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In case that the capital is not the largest city, the third column gives the cities that are larger.

Country Capital Cities larger than the capital
A
Afghanistan Kabul
Albania Tirana
Algeria Algiers
Andorra Andorra la Vella
Angola Luanda
Antigua and Barbuda St. John's
Argentina Buenos Aires
Armenia Yerevan
Australia Canberra Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Newcastle, Gold Coast
Austria Vienna
Azerbaijan Baku
B
Bahamas Nassau
Bahrain Manama
Bangladesh Dhaka
Barbados Bridgetown
Belarus Minsk
Belgium Brussels
Belize Belmopan Corozal Town, Dangriga, Orange Walk Town, San Ignacio Cayo, Belize City
Benin Porto-Novo (official), Cotonou (administrative) Cotonou
Bhutan Thimphu
Bolivia Sucre (official), La Paz (administrative) Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz is larger than La Paz; La Paz is larger than Sucre; metropolitan La Paz is larger than Santa Cruz)
Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo
Botswana Gaborone
Brazil Brasília São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte (metropolitan area), Salvador
Brunei Darussalam Bandar Seri Begawan
Bulgaria Sofia
Burkina Faso Ouagadougou
Burundi Bujumbura
C
Cambodia Phnom Penh
Cameroon Yaoundé Douala
Canada Ottawa Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary (Ottawa's metropolitan area is larger than Calgary's; Greater Vancouver is larger than Ottawa's metropolitan area)
Cape Verde Praia
Central African Republic Bangui
Chad N'Djamena
Chile Santiago (official), Valparaíso (legislative)
China, People's Republic of Beijing Shanghai
Colombia Bogotá
Comoros Moroni
Congo Republic Brazzaville
Congo Democratic Republic Kinshasa
Costa Rica San José
Côte d'Ivoire Yamoussoukro (official), Abidjan (administrative) Abidjan
Croatia Zagreb
Cuba Havana
Cyprus Nicosia
Czech Republic Prague
D
Denmark Copenhagen
Djibouti Djibouti City
Dominica Roseau
Dominican Republic Santo Domingo
E
East Timor Dili
Ecuador Quito Guayaquil
Egypt Cairo
El Salvador San Salvador
Equatorial Guinea Malabo
Eritrea Asmara
Estonia Tallinn
Ethiopia Addis Ababa
F
Fiji Suva
Finland Helsinki
France Paris
G
Gabon Libreville
Gambia, The Banjul
Georgia Tbilisi
Germany Berlin[1]
Ghana Accra
Greece Athens
Grenada St. George's
Guatemala Guatemala City
Guinea Conakry
Guinea-Bissau Bissau
Guyana Georgetown
H
Haiti Port-au-Prince
Honduras Tegucigalpa
Hungary Budapest
I
Iceland Reykjavík
India New Delhi (Metropolitan area rank) Mumbai(1st), (Old) Delhi(2nd), Kolkata(3rd), Chennai(4th), Hyderabad(5th), Bangalore(6th), Ahmedabad, Pune, Lucknow, Jaipur, Kanpur, Nagpur, Vadodara, Cochin, Trivandrum (metropolitan ).
Indonesia Jakarta
Iran Tehran
Iraq Baghdad
Ireland, Republic of Dublin
Israel Jerusalem[2]
Italy Rome
J
Jamaica Kingston
Japan Tokyo
Jordan Amman
K
Kazakhstan Astana Almaty, Shymkent
Kenya Nairobi
Kiribati South Tarawa
Korea, North Pyongyang
Korea, South Seoul
Kuwait Kuwait City
Kyrgyzstan Bishkek
L
Laos Vientiane
Latvia Riga
Lebanon Beirut Tripoli, Saida, Sour
Lesotho Maseru
Liberia Monrovia
Libya Tripoli
Liechtenstein Vaduz Schaan
Lithuania Vilnius
Luxembourg Luxembourg City
M
Macedonia Skopje
Madagascar Antananarivo
Malawi Lilongwe Blantyre
Malaysia Kuala Lumpur (legislative; de facto), Putrajaya (administrative) Kuala Lumpur
Maldives Malé
Mali Bamako
Malta Valletta Birkirkara, Mosta, Qormi, Żabbar, St. Paul's Bay, Sliema, San Ġwann, Naxxar, Rabat, Żejtun, Żebbuġ, Fgura, Attard, Żurrieq, Ħamrun, Marsaskala, Birżebbuġa, Paola (Raħal Ġdid), Swieqi, Siġġiewi, St. Julian's, Msida, Tarxien, Mellieħa, Gżira, Victoria (Gozo)
Marshall Islands Majuro
Mauritania Nouakchott
Mauritius Port Louis
Mexico Mexico City
Micronesia Palikir Weno
Moldova Chişinău
Monaco Monaco-Ville Monte-Carlo, La Condamine
Mongolia Ulaanbaatar
Montenegro Podgorica
Morocco Rabat Casablanca
Mozambique Maputo
Myanmar Naypyidaw (Pyinmana) Yangon, Mandalay etc
N
Namibia Windhoek
Nauru None (government offices in Yaren District) Denigomodu, Meneng, Aiwo
Nepal Kathmandu
Netherlands Amsterdam (official),
The Hague (administrative, legislative, and judicial)
Rotterdam (Larger than The Hague; Amsterdam is the largest city)
New Zealand Wellington Auckland, Christchurch, Manukau, North Shore, Waitakere[3]
Nicaragua Managua
Niger Niamey
Nigeria Abuja Lagos, Ibadan, Kano, Ilorin, Port Harcourt, Ogbomosho
Norway Oslo
O
Oman Muscat
P
Pakistan Islamabad Karachi, Lahore, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Multan, Hyderabad, Peshawar
Palau Melekeok Koror, Meyuns, Airai
Panama Panama City
Papua New Guinea Port Moresby
Paraguay Asunción
Peru Lima
Philippines Manila Quezon City (both Manila and Quezon City are parts of the National Capital Region)
Poland Warsaw
Portugal Lisbon
Q
Qatar Doha
R
Romania Bucharest
Russia Moscow
Rwanda Kigali
S
Saint Kitts and Nevis Basseterre
Saint Lucia Castries
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Kingstown
Samoa Apia
San Marino San Marino Serravalle
São Tomé and Príncipe São Tomé
Saudi Arabia Riyadh
Senegal Dakar
Serbia Belgrade
Seychelles Victoria
Sierra Leone Freetown
Singapore Singapore
Slovakia Bratislava
Slovenia Ljubljana
Solomon Islands Honiara
Somalia Mogadishu
South Africa Pretoria (official, administrative, and executive),
Cape Town (legislative), Bloemfontein (judicial)
Johannesburg is the largest city, Durban is slightly smaller than Cape Town but larger than Pretoria and Bloemfontein combined
Spain Madrid
Sri Lanka Colombo (official), Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte (legislative) Kotte is suburb of Colombo
Sudan Khartoum Omdurman
Suriname Paramaribo
Swaziland Mbabane (official), Lobamba (legislative and royal) Manzini
Sweden Stockholm
Switzerland Bern Zürich, Geneva, Basel, Lausanne (narrowly)
Syria Damascus
T
Tajikistan Dushanbe
Tanzania Dodoma (official), Dar es Salaam (administrative) Dar es Salaam, Mwanza
Thailand Bangkok
Togo Lomé
Tonga Nukuʻalofa
Trinidad and Tobago Port of Spain Chaguanas, San Fernando, San Juan
Tunisia Tunis
Turkey Ankara Istanbul
Turkmenistan Ashgabat
Tuvalu Funafuti
U
Uganda Kampala
Ukraine Kiev
United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi Dubai, Sharjah
United Kingdom London London is the largest urban and metropolitan area. The City of Westminster, in central London, is the seat of government; 62 districts have larger populations than Westminster.
United States Washington, D.C. New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Philadelphia, San Antonio, San Diego, Dallas, San Jose, Detroit, Jacksonville, Indianapolis, San Francisco, Columbus, Austin, Memphis, Fort Worth, Baltimore, Charlotte, El Paso, Milwaukee, Boston, Seattle, Denver (Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area ranks 4th)
Uruguay Montevideo
Uzbekistan Tashkent
V
Vanuatu Port Vila
Vatican City Vatican City
Venezuela Caracas
Vietnam Hanoi Ho Chi Minh City
Y
Yemen Sana'a
Z
Zambia Lusaka
Zimbabwe Harare
  1. Bonn was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and is smaller than West Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Essen, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Bremen, Stuttgart, Duisburg, Nuremberg, Wuppertal, and Bochum.
  2. Most countries do not recognize Israeli sovereignty over East Jerusalem, and so maintain their embassies in other cities, mostly Tel Aviv.
  3. Although Wellington is the second-largest urban area, it is sixth-largest city in New Zealand.