BY CONTINENT AND COUNTRY

Specialty Definition: List of countries by continent

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The below list contains both states and dependent territories, see country, state, nation state for some explanation of the difference between these.
Countries listed by continent and their capitals:

Africa

Algeria (Al - Jaza'ir) - Algiers
Angola - Luanda
Benin - Porto Novo, Cotonou
Botswana - Gaborone
Burundi - Bujumbura
Burkina Faso - Ouagadougou
Cameroon (also spelled Cameroun) - Yaounde
Central African Republic (Centrafrique)- Bangui
Chad (Tchad) - N'Djamena
Comoros - Moroni
Republic of the Congo - Brazzaville
Democratic Republic of the Congo - Kinshasa
Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)- Yamoussoukro
Djibouti - Djibouti
Egypt (Misr) - Cairo
Equatorial Guinea - Malabo
Eritrea - Asmara
Ethiopia (Itiopia) - Addis Ababa
Gabon - Libreville
The Gambia - Banjul
Ghana - Accra
Guinea - Conakry
Guinea-Bissau - Bissau
Kenya - Nairobi
Lesotho - Maseru
Liberia - Monrovia
Libya - Tripoli
Madagascar - Antananarivo
Malawi - Lilongwe
Mali - Bamako
Mauritania - Nouakchott
Mauritius - Port Louis
Morocco (Al Maghrib) - Rabat
Mozambique - Maputo
Namibia - Windhoek
Niger - Niamey
Nigeria - Abuja
Rwanda - Kigali
Sao Tome and Principe - Sao Tome
Senegal - Dakar
Seychelles - Victoria, Seychelles
Sierra Leone - Freetown
Somalia - Mogadishu
South Africa - Cape Town, Pretoria, Bloemfontein
Sudan - Khartoum
Swaziland - Mbabane
Tanzania - Dar es Salaam, Dodoma
Togo - Lome
Tunisia - Tunis

Uganda - Kampala
Western Sahara *DISPUTED* - La'youn
Zambia - Lusaka
Zimbabwe - Harare

Asia

Afghanistan - Kabul
Armenia - Yerevan
Azerbaijan - Baku
Bahrain - Manama
Bangladesh - Dhaka
Bhutan - Thimphu
Brunei - Bandar Seri Begawan
Cambodia (Kampuchea) - Phnom Penh
China, People's Republic of - Beijing
China, Republic of (a.k.a. Taiwan) - Taipei
East Timor(Timor Leste) - Dili
Georgia (Sakartvelo) - Tbilisi
India (Hindu: Bharat) - New Delhi
Indonesia - Jakarta
Iran - Teheran
Iraq - Bagdad
Israel (Yisra'el) - Jerusalem (disputed)
Japan (Nihon) - Tokyo
Jordan (Al Urdun) - Amman
Kazakhstan - Astana
Kuwait - Kuwait City
Kyrgyzstan - Bishkek
Laos - Vientiane
Lebanon (Lubnan) - Beirut
Malaysia - Kuala Lumpur
Maldives - Male
Mongolia - Ulan Bator
Myanmar (Burma) - Yangon
Nepal - Kathmandu
North Korea - Pyongyang
Oman - Muscat
Pakistan - Islamabad
Philippines (Pilipinas) - Manila
Qatar - Doha
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Singapore - Singapore
South Korea - Seoul
Sri Lanka - Colombo, Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
Syria - Damascus
Tajikistan - Dushanbe
Thailand (Muang Thai) - Bangkok
Turkey - Ankara
Turkmenistan - Ashgabat
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Uzbekistan - Tashkent
Vietnam - Hanoi
Yemen - Sana

Europe

Albania (Shqipëria) - Tirana
Andorra - Andorra la Vella
Austria (Österreich) - Vienna
Belarus - Minsk
Belgium - Brussels
Bosnia Herzegovina - Sarajevo
Bulgaria - Sofia
Croatia (Hrvatska) - Zagreb
Cyprus (Kupros) - Nicosia
Czech Republic - Prague
Denmark (Danmark) - Copenhagen
Estonia (Eesti) - Tallinn
Finland (Suomi) - Helsinki
France - Paris
Germany (Deutschland) - Berlin
Greece (Hellas) - Athens
Hungary (Magyar Republic) - Budapest
Iceland (Island) - Reykjavik
Republic of Ireland (Eire) - Dublin
Italy (Italia) - Rome
Latvia - Riga
Liechtenstein - Vaduz
Lithuania - Vilnius
Luxembourg - Luxembourg City
Republic of Macedonia -- Skopje
Malta - Valletta
Moldova - Chisinau
Monaco - Monaco
Montenegro - Podgorica
Netherlands (Nederland) - Amsterdam (Capital), The Hague (Location of Government)
Norway (Norge) - Oslo
Poland (Polska) - Warsaw
Portugal - Lisbon
Romania (România) - Bucharest
Russia (Россия) - Moscow
San Marino - San Marino
Serbia - Belgrade
Slovakia - Bratislava
Slovenia (Slovenija) - Ljubljana
Spain (España) - Madrid
Sweden (Sverige) - Stockholm
Switzerland - Bern
Turkey - Ankara
Ukraine - Kiev
United Kingdom - London
Vatican City - none

North and Central America

Antigua and Barbuda - St. Johns
Bahamas - Nassau
Barbados - Bridgetown
Belize - Belmopan
Canada - Ottawa
Costa Rica - San José
Cuba - Havana
Dominica - Roseau
Dominican Republic (Republica Dominicana) - Santo Domingo
El Salvador - San Salvador
Grenada - St Georges
Guatemala - Guatemala
Haiti - Port-au-Prince
Honduras - Tegucigalpa
Jamaica - Kingston, Jamaica
Mexico (México) - Mexico City
Nicaragua - Managua
Panama (Panamá) - Panama City
Saint Kitts and Nevis - Basseterre
Saint Lucia - Castries
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - Kingstown
Trinidad and Tobago - Port of Spain
United States - Washington DC

Oceania

Australia - Canberra
Federated States of Micronesia - Palikir
Fiji - Suva
Kiribati - Tarawa
Marshall Islands - Majuro
Nauru - none
New Zealand (Aotearoa) - Wellington
Palau - Koror
Papua New Guinea - Port Moresby
Samoa - Apia
Solomon Islands - Honiara
Tonga - Nuku'alofa
Tuvalu - Funafuti
Vanuatu - Port Vila

South America

Argentina - Buenos Aires
Bolivia - La Paz, Sucre
Brazil (Brasil) - Brasilia
Chile - Santiago
Colombia - Bogota
Ecuador - Quito
French Guiana - Cayenne (part of France)
Guyana - Georgetown
Paraguay - Asuncion
Peru - Lima
Suriname - Paramaribo
Uruguay - Montevideo
Venezuela - Caracas

See also : List of countries

External links to information by country

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/
http://www.world-gazetteer.com/home.htm
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "List of countries by continent."