Countries of The World and Their Capitals

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Countries of the World and their Capitals etc (Source : CIA)

This entry gives the Name of the seat of government, its geographic coordinates, the time difference
relative to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and the time observed in Washington, DC, and, if
applicable, information on daylight saving time (DST). Where appropriate, a special note has been
added to highlight those countries that have multiple time zones.
Country Capital
Afghanistan Name: Kabul

geographic coordinates: 34 31 N, 69 11 E
time difference: UTC+4.5 (9.5 hours ahead of Washington, DC
during Standard Time)
Akrotiri Name: Episkopi Cantonment (base administrative center for

Akrotiri and Dhekelia)
time difference: UTC+2 (7 hours ahead of Washington, DC during
Standard Time)
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins last Sunday in March; ends
last Sunday in October
Albania Name: Tirana (Tirane)

Standard Time)
Algeria Name: Algiers

Standard Time)
American Samoa Name: Pago Pago

geographic coordinates: 14 16 S, 170 42 W
time difference: UTC-11 (6 hours behind Washington, DC during
Standard Time)
Andorra Name: Andorra la Vella

Standard Time)
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Angola Name: Luanda

geographic coordinates: 8 50 S, 13 14 E
Standard Time)
Anguilla Name: The Valley

geographic coordinates: 18 13 N, 63 03 W
time difference: UTC-4 (1 hour ahead of Washington, DC during
Standard Time)
Antigua and Barbuda Name: Saint John's

Standard Time)
Argentina Name: Buenos Aires

time difference: UTC-3 (3 hours ahead of Washington, DC during
Standard Time)
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins first Sunday in October; ends
third Saturday in March; note - a new policy of daylight saving
time was initiated by the government on 30 December 2007
Armenia Name: Yerevan

Standard Time)
Aruba Name: Oranjestad

Standard Time)
Australia Name: Canberra

time difference: UTC+10 (15 hours ahead of Washington, DC
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins last Sunday in October; ends
last Sunday in March
note: Australia is divided into three time zones
Austria Name: Vienna

Standard Time)
Azerbaijan Name: Baku (Baki, Baky)

Standard Time)
Bahamas, The Name: Nassau

time difference: UTC-5 (same time as Washington, DC during
Standard Time)
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins second Sunday in March; ends
first Sunday in November
Bahrain Name: Manama

Standard Time)
Bangladesh Name: Dhaka

Barbados Name: Bridgetown

Standard Time)
Belaru Name: Minsk

Standard Time)
Belgium Name: Brussels

Standard Time)
Belize Name: Belmopan

time difference: UTC-6 (1 hour behind Washington, DC during
Standard Time)
Benin Name: Porto-Novo (official capital)

Standard Time)
note: Cotonou (seat of government)
Bermuda Name: Hamilton

Standard Time)
Bhutan Name: Thimphu

Bolivia Name: La Paz (administrative capital)

Standard Time)
note: Sucre (constitutional capital)
Bosnia and Herzegovina Name: Sarajevo

Standard Time)
Botswana Name: Gaborone

Standard Time)
Brazil Name: Brasilia

Standard Time)
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins third Sunday in October; ends
third Sunday in February
note: Brazil is divided into four time zones, including one for the
Fernando de Noronha Islands
British Virgin Islands Name: Road Town

Standard Time)
Brunei Name: Bandar Seri Begawan

Bulgaria Name: Sofia

Standard Time)
Burkina Faso Name: Ouagadougou

time difference: UTC 0 (5 hours ahead of Washington, DC during
Standard Time)
Burma Name: Rangoon (Yangon)

note: Nay Pyi Taw is administrative capital
Burundi Name: Bujumbura


Standard Time)
Cambodia Name: Phnom Penh

Cameroon Name: Yaounde

Standard Time)
Canada Name: Ottawa

Standard Time)
note: Canada is divided into six time zones
Cape Verde Name: Praia

Standard Time)
Cayman Islands Name: George Town (on Grand Cayman)

Standard Time)
Central African Republic Name: Bangui

Standard Time)
Chad Name: N'Djamena

Standard Time)
Chile Name: Santiago

Standard Time)
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins second Sunday in October;
ends second Sunday in March
China Name: Beijing

note: despite its size, all of China falls within one time zone;
many people in Xinjiang Province observe an unofficial "Xinjiang
timezone" of UTC+6, two hours behind Beijing
Christmas Island Name: The Settlement

Cocos (Keeling) Islands Name: West Island

Colombia Name: Bogota

Standard Time)
Comoros Name: Moroni

Standard Time)
Congo, Democratic Republic of Name: Kinshasa

the geographic coordinates: 4 19 S, 15 18 E
time difference: UTC+1 (six hours ahead of Washington, DC
Congo, Republic of the Name: Brazzaville

time difference: UTC+1 (six hours ahead of Washington, DC
Cook Islands Name: Avarua


Standard Time)
Costa Rica Name: San Jose

Standard Time)
Cote d'Ivoire Name: Yamoussoukro

Standard Time)
note: although Yamoussoukro has been the official capital
since 1983, Abidjan remains the commercial and administrative
center; the US, like other countries, maintains its Embassy in
Abidjan
Croatia Name: Zagreb

Standard Time)
Cuba Name: Havana

Standard Time)
Cyprus Name: Nicosia (Lefkosia)

Standard Time)
Czech Republic Name: Prague

Standard Time)
Denmark Name: Copenhagen

Standard Time)
note: applies to continental Denmark only, not to its North
Atlantic components
Dhekelia Name: Episkopi Cantonment (base administrative center for

Akrotiri and Dhekelia); located in Akrotiri
Standard Time)
Djibouti Name: Djibouti

Standard Time)
Dominica Name: Roseau

Standard Time)
Dominican Republic Name: Santo Domingo

Standard Time)
Ecuador Name: Quito

Standard Time)
Egypt Name: Cairo

Standard Time)
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins last Friday in April; ends last
Thursday in September
El Salvador Name: San Salvador

Standard Time)
Equatorial Guinea Name: Malabo

Standard Time)
Eritrea Name: Asmara (Asmera)

Standard Time)
Estonia Name: Tallinn

Standard Time)
Ethiopia Name: Addis Ababa

Standard Time)
European Union Name: Brussels (Belgium), Strasbourg (France), Luxembourg

Standard Time)
note: the Council of the European Union meets in Brussels,
Belgium; the European Parliament meets in Brussels and
Strasbourg, France; the Court of Justice of the European
Communities meets in Luxembourg
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) Name: Stanley

Standard Time)
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins first Sunday in September;
ends third Sunday in April
Faroe Islands Name: Torshavn

Standard Time)
Fiji Name: Suva (on Viti Levu)

Finland Name: Helsinki

Standard Time)
France Name: Paris

Standard Time)
note: applies to metropolitan France only, not to its overseas
departments, collectivities, or territories
French Polynesia Name: Papeete

Standard Time)
Gabon Name: Libreville

Standard Time)
Gambia, The Name: Banjul

Standard Time)
Georgia Name: T'bilisi

Standard Time)
Germany Name: Berlin

Standard Time)
Ghana Name: Accra

Standard Time)
Gibraltar Name: Gibraltar

Standard Time)
Greece Name: Athens

Standard Time)
Greenland Name: Nuuk (Godthab)

Standard Time)
note: Greenland is divided into four time zones
Grenada Name: Saint George's

Standard Time)
Guam Name: Hagatna (Agana)

Guatemala Name: Guatemala City

Standard Time)
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins last Sunday in April; ends last
Friday in September; note - there is no DST planned for 2007-
2009
Guernsey Name: Saint Peter Port

Standard Time)
Guinea Name: Conakry

Standard Time)
Guinea-Bissau Name: Bissau

Standard Time)
Guyana Name: Georgetown

Standard Time)
Haiti Name: Port-au-Prince

Standard Time)
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins first Sunday in April; ends last
Sunday in October
Holy See (Vatican City) Name: Vatican City
Standard Time)
Honduras Name: Tegucigalpa

Standard Time)
Hungary Name: Budapest

Standard Time)
Iceland Name: Reykjavik

Standard Time)
India Name: New Delhi

Indonesia Name: Jakarta

note: Indonesia is divided into three time zones
Iran Name: Tehran

Iraq Name: Baghdad

Standard Time)
Ireland Name: Dublin

Standard Time)
Isle of Man Name: Douglas

time difference: UTC 0 (five hours ahead of Washington, DC
Israel Name: Jerusalem

Standard Time)
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins last Friday in March; ends the
Sunday between the holidays of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur
note: Israel proclaimed Jerusalem as its capital in 1950, but the
US, like nearly all other countries, maintains its Embassy in Tel
Aviv
Italy Name: Rome

Standard Time)
Jamaica Name: Kingston

Standard Time)
Japan Name: Tokyo

Jersey Name: Saint Helier
Standard Time)
Jordan Name: Amman

Standard Time)
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins last Thursday in March; ends
last Friday in September
Kazakhstan Name: Astana

note: Kazakhstan is divided into two time zones
Kenya Name: Nairobi

Standard Time)
Kiribati Name: Tarawa

Korea, North Name: Pyongyang

Korea, South Name: Seoul

Kosovo Name: Pristina (Prishtine, Prishtina)

Standard Time)
Kuwait Name: Kuwait City

Standard Time)
Kyrgyzstan Name: Bishkek

Laos Name: Vientiane (Viangchan)

Latvia Name: Riga

Standard Time)
Lebanon Name: Beirut

Standard Time)
Lesotho Name: Maseru

Standard Time)
Liberia Name: Monrovia

Standard Time)
Libya Name: Tripoli (Tarabulus)

Standard Time)
Liechtenstein Name: Vaduz

Standard Time)
Lithuania Name: Vilnius

Standard Time)
Luxembourg Name: Luxembourg

Standard Time)
Macedonia Name: Skopje

Standard Time)
Madagascar Name: Antananarivo

Standard Time)
Malawi Name: Lilongwe

Standard Time)
Malaysia Name: Kuala Lumpur

note: Putrajaya is referred to as administrative center not

capital; Parliament meets in Kuala Lumpur
Maldives Name: Male

Mali Name: Bamako

Standard Time)
Malta Name: Valletta

Standard Time)
Marshall Islands Name: Majuro

Mauritania Name: Nouakchott

Standard Time)
Mauritius Name: Port Louis

Standard Time)
Mayotte Name: Mamoudzou

Standard Time)
Mexico Name: Mexico City (Distrito Federal)

Standard Time)
Sunday in October
note: Mexico is divided into three time zones
Micronesia, Federated States of Name: Palikir

Moldova Name: Chisinau (Kishinev)

note: pronounced kee-shee-now
Standard Time)
Monaco Name: Monaco

Standard Time)
Mongolia Name: Ulaanbaatar

Montenegro Name: Podgorica

Standard Time)
daylight saving time: +1 hr, begins last Sunday in March; ends
Montserrat Name: Plymouth

Standard Time)
note: Plymouth was abandoned in 1997 because of volcanic
activity; interim government buildings have been built at Brades
Estate in the Carr's Bay/Little Bay vicinity at the northwest end of
Montserrat
Morocco Name: Rabat

Standard Time)
Mozambique Name: Maputo

Standard Time)
Namibia Name: Windhoek

Standard Time)
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins first Sunday in September;
ends first Sunday in April
Nauru no official capital; government offices in Yaren District

Nepal Name: Kathmandu

time difference: UTC+5.75 (10.75 hours ahead of Washington,
DC during Standard Time)
Netherlands Name: Amsterdam

Standard Time)
note: The Hague is the seat of government; time descriptions
apply to the continental Netherlands only, not to the Caribbean
components
Netherlands Antilles Name: Willemstad (on Curacao)

Standard Time)
New Caledonia Name: Noumea


New Zealand Name: Wellington

daylight saving time: +1hr, begins last Sunday in September;
ends first Sunday in April
note: New Zealand is divided into two time zones - New Zealand
standard time (12 hours in advance of UTC), and Chatham
Islands time (45 minutes in advance of New Zealand standard
time)
Nicaragua Name: Managua

Standard Time)
Niger Name: Niamey

Standard Time)
Nigeria Name: Abuja

Standard Time)
Niue Name: Alofi

Standard Time)
Norfolk Island Name: Kingston

Northern Mariana Islands Name: Saipan

Norway Name: Oslo

Standard Time)
Oman Name: Muscat

Standard Time)
Pakistan Name: Islamabad

daylight saving time: +1hr, in 2009 - begins third Wednesday
in April; ends first Sunday in November; note - a new policy of
daylight saving time was initiated by the government in 2008;
the specific date of the start of DST has varied over the last two
years
Palau Name: Melekeok

Panama Name: Panama City

Standard Time)
Papua New Guinea Name: Port Moresby

Paraguay Name: Asuncion

Standard Time)
Peru Name: Lima


Standard Time)
Philippines Name: Manila

Pitcairn Islands Name: Adamstown

Standard Time)
Poland Name: Warsaw

Standard Time)
Portugal Name: Lisbon

Standard Time)
Puerto Rico Name: San Juan

Standard Time)
Qatar Name: Doha

Standard Time)
Romania Name: Bucharest

Standard Time)
Russia Name: Moscow

Standard Time)
note: Russia is divided into 11 time zones
Rwanda Name: Kigali

Standard Time)
Saint Barthelemy Name: Gustavia

time difference: UTC-4 (1 hour ahead of Washington, DC, during
Standard Time)
Saint Helena Name: Jamestown

Standard Time)
Saint Kitts and Nevis Name: Basseterre

Standard Time)
Saint Lucia Name: Castries

Standard Time)
Saint Martin Name: Marigot

geographical coordinates: 18 04 N, 63 05 W
time difference: UTC-4 (1 hour behind Washington, DC, during
Standard Time)
daylight savings: +1 hour
Saint Pierre and Miquelon Name: Saint-Pierre

Standard Time)
Saint Vincent and the Name: Kingstown

Grenadines geographic coordinates: 13 09 N, 61 14 W
Standard Time)
Samoa Name: Apia

Standard Time)
San Marino Name: San Marino

Standard Time)
Sao Tome and Principe Name: Sao Tome

Standard Time)
Saudi Arabia Name: Riyadh

Standard Time)
Senegal Name: Dakar

Standard Time)
Serbia Name: Belgrade (Beograd)

Standard Time)
Seychelles Name: Victoria

Standard Time)
Sierra Leone Name: Freetown

Standard Time)
Singapore Name: Singapore

Slovakia Name: Bratislava

Standard Time)
Slovenia Name: Ljubljana

Standard Time)
Solomon Islands Name: Honiara

Somalia Name: Mogadishu

Standard Time)
South Africa Name: Pretoria (administrative capital)

Standard Time)
note: Cape Town (legislative capital); Bloemfontein (judicial
capital)
Spain Name: Madrid

Standard Time)
note: Spain is divided into two time zones including the Canary
Islands
Sri Lanka Name: Colombo

note: Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte (legislative capital)
Sudan Name: Khartoum

Standard Time)
SuriName Name: Paramaribo

Standard Time)
Svalbard Name: Longyearbyen

Standard Time)
Swaziland Name: Mbabane

Standard Time)
note: Lobamba (royal and legislative capital)
Sweden Name: Stockholm

Standard Time)
Switzerland Name: Bern

Standard Time)
Syria Name: Damascus

Standard Time)
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins 1 April; ends 30 September
Taiwan Name: Taipei

Tajikistan Name: Dushanbe

Tanzania Name: Dar es Salaam

Standard Time)
note: legislative offices have been transferred to Dodoma, which
is planned as the new national capital; the National Assembly
now meets there on a regular basis
Thailand Name: Bangkok

Timor-Leste Name: Dili

Togo Name: Lome

Standard Time)
Tokelau none; each atoll has its own administrative center

Standard Time)
Tonga Name: Nuku'alofa

Trinidad and Tobago Name: Port-of-Spain

Standard Time)
Tunisia Name: Tunis

Standard Time)
Turkey Name: Ankara

Standard Time)
Turkmenistan Name: Ashgabat (Ashkhabad)

Turks and Caicos Islands Name: Grand Turk (Cockburn Town)

Standard Time)
Sunday in October
Tuvalu Name: Funafuti


note: administrative offices are in Vaiaku Village on Fongafale
Islet
Uganda Name: Kampala

Standard Time)
Ukraine Name: Kyiv (Kiev)

Standard Time)
United Arab Emirates Name: Abu Dhabi

Standard Time)
United Kingdom Name: London

Standard Time)
note: applies to the United Kingdom proper, not to its overseas
dependencies or territories
United States Name: Washington, DC

time difference: UTC-5 (during Standard Time)
note: the 50 United States cover six time zones
Uruguay Name: Montevideo

Standard Time)
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins second Sunday in October;
ends second Sunday in March
Uzbekistan Name: Tashkent (Toshkent)

Vanuatu Name: Port-Vila (on Efate)

Venezuela Name: Caracas

time difference: UTC-4.5 (half an hour ahead of Washington, DC
Vietnam Name: Hanoi (Ha Noi)

Virgin Islands Name: Charlotte Amalie

Standard Time)
Wallis and Futuna Name: Mata-Utu (on Ile Uvea)

Western Sahara none

Standard Time)
Yemen Name: Sanaa

Standard Time)
Zambia Name: Lusaka

Standard Time)
Zimbabwe Name: Harare

Standard Time)
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Afghanistan Name: Kabul

Akrotiri Name: Episkopi Cantonment (base administrative center for

Albania Name: Tirana (Tirane)

Algeria Name: Algiers

American Samoa Name: Pago Pago

Andorra Name: Andorra la Vella

daylight saving time: +1hr, begins last Sunday in March; ends

Angola Name: Luanda

Anguilla Name: The Valley

Antigua and Barbuda Name: Saint John's

Argentina Name: Buenos Aires

Armenia Name: Yerevan

Aruba Name: Oranjestad

Australia Name: Canberra

note: Australia is divided into three time zones

Austria Name: Vienna

Azerbaijan Name: Baku (Baki, Baky)

Bahamas, The Name: Nassau

Bahrain Name: Manama

Bangladesh Name: Dhaka

Barbados Name: Bridgetown

Belaru Name: Minsk

Belgium Name: Brussels

Belize Name: Belmopan

Benin Name: Porto-Novo (official capital)

Bermuda Name: Hamilton

Bhutan Name: Thimphu

Bolivia Name: La Paz (administrative capital)

Bosnia and Herzegovina Name: Sarajevo

Botswana Name: Gaborone

Brazil Name: Brasilia

British Virgin Islands Name: Road Town

Brunei Name: Bandar Seri Begawan

Bulgaria Name: Sofia

Burkina Faso Name: Ouagadougou

Burma Name: Rangoon (Yangon)

Burundi Name: Bujumbura

time difference: UTC+2 (7 hours ahead of Washington, DC during

Cambodia Name: Phnom Penh

Cameroon Name: Yaounde

Canada Name: Ottawa

Cape Verde Name: Praia

Cayman Islands Name: George Town (on Grand Cayman)

Central African Republic Name: Bangui

Chad Name: N'Djamena

Chile Name: Santiago

China Name: Beijing

Christmas Island Name: The Settlement

Cocos (Keeling) Islands Name: West Island

Colombia Name: Bogota

Comoros Name: Moroni

Congo, Democratic Republic of Name: Kinshasa

Congo, Republic of the Name: Brazzaville

Cook Islands Name: Avarua

time difference: UTC-10 (5 hours behind Washington, DC during

Costa Rica Name: San Jose

Cote d'Ivoire Name: Yamoussoukro

Croatia Name: Zagreb

Cuba Name: Havana

Cyprus Name: Nicosia (Lefkosia)

Czech Republic Name: Prague