This is a list of national capitals, ordered according to population. Capitals of dependent territories and disputed territories are marked in italics. The population statistics given refer only to the official capital area, and do not include the wider metropolitan/urban district.
Table
Note: links for each location marked by an asterisk (*) go to the relevant list of cities. Where a list of cities is not available, the links go to the article on the country.
See also
Capital city
List of countries whose capital is not their largest city
List of capitals outside the territories they serve
List of national capitals by latitude
List of countries and dependencies by population
List of towns and cities with 100,000 or more inhabitants