User:David Kernow/Sandbox/List of countries by continent

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

• Sovereign states (country names in bold), including:
  • The
    member states of the United Nations
    (UN)
  • A UN-recognized non-member state: Vatican City
  • A state not recognized by the UN and most of its members, but currently with de facto international relations with most countries: The
    Republic of China
• Two entities de facto not independent but recognized by many countries as sovereign (country names in bold italics): The Palestinian territories and Western Sahara
• overseas departments of France
  (country names in italics)
• Special entities recognized by international treaty or agreement (country names in italics)

However, this list does not contain

For a detailed discussion of how the world is divided into continents, see continent.

Africa

Country / territory Capital  Algeria Algiers  Angola Luanda  Benin Porto-Novo[1]  Botswana Gaborone  Burkina Faso Ouagadougou  Burundi Bujumbura  Cameroon Yaoundé  Cape Verde Praia  Central African Republic Bangui  Chad N'Djamena  Comoros Moroni  Congo, Dem. Rep. of the[2] Kinshasa  Congo, Republic of the[3] Brazzaville  Ivory Coast[4] Yamoussoukro[5]  Djibouti Djibouti City  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

Country / territory Capital  Malawi Lilongwe  Mali Bamako  Mauritania Nouakchott  Mauritius Port Louis  Mayotte [6] Mamoudzou  Morocco Rabat  Mozambique Maputo  Namibia Windhoek  Niger Niamey  Nigeria Abuja  Réunion [6] Saint-Denis  Rwanda Kigali  Saint Helena [7] Jamestown  São Tomé and Príncipe 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, legislative)  Tanzania Dodoma[8]  Togo Lomé  Tunisia Tunis  Uganda Kampala  Western Sahara El Aaiún  (unofficial)  Zambia Lusaka  Zimbabwe Harare

Eurasia

Asia

Country / territory Capital  Afghanistan Kabul  Armenia Yerevan  Azerbaijan Baku  Bahrain Manama  Bangladesh Dhaka  Bhutan Thimphu  British Indian Ocean Territory [7] n/a  Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan  Cambodia Phnom Penh  China, People's Republic of Beijing  China, Republic of [9] Taipei  Christmas Island [10] n/a  Cocos (Keeling) Islands [10] n/a  Cyprus Nicosia  Georgia Tbilisi  Hong Kong [11] n/a  India New Delhi  Indonesia Jakarta  Iran Tehran  Iraq Baghdad  Israel Jerusalem[12]  Japan Tokyo  Jordan Amman  Kazakhstan Astana  Korea, Dem. Peop. Rep. of [13] Pyongyang  Korea, Republic of [14] Seoul  Kuwait Kuwait City  Kyrgyzstan Bishkek

Country / territory Capital  Laos Vientiane  Lebanon Beirut  Macau [11] n/a  Malaysia Kuala Lumpur[15]  Maldives Malé  Mongolia Ulaanbaatar  Myanmar[16] Naypyidaw[17]    Nepal Kathmandu  Oman Muscat  Pakistan Islamabad   Palestinian National Authority [18]  Philippines Manila  Qatar Doha  Saudi Arabia Riyadh  Singapore[19]  Sri Lanka Kotte[20]  Syria Damascus  Tajikistan Dushanbe  Thailand Bangkok  East Timor[21] Dili  Turkey Ankara  Turkmenistan Ashgabat  United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi  Uzbekistan Tashkent  Vietnam Hanoi  Yemen Sanaá

Europe

Country / territory Capital  Åland [22] Mariehamn  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 [23] Tórshavn  Finland Helsinki  France Paris  Germany Berlin  Gibraltar [7] n/a  Greece Athens  Guernsey [24] Saint Peter Port  Hungary Budapest  Iceland Reykjavík  Ireland Dublin  Isle of Man [24] Douglas  Italy Rome  Jersey [24] Saint Helier  Latvia Riga  Liechtenstein Vaduz

Country / territory Capital  Lithuania Vilnius  Luxembourg Luxembourg  Macedonia Skopje  Malta Valletta  Moldova Chişinău  Monaco [19]  Montenegro Podgorica  Netherlands Amsterdam[25]  Norway Oslo  Poland Warsaw  Portugal Lisbon  Romania Bucharest  Russia Moscow  San Marino San Marino  Serbia Belgrade  Slovakia Bratislava  Slovenia Ljubljana  Spain Madrid  Svalbard [26] Longyearbyen  Sweden Stockholm   Switzerland Berne  Ukraine Kiev  United Kingdom London  Vatican City [19]

America

North America

Country / territory Capital  Anguilla [7] The Valley  Antigua and Barbuda Saint John's  Aruba [27] Oranjestad  Bahamas Nassau  Barbados Bridgetown  Belize Belmopan  Bermuda [7] Hamilton  British Virgin Islands [7] Road Town  Canada Ottawa  Cayman Islands [7] George Town  Costa Rica San José  Cuba Havana  Dominica Roseau  Dominican Republic Santo Domingo  El Salvador San Salvador  Greenland [28] Nuuk  Grenada Saint George's  Guadeloupe [6] Basse-Terre  Guatemala Guatemala City  Haiti Port-au-Prince

Country / territory Capital  Honduras Tegucigalpa  Jamaica Kingston  Martinique [6] Fort-de-France  Mexico Mexico City  Montserrat [7] Plymouth[29]  Navassa Island [30]  Netherlands Antilles [27] Willemstad  Nicaragua Managua  Panama Panama City  Puerto Rico [30] San Juan  Saint Kitts and Nevis Basseterre  Saint Lucia Castries  Saint Pierre and Miquelon [6] Saint-Pierre  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Kingstown  Trinidad and Tobago Port of Spain  Turks and Caicos Islands [7] Cockburn Town  United States Washington, D.C.  U.S. Virgin Islands [30] Charlotte Amalie

South America

|  Argentina || Buenos Aires |  Bolivia || Sucre (seat of government at La Paz) |  Brazil || Brasília |  

|  Colombia || Bogotá |  Ecuador || Quito |  

overseas territory of the United Kingdom) || Stanley

|  

overseas department of France) || Cayenne

|  Guyana || Georgetown |  Paraguay || Asunción |  Peru || Lima |  Suriname || Paramaribo |  Uruguay || Montevideo |  Venezuela || Caracas

Oceania

Oceania is a geopolitical region, rather than a geographical continent, consisting of many countries in the

Pacific Islands

. Note that some islands located within the boundaries of the Pacific Ocean are not considered parts of Oceania (e.g., Japan).

|  

Pago Pago

|  Australia || Canberra | Baker Island (insular area of the United States) |  Cook Islands (self-governing state in free association with New Zealand) || Avarua |  Fiji || Suva |  

overseas territory of France) || Papeete

|  

Hagåtña

| Howland Island (insular area of the United States) | Jarvis Island (insular area of the United States) | Johnston Atoll (insular area of the United States) | Kingman Reef (insular area of the United States) |  Kiribati || South Tarawa |  Marshall Islands || Majuro |  Micronesia || Palikir | Midway Atoll (insular area of the United States) |  Nauru || no official capital (seat of government at Yaren) |  

overseas territory of France) || Nouméa

|  New Zealand || Wellington |  Niue (self-governing state in free association with New Zealand) || Alofi |  Norfolk Island (overseas territory of Australia) || Kingston |  

Saipan

|  Palau || Koror | Palmyra Atoll (insular area of the United States) |  Papua New Guinea || Port Moresby |  

Adamstown

|  

Apia

|  Solomon Islands || Honiara |  Tokelau (overseas territory of New Zealand) || no capital (each atoll has its own administrative centre) |  Tonga || Nukuʻalofa |  Tuvalu || Funafuti |  Vanuatu || Port Vila | Wake Island (insular area of the United States) |  

Mata-Utu

Antarctica

Territorial claims of sovereign states to Antarctica and its outlying islands south of 60°S are held in abeyance under the terms of the Antarctic Treaty System. Antarctic islands north of 60°S include:

| Bouvet Island (overseas territory of Norway) |  

overseas territory of France

) | Heard Island and McDonald Islands (overseas territory of Australia) |  

overseas territory of the United Kingdom

)

See also

| Lists/tables of countries and territories by continent/region: Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America |

List of countries by continent (data file)

|| this data in a plain text format suitable for automated processing |

List of countries

(in alphabetical order) |

List of countries and capitals in native languages

| List of national capitals |

List of national flags

| ISO country codes |

Transcontinental nation

References

1. ^ Seat of government at Cotonou.
2. ^ Democratic Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Kinshasa; formerly known as Zaire.
3. ^ Also known as Congo-Brazzaville.
4. ^ Also known as Ivory Coast.
5. ^ Seat of government at Abidjan.
6. ^
   French overseas territory
   .
7. ^
   British overseas territory
   .
8. ^ Seat of government at Dar es Salaam.
9. ^ Also known as Taiwan.
10. ^ ^{a b} Australian overseas territory.
11. ^
    People's Republic of China
    .
12. ^ Disputed.
13. ^ Democratic People's Republic of Korea, also known as North Korea.
14. ^ Republic of Korea, also known as South Korea.
15. ^ Seat of government at Putrajaya.
16. ^ Formerly known as Burma.
17. ^ Previously Yangon.
18. ^ Collectively the territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
19. ^ ^{a b c} City-state.
20. ^ Seat of government at Colombo.
21. ^ Also known as East Timor.
22. ^ Finnish autonomous province.
23. ^ Danish autonomous region.
24. ^
    British crown dependency
    .
25. ^ Seat of government at The Hague.
26. ^ Norwegian overseas territory.
27. ^ ^{a b} Overseas country in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
28. ^ Autonomous province of the Kingdom of Denmark.
29. ^ Seat of government at Brades.
30. ^ ^{a b c} Insular area of the United States.

External links

Information by country

| https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html | http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/ | http://www.world-gazetteer.com/ | http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/

Geographical regions

| United Nations Statistics Division || Country and Region Codes