| countries or regions |
area (square kilometers) |
population (in thousands) |
capital or capital |
| Asia |
| Of |
About 9.6 million |
1239292 |
Beijing |
| Mongolian |
1566500 |
2353 |
Ulaanbaatar |
| Korea |
122762 |
22,000 |
Pyongyang |
| Republic of Korea |
99,237 |
44,850 |
Seoul |
| Japan |
377800 |
125,940 |
Tokyo |
| Lao People's Democratic Republic |
236800 |
4605 |
Vientiane |
| The Socialist Republic of Vietnam |
329556 |
75,900 |
Hanoi |
| Cambodian |
181035 |
10,400 |
Phnom Penh |
| Myanmar Federation |
676581 |
44,740 |
Bin Mana |
| Thai |
513115 |
60,400 |
Bangkok |
| Malaysia |
329758 |
21,169 |
Kuala Lumpur |
| The Republic of Singapore |
641 |
3100 |
Singapore |
| Brunei Darussalam |
5765 |
296 |
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN,
| |
| Republic of the Philippines |
299700 |
70,267 |
Manila |
| The Republic of Indonesia |
1904443 |
199000 |
Jakarta |
| East Timor |
14,874 |
748 |
Dili |
| Kingdom of Nepal |
147181 |
18,491 |
Kathmandu |
| Sikkim |
7200 |
406 |
Gangtok |
| Kingdom of Bhutan |
46,000 |
700 |
Thimphu |
| People's Republic of Bangladesh |
143998 |
120000 |
Dhaka |
| The Republic of India |
2974700 |
938000 |
New Delhi |
| The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
| |
65,610 |
17,890 |
Colombo |
| Republic of Maldives |
298 |
238 |
Male |
| The Islamic Republic of Pakistan |
796095 |
128010 |
Islamabad |
| Islamic State of Afghanistan |
652300 |
17,690 |
Kabul |
| The Islamic Republic of Iran |
1645000 |
66,727 |
Tehran |
| The State of Kuwait |
17,818 |
2090 |
Kuwait City |
| The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia |
2240000 |
17,400 |
Riyadh |
| Bahrain |
706.5 |
586 |
Manama |
| State of Qatar |
11,437 |
641 |
Doha |
| United Arab Emirates |
83,600 |
2377 |
Abu Dhabi |
| Oman |
312000 |
2018 |
Muscat |
| Republic of Yemen |
531869 |
15,800 |
Sanaa |
| Republic of Iraq |
438217 |
20,370 |
Baghdad |
| Syrian Arab Republic |
185180 |
16,000 |
Damascus |
| Lebanese Republic |
10,452 |
3110 |
Beirut |
| The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan |
91,390 |
4291 |
Amman |
| Palestinian state |
11,500 |
5750 1 |
Jerusalem |
| The State of Israel |
14,900 |
5760 |
Aviv |
| The Republic of Cyprus |
9251 |
823 |
Nicosia |
| Turkish Republic of |
780000 |
61,600 |
Ankara |
| Uzbekistan |
447400 |
23,130 |
Tashkent |
| The Republic of Kazakhstan |
2717300 |
16,590 |
Astana |
| Kyrgyz Republic |
198500 |
4604 |
Bishkek |
| The Republic of Tajikistan |
143100 |
5865 |
Dushanbe |
| The Republic of Armenia |
29,800 |
3782 |
Yerevan |
| Turkmenistan |
488100 |
4659 |
Ashgabat |
| The Republic of Azerbaijan |
86,600 |
7566 |
Baku |
| Georgia |
69,700 |
5400 |
Tbilisi |
| Europe |
| The Republic of Iceland |
10,300 |
269 |
Reykjavik |
| Faroe Islands (Denmark) |
1399 |
43 |
Cao Shiheen |
| Kingdom of Denmark |
43,094 |
5220 |
Copenhagen |
| Kingdom of Norway ② |
386958 |
4369 |
Oslo |
| Kingdom of Sweden |
449964 |
8838 |
Andean Stockholm at the end of |
| The Republic of Finland |
338145 |
5116 |
Helsinki |
| Russian Federation |
17075400 |
147500 |
Moscow |
| Ukraine |
603700 |
50,893 |
Kiev |
| Republic of Belarus |
207600 |
10,235 |
Minsk |
| Republic of Moldova |
33,700 |
4319 |
Chisinau |
| The Republic of Lithuania |
65,200 |
3708 |
Vilnius |
| The Republic of Estonia |
45,200 |
1464 |
Tallinn |
| The Republic of Latvia |
64,600 |
2485 |
Riga |
| The Republic of Poland |
312683 |
38,620 |
Warsaw |
| Czech Republic |
78,866 |
10,321 |
Prague |
| Republic of Hungary |
93,031 |
10,214 |
Budapest |
| The Federal Republic of Germany |
356,970 |
81,539 |
Berlin |
| The Republic of Austria |
83,858 |
8047 |
Vienna |
| Liechtenstein |
160 |
31 |
Vaduz |
| Swiss |
41,284 |
7062 |
Berne |
| Kingdom of the Netherlands |
41,526 |
15,493 |
Amsterdam |
| Belgian |
30,528 |
10,130 |
Brussels |
| The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg |
2586 |
415 |
Luxembourg |
| United Kingdom |
242000 |
58,395 |
London |
| Gibraltar (England) |
5.8 |
29 |
|
| Ireland |
70,282 |
3621 |
Dublin |
| French Republic |
551602 |
58,500 |
Paris |
| Monaco |
1.95 |
29 |
Monaco City |
| Andorra |
468 |
64 |
Andorra la Vella |
| Spain |
505925 |
39,210 |
Madrid |
| Portuguese Republic |
92,072 |
9900 |
Lisbon |
| Italian Republic |
301277 |
58,138 |
Rome |
| Vatican City State |
0.44 |
1 |
Vatican City |
| Republic of San Marino |
60.6 |
24 |
San Marino |
| The Republic of Malta |
316 |
370 |
Valletta |
| Croatia |
56,538 |
4780 |
Zagreb |
| Slovak Republic |
49,000 |
5380 |
Bratislava |
| The Republic of Slovenia |
20,256 |
1983 |
Ljubljana |
Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of
, or Bosnian |
|
|
|
| Republic of Macedonia |
25,713 |
2079 |
Skopje |
| The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
102173 |
10,544 |
Belgrade |
| Romania |
237500 |
22,600 |
Bucharest |
| Republic of Bulgaria |
110994 |
8384 |
Sofia |
| Republic of Albania |
28,748 |
3300 |
Tirana |
| Hellenic Republic |
131957 |
10,350 |
Athens |
| Africa |
| The Arab Republic of Egypt |
1002000 |
61,400 |
Cairo |
The Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
|
1759540 |
5110 |
Tripoli |
| The Republic of Tunisia |
164150 |
9000 |
Tunisia |
| The Democratic People's Republic of Algeria
| |
2381741 |
29,550 |
Algiers |
| Kingdom of Morocco |
459000 |
27,130 |
Rabat |
| Western Sahara |
266000 |
160 |
Laayoune |
| The Islamic Republic of Mauritania |
1030000 |
2400 |
Nouakchott |
| The Republic of Senegal |
196722 |
8300 |
Dakar |
| Republic of the Gambia |
10,380 |
1020 |
Banjul |
| The Republic of Mali |
1241238 |
10,760 |
Bamako |
| Burkina Faso |
274200 |
10,046 |
Ouagadougou |
| The Republic of Cape Verde |
4033 |
390 |
Praia |
| In several Asian Bissau Republic |
36,152 |
1200 |
Bissau |
| In several Asian Republic of |
245857 |
7500 |
Conakry |
| The Republic of Sierra Leone |
72,326 |
4500 |
Freetown |
| The Republic of Liberia |
111370 |
2640 ③ |
Monrovia |
| Republic of Côte d'Ivoire |
322463 |
14,700 |
Yamoussoukro ④ |
| The Republic of Ghana |
239460 |
18,300 |
Accra |
| The Republic of Togo |
56,600 |
4130 |
Lomé |
| Republic of Benin |
112622 |
5600 |
Porto Novo |
| Niger Republic |
1267627 |
8750 |
Niamey |
| The Federal Republic of Nigeria |
923768 |
105000 |
Abuja |
| The Republic of Cameroon |
475422 |
13,400 |
Yaoundé |
| The Republic of Equatorial Guinea |
28,051 |
436 |
Malabo |
| Republic of Chad |
1284000 |
6279 |
N'Djamena |
| Central African Republic |
622984 |
3500 |
Bangui |
| Republic of the Sudan |
2505813 |
29,130 |
Khartoum |
| Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia |
1103600 |
56,600 |
Addis Ababa |
| Republic of Djibouti |
23,200 |
520 |
Djibouti City |
| Somali Republic |
637657 |
9100 |
Mogadishu |
| Republic of Kenya |
582,646 |
30,500 |
Nairobi |
| The Republic of Uganda |
241038 |
19,300 |
Kampala |
| The United Republic of Tanzania |
945087 |
30,400 |
Dar es Salaam |
| The Republic of Rwanda |
26,338 |
7550 |
Kigali |
| The Republic of Burundi |
27,834 |
6400 |
Bujumbura |
| The Republic of Zaire |
2344885 |
45,570 |
Kinshasa |
| Republic of the Congo |
34,200 |
2780 |
Brazzaville |
| Gabonese Republic |
267667 |
1015 |
Libreville |
| The Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe
| |
1001 |
128 |
Sao Tome |
| Republic of Angola |
1246700 |
11,600 |
Luanda |
| The Republic of Zambia |
752614 |
9650 |
Lusaka |
| Republic of Malawi |
118,484 |
9800 |
Lilongwe |
| The Republic of Mozambique |
799380 |
18,000 |
Maputo |
| The Islamic Federal Republic of Comoros
| |
2235 |
4970 |
Moroni |
| Republic of Madagascar |
627000 |
13,126 |
Antananarivo |
| The Republic of Seychelles
| |
455 |
75 |
Victoria |
| Republic of Mauritius |
2040 |
1130 |
Port Louis |
| Reunion Island (France) |
2512 |
642 |
St. Denis |
| Zimbabwe Republic |
390759 |
11,800 |
Harare |
| Republic of Botswana |
581730 |
1590 |
Gaborone |
| The Republic of Namibia |
824269 |
1620 |
Windhoek |
| The Republic of South Africa |
1221037 |
41,244 |
Pretoria ⑤ |
| Kingdom of Swaziland |
17,363 |
938 |
9-13 |
| Kingdom of Lesotho |
30,344 |
2050 |
Maseru |
| St. Helena and Ascension Island (EF) |
412 |
6 |
Jamestown, Georgetown, |
| Eritrea Republic |
125000 |
3500 |
Asmara |
| Oceania |
| Australian Federal |
7682300 |
18,239 |
Canberra |
| New Zealand |
270534 |
3660 |
Wellington |
| The Independent State of Papua New Guinea |
461893 |
4227 |
Port Moresby |
| Solomon Islands |
29,785 |
367 |
Honiara |
| The Republic of Vanuatu |
12190 |
168 |
Port Vila |
| New Caledonia |
19,103 |
183 |
Noumea |
| The Republic of Fiji |
18,272 |
803 |
Suva |
| The Republic of Kiribati |
810.5 |
77 |
Tarawa |
| Republic of Nauru |
24 |
11 |
Yaren ⑥ |
| Federated States of Micronesia |
700.8 |
110 |
Molijier |
| Republic of the Marshall Islands |
180 |
54 |
Majuro |
| The Northern Mariana Islands free Federation (USA) |
457 |
53 |
Saipan |
| Guam (US) |
549 |
143 |
Agana |
| Tuvalu |
26 |
9.5 |
FUNAFUTI |
| Wallis and Futuna (France) |
274 |
14 |
Matautu |
| The Independent State of Western Samoa
| |
2934 |
164 |
Apia |
| American Samoa |
197 |
58 |
Pago Pago |
| Niue (new) |
258 |
2 |
Alofi |
| Norfolk Island |
34.6 |
2 |
Kingston |
| Republic of Palau |
458 |
16 |
Koror |
| Tokelau (new) |
12.2 |
1.6 |
Fakaofo |
| Cook Islands (new) |
240 |
18 |
Downtown |
| Kingdom of Tonga |
699 |
98 |
Nuku'alofa |
| French Polynesia |
4167 |
213 |
Papeete |
| Pitcairn Islands (British) |
4.5 |
0.1 |
Adamstown |
| North |
| Greenland (Denmark) |
2175600 |
55 |
Getehebu (Nuuk) |
| Canada |
9970610 |
29,800 |
Ottawa |
| St. Pierre and Miquelon Islands (France) |
242 |
6 |
St. Pierre City |
| The United States of America |
9372614 |
263000 |
Washington |
| Bermuda (EF) |
53.3 |
59 |
Hamilton |
| Mexico America |
1967183 |
93,000 |
Mexico City |
| The Republic of Guatemala |
108889 |
10,620 |
Guatemala City |
| Belize |
22,963 |
211 |
Belmopan |
| The Republic of El Salvador |
21,393 |
5780 |
San Salvador |
| The Republic of Honduras |
112492 |
5800 |
Tegucigalpa |
| The Republic of Nicaragua |
121428 |
4310 |
Managua |
| The Republic of Costa Rica |
51,100 |
3191 |
San Jose |
| Republic of Panama |
75,517 |
2631 |
PANAMA CITY |
| Bahamas |
13,939 |
278 |
Nassau |
| Turks and Caicos Islands (British) |
430 |
23 |
Cockburn Town |
| The Republic of Cuba |
110860 |
11,070 |
Havana |
| Cayman Islands (British) |
259 |
33 |
Georgetown |
| Jamaica |
10,991 |
2510 |
Kingston |
| Republic of Haiti |
27,750 |
7180 |
Port-au-Prince |
| Dominican Republic |
48,464 |
7900 |
Santo Domingo |
| The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (the United States) |
8959 |
3690 |
San Juan |
| The United States Virgin Islands |
354 |
102 |
Charlotte Amari |
| British Virgin Islands |
153 |
18 |
Road Town |
| Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis |
267 |
42 |
Basseterre |
| Anguilla (British) |
96 |
10 |
Wali |
| Antigua and Barbuda |
441.6 |
72 |
St. John |
| Montserrat (EF) |
102 |
11 |
Plymouth |
| Guadeloupe (France) |
1780 |
387 |
Basseterre |
| Dominica |
751 |
74 |
Grosso |
| Martinique (France) |
1100 |
371 |
France Fort |
| Saint Lucia |
616 |
145 |
Castries |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
389 |
140 |
Kingston |
| Barbados |
431 |
265 |
Brighton |
| Grenada |
344 |
100 |
St. George |
| Republic of Trinidad and Tobago |
5128 |
1300 |
Port-of-Spain |
| Out by the Netherlands |
800 |
189 |
Weilianshidade |
| Aruba (Dutch) |
193 |
78 |
Oranjestad |
| South America |
| Republic of Colombia |
1141748 |
37,100 |
Santafé de Bogotá |
| Republic of Venezuela |
916700 |
21,844 |
Caracas |
| Cooperative Republic of Guyana |
214969 |
770 |
Georgetown |
| The Republic of Suriname |
163,265 ⑦ |
479 |
Paramaribo |
| French Guiana |
91,000 |
115 |
Cayenne |
| The Republic of Ecuador |
281341 |
11,700 |
Quito |
| The Republic of Peru |
1285216 |
23,940 |
Lima |
| The Federative Republic of Brazil |
8547403 |
155820 |
Brasilia |
| Republic of Bolivia |
1098581 |
7760 |
Sucre |
| The Republic of Chile |
756626 |
14,210 |
Santiago |
| Argentine Republic |
2776889 |
34,700 |
Buenos Aires |
| Republic of Paraguay |
406752 |
4970 |
Asuncion |
| The Eastern Republic of Uruguay |
176215 |
3173 |
Montevideo |
| The Malvinas Islands (British) ⑧ |
About 12,173 |
2 |
Port Stanley |
Note: This table
information collected by the general deadline for the end of 1996, a small number of information at the beginning of 1997, are based on 1997/98, "World Knowledge Yearbook" finishing.
① according to 1993 data, including living in other Arab countries Palestinians.
② including Svalbard, Jan Mayen and territoriality.
③ According to the 1996/97 annual economic assessment quarter, about 150,000 people were killed during the civil war, 750,000 people fled to neighboring countries.
④ political capital, Yamoussoukro, the economic capital Abidjan.
⑤ Pretoria, the administrative capital, Cape Town, the capital of the legislation, the judicial capital of Bloemfontein's Ark.
⑥ not based capital, and administrative center in Yaren.
⑦ including the controversial 17,000 square kilometers summarized.
⑧ said British Falkland Islands. | |
