List of national capitals in East, South, and Southeast Asia

This is a list of East, South, and Southeast Asian capitals.

East Asia

Name	Nation	Population	Mayor or governor
Beijing	People's Republic of China	14,930,000 (2004, municipality)	Wang Qishan
Pyongyang	North Korea
Seoul	South Korea	10,356,000 (2006)	Park Won-soon
Taipei	Taiwan	2,630,872 (2007)
Hong Kong	Hong Kong	7,100,000 (2011)	none
Tokyo	Japan
Ulan Bator	Mongolia

South Asia

Name	Nation	Population	Mayor or governor
Colombo (Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte)	Sri Lanka	5,600,000	A. J. M. Muzammil
Dhaka, formerly Dacca	Bangladesh	6,594,962 (2013)	N/A
Islamabad	Pakistan	1,330,000 (2011)	N/A
Kathmandu	Nepal	822,930	N/A
Malé	Maldives	81,647	Abdulla Yameen
New Delhi	Republic of India	16,321,883	Najeeb Jung
Thimphu	Bhutan	50,000	Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck

Southeast Asia

Name	Nation	Population	Mayor or governor
Bandar Seri Begawan	Brunei	46,229 (1991)
Bangkok	Thailand	7,160,522 (2007) Metropolitan: 10,061,726(2007)	หม่อมราชวงศ์สุขุมพันธุ์ บริพัตร M.R. Sukhumbhand Paribatra
Dili	East Timor	150,000
Hanoi	Vietnam	3,398,889 (2007) Metropolitan: 6,232,940(2008)	Nguyễn Thế Thảo
Jakarta	Indonesia	10,075,300 (2014) Metropolitan: 30,214,303	Basuki Tjahaja Purnama
Kuala Lumpur (official) Putrajaya (Federal Administrative centre)	Malaysia	City: 1,627,172 (2010) Metropolitan: 7,239,871 (2010)	Datuk Abdul Hakim Borhan
Manila	Philippines	1,652,171 (2010) Metropolitan: 11,855,975 (2010)	Joseph Estrada
Naypyidaw	Myanmar	930,000 (2007)	Colonel Thein Nyunt
Phnom Penh	Cambodia	Metropolitan: 2,009,264 (2008)	Keb Chutema
Singapore	Singapore
Vientiane	Laos	City: 200,000 (2005) Metropolitan: 730,000 (2005)

Capitals of Asia

Dependent territories and states with limited recognition are in italics

North and Central Asia	South Asia	Southeast Asia	West and Southwest Asia

Ashgabat, Turkmenistan Astana, Kazakhstan* Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Dushanbe, Tajikistan Moscow, Russia* Tashkent, Uzbekistan East Asia Beijing, People's Republic of China Hong Kong, Hong Kong (PRC) Macau, Macau (PRC) Nanjing, Republic of China+ Pyongyang, North Korea Seoul, South Korea Taipei, Taiwan (ROC)+ Tokyo, Japan Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia	Kabul, Afghanistan Dhaka, Bangladesh Diego Garcia, BIOT (UK) Islamabad, Pakistan Kathmandu, Nepal Kotte, Sri Lanka Malé, Maldives New Delhi, India Thimphu, Bhutan	Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Bangkok, Thailand Dili, East Timor Flying Fish Cove, Christmas Island (Australia) Hanoi, Vietnam Jakarta, Indonesia* Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Manila, Philippines Naypyidaw, Myanmar Phnom Penh, Cambodia Singapore Vientiane, Laos West Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Australia)	Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Amman, Jordan Ankara, Turkey* Baghdad, Iraq Baku, Azerbaijan* Beirut, Lebanon Cairo, Egypt* Damascus, Syria Doha, Qatar Episkopi, Akrotiri and Dhekelia (UK) Jerusalem, Israel (de facto) † Kuwait City, Kuwait Manama, Bahrain	Muscat, Oman Nicosia, Cyprus* North Nicosia, Northern Cyprus* Ramallah, Palestine (de facto) † Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Sana'a, Yemen Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh* Sukhumi, Abkhazia* Tbilisi, Georgia* Tehran, Iran Tskhinvali, South Ossetia* Yerevan, Armenia*

*Transcontinental country.
† See: Positions on Jerusalem. Both Israel and Palestinians claim Jerusalem as capital. Jerusalem contains the Israeli parliament and almost all Israeli government ministries. Tel Aviv contains most foreign embassies in Israel; Ramallah is the administrative seat of the Palestinian Authority.
+ According to the 1947 Constitution of the Republic of China, Nanjing is the official capital of the ROC, with Taipei as the seat of government. See also Political status of Taiwan.

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