List of national capitals by latitude

This is a list of official national capitals by latitude, including territories and dependencies, non-sovereign states including associated states and entities whose sovereignty is disputed. Sovereign states are shown in bold text.

Latitude ("−" indicates southern hemi- sphere)	City	Country	Notes
−0.25	Quito	Ecuador	Highest official capital.
0.3	Kampala	Uganda
0.33	São Tomé	São Tomé and Príncipe
0.38	Libreville	Gabon
−0.53	Yaren (de facto)	Nauru	Country does not have an official capital; however, the government offices are in Yaren.
−1.28	Nairobi	Kenya
1.28	Singapore	Singapore	Island City-state
1.43	Tarawa	Kiribati
−1.93	Kigali	Rwanda
2.03	Mogadishu	Somalia
3.13	Kuala Lumpur (official, legislative and royal) Putrajaya (administrative and judicial)	Malaysia
−3.43	Gitega	Burundi
3.75	Malabo	Equatorial Guinea
3.87	Yaoundé	Cameroon
4.17	Malé	Maldives
−4.27	Brazzaville	Republic of the Congo
−4.32	Kinshasa	Democratic Republic of the Congo
4.37	Bangui	Central African Republic
4.58	Bogotá	Colombia
−4.62	Victoria	Seychelles
4.85	Juba	South Sudan
4.88	Bandar Seri Begawan	Brunei
4.92	Cayenne	French Guiana	Overseas department of France
5.55	Accra	Ghana
5.87	Paramaribo	Suriname
6.12	Lomé	Togo
−6.17	Dodoma (official) Dar es Salaam (former capital; some government offices remaining)	Tanzania
−6.2	Jakarta	Indonesia
6.3	Monrovia	Liberia
6.48	Porto-Novo (official) Cotonou (de facto)	Benin
6.8	Georgetown	Guyana
6.82	Yamoussoukro (official) Abidjan (former capital; still has many government offices)	Ivory Coast
6.9	Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (official) Colombo (former capital; has some government offices)	Sri Lanka	Also known as "Kotte". Until the 1980s, the capital was Colombo, where many important governmental institutions still remain and which is still designated as the commercial capital of Sri Lanka.
6.92	Palikir	Federated States of Micronesia
7.07	Majuro	Marshall Islands
7.48	Ngerulmud	Palau
−7.92	Georgetown	Ascension Island	Part of the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
8.48	Freetown	Sierra Leone
−8.52	Funafuti	Tuvalu
−8.57	Dili	East Timor (Timor-Leste)
−8.83	Luanda	Angola
8.98	Panama City	Panama
9.02	Addis Ababa	Ethiopia
9.07	Abuja	Nigeria
−9.43	Honiara	Solomon Islands
−9.5	Port Moresby	Papua New Guinea
9.52	Conakry	Guinea
9.93	San José	Costa Rica
10	Hargeisa	Somaliland	De facto independent state not diplomatically recognized by any other state, claimed in whole by the Somali Republic.
−10.42	Flying Fish Cove	Christmas Island	External territory of Australia
10.5	Caracas	Venezuela
10.67	Port of Spain	Trinidad and Tobago
11.55	Phnom Penh	Cambodia
11.58	Djibouti	Djibouti
−11.68	Moroni	Comoros
11.85	Bissau	Guinea-Bissau
−12.03	Lima	Peru
12.05	St. George's	Grenada
12.1	N'Djamena	Chad
12.12	Willemstad	Curaçao	Self-governing part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
12.13	Managua	Nicaragua
−12.18	West Island	Cocos (Keeling) Islands	External territory of Australia
12.35	Ouagadougou	Burkina Faso
12.52	Oranjestad	Aruba	Self-governing part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
12.65	Bamako	Mali
13.1	Bridgetown	Barbados
13.15	Kingstown	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
−13.28	Mata-Utu	Wallis and Futuna	Overseas collectivity of France
13.45	Banjul	Gambia
13.47	Hagåtña	Guam	Territory of the United States
13.52	Niamey	Niger
13.68	San Salvador	El Salvador
13.75	Bangkok	Thailand
−13.83	Apia	Samoa
−13.98	Lilongwe	Malawi
14.02	Castries	Saint Lucia
14.1	Tegucigalpa	Honduras
−14.27	Pago Pago	American Samoa	Territory of the United States
14.58	Manila	Philippines
14.6	Guatemala City	Guatemala
14.68	Dakar	Senegal
14.92	Praia	Cape Verde
15.17	Saipan	Northern Mariana Islands	Territory of the United States
15.3	Roseau	Dominica
15.33	Asmara	Eritrea
15.33	Sana'a	Yemen
−15.42	Lusaka	Zambia
15.63	Khartoum	Sudan
−15.78	Brasília	Brazil
−15.92	Jamestown	Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha	British Overseas Territory
−16.5	Sucre (constitutional) La Paz (administrative)	Bolivia	La Paz is the highest administrative capital, higher than Quito.
16.7	Plymouth (official) Brades (de facto)	Montserrat	British Overseas Territory. Plymouth was abandoned after the eruption of the Soufriere Hills volcano in 1997. Government offices since then have been moved to Brades Estate, which is in the northwestern part of Montserrat.
17.12	St. John's	Antigua and Barbuda
17.25	Belmopan	Belize
17.3	Basseterre	Saint Kitts and Nevis
−17.53	Papeete	French Polynesia	Overseas collectivity of France
−17.75	Port Vila	Vanuatu
−17.85	Harare	Zimbabwe
17.88	Gustavia	Saint Barthélemy	Overseas collectivity of France
17.97	Vientiane	Laos
17.98	Kingston	Jamaica
18.02	Philipsburg	Sint Maarten	Self-governing part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
18.07	Marigot	Saint Martin	Overseas collectivity of France
18.1	Nouakchott	Mauritania
−18.13	Suva	Fiji
18.22	The Valley	Anguilla	British Overseas Territory
18.35	Charlotte Amalie	United States Virgin Islands	Territory of the United States
18.42	Road Town	British Virgin Islands	British Overseas Territory
18.45	San Juan	Puerto Rico	Territory of the United States
18.47	Santo Domingo	Dominican Republic
18.53	Port-au-Prince	Haiti
−18.93	Antananarivo	Madagascar
−19.07	Alofi	Niue	Self-governing in free association with New Zealand
19.3	George Town	Cayman Islands	British Overseas Territory
19.43	Mexico City	Mexico
19.75	Naypyidaw	Myanmar
−20.15	Port Louis	Mauritius
21.03	Hanoi	Vietnam
−21.13	Nukuʻalofa	Tonga
−21.2	Avarua	Cook Islands	Self-governing in free association with New Zealand.
22.18	Victoria	Hong Kong	Special Administrative Region of China
−22.27	Nouméa	New Caledonia	Sui generis collectivity of France
−22.57	Windhoek	Namibia
23.13	Havana	Cuba
23.6	Muscat	Oman
23.73	Dhaka	Bangladesh
24.47	Abu Dhabi	United Arab Emirates
24.63	Riyadh	Saudi Arabia
−24.65	Gaborone	Botswana
25.03	Taipei	Taiwan	Officially the Republic of China (ROC), it has been competing for recognition with the People's Republic of China (PRC) as the sole Chinese government since 1949. Taiwan controls the island of Taiwan and its associated islands, Quemoy, Matsu, the Pratas, and part of the Spratly Islands The territory of Taiwan is claimed in whole by China. The Republic of China participates in the World Health Organization and a number of non-UN international organizations such as the World Trade Organization, International Olympic Committee and others under a variety of pseudonyms, most commonly Chinese Taipei.
−25.07	Adamstown	Pitcairn Islands	British Overseas Territory
25.07	Nassau	Bahamas
−25.27	Asunción	Paraguay
25.28	Doha	Qatar
−25.73	Pretoria (executive)	South Africa
−25.97	Maputo	Mozambique
26.22	Manama	Bahrain
−26.32	Mbabane (administrative)	Eswatini
−26.42	Lobamba (royal and legislative)	Eswatini (Swaziland)
27.15	El Aaiún (declared)	Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic [c]	The Sahrawi Republic, recognised by 82 states, claims the mostly Moroccan controlled Western Sahara. Moroccan-controlled territory includes El Aaiún, and Morocco claims all Sahrawi controlled territory. The Sahrawi government resides in exile in Tindouf, Algeria. See Politics of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
−27.15	Hanga Roa	Easter Island	Special territory of Chile
27.47	Thimphu	Bhutan
27.7	Kathmandu	Nepal
28.6	New Delhi	India
−29.05	Kingston	Norfolk Island	External territory of Australia
−29.12	Bloemfontein (judicial)	South Africa
−29.3	Maseru	Lesotho
29.37	Kuwait City	Kuwait
30.05	Cairo	Egypt
31.77	Jerusalem	Israel
31.93	Amman	Jordan
32.28	Hamilton	Bermuda	British Overseas Territory
32.9	Tripoli	Libya
33.33	Baghdad	Iraq
−33.45	Santiago (official) Valparaíso (legislative)	Chile
33.5	Damascus	Syria
33.72	Islamabad	Pakistan
33.88	Beirut	Lebanon
−33.92	Cape Town (legislative)	South Africa
34.03	Rabat	Morocco
34.53	Kabul	Afghanistan
−34.6	Buenos Aires	Argentina
34.67	Episkopi Cantonment	Akrotiri and Dhekelia	British Overseas Territory
−34.88	Montevideo	Uruguay
35.17	Nicosia	Cyprus
35.17	Nicosia	Northern Cyprus	De facto independent state that is recognised only by Turkey. Northern Cyprus is claimed in whole by the Republic of Cyprus.
−35.3	Canberra	Australia
35.68	Tehran	Iran
35.68	Tokyo	Japan
35.88	Valletta	Malta
36.13	Gibraltar	Gibraltar	British Overseas Territory
36.77	Algiers	Algeria
36.8	Tunis	Tunisia
−37.07	Edinburgh of the Seven Seas	Tristan da Cunha	Part of the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
37.55	Seoul	South Korea
37.93	Ashgabat	Turkmenistan
37.97	Athens	Greece
38.53	Dushanbe	Tajikistan
38.7	Lisbon	Portugal
38.9	Washington, D.C.	United States
39.02	Pyongyang	North Korea
39.87	Ankara	Turkey
39.9	Beijing	China	See also: List of historical capitals of China
40.18	Yerevan	Armenia
40.38	Baku	Azerbaijan
40.38	Madrid	Spain
41.27	Tashkent	Uzbekistan
−41.28	Wellington	New Zealand	Southernmost capital of an independent sovereign state in the world.
41.32	Tirana	Albania
41.72	Tbilisi (official)	Georgia
41.9	Rome	Italy
41.9	Vatican City	Vatican City	City-state
42	Skopje	North Macedonia
42.23	Tskhinvali	South Ossetia	De facto independent state recognised by Russia, Nicaragua, Nauru, Venezuela, Abkhazia and Transnistria. Claimed in whole by the Republic of Georgia as the Provisional Administrative Entity of South Ossetia.
42.25	Kutaisi (legislative)	Georgia
42.43	Podgorica (official) Cetinje (seat of the President)	Montenegro
42.5	Andorra la Vella	Andorra
42.67	Pristina	Kosovo[g]	De facto independent state that is recognised by 112 UN member states and by Taiwan. Claimed in whole by the Republic of Serbia as part of its Autonomous province of Kosovo and Metohija. The Republic of Kosovo has de facto control over most of the territory, with limited control in North Kosovo.
42.7	Sofia	Bulgaria
42.87	Bishkek	Kyrgyzstan
43	Sokhumi	Abkhazia	De facto independent state recognized by Russia, Nauru, Nicaragua, Venezuela, South Ossetia and Transnistria. Claimed in whole by Republic of Georgia as the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia.
43.72	Monaco	Monaco	City-state
43.87	Sarajevo	Bosnia and Herzegovina
43.93	San Marino	San Marino
44.42	Bucharest	Romania
44.82	Belgrade	Serbia
45.42	Ottawa	Canada
45.82	Zagreb	Croatia
46.05	Ljubljana	Slovenia
46.77	St. Pierre	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	Overseas collectivity of France
46.85	Tiraspol	Transnistria	De facto independent state, not recognized by any UN-member, but by Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Claimed in whole by the Republic of Moldova as the Territorial Unit of Transnistria.
46.95	Bern	Switzerland	Switzerland has no capital. Bern is the "Federal City".
47	Chișinău	Moldova
47.13	Vaduz	Liechtenstein
47.47	Budapest	Hungary
47.92	Ulaanbaatar	Mongolia
48.13	Bratislava	Slovakia
48.2	Vienna	Austria
48.85	Paris	France
49.18	St. Helier	Jersey	British Crown Dependency
49.45	St. Peter Port	Guernsey	British Crown Dependency
49.6	Luxembourg	Luxembourg
50.08	Prague	Czech Republic
50.45	Kyiv	Ukraine
50.85	Brussels	Belgium	Also the de facto capital of the  European Union
51.17	Astana	Kazakhstan
51.48	Cardiff	Wales	Constituent country of the United Kingdom
51.5	London	United Kingdom	Also the capital of the constituent country of England
−51.68	Stanley	Falkland Islands	British Overseas Territory
52.23	Warsaw	Poland
52.37	Amsterdam	Netherlands	The Dutch constitution refers to Amsterdam as the "capital". The Dutch government is located in The Hague. See Capital of the Netherlands.
52.52	Berlin	Germany
53.33	Dublin	Ireland
53.9	Minsk	Belarus
54.13	Douglas	Isle of Man	British Crown Dependency
−54.27	King Edward Point	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	British Overseas Territory
54.60	Belfast	Northern Ireland	Constituent country of the United Kingdom
54.68	Vilnius	Lithuania
55.67	Copenhagen	Denmark
55.76	Moscow	Russia
55.95	Edinburgh	Scotland	Constituent country of the United Kingdom
56.95	Riga	Latvia
59.33	Stockholm	Sweden
59.44	Tallinn	Estonia
59.91	Oslo	Norway
60.1	Mariehamn	Åland	Autonomous region of Finland
60.17	Helsinki	Finland
62.01	Tórshavn	Faroe Islands	Self-governing territory of the Danish Realm
64.15	Reykjavík	Iceland	Northernmost capital of an independent sovereign state in the world.
64.18	Nuuk	Greenland	Self-governing territory of the Danish Realm. Northernmost capital of a constituent state in the world.
78.22	Longyearbyen	Svalbard	Longyearbyen is the administrative center of Svalbard, a Norwegian Arctic unincorporated area.

See also

• List of capital cities by elevation
• List of national capitals by population
• List of national capitals by area

Footnotes