Country Capital City Area [sq. km] Pop Growth Rate 2002 2010 2015 2020 1990-1995 Pop Estimate Projection Projection Projection Afghanistan Kabul 647,500 2.9 27.756 34.888 40.249 46.433 Albania Tirana 28,748 -0.4 3.545 3.433 3.365 3.298 Algeria Algiers 2,381,740 2.3 32.278 38.718 43.38 48.603 American Samoa Pago Pago 199 3.7 0.069 0.092 0.11 0.132 Andorra Andorra la Vella 468 4 0.068 0.094 0.114 0.139 Angola Luanda 1,246,700 3.3 10.593 13.735 16.156 19.003 Antigua and Barbuda Saint John's 443 0.5 0.067 0.07 0.072 0.074 Argentina Buenos Aires 2,766,890 1.3 37.813 41.929 44.726 47.71 Armenia Yerevan 29,800 -0.3 3.33 3.251 3.203 3.155 Australia Canberra 7,686,850 1 19.547 21.166 22.246 23.381 Austria Vienna 83,858 0.5 8.17 8.503 8.717 8.937 Azerbaijan Baku 86,600 0.4 7.798 8.052 8.214 8.379 Bahamas, The Nassau 13,940 1.8 0.301 0.347 0.379 0.414 Bahrain Manama 665 2.1 0.656 0.775 0.86 0.954 Bangladesh Dhaka 144,000 1.7 133.377 152.633 166.055 180.658 Barbados Bridgetown 431 0.5 0.277 0.288 0.295 0.303 Belarus Minsk 207,600 -0.3 10.335 10.09 9.939 9.791 Belgium Brussels 30,510 0.1 10.275 10.357 10.409 10.461 Belize Belmopan 22,966 2.4 0.263 0.318 0.358 0.403 Benin Porto-Novo 112,620 2.7 6.788 8.4 9.597 10.964 Bermuda Hamilton 53 0.8 0.064 0.068 0.071 0.074 Bhutan Thimphu 47,000 2.8 2.094 2.612 2.999 3.443 Bolivia Sucre 1,098,580 2.4 8.445 10.21 11.495 12.942 Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo 51,129 3.1 3.964 5.061 5.896 6.868 Botswana Gaborone 600,370 1.9 1.591 1.85 2.032 2.233 Brazil Brasilia 8,511,965 1.3 176.03 195.192 208.213 222.104 British Virgin Islands Road Town 153 2.7 0.021 0.026 0.03 0.034 Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan 5,770 2.2 0.351 0.418 0.466 0.519 Bulgaria Sofia 110,910 -0.7 7.621 7.205 6.956 6.716 Burkina Faso Ouagadougou 274,200 2.8 12.603 15.719 18.046 20.718 Burma (Myanmar) Rangoon 678,500 1.2 42.238 46.468 49.323 52.355 Burundi Bujumbura 27,830 1.7 6.373 7.293 7.934 8.632 Cambodia Phnom Penh 181,040 2.3 12.775 15.324 17.169 19.237 Cameroon Yaounde 475,440 2.7 16.185 20.029 22.883 26.144 Canada Ottawa 9,976,140 1 31.902 34.546 36.308 38.16 Cape Verde Praia 4,033 2.4 0.409 0.494 0.556 0.626 Cayman Islands George Town 262 3.7 0.036 0.049 0.058 0.07 Central African Republic Bangui 622,984 1.9 3.643 4.235 4.653 5.112 Chad N'Djamena 1,284,000 2.7 8.997 11.135 12.721 14.534 Chile Santiago 756,950 1.4 15.499 17.322 18.569 19.906 China Beijing 9,596,960 0.9 1,284.30 1,379.74 1,442.96 1,509.07 Colombia Bogota 1,138,910 1.9 41.008 47.672 52.376 57.545 Comoros Moroni 2,170 2.8 0.614 0.766 0.88 1.01 Congo, Dem. Rep. of the Kinshasa 2,345,410 2.8 55.225 68.879 79.077 90.785 Congo, Rep. of the Brazzaville 342,000 2.6 2.958 3.633 4.13 4.696 Cook Islands Avarua 240 0.6 0.021 0.022 0.022 0.023 Costa Rica San Jose 51,100 2.5 3.835 4.672 5.286 5.981 Cote d'Ivoire Yamoussoukro 322,460 1.8 16.805 19.383 21.191 23.168 Croatia Zagreb 56,542 -0.1 4.391 4.356 4.334 4.312 Cuba Havana 110,860 0.4 11.224 11.589 11.822 12.061 Cyprus Nicosia 9,250 1.1 0.767 0.837 0.885 0.934 Czech Republic Prague 78,866 -0.2 10.257 10.094 9.993 9.894 Denmark Copenhagen 43,094 0.3 5.369 5.499 5.582 5.666 Djibouti Djibouti 23,000 1.2 0.473 0.52 0.552 0.586 Dominica Roseau 754 -0.1 0.07 0.07 0.069 0.069 Dominican Republic Santo Domingo 48,730 1.7 8.722 9.981 10.858 11.813 Ecuador Quito 283,560 2 13.447 15.756 17.396 19.206 Egypt Cairo 1,001,450 1.9 70.712 82.203 90.315 99.227 El Salvador San Salvador 21,040 2.1 6.354 7.503 8.325 9.236 Equatorial Guinea Malabo 28,051 2.5 0.498 0.607 0.687 0.777 Eritrea Asmara 121,320 3.9 4.466 6.065 7.343 8.891 Estonia Tallinn 45,226 -1.2 1.416 1.285 1.21 1.139 Ethiopia Addis Ababa 1,127,127 2.5 67.673 82.453 93.288 105.547 Falkland Islands Stanley 12,173 0.5 0.003 0.003 0.003 0.003 Fiji Suva 18,270 1.2 0.856 0.942 1 1.061 Finland Helsinki 337,030 0.3 5.184 5.309 5.389 5.471 France Paris 547,030 0.4 59.766 61.705 62.95 64.219 French Guiana Cayenne 91,000 4.3 0.182 0.255 0.315 0.389 French Polynesia Papeete 4,167 1.8 0.258 0.297 0.325 0.355 Gabon Libreville 267,667 2.6 1.233 1.514 1.722 1.958 Gambia, The Banjul 11,300 3.3 1.456 1.888 2.22 2.612 Georgia T'bilisi 69,700 -1.1 4.961 4.541 4.297 4.065 Germany Berlin 357,021 0.1 83.252 83.92 84.341 84.763 Ghana Accra 239,460 2.7 20.244 25.053 28.623 32.701 Greece Athens 131,940 0.3 10.645 10.904 11.068 11.235 Greenland Nuuk 2,166,086 0.1 0.056 0.057 0.057 0.057 Grenada Saint George's 344 0.3 0.089 0.091 0.093 0.094 Guadeloupe Basse-Terre 1,780 1.4 0.436 0.487 0.522 0.56 Guam Hagatna 549 2.1 0.161 0.19 0.211 0.234 Guatemala Guatemala 108,890 2.7 13.314 16.477 18.825 21.507 Guinea Conakry 245,857 0.8 7.775 8.287 8.624 8.974 Guinea-Bissau Bissau 36,120 2.2 1.345 1.601 1.785 1.991 Guyana Georgetown 214,970 0.7 0.698 0.738 0.764 0.792 Haiti Port-au-Prince 27,750 1.7 7.064 8.084 8.794 9.568 Honduras Tegucigalpa 112,090 2.8 6.561 8.183 9.394 10.785 Hungary Budapest 93,030 -0.4 10.075 9.757 9.564 9.374 Iceland Reykjavik 103,000 0.9 0.279 0.3 0.314 0.328 India New Delhi 3,287,590 1.7 1,045.85 1,196.84 1,302.09 1,416.59 Indonesia Jakarta 1,919,440 1.4 231.328 258.543 277.154 297.106 Iran Tehran 1,648,000 1.7 66.623 76.241 82.946 90.24 Iraq Baghdad 437,072 2.8 24.002 29.936 34.368 39.457 Ireland Dublin 70,280 0.7 3.883 4.106 4.252 4.403 Israel Jerusalem 20,770 2.2 6.03 7.176 8.001 8.921 Italy Rome 301,230 0 57.716 57.716 57.716 57.716 Jamaica Kingston 10,991 0.9 2.68 2.879 3.011 3.149 Japan Tokyo 377,835 0.2 126.975 129.021 130.316 131.624 Jordan Amman 92,300 3.1 5.307 6.776 7.893 9.195 Kazakhstan Astana 2,717,300 -0.3 16.742 16.344 16.1 15.86 Kenya Nairobi 582,650 2 31.139 36.484 40.281 44.474 Kiribati Tarawa 811 1.4 0.096 0.108 0.115 0.124 Korea, North P'yongyang 120,540 0.8 22.224 23.687 24.65 25.652 Korea, South Seoul 98,480 1.6 48.324 54.867 59.399 64.306 Kuwait Kuwait 17,820 3.1 2.112 2.696 3.14 3.658 Kyrgyzstan Bishkek 198,500 0.6 4.822 5.059 5.212 5.37 Laos Vientiane 236,800 2.6 5.777 7.094 8.066 9.17 Latvia Riga 64,589 -1.5 2.367 2.097 1.944 1.803 Lebanon Beirut 10,400 1.8 3.678 4.242 4.638 5.07 Lesotho Maseru 30,355 2.2 2.208 2.628 2.93 3.267 Liberia Monrovia 111,370 8.6 3.288 6.362 9.61 14.518 Libya Tripoli 1,759,540 2.4 5.369 6.49 7.307 8.227 Liechtenstein Vaduz 160 1.3 0.033 0.036 0.039 0.041 Lithuania Vilnius 65,200 -0.3 3.601 3.516 3.463 3.412 Madagascar Antananarivo 587,040 3 16.473 20.868 24.192 28.045 Malawi Lilongwe 118,480 2.5 10.702 13.039 14.753 16.691 Malaysia Kuala Lumpur 329,750 2 22.662 26.553 29.316 32.367 Maldives Male 300 2.8 0.32 0.399 0.458 0.526 Mali Bamako 1,240,000 2.5 11.34 13.817 15.633 17.687 Malta Valletta 316 0.7 0.397 0.42 0.435 0.451 Marshall Islands Majuro 181 3.3 0.074 0.095 0.112 0.132 Martinique Fort-de-France 1,100 0.9 0.422 0.454 0.474 0.496 Mauritania Nouakchott 1,030,700 2.8 2.829 3.528 4.051 4.65 Mauritius Port Louis 2,040 0.8 1.2 1.279 1.331 1.385 Mexico Mexico 1,972,550 1.6 103.4 117.401 127.098 137.597 Micronesia Palikir 702 2 0.136 0.159 0.176 0.194 Mongolia Ulaanbaatar 1,565,000 1.7 2.694 3.083 3.355 3.65 Montserrat Plymouth 102 -0.3 0.008 0.008 0.008 0.008 Morocco Rabat 446,550 1.8 31.168 35.949 39.303 42.97 Mozambique Maputo 801,590 2.5 19.608 23.89 27.029 30.581 Namibia Windhoek 825,418 2.3 1.821 2.184 2.447 2.742 Nauru no official capital 21 1.9 0.012 0.014 0.016 0.017 Nepal Kathmandu 140,800 2.4 25.874 31.28 35.218 39.652 Netherlands Amsterdam 41,526 0.4 16.068 16.589 16.924 17.265 Netherlands Antilles Willemstad 960 1.1 0.214 0.234 0.247 0.261 New Caledonia Noumea 19,060 2.1 0.208 0.245 0.272 0.302 New Zealand Wellington 268,680 1 3.908 4.232 4.448 4.675 Nicaragua Managua 129,494 2.8 5.024 6.266 7.194 8.259 Niger Niamey 1,267,000 3.2 10.64 13.689 16.024 18.757 Nigeria Abuja 923,768 2.4 129.935 157.082 176.858 199.125 Niue Alofi 260 -1.9 0.002 0.002 0.002 0.002 Northern Mariana Islands Saipan 477 5.9 0.077 0.122 0.163 0.217 Norway Oslo 324,220 0.5 4.525 4.709 4.828 4.95 Oman Muscat 212,460 3.4 2.713 3.546 4.191 4.953 Pakistan Islamabad 803,940 2.8 147.663 184.17 211.438 242.744 Palau Koror 458 2.4 0.019 0.023 0.026 0.03 Panama Panama 78,200 1.7 2.882 3.298 3.589 3.904 Papua New Guinea Port Moresby 462,840 2.2 5.172 6.156 6.863 7.652 Paraguay Asuncion 406,750 2.6 5.884 7.226 8.215 9.34 Peru Lima 1,285,220 1.7 27.95 31.985 34.798 37.858 Philippines Manila 300,000 2.1 84.526 99.815 110.745 122.872 Poland Warsaw 312,685 0.1 38.625 38.936 39.131 39.327 Portugal Lisbon 92,391 0 10.084 10.084 10.084 10.084 Puerto Rico San Juan 9,104 0.8 3.958 4.219 4.39 4.568 Qatar Doha 11,437 1.8 0.793 0.915 1 1.094 Reunion Saint-Denis 2,512 1.3 0.744 0.825 0.88 0.939 Romania Bucharest 237,500 -0.4 22.318 21.613 21.185 20.764 Russia Moscow 17,075,200 -0.2 144.979 142.675 141.254 139.847 Rwanda Kigali 26,338 8 7.398 13.693 20.12 29.563 Samoa Apia 2,944 1.4 0.179 0.2 0.214 0.229 Sao Tome and Principe Sao Tome 1,001 2.1 0.17 0.201 0.223 0.248 Saudi Arabia Riyadh 1,960,582 3.4 23.513 30.724 36.315 42.922 Senegal Dakar 196,190 2.6 10.59 13.003 14.784 16.809 Seychelles Victoria 455 1.1 0.08 0.087 0.092 0.098 Sierra Leone Freetown 71,740 3 5.615 7.113 8.245 9.559 Singapore Singapore 693 1.4 4.453 4.977 5.335 5.719 Slovakia Bratislava 48,845 0.1 5.422 5.466 5.493 5.521 Slovenia Ljubljana 20,273 0 1.933 1.933 1.933 1.933 Solomon Islands Honiara 28,450 3.2 0.495 0.637 0.745 0.872 Somalia Mogadishu 637,657 4.2 7.753 10.775 13.236 16.259 South Africa Pretoria 1,219,912 1.5 43.648 49.169 52.969 57.062 Spain Madrid 504,782 0 40.077 40.077 40.077 40.077 Sri Lanka Colombo 65,610 1 19.577 21.199 22.28 23.417 Sudan Khartoum 2,505,810 2.1 37.09 43.799 48.595 53.917 Suriname Paramaribo 163,270 0.4 0.436 0.451 0.46 0.469 Swaziland Mbabane 17,363 2.9 1.124 1.412 1.629 1.88 Sweden Stockholm 449,964 0.2 8.877 9.02 9.11 9.202 Switzerland Bern 41,290 0.7 7.302 7.721 7.995 8.279 Syria Damascus 185,180 2.6 17.156 21.066 23.951 27.231 Tajikistan Dushanbe 143,100 1.5 6.72 7.57 8.155 8.785 Tanzania Dar es Salaam 945,087 2.3 37.188 44.607 49.979 55.997 Thailand Bangkok 514,000 0.9 62.354 66.988 70.057 73.267 Togo Lome 56,785 2.7 5.286 6.541 7.473 8.538 Tonga Nuku'alofa 748 0.3 0.106 0.109 0.11 0.112 Trinidad and Tobago Port-of-Spain 5,128 0.5 1.164 1.211 1.242 1.273 Tunisia Tunis 163,610 1.4 9.816 10.97 11.76 12.607 Turkey Ankara 780,580 1.7 67.309 77.027 83.8 91.17 Turkmenistan Ashgabat 488,100 1.8 4.689 5.408 5.913 6.465 Uganda Kampala 236,040 2.8 24.699 30.805 35.366 40.603 Ukraine Kiev 603,700 -0.4 48.396 46.869 45.939 45.028 United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi 82,880 2 2.446 2.866 3.164 3.493 United Kingdom London 244,820 0.2 59.778 60.741 61.351 61.967 United States Washington DC 9,629,091 0.8 280.562 299.029 311.183 323.832 Uruguay Montevideo 176,220 0.7 3.387 3.581 3.708 3.84 Uzbekistan Tashkent 447,400 1.6 25.563 29.025 31.422 34.018 Vanuatu Port-Vila 12,200 2.4 0.196 0.237 0.267 0.301 Venezuela Caracas 912,050 2 24.288 28.457 31.419 34.689 Vietnam Hanoi 329,560 1.6 81.098 92.079 99.685 107.919 Western Sahara none 266,000 3.4 0.256 0.335 0.396 0.468 Yemen Sanaa 527,970 18.701 18.701 18.701 18.701 Yugoslavia Belgrade 102,350 0.1 10.657 10.742 10.796 10.85 Zambia Lusaka 752,614 2.3 9.959 11.946 13.384 14.996 Zimbabwe Harare 390,580 1.4 11.377 12.715 13.63 14.612 "The World Factbook 2002", CIA; UN Other reference Information mongabay.com Tropical rainforest information Tropical freshwater fish information Images / Photos