|
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 |
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