Countries - Capital, Currency and Languages

Country Name	Capital	Currency	Official Language	Head of Government
Afghanistan	Kabul	Afghani	Dari Persian; Pashto	Chief Executive – Abdullah Abdullah
Albania	Tirane	Lek	Albanian	Prime Minister – Edi Rama
Algeria	Algiers	Dinar	Arabic; Tamazight; French	Prime Minister – Ahmed Ouyahia
Andorra	Andorra la Vella	Euro	Catalan	Antoni Martí
Angola	Luanda	New Kwanza	Portuguese	President – João Lourenço
Antigua and Barbuda	Saint John's	East Caribbean dollar	English	Prime Minister – Gaston Browne
Argentina	Buenos Aires	Peso	Spanish	President – Mauricio Macri
Armenia	Yerevan	Dram	Armenian	Prime Minister – Nikon Pashinyan
Australia	Canberra	Australian dollar	English	Prime Minister – Malcolm Turnbull
Austria	Vienna	Euro (formerly schilling)	German	Federal Chancellor – Sebastian Kurz
Azerbaijan	Baku	Manat	Azerbaijani	Prime Minister – Artur Rasizade
The Bahamas	Nassau	Bahamian dollar	English	Prime Minister – Hubert Minnis
Bahrain	Manama	Bahrain dinar	Arabic	Prime Minister – Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa
Bangladesh	Dhaka	Taka	Bangla	Prime Minister – Sheikh Hasina
Barbados	Bridgetown	Barbados dollar	English	Prime Minister – Freundel Stuart
Belarus	Minsk	Belorussian ruble	Belarusian; Russian	Prime Minister – Andrei Kobyakov
Belgium	Brussels	Euro (formerly Belgian franc)	Dutch; French; German	Prime Minister – Charles Michel
Belize	Belmopan	Belize dollar	English	Prime Minister – Dean Barrow
Benin	Porto-Novo	CFA Franc	French	President – Patrice Talon
Bhutan	Thimphu	Ngultrum	Dzongkha	Prime Minister – Tshering Tobgay
Bolivia	La Paz (administrative); Sucre (judicial)	Boliviano	Spanish; Quechua; Aymara	President – Evo Morales
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sarajevo	Marka	Bosnian; Croatian; Serbian	President – Mladen Ivanic
Botswana	Gaborone	Pula	English; Tswana	President – Ian Khama
Brazil	Brasilia	Real	Portuguese	President – Michel Temer^[^ε ^]
Brunei	Bandar Seri Begawan	Brunei dollar	Malay	Sultan and Prime Minister – Hassanal Bolkiah
Bulgaria	Sofia	Lev	Bulgarian	Prime Minister – Boyko Borisov
Burkina Faso	Ouagadougou	CFA Franc	French	Prime Minister – Paul Kaba Thieba
Burundi	Bujumbura	Burundi franc	Kirundi; French	President – Pierre Nkurunziza
Cambodia	Phnom Penh	Riel	Khmer	Prime Minister – Hun Sen
Cameroon	Yaounde	CFA Franc	French; English	Prime Minister – Philémon Yang
Canada	Ottawa	Canadian dollar	English; French	Prime Minister – Justin Trudeau
Cape Verde	Praia	Cape Verdean escudo	Portuguese	Prime Minister – Ulisses Correia e Silva
Central African Republic	Bangui	CFA Franc	Sango; French	Prime Minister – Simplice Sarandji
Chad	N'Djamena	CFA Franc	French; Arabic	Prime Minister – Albert Pahimi Padacké
Chile	Santiago	Chilean Peso	Spanish	President – Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria
China	Beijing	Yuan/Renminbi	Mandarin	Prime Minister – Li Keqiang
Colombia	Bogota	Colombian Peso	Spanish	President – Juan Manuel Santos
Comoros	Moroni	Franc	Comorian; Arabic; French	President – Azali Assoumani
Republic of the Congo	Brazzaville	CFA Franc	French	Prime Minister – Bruno Tshibala
Congo, Democratic Republic of the	Kinshasa	Congolese franc	French	Prime Minister – Clément Mouamba
Costa Rica	San Jose	Colón	Spanish	President – Luis Guillermo Solís
Cote d'Ivoire	Yamoussoukro (official); Abidjan (de facto)	CFA Franc	French	Prime Minister-Daniel Kablan Duncan
Croatia	Zagreb	Kuna	Kuna	Prime Minister – Andrej Plenković
Cuba	Havana	Cuban Peso	Spanish	Prime Minister-Raúl Castro
Cyprus	Nicosia	Cyprus pound	Greek; Turkish	President – Nicos Anastasiades
Czech Republic	Prague	Koruna	Czech; Slovak	Prime Minister – Andrej Babiš
Denmark	Copenhagen	Krone	Danish	Prime Minister – Lars Løkke Rasmussen
Djibouti	Djibouti	Djibouti franc	Arabic; French	Prime Minister – Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed
Dominica	Roseau	East Caribbean dollar	English; French; Antillean Creole	Prime Minister – Roosevelt Skerrit
Dominican Republic	Santo Domingo	Dominican Peso	Spanish	President – Danilo Medina
East Timor (Timor-Leste)	Dili	U.S. dollar	Tetum; Portuguese; Iindonesian	Prime Minister – Rui Maria de Araújo
Ecuador	Quito	U.S. dollar	Spanish	President – Lenín Moreno
Egypt	Cairo	Egyptian pound	Arabic	Prime Minister – Sherif Ismail
El Salvador	San Salvador	Colón; U.S. dollar	Spanish	President – Salvador Sánchez Cerén
Equatorial Guinea	Malabo	CFA Franc	Spanish; French; Portuguese	Prime Minister – Vicente Ehate Tomi
Eritrea	Asmara	Nakfa	Arabic; Tigrinya; English	President – Isaias Afwerki
Estonia	Tallinn	Kroon	Estonian	Prime Minister – Jüri Ratas
Ethiopia	Addis Ababa	Birr	Amharic	Prime Minister – Abiy Ahmed
Fiji	Suva	Fiji dollar	English; Bau Fijian; Hindi	Prime Minister – Frank Bainimarama
Finland	Helsinki	Euro (formerly markka)	Finnish; Swedish	Prime Minister – Juha Sipilä
France	Paris	Euro (formerly French franc)	French	Prime Minister – Édouard Philippe
Gabon	Libreville	CFA Franc	French	Prime Minister – Emmanuel Issoze-Ngondet
The Gambia	Banjul	Dalasi	English	President – Adama Barrow
Georgia	Tbilisi	Lari	Georgian	Prime Minister – Giorgi Kvirikashvili
Germany	Berlin	Euro (formerly Deutsche mark)	German	Chancellor – Angela Merkel
Ghana	Accra	Cedi	English	Prime Minister– Kwame Nkrumah
Greece	Athens	Euro (formerly drachma)	Greek	Prime Minister – Alexis Tsipras
Grenada	Saint George's	East Caribbean dollar	English; Patois	Prime Minister – Keith Mitchell
Guatemala	Guatemala City	Quetzal	Spanish	President – Jimmy Morales
Guinea	Conakry	Guinean franc	French	Prime Minister – Mamady Youla
Guinea-Bissau	Bissau	CFA Franc	Portuguese	Prime Minister – Baciro Djá
Guyana	Georgetown	Guyanese dollar	English	Prime Minister – Moses Nagamootoo
Haiti	Port-au-Prince	Gourde	Haitian Creole; French	Prime Minister – Jack Guy Lafontant
Honduras	Tegucigalpa	Lempira	Spanish	President – Juan Orlando Hernández
Hungary	Budapest	Forint	Hungarian	Prime Minister – Viktor Orbán
Iceland	Reykjavik	Icelandic króna	Icelandic	Prime Minister – Katrín Jakobsdóttir
India	New Delhi	Rupee	Hindi; English	Prime Minister – Narendra Modi
Indonesia	Jakarta	Rupiah	Indonesian	President – Joko Widodo
Iran	Tehran	Rial	Persian	President – Hassan Rouhani
Iraq	Baghdad	Iraqi Dinar	Arabic; Kurdish	Prime Minister – Haider al-Abadi
Ireland	Dublin	Euro (formerly Irish pound [punt])	English; Irish	Prime Minister-Taoiseach – Leo Varadkar
Israel	Jerusalem*	Shekel	Hebrew; Arabic	Prime Minister – Benjamin Netanyahu
Italy	Rome	Euro (formerly lira)	Italian	Prime Minister – Paolo Gentiloni
Jamaica	Kingston	Jamaican dollar	English	Prime Minister – Andrew Holness
Japan	Tokyo	Yen	Japanese	Prime Minister – Shinzō Abe
Jordan	Amman	Jordanian dinar	Arabic	Prime Minister – Hani Al-Mulki
Kazakhstan	Astana	Tenge	Kazakh; Russian	Prime Minister – Bakhytzhan Sagintayev
Kenya	Nairobi	Kenya shilling	Swahili; English	President – Uhuru Kenyatta
Kiribati	Tarawa Atoll	Australian dollar	English; Gilbertese	President – Taneti Mamau
Korea, North	Pyongyang	Won	Korean	Premier of the Cabinet – Kim Jong-un
Korea, South	Seoul	Won	Korean	Prime Minister – Lee Nak-yeon
Kosovo	Pristina	Euro (German Mark prior to 2002)	Albanian; Serbian	Prime Minister – Ramush Haradinaj
Kuwait	Kuwait City	Kuwaiti dinar	Arabic; English	Prime Minister – Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah
Kyrgyzstan	Bishkek	Som	Kyrgyz; Russian	Prime Minister – Muhammetkaliy Abulgaziyev
Laos	Vientiane	New Kip	Lao (Laotian)	Prime Minister – Thongloun Sisoulith
Latvia	Riga	Lats	Latvian	Prime Minister – Māris Kučinskis
Lebanon	Beirut	Lebanese pound	Arabic; French	President of the Council of Ministers – Saad Hariri
Lesotho	Maseru	Maluti	Sesotho; English	Prime Minister – Pakalitha Mosisili
Liberia	Monrovia	Liberian dollar	English	President – George Weah
Libya	Tripoli	Libyan dinar	Arabic	Prime Minister – Fayez al-Sarraj
Liechtenstein	Vaduz	Swiss franc	German	Prime Minister-Adrian Hasler
Lithuania	Vilnius	Litas	Lithuanian	Prime Minister – Saulius Skvernelis
Luxembourg	Luxembourg	Euro (formerly Luxembourg franc)	German; French; Luxembourgish	Prime Minister – Xavier Bettel
Macedonia	Skopje	Denar	Macedonian	President of the Government – Gjorge Ivanov
Madagascar	Antananarivo	Malagasy franc	Malagasy; French; English	Prime Minister – Olivier Mahafaly Solonandrasana
Malawi	Lilongwe	Kwacha	English	President – Peter Mutharika
Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur	Ringgit	Malay	Prime Minister – Najib Razak
Maldives	Male	Rufiya	Dhivehi	President – Abdulla Yameen
Mali	Bamako	CFA Franc	French	Prime Minister – Modibo Keita
Malta	Valletta	Maltese lira	Maltese; English	Prime Minister – Joseph Muscat
Marshall Islands	Majuro	U.S. Dollar	Marshallese; English	Prime Minister – Stefan Löfven
Mauritania	Nouakchott	Ouguiya	Arabic	Prime Minister – Yahya Ould Hademine
Mauritius	Port Louis	Mauritian rupee	English	Prime Minister – Pravind Jugnauth
Mexico	Mexico City	Mexican peso	Spanish	President – Enrique Peña Nieto
Micronesia, Federated States of	Palikir	U.S. Dollar	English	President – Peter M. Christian
Moldova	Chisinau	Leu	Moldovan (Romanian)	Prime Minister – Pavel Filip
Monaco	Monaco	Euro	French; Italian; English	Minister of State – Serge Telle
Mongolia	Ulaanbaatar	Tugrik	Mongolian	Prime Minister – Ukhnaagiin Khürelsükh
Montenegro	Podgorica	Euro	Montenegrin	Prime Minister – Duško Marković
Morocco	Rabat	Dirham	Arabic	Prime Minister-Saadeddine Othmani
Mozambique	Maputo	Metical	Portuguese	Prime Minister – Carlos Agostinho do Rosário
Myanmar (Burma)	Rangoon (Yangon); Naypyidaw or Nay Pyi Taw (administrative)	Kyat	Burmese	President– Win Myint
Namibia	Windhoek	Namibian dollar	English; Afrikaans; German	Prime Minister – Saara Kuugongelwa
Nauru	no official capital; government offices in Yaren District	Australian dollar	English; Nauran	President – Baron Waqa
Nepal	Kathmandu	Nepalese rupee	Nepali	Prime Minister – Khadga Prasad Oli
Netherlands	Amsterdam; The Hague (seat of government)	Euro (formerly guilder)	Dutch	Prime Minister – Mark Rutte
New Zealand	Wellington	New Zealand dollar	English	Prime Minister – Jacinda Ardern
Nicaragua	Managua	Gold cordoba	Spanish	President – Daniel Ortega
Niger	Niamey	CFA Franc	French	Prime Minister – Brigi Rafini
Nigeria	Abuja	Naira	English	Prime Minister– Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
Norway	Oslo	Norwegian krone	Norwegian	Prime Minister – Erna Solberg
Oman	Muscat	Omani rial	Arabic	Sultan and Prime Minister – Qaboos bin Said al Said
Pakistan	Islamabad	Pakistani rupee	Urdu; English	Interim Prime Minister – Shahid Khaqan Abbasi
Palau	Melekeok	U.S. dollar	English; Palauan	President – Thomas Remengesau Jr.
Panama	Panama City	balboa; U.S. dollar	Spanish	President – Juan Carlos Varela
Papua New Guinea	Port Moresby	Kina	English; Tok Pisin; Hiri Motu	Prime Minister – Peter O'Neill
Paraguay	Asuncion	Guaraní	Spanish; Guarani	President – Horacio Cartes
Peru	Lima	Nuevo sol (1991)	Spanish	Prime Minister – Mercedes Aráoz
Philippines	Manila	Peso	Filipino; English	President – Rodrigo Duterte
Poland	Warsaw	Zloty	Polish	Prime Minister – Mateusz Morawiecki
Portugal	Lisbon	Euro (formerly escudo)	Portuguese	Prime Minister – António Costa
Qatar	Doha	Qatari riyal	Arabic	Prime Minister – Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani
Romania	Bucharest	Leu	Romanian	Prime Minister – Viorica Dăncilă
Russia	Moscow	Ruble	Romanian	Prime Minister – Dmitry Medvedev
Rwanda	Kigali	Rwanda franc	Russian	Prime Minister – Anastase Murekezi
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Basseterre	East Caribbean dollar	English	Prime Minister – Timothy Harris
Saint Lucia	Castries	East Caribbean dollar	English	Prime Minister – Allen Chastanet
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Kingstown	East Caribbean dollar	English	Prime Minister – Ralph Gonsalves
Samoa	Apia	Tala	Samoan, English	Prime Minister – Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi
San Marino	San Marino	Euro	Italian	Pasquale Valentini
Sao Tome and Principe	Sao Tome	Dobra	Portuguese	Prime Minister – Patrice Trovoada
Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	Riyal	Arabic	King and Prime Minister – Salman
Senegal	Dakar	CFA Franc	French	Prime Minister – Mohammed Dionne
Serbia	Belgrade	Yugoslav new dinar. In Kosovo both the euro and the Yugoslav dinar are legal	Serbian	Prime Minister – Ana Brnabić
Seychelles	Victoria	Seychelles rupee	Seychellois Creole, French English	President – Danny Faure
Sierra Leone	Freetown	Leone	English	President – Julius Maada Bio
Singapore	Singapore	Singapore dollar	English, Chinese and Malay Tamil	Prime Minister – Lee Hsien Loong
Slovakia	Bratislava	Koruna	Slovak	Prime Minister – Peter Pellegrini
Slovenia	Ljubljana	Slovenian tolar; euro (as of 1/1/07)	Slovene	Prime Minister – Miro Cerar
Solomon Islands	Honiara	Solomon Islands dollar	English	Prime Minister – Rick Houenipwela
Somalia	Mogadishu	Somali shilling	Somali Arabic	Prime Minister – Hassan Ali Khayre
South Africa	Pretoria (administrative); Cape Town (legislative); Bloemfontein (judiciary)	Rand	Afrikaans, English, Southern Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Southern Sotho, Swazi Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu	President – Cyril Ramaphosa
South Sudan	Juba	Sudanese Pound	English	President – Salva Kiir Mayardit
Spain	Madrid	Euro (formerly peseta)	Spanish, Catalan Galician , Gasque	President of the Government – Mariano Rajoy Brey
Sri Lanka	Colombo; Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte (legislative)	Sri Lanka rupee	Sinhala, Tamil	Prime Minister – Ranil Wickremesinghe
Sudan	Khartoum	Dinar	Arabic, English	Prime Minister – Bakri Hassan Saleh
Suriname	Paramaribo	Surinamese dollar	Dutch	President – Dési Bouterse
Swaziland	Mbabane	Lilangeni	English, Swati	Prime Minister – Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini
Sweden	Stockholm	Krona	Swedish	Prime Minister – Stefan Löfven
Switzerland	Bern	Swiss franc	German, French, Italian, Romansh	President - Alain Berset
Syria	Damascus	Syrian pound	Arabic	Prime Minister – Imad Khamis
Taiwan	Taipei	Taiwan dollar	Standard Chinese	Prime Minister– Tsai Ing-wen
Tajikistan	Dushanbe	somoni	Tajik	Prime Minister – Kokhir Rasulzoda
Tanzania	Dar es Salaam; Dodoma (legislative)	Tanzanian shilling	Swahili, English	Prime Minister – Kassim Majaliwa
Thailand	Bangkok	baht	Thai	Prime Minister – Prayut Chan-o-cha
Togo	Lome	CFA Franc	French	Prime Minister – Komi Sélom Klassou
Tonga	Nuku'alofa	Pa'anga	English	Prime Minister – ʻAkilisi Pōhiva
Trinidad and Tobago	Port-of-Spain	Trinidad and Tobago dollar	English	Prime Minister – Keith Rowley
Tunisia	Tunis	Tunisian dinar	Arabic	Prime Minister-Youssef Chahed
Turkey	Ankara	Turkish lira (YTL)	Turkish	Prime Minister – Binali Yıldırım
Turkmenistan	Ashgabat	Manat	Turkmen	President – Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow
Tuvalu	Vaiaku village, Funafuti province	Australian dollar	Polynesian	Prime Minister – Enele Sopoaga
Uganda	Kampala	Ugandan new shilling	Swahili, English, Luganda	Prime Minister – Ruhakana Rugunda
Ukraine	Kyiv	Hryvna	Ukrainian	Prime Minister – Volodymyr Groysman
United Arab Emirates	Abu Dhabi	U.A.E. dirham	Arabic	Prime Minister – Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
United Kingdom	London	Pound sterling	English	Prime Minister – Theresa May
United States of America	Washington D.C.	dollar	English	President – Donald Trump
Uruguay	Montevideo	Uruguay peso	Spanish	President – Tabaré Vázquez
Uzbekistan	Tashkent	Uzbekistani sum	Uzbek	Prime Minister – Abdulla Aripov
Vanuatu	Port-Vila	Vatu	Bislama, French, English	Prime Minister – Charlot Salwai
Vatican City (Holy See)	Vatican City	Euro	Italian	Cardinal Pietro Parolin
Venezuela	Caracas	Bolivar	Spanish	President – Nicolás Maduro
Vietnam	Hanoi	Dong	Vietnamese	Nguyễn Phú Trọng
Yemen	Sanaa	Rial	Arabic	Prime Minister – Ahmed Obeid bin Daghr
Zambia	Lusaka	Kwacha	English	Prime Minister – Mainza Chona
Zimbabwe	Harare	Zimbabwean dollar	English, Shona, Ndebele	Prime Minister – Robert Mugabe