nicosia Euro Greek; Turkish President – Nicos
Anastasiades
Czech Republic Prague Koruna Czech; Slovak Prime Minister – Andrej
imp
imp Babiš
imp Denmark Copenhagen Danish Krone Danish Prime Minister – Mette
imp
Frederiksen
Djibouti Djibouti Djiboutian franc Arabic; French Prime Minister –
imp
Abdoulkader Kamil
Mohamed
Dominica Roseau East Caribbean English; French; Prime Minister –
dollar Antillean Creole Roosevelt Skerrit
Dominican Santo Domingo Dominican Peso Spanish President – Luis
Republic Abinader
East Timor Dili U.S. dollar Tetum; Prime Minister – Taur
(Timor-Leste) Portuguese; Matan Ruak
Iindonesian
Ecuador Quito U.S. dollar Spanish President – Lenín
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imp Moreno
Egypt Cairo Egyptian pound Arabic Prime Minister –
Moustafa Madbouly
El Salvador San Salvador Colón; U.S. dollar Spanish President – Nayib
Bukele
Equatorial Malabo CFA Franc Spanish; French; Prime Minister –
Guinea Portuguese Francisco Pascual
Obama Asue

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Eritrea Asmara Nakfa Arabic; Tigrinya; President – Isaias

English Afwerki
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Estonia Tallinn Estonia Kroon; Estonian Prime Minister – Kaja
imp
Euro Kallas
imp Ethiopia Addis Ababa Birr Amharic Prime Minister – Abiy
Ahmed
Fiji Suva Fiji dollar English; Bau Fijian; Prime Minister – Frank
imp
imp Hindi Bainimarama
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Finland Helsinki Euro (formerly Finnish; Swedish Prime Minister – Sanna
markka) Marin
France Paris Euro (formerly French Prime Minister- Jean
French franc) Castex
Gabon Libreville CFA Franc French Prime Minister – Rose
Christiane Raponda
The Gambia Banjul Dalasi English President – Adama
Barrow
Georgia Tbilisi Lari Georgian Prime Minister – Giorgi
Gakharia
Germany Berlin Euro (formerly German Chancellor – Frank-
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Deutsche mark) Walter Steinmeier
Ghana Accra Cedi English President - Nana Akufo-
Addo
Greece Athens Euro (formerly Greek Prime Minister –
drachma) Kyriakos Mitsotakis
Grenada Saint George's East Caribbean English; Patois Prime Minister – Keith
dollar Mitchell
imp Guatemala Guatemala City Quetzal Spanish President – Alejandro
Giammattei
Guinea Conakry Guinean franc French Prime Minister –
Ibrahima Kassory Fofana
Guinea-Bissau Bissau CFA Franc Portuguese Prime Minister –Nuno
Gomes Nabiam
Guyana Georgetown Guyanese dollar English Prrsident - Mohamed
Irfaan Ali
Haiti Port-au-Prince Gourde Haitian Creole; Prime Minister – Joseph
imp
imp French Jouthe
Honduras Tegucigalpa Lempira Spanish President – Juan
Orlando Hernández
Hungary Budapest Forint Hungarian Prime Minister – Viktor
imp Orbán
imp

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Iceland Reykjavik Icelandic króna Icelandic President - Guðni

Thorlacius Jóhannesson
India New Delhi Indian Rupee Hindi; English Prime Minister –
Narendra Modi
Indonesia Jakarta Rupiah Indonesian President – Joko Widodo
Iran Tehran Rial Persian President – Hassan
Rouhani
imp
Iraq Baghdad Iraqi Dinar Arabic; Kurdish Prime Minister –
Mustafa Al Kadhimi
Ireland Dublin Euro (formerly English; Irish Prime Minister-
imp
imp Irish pound [punt]) Taoiseach – Micheal
Martin
Israel Jerusalem* Shekel Hebrew; Arabic Prime Minister –
Benjamin Netanyahu
imp Italy Rome Euro (formerly lira) Italian Prime Minister – Mario
Draghi
Ivory Coast Yamoussoukro West African CFA French Prime Minister – Hamed
franc Bakayoko
Jamaica Kingston Jamaican dollar English Prime Minister –
imp Andrew Holness
Japan Tokyo Yen Japanese Prime Minister –
Yoshihide Suga
Jordan Amman Jordanian dinar Arabic Prime Minister – Bishr
imp
imp Al-Khasawneh
Kazakhstan Nur Sultan Tenge Kazakh; Russian Prime Minister – Askar
imp Mamin
imp

Kenya Nairobi Kenya shilling Swahili; English President – Uhuru

imp
Kenyatta
Kiribati Tarawa Atoll Kiribati dollar English; Gilbertese President – Taneti
Mamau
Korea, North Pyongyang Won Korean Premier of the Cabinet –
imp Kim Jong-un
Korea, South Seoul Won Korean Prime Minister – Chung
imp
Sye-kyun
Kosovo Pristina Euro (German Albanian; Serbian Prime Minister –
Mark prior to Avdullah Hoti
2002)
Kuwait Kuwait City Kuwaiti Dollar Arabic; English Prime Minister – Sheikh
imp
imp Sabah Al-Khalid Al-
Sabah
imp Kyrgyzstan Bishkek Som Kyrgyz; Russian Prime Minister- Ulukbek
imp

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Maripov
Laos Vientiane New Kip Lao (Laotian) Prime Minister –
Thongloun Sisoulith
Latvia Riga Lats Latvian Prime Minister –
imp
imp Krišjānis Kariņš
Lebanon Beirut Lebanese pound Arabic; French Prime Minister –Hassan
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Diab
Lesotho Maseru Maluti Sesotho; English Prime Minister -
Moeketsi Majoro
Liberia Monrovia Liberian dollar English President – George
Weah
Libya Tripoli Libyan dinar Arabic Prime Minister – Abdul
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imp Hamid Al-Dabaib
Liechtenstein Vaduz Swiss franc German Prime Minister-Adrian
Hasler
Lithuania Vilnius Litas Lithuanian Prime Minister – Ingrida
imp
imp Šimonytė
Luxembourg Luxembourg Euro (formerly German; French; Prime Minister – Xavier
imp
Luxembourg franc) Luxembourgish Bettel
imp Macedonia Skopje Denar Macedonian President of the
imp Government – Stevo
Pendarovski
imp
Madagascar Antananarivo Malagasy Ariary Malagasy; French; Prime Minister –
imp English Christian Ntsay
Malawi Lilongwe Kwacha English President – Lazarus
Chakwera
Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Ringgit Malay Prime Minister –
imp
Muhyiddin Yassin
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Maldives Male Rufiyaa Dhivehi President – Ibrahim
Mohamed Solih
Mali Bamako CFA Franc French Prime Minister - Moctar
Ouane
Malta Valletta Euro Maltese; English Prime Minister – Robert
Abela
Marshall Islands Majuro U.S. Dollar Marshallese; Prime Minister – Stefan
English Löfven
Mauritania Nouakchott Ouguiya Arabic Prime Minister –
Mohamed Ould Bilal
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Mauritius Port Louis Mauritian rupee English Prime Minister – Pravind
imp Jugnauth

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Mexico Mexico City Mexican peso Spanish President – Andrés

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Manuel López Obrador
Micronesia, Palikir U.S. Dollar English President – David W.
Federated Panuelo
States of
Moldova Chisinau Leu Moldovan Prime Minister – Aureliu
(Romanian) Ciocoi
Monaco Monte Carlo Euro French; Italian; Minister of State –
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imp English Pierre Dartout
Mongolia Ulaanbaatar Togrog Mongolian Prime Minister –
imp Luvsannamsrain Oyun-
imp
Erdene
Montenegro Podgorica Euro Montenegrin Prime Minister –
Zdravko Krivokapić
imp
Morocco Rabat Dirham Arabic Prime Minister-
imp Saadeddine Othmani
Mozambique Maputo Metical Portuguese Prime Minister – Carlos
Agostinho do Rosário
Myanmar Nay Pyi Taw Kyat Burmese President– Myint Swe
imp
imp (Burma)
imp
Namibia Windhoek Namibian dollar English; Afrikaans; Prime Minister – Saara
imp German Kuugongelwa
Nauru no official capital; Australian dollar English; Nauran President – Lionel
government Aingimea
offices in Yaren
District
Nepal Kathmandu Nepalese rupee Nepali Prime Minister – KP
Sharma Oli
Netherlands Amsterdam; The Euro (formerly Dutch Prime Minister – Mark
imp Hague (seat of guilder) Rutte
imp
government)
New Zealand Wellington New Zealand English Prime Minister – Jacinda
imp dollar Ardern
imp
Nicaragua Managua Gold cordoba Spanish President – Daniel
Ortega
Niger Niamey CFA Franc French Prime Minister – Brigi
Rafini
imp Nigeria Abuja Naira English Prime Minister– Sir
imp
Abubakar Tafawa
Balewa
imp
Norway Oslo Norwegian krone Norwegian Prime Minister – Erna
imp

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Solberg
Oman Muscat Omani rial Arabic Sultan and Prime
imp Minister – Haitham bin
Tariq
imp Pakistan Islamabad Pakistani rupee Urdu; English Prime Minister – Imran
imp Khan
Palau Melekeok U.S. dollar English; Palauan Vice President –Surangel
S. Whipps Jr.
Palestine Ramallah, East Palestine Pound Arabic Prime Minister -
Jerusalem Mohammad Shtayyeh
imp Panama Panama City Balboa; U.S. dollar Spanish President – Laurentino
Cortizo
Papua New Port Moresby Kina English; Tok Pisin; Prime Minister – James
Guinea Hiri Motu Marape
Paraguay Asuncion Guaraní Spanish; Guarani President – Mario Abdo
imp
imp Benítez
Peru Lima Nuevo sol (1991) Spanish Prime Minister – Violeta
imp
imp Bermúdez
Philippines Manila Peso Filipino; English President – Rodrigo
imp
Duterte
Poland Warsaw Zloty Polish President – Andrzej
imp
Duda
Portugal Lisbon Euro (formerly Portuguese Prime Minister –
imp
imp escudo) António Costa
Qatar Doha Qatari riyal Arabic Prime Minister – Khalid
imp
imp bin Khalifa bin Abdul
Aziz Al Thani
imp Romania Bucharest Romanian Rupee Romanian Prime Minister – Florin
imp
Cîțu
Russia Moscow Ruble Romanian Prime Minister –Mikhail
Vladimirovich Mishustin
Rwanda Kigali Rwandan franc Russian Prime Minister –
Édouard Ngirente
Saint Kitts and Basseterre East Caribbean English Prime Minister –
Nevis dollar Timothy Harris
Saint Lucia Castries East Caribbean English Prime Minister – Allen
dollar Chastanet
Saint Vincent Kingstown East Caribbean English Prime Minister – Ralph
and the dollar Gonsalves
Grenadines
Samoa Apia Tala Samoan, English Prime Minister –

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Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele

Malielegaoi
San Marino San Marino Euro Italian Pasquale Valentini
Sao Tome and Sao Tome Dobra Portuguese Prime Minister – Jorge
Principe Bom Jesus
Saudi Arabia Riyadh Riyal Arabic King and Prime Minister
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imp
– Salman bin Abdulaziz
Al Saud
Senegal Dakar CFA Franc French Prime Minister –
imp Mohammed Dionne
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Serbia Belgrade Serbian Dinar Serbian Prime Minister – Ana
imp
imp Brnabić
Seychelles Victoria Seychelles rupee Seychellois Creole, President – Wavel
imp
imp French English Ramkalawan
Sierra Leone Freetown Leone English President – Julius Maada
Bio
Singapore Singapore Singapore dollar English, Chinese Prime Minister – Lee
imp
and Malay Hsien Loong
imp
Tamil
Slovakia Bratislava Euro Slovak Prime Minister – Igor
imp
imp Matovič
Slovenia Ljubljana Slovenian tolar; Slovene Prime Minister – Janez
imp
imp euro (as of 1/1/07) Janša
Solomon Honiara Solomon Islands English Prime Minister –
imp
imp Islands dollar Manasseh Sogavare
imp Somalia Mogadishu Somali shilling Somali Arabic Prime Minister –
imp Mohamed Hussein
Roble
South Africa Pretoria Rand Afrikaans, English, President – Cyril
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(administrative); Southern Ndebele, Ramaphosa
Cape Town Northern Sotho,
(legislative); Southern Sotho,
Bloemfontein Swazi
(judiciary) Tsonga, Tswana,
Venda, Xhosa, Zulu
South Sudan Juba Sudanese Pound English President – Salva Kiir
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imp Mayardit
Spain Madrid Euro (formerly Spanish, Catalan Prime Minister - Pedro
imp
imp peseta) Galician , Gasque Sánchez
Sri Lanka Colombo; Sri Sri Lankan rupee Sinhala, Tamil Prime Minister -
imp Jayewardenepura Mahinda Rajapaksa
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Kotte (legislative)
Sudan Khartoum Sudanese Pound Arabic, English Prime Minister –Abdalla
Hamdok
Suriname Paramaribo Surinamese dollar Dutch President –
Chabdrikapersad ‘Chan’
Santokhi
Swaziland Mbabane Lilangeni English, Swati Prime Minister –Themba
N. Masuku
Sweden Stockholm Krona Swedish Prime Minister – Stefan
imp
imp Löfven
Switzerland Berne Swiss franc German, French, President - Guy Parmelin
imp
imp
Italian, Romansh
Syria Damascus Syrian pound Arabic Prime Minister –
imp
imp Hussein Arnous
Taiwan Taipei Taiwan dollar Standard Chinese Prime Minister– Su
imp
Tseng-chang
Tajikistan Dushanbe somoni Tajik; Russian Prime Minister – Kokhir
imp Rasulzoda
imp

Tanzania Dar es Salaam; Tanzanian shilling Swahili, English Prime Minister – Kassim
imp
imp Dodoma Majaliwa
(legislative)
Thailand Bangkok Baht Thai Prime Minister – Prayut
imp
Chan-o-cha
Togo Lome CFA Franc French Prime Minister –Victoire
Tomegah Dogbé
Tonga Nuku'alofa Pa'anga English Prime Minister – Pohiva
Tuionetoa
Trinidad and Port-of-Spain Trinidad and English Prime Minister – Keith
Tobago Tobago dollar Rowley
Tunisia Tunis Tunisian dinar Arabic Prime Minister- Hichem
Mechichi
Turkey Ankara Turkish lira (YTL) Turkish Prime Minister – Binali
imp
imp Yıldırım
Turkmenistan Ashgabat Manat Turkmen President – Gurbanguly
imp
imp Berdimuhamedow
Tuvalu Vaiaku village, Tuvaluan Dollar Tuvaluan; English Prime Minister – Kausea
Funafuti province Natano
Uganda Kampala Ugandan new Swahili, English, Prime Minister –
imp
imp shilling Luganda Ruhakana Rugunda

imp
Ukraine Kiev Hryvnia Ukrainian Prime Minister – Denys
Shmyhal

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United Arab Abu Dhabi U.A.E. Dirham Arabic Prime Minister – Sheikh
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Emirates Mohammed bin Rashid
Al Maktoum
United Kingdom London Pound sterling English Prime Minister – Boris
imp
Johnson
United States of Washington D.C. Dollar English President – Joe Biden
imp America
Uruguay Montevideo Uruguay peso Spanish President – Luis Lacalle
imp
imp Pou
imp
imp
Uzbekistan Tashkent Uzbekistani sum Uzbek Prime Minister – Abdulla
Aripov
Vanuatu Port-Vila Vatu Bislama, French, Prime Minister – Bob
English Loughman
Vatican City Vatican City Euro Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin
imp
(Holy See)
imp
imp
Venezuela Caracas Bolivar Spanish President – Juan Guaidó
imp
imp Vietnam Hanoi Dong Vietnamese Nguyễn Xuân Phúc
Yemen Sanaa Rial Arabic Prime Minister – Maeen
imp Abdulmalik Saeed
imp
Zambia Lusaka Kwacha English President – Edgar Lungu
Zimbabwe Harare United States English, Shona, President –Emmerson
imp
imp dollar Ndebele Mnangagwa

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