Country Name
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Capital
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Currency
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Official Language
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Head of Government
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Afghanistan | Kabul | Afghani | Dari Persian; Pashto | President - Hasan Akhund |
Albania | Tirane | Lek | Albanian | Prime Minister – Edi Rama |
Algeria | Algiers | Dinar | Arabic; Tamazight; French | Prime Minister – Aymen Benabderrahmane
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Andorra | Andorra la Vella | Euro | Catalan | Prime Minister - Xavier Espot Zamora |
Angola | Luanda | New Kwanza | Portuguese | President – H.E. Joao Manuel Goncalves Lourenco |
Antigua and Barbuda | Saint John's | East Caribbean dollar | English | Prime Minister – Gaston Alphonso Browne |
Argentina | Buenos Aires | Peso | Spanish | President – Alberto Fernández |
Armenia | Yerevan | Dram | Armenian | President – Nikol Pashinyan |
Australia | Canberra | Australian dollar | English | Prime Minister - Anthony Albanese |
Austria | Vienna | Euro (formerly schilling) | German | President - Alexander Van der Bellen |
Azerbaijan | Baku | Manat | Azerbaijani | Prime Minister – Ali Asadov |
The Bahamas | Nassau | Bahamian dollar | English | Prime Minister – Philip Davis |
Bahrain | Manama | Bahrain dinar | Arabic | Prime Minister – Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa |
Bangladesh | Dhaka | Taka | Bangla | Prime Minister – Sheikh Hasina |
Barbados | Bridgetown | Barbados dollar | English | Prime Minister – Mia Mottley |
Belarus | Minsk | Belorussian ruble | Belarusian; Russian | President - Roman Golovchenko |
Belgium | Brussels | Euro (formerly Belgian franc) | Dutch; French; German | Prime Minister – Alexander De Croo |
Belize | Belmopan | Belize dollar | English | Prime Minister – Johnny Briceño |
Benin | Porto-Novo | CFA Franc | French | President - Patrice Talon |
Bhutan | Thimphu | Ngultrum | Dzongkha | Prime Minister – Lotay Tshering |
Bolivia | La Paz (administrative); Sucre (judicial) | Boliviano | Spanish; Quechua; Aymara | President – Luis Arce |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Sarajevo | Convertible Mark | Bosnian; Croatian; Serbian | Chairman of the Council of Ministers - Borjana Krišto |
Botswana | Gaborone | Pula | English; Tswana | President – Mokgweetsi Masisi |
Brazil | Brasilia | Real | Portuguese | President – Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva |
Brunei | Bandar Seri Begawan | Brunei dollar | Malay | Sultan and Prime Minister – Hassanal Bolkiah |
Bulgaria | Sofia | Lev | Bulgarian | Prime Minister – Nikolai Denkov |
Burkina Faso | Ouagadougou | CFA Franc | French | Prime Minister - Apollinaire Joachim Kyélem de Tambèla |
Burundi | Gitega | Burundi franc | Kirundi; French | Prime Minister – Gervais Ndirakobuca |
Cambodia | Phnom Penh | Riel | Khmer | Prime Minister – Hun Sen |
Cameroon | Yaounde | CFA Franc | French; English | Prime Minister – Joseph Ngute |
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 – Félix Moloua |
Chad | N'Djamena | CFA Franc | French; Arabic | Prime Minister – Saleh Kebzabo |
Chile | Santiago | Chilean Peso | Spanish | President – Gabriel Boric |
China | Beijing | Chinese Yuan | Mandarin | President - Xi Jinping |
Colombia | Bogota | Colombian Peso | Spanish | President – Gustavo Petro |
Comoros | Moroni | Franc | Comorian; Arabic; French | President – Azali Assoumani |
Republic of the Congo | Brazzaville | CFA Franc | French | Prime Minister –Anatole Collinet Makosso |
Democratic Republic of the Congo | Kinshasa | Congolese franc | French | Prime Minister – Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde |
Costa Rica | San Jose | Colón | Spanish | President – Rodrigo Chaves Robles |
Cote d'Ivoire | Yamoussoukro (official); Abidjan (de facto) | CFA Franc | French | President - Alassane Dramane Ouattara |
Croatia | Zagreb | Croatian | Kuna | Prime Minister – Andrej Plenković |
Cuba | Havana | Cuban Peso | Spanish | Prime Minister-Manuel Marrero Cruz |
Cyprus | Nicosia | Euro | Greek; Turkish | President – Nikos Anastasiades |
Czech Republic | Prague | Koruna | Czech; Slovak | Prime Minister – Petr Fiala |
Denmark | Copenhagen | Danish Krone | Danish | Prime Minister – Mette Frederiksen |
Djibouti | Djibouti | Djiboutian 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 – Luis Abinader |
East Timor (Timor-Leste) | Dili | U.S. dollar | Tetum; Portuguese;
Iindonesian | Prime Minister – Xanana Gusmão |
Ecuador | Quito | U.S. dollar | Spanish | President – Guillermo Lasso |
Egypt | Cairo | Egyptian pound | Arabic | Prime Minister – Moustafa Madbouly |
El Salvador | San Salvador | Colón; U.S. dollar | Spanish | President – Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez |
Equatorial Guinea | Malabo | CFA Franc | Spanish; French; Portuguese | Prime Minister –Manuela Roka Botey |
Eritrea | Asmara | Nakfa | Arabic; Tigrinya; English | President – Isaias Afwerki |
Estonia | Tallinn | Estonia Kroon; Euro | Estonian | Prime Minister – Kaja Kallas |
Ethiopia | Addis Ababa | Birr | Amharic | Prime Minister – Abiy Ahmed |
Fiji | Suva | Fiji dollar | English; Bau Fijian; Hindi | Prime Minister – Sitiveni Rabuka |
Finland | Helsinki | Euro (formerly markka) | Finnish; Swedish | Prime Minister – Petteri Orpo |
France | Paris | Euro (formerly French franc) | French | Prime Minister- Elisabeth Borne |
Gabon | Libreville | CFA Franc | French | Prime Minister – Raymond Ndong Sima |
The Gambia | Banjul | Dalasi | English | President – Adama Barrow |
Georgia | Tbilisi | Lari | Georgian | Prime Minister – Irakli Garibashvili |
Germany | Berlin | Euro (formerly Deutsche mark) | German | President - Frank-Walter Steinmeier |
Ghana | Accra | Cedi | English | President - Nana Akufo-Addo |
Greece | Athens | Euro (formerly drachma) | Greek | Prime Minister –Kyriakos Mitsotakis |
Grenada | Saint George's | East Caribbean dollar | English; Patois | Prime Minister – Dickon Mitchell |
Guatemala | Guatemala City | Quetzal | Spanish | President – Alejandro Giammattei |
Guinea | Conakry | Guinean franc | French | Prime Minister –Bernard Goumou |
Guinea-Bissau | Bissau | CFA Franc | Portuguese | Prime Minister – Geraldo Martins |
Guyana | Georgetown | Guyanese dollar | English | President - Mark Phillips |
Haiti | Port-au-Prince | Gourde | Haitian Creole; French | Prime Minister – Ariel Henry |
Honduras | Tegucigalpa | Lempira | Spanish | President – Xiomara Castro Zelaya |
Hungary | Budapest | Forint | Hungarian | Prime Minister – Viktor Orbán |
Iceland | Reykjavik | Icelandic króna | Icelandic | President - Katrín Jakobsdóttir |
India | New Delhi | Indian Rupee | Hindi; English | Prime Minister – Mr. Narendra Modi |
Indonesia | Jakarta | Rupiah | Indonesian | President – Joko Widodo |
Iran | Tehran | Rial | Persian | President – Ebrahim Raisi |
Iraq | Baghdad | Iraqi Dinar | Arabic; Kurdish | Prime Minister - Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani |
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 – Giorgia Meloni |
Ivory Coast | Yamoussoukro | West African CFA franc | French | Prime Minister – Patrick Achi |
Jamaica | Kingston | Jamaican dollar | English | Prime Minister – Andrew Holness |
Japan | Tokyo | Yen | Japanese | Prime Minister –Fumio Kishida |
Jordan | Amman | Jordanian dinar | Arabic | Prime Minister – Bishr Al-Khasawneh |
Kazakhstan | Nur Sultan | Tenge | Kazakh; Russian | Prime Minister – Alihan Smaiylov |
Kenya | Nairobi | Kenya shilling | Swahili; English | President – William Ruto |
Kiribati | Tarawa Atoll | Kiribati dollar | English; Gilbertese | President – Taneti Mamau |
Korea, North | Pyongyang | Won | Korean | President – Kim Jong-un |
Korea, South | Seoul | Won | Korean | Prime Minister – Yoon Suk Yeol |
Kosovo | Pristina | Euro (German Mark prior to 2002) | Albanian; Serbian | Prime Minister –Albin Kurti |
Kuwait | Kuwait City | Kuwaiti Dollar | Arabic; English | Prime Minister – Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah |
Kyrgyzstan | Bishkek | Som | Kyrgyz; Russian | President - Akylbek Japarov |
Laos | Vientiane | New Kip | Lao (Laotian) | Prime Minister –Sonexay Siphandone |
Latvia | Riga | Lats | Latvian | Prime Minister – Evika Siliņa |
Lebanon | Beirut | Lebanese pound | Arabic; French | Prime Minister –Najib Mikati |
Lesotho | Maseru | Maluti | Sesotho; English | Prime Minister - Sam Matekane |
Liberia | Monrovia | Liberian dollar | English | President – George Weah |
Libya | Tripoli | Libyan dinar | Arabic | Prime Minister – Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh |
Liechtenstein | Vaduz | Swiss franc | German | Prime Minister- Daniel Risch |
Lithuania | Vilnius | Litas | Lithuanian | Prime Minister – Ingrida Šimonytė |
Luxembourg | Luxembourg | Euro (formerly Luxembourg franc) | German; French;
Luxembourgish | Prime Minister – Xavier Bettel |
Macedonia | Skopje | Denar | Macedonian | President of the Government – Stevo Pendarovski |
Madagascar | Antananarivo | Malagasy Ariary | Malagasy; French; English | Prime Minister –Christian Ntsay |
Malawi | Lilongwe | Kwacha | English | President – Lazarus Chakwera |
Malaysia | Kuala Lumpur | Ringgit | Malay | Prime Minister – Anwar bin Ibrahim |
Maldives | Male | Rufiyaa | Dhivehi | President – Ibrahim Mohamed Solih |
Mali | Bamako | CFA Franc | French | Prime Minister- Choguel Kokalla Maïga |
Malta | Valletta | Euro | Maltese; English | Prime Minister – Robert Abela |
Marshall Islands | Majuro | U.S. Dollar | Marshallese; English | President – David Kabua |
Mauritania | Nouakchott | Ouguiya | Arabic | Prime Minister – Mohamed Ould Bilal |
Mauritius | Port Louis | Mauritian rupee | English | Prime Minister – Pravind Jugnauth |
Mexico | Mexico City | Mexican peso | Spanish | President – Andrés Manuel López Obrador |
Federated States of Micronesia | Palikir | U.S. Dollar | English | President – Wesley Simina |
Moldova | Chisinau | Leu | Moldovan (Romanian) | Prime Minister – Dorin Recean |
Monaco | Monte Carlo | Euro | French; Italian; English | Minister of State –Pierre Dartout |
Mongolia | Ulaanbaatar | Togrog | Mongolian | Prime Minister – Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene |
Montenegro | Podgorica | Euro | Montenegrin | Prime Minister – Dritan Abazović |
Morocco | Rabat | Dirham | Arabic | Prime Minister-Aziz Akhannouch |
Mozambique | Maputo | Metical | Portuguese | Prime Minister – Adriano Maleiane |
Myanmar (Burma) | Nay Pyi Taw | Kyat | Burmese | President– Myint Swe |
Namibia | Windhoek | Namibian dollar | English; Afrikaans; German | Prime Minister – Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila |
Nauru | no official capital; government offices in Yaren District | Australian dollar | English; Nauran | President – Russ Kun |
Nepal | Kathmandu | Nepalese rupee | Nepali | Prime Minister – Pushpa Kamal Dahal |
Netherlands | Amsterdam; The Hague (seat of government) | Euro (formerly guilder) | Dutch | Prime Minister – Mark Rutte |
New Zealand | Wellington | New Zealand dollar | English | Prime Minister – Chris Hipkins |
Nicaragua | Managua | Gold cordoba | Spanish | President – Daniel Ortega |
Niger | Niamey | CFA Franc | French | Prime Minister – Ali Lamine Zeine |
Nigeria | Abuja | Naira | English | President - Bola Tinubu |
Norway | Oslo | Norwegian krone | Norwegian | Prime Minister – Jonas Gahr Støre |
Oman | Muscat | Omani rial | Arabic | Sultan and Prime Minister – Haitham bin Tariq |
Pakistan | Islamabad | Pakistani rupee | Urdu; English | Prime Minister –Anwaar ul Haq Kakar |
Palau | Melekeok | U.S. dollar | English; Palauan | Vice President –Surangel S. Whipps Jr. |
Palestine | Ramallah, East Jerusalem | Palestine Pound | Arabic | Prime Minister - Mohammad Shtayyeh |
Panama | Panama City | Balboa; U.S. dollar | Spanish | President – Laurentino Cortizo |
Papua New Guinea | Port Moresby | Kina | English; Tok Pisin;
Hiri Motu | Prime Minister – James Marape |
Paraguay | Asuncion | Guaraní | Spanish; Guarani | President – Santiago Peña |
Peru | Lima | Nuevo sol (1991) | Spanish | President - Dina Boluarte |
Philippines | Manila | Peso | Filipino; English | President – Bongbong Marcos |
Poland | Warsaw | Zloty | Polish | President – Andrzej Duda |
Portugal | Lisbon | Euro (formerly escudo) | Portuguese | Prime Minister – António Costa |
Qatar | Doha | Qatari riyal | Arabic | Prime Minister – Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani |
Romania | Bucharest | Romanian Rupee | Romanian | Prime Minister –Marcel Ciolacu |
Russia | Moscow | Ruble | Romanian | Prime Minister –Mikhail Vladimirovich Mishustin |
Rwanda | Kigali | Rwandan franc | Russian | Prime Minister – Édouard Ngirente |
Saint Kitts and Nevis | Basseterre | East Caribbean dollar | English | Prime Minister –Terrance Drew |
Saint Lucia | Castries | East Caribbean dollar | English | Prime Minister – Philip J. Pierre |
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Kingstown | East Caribbean dollar | English | Prime Minister – Ralph Gonsalves |
Samoa | Apia | Tala | Samoan, English | Prime Minister – Fiame Naomi Mata’afa |
San Marino | San Marino | Euro | Italian | Head - HE Ms Maria Luisa Berti II and HE Mr Manuel Ciavatta I |
Sao Tome and Principe | Sao Tome | Dobra | Portuguese | Prime Minister – Patrice Trovoada |
Saudi Arabia | Riyadh | Riyal | Arabic | King and Prime Minister – Mohammed bin Salman |
Senegal | Dakar | CFA Franc | French | Prime Minister –Amadou Ba |
Serbia | Belgrade | Serbian Dinar | Serbian | Prime Minister – Ana Brnabić |
Seychelles | Victoria | Seychelles rupee | Seychellois Creole, French English | President – Wavel Ramkalawan |
Sierra Leone | Freetown | Leone | English | President – Julius Maada Wonie Bio |
Singapore | Singapore | Singapore dollar | English, Chinese and Malay
Tamil | Prime Minister – Lee Hsien Loong |
Slovakia | Bratislava | Euro | Slovak | Prime Minister –Ľudovít Ódor |
Slovenia | Ljubljana | Slovenian tolar; euro (as of 1/1/07) | Slovene | Prime Minister – Robert Golob |
Solomon Islands | Honiara | Solomon Islands dollar | English | Prime Minister –Manasseh Sogavare |
Somalia | Mogadishu | Somali shilling | Somali Arabic | Prime Minister –Hamza Abdi Barre |
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 | Prime Minister - Pedro Sánchez |
Sri Lanka | Colombo; Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte (legislative) | Sri Lankan rupee | Sinhala, Tamil | Prime Minister - Dinesh Gunawardena |
Sudan | Khartoum | Sudanese Pound | Arabic, English | Prime Minister –Osman Hussein |
Suriname | Paramaribo | Surinamese dollar | Dutch | President –Chabdrikapersad ‘Chan’ Santokhi |
Swaziland | Mbabane | Lilangeni | English, Swati | Prime Minister –Cleopas Dlamini |
Sweden | Stockholm | Krona | Swedish | Prime Minister – Ulf Kristersson |
Switzerland | Berne | Swiss franc | German, French, Italian, Romansh | President - Alain Berset |
Syria | Damascus | Syrian pound | Arabic | Prime Minister – Hussein Arnous |
Taiwan | Taipei | Taiwan dollar | Standard Chinese | President - Tsai Ing-wen |
Tajikistan | Dushanbe | somoni | Tajik; Russian | Prime Minister – Kokhir Rasulzoda |
Tanzania | Dar es Salaam; Dodoma (legislative) | Tanzanian shilling | Swahili, English | Prime Minister – Kassim Majaliwa |
Thailand | Bangkok | Baht | Thai | Prime Minister – Srettha Thavisin |
Togo | Lome | CFA Franc | French | Prime Minister –Victoire Tomegah Dogbé |
Tonga | Nuku'alofa | Pa'anga | English | Prime Minister – Siaosi Sovaleni |
Trinidad and Tobago | Port-of-Spain | Trinidad and Tobago dollar | English | Prime Minister – Keith Rowley |
Tunisia | Tunis | Tunisian dinar | Arabic | Prime Minister- Ahmed Hachani |
Turkey | Ankara | Turkish lira (YTL) | Turkish | President – Recep Tayyip Erdoğan |
Turkmenistan | Ashgabat | Manat | Turkmen | President – Serdar Berdimuhamedow |
Tuvalu | Vaiaku village, Funafuti province | Tuvaluan Dollar | Tuvaluan; English | Prime Minister – Kausea Natano |
Uganda | Kampala | Ugandan new shilling | Swahili, English, Luganda | Prime Minister – Robinah Nabbanja |
Ukraine | Kiev | Hryvnia | Ukrainian | President - Denys Shmyhal |
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 – Rishi Sunak |
United States of America | Washington D.C. | Dollar | English | President – Joe Biden |
Uruguay | Montevideo | Uruguay peso | Spanish | President – Luis Lacalle Pou |
Uzbekistan | Tashkent | Uzbekistani sum | Uzbek | Prime Minister – Abdulla Aripov |
Vanuatu | Port-Vila | Vatu | Bislama, French, English | Prime Minister – Charlot Salwai
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Vatican City (Holy See) | Vatican City | Euro | Italian | President - Fernando Vérgez Alzaga |
Venezuela | Caracas | Bolivar | Spanish | President – Nicolás Maduro |
Vietnam | Hanoi | Dong | Vietnamese | Prime Minister -Nguyễn Phú Trọng |
Yemen | Sanaa | Rial | Arabic | Prime Minister – Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed |
Zambia | Lusaka | Kwacha | English | President – Hakainde Hichilema |
Zimbabwe | Harare | United States dollar | English, Shona, Ndebele | President –Emmerson Mnangagwa |