Demographics
Distribution of World Capitals by Elevation
If you plot the elevations of the world's 197 capital cities*, the distribution forms the central shape in this chart, with most cities at lower elevations and a few sparsely distributed through higher elevations. The highest capital is La Paz, Bolivia at almost 12,000 feet.
*member and observer states of the United Nations
Dataset
Country | Capital | Elevation (ft) | Elevation (m) | |
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Azerbaijan | Baku | -92 | -28 | |
Netherlands | Amsterdam | -7 | -2 | |
Antigua and Barbuda | Saint John's | 0 | 0 | |
Brunei | Bandar Seri Begawan | 0 | 0 | |
Cape Verde | Praia | 0 | 0 | |
Djibouti | Djibouti | 0 | 0 | |
Dominica | Roseau | 0 | 0 | |
Dominican Republic | Santo Domingo | 0 | 0 | |
Fiji | Suva | 0 | 0 | |
Gabon | Libreville | 0 | 0 | |
Gambia | Banjul | 0 | 0 | |
Guinea | Conakry | 0 | 0 | |
Guinea-Bissau | Bissau | 0 | 0 | |
Guyana | Georgetown | 0 | 0 | |
Kiribati | South Tarawa | 0 | 0 | |
Liberia | Monrovia | 0 | 0 | |
Maldives | Malé | 0 | 0 | |
Monaco | Monaco | 0 | 0 | |
Panama | Panama City | 0 | 0 | |
Saint Kitts and Nevis | Basseterre | 0 | 0 | |
Samoa | Apia | 0 | 0 | |
Seychelles | Victoria | 0 | 0 | |
Singapore | Singapore | 0 | 0 | |
St. Vincent and the Grenadines | Kingstown | 0 | 0 | |
Tonga | Nuku'alofa | 0 | 0 | |
Trinidad and Tobago | Port of Spain | 0 | 0 | |
Tunisia | Tunis | 0 | 0 | |
Tuvalu | Vaiaku | 0 | 0 | |
Vanuatu | Port Vila | 0 | 0 | |
Algeria | Algiers | 3 | 1 | |
Suriname | Paramaribo | 3 | 1 | |
Thailand | Bangkok | 3 | 1 | |
Bahamas | Nassau | 7 | 2 | |
St. Lucia | Castries | 7 | 2 | |
United States | Washington, D.C. | 7 | 2 | |
Bangladesh | Dhaka | 10 | 3 | |
Indonesia | Jakarta | 10 | 3 | |
Marshall Islands | Majuro | 10 | 3 | |
Cuba | Havana | 13 | 4 | |
Sri Lanka | Sri Jayawardenapura-Kotte | 13 | 4 | |
Denmark | Copenhagen | 16 | 5 | |
Kuwait | Kuwait | 16 | 5 | |
Angola | Luanda | 20 | 6 | |
Bahrain | Manama | 20 | 6 | |
Barbados | Bridgetown | 20 | 6 | |
Libya | Tripoli | 20 | 6 | |
Mauritania | Nouakchott | 20 | 6 | |
North Korea | Pyongyang | 20 | 6 | |
Philippines | Manila | 23 | 7 | |
Latvia | Riga | 26 | 8 | |
Republic of Ireland | Dublin | 26 | 8 | |
Nauru | Yaren | 30 | 9 | |
Argentina | Buenos Aires | 33 | 10 | |
New Zealand | Wellington | 32 | 10 | |
East Timor | Dili | 36 | 11 | |
Norway | Oslo | 40 | 12 | |
Qatar | Doha | 43 | 13 | |
United Arab Emirates | Abu Dhabi | 43 | 13 | |
Italy | Rome | 46 | 14 | |
United Kingdom | London | 46 | 14 | |
Cambodia | Phnom Penh | 49 | 15 | |
Iceland | Reykjavík | 49 | 15 | |
Portugal | Lisbon | 49 | 15 | |
Sweden | Stockholm | 49 | 15 | |
Japan | Tokyo | 56 | 17 | |
Egypt | Cairo | 72 | 22 | |
Finland | Helsinki | 82 | 25 | |
Grenada | Saint George's | 82 | 25 | |
Vietnam | Hanoi | 82 | 25 | |
Somalia | Mogadishu | 92 | 28 | |
Solomon Islands | Honiara | 95 | 29 | |
South Korea | Seoul | 108 | 33 | |
France | Paris | 112 | 34 | |
Germany | Berlin | 112 | 34 | |
Estonia | Tallinn | 121 | 37 | |
Senegal | Dakar | 121 | 37 | |
Benin | Porto-Novo | 125 | 38 | |
Papua New Guinea | Port Moresby | 128 | 39 | |
Iraq | Baghdad | 131 | 40 | |
Vatican City | Vatican City | 135 | 41 | |
Uruguay | Montevideo | 141 | 43 | |
China | Beijing | 144 | 44 | |
Mauritius | Port Louis | 170 | 50 | |
Jamaica | Kingston | 174 | 53 | |
Morocco | Rabat | 174 | 53 | |
Malta | Valletta | 186 | 54 | |
Paraguay | Asunción | 177 | 54 | |
Lebanon | Beirut | 180 | 55 | |
Malaysia | Kuala Lumpur | 197 | 60 | |
Montenegro | Podgorica | 200 | 61 | |
Mozambique | Maputo | 207 | 63 | |
Togo | Lomé | 207 | 63 | |
Oman | Muscat | 223 | 68 | |
Romania | Bucharest | 230 | 70 | |
Palau | Ngerulmud | 236 | 72 | |
Canada | Ottawa | 243 | 74 | |
Belgium | Brussels | 249 | 76 | |
Belize | Belmopan | 250 | 76 | |
Sierra Leone | Freetown | 249 | 76 | |
Myanmar | Naypyidaw | 253 | 77 | |
Moldova | Chișinău | 263 | 80 | |
Nicaragua | Managua | 272 | 83 | |
Micronesia, Federated States of | Palikir | 300 | 90 | |
Poland | Warsaw | 305 | 93 | |
Ghana | Accra | 322 | 98 | |
Haiti | Port-au-Prince | 322 | 98 | |
Hungary | Budapest | 335 | 102 | |
Albania | Tirana | 341 | 104 | |
Equatorial Guinea | Malabo | 351 | 107 | |
Comoros | Moroni | 361 | 110 | |
Serbia | Belgrade | 381 | 116 | |
Lithuania | Vilnius | 407 | 124 | |
Russia | Moscow | 407 | 124 | |
Croatia | Zagreb | 427 | 130 | |
Slovakia | Bratislava | 430 | 131 | |
São Tomé and Príncipe | São Tomé | 463 | 141 | |
Greece | Athens | 502 | 153 | |
Peru | Lima | 506 | 154 | |
Congo | Brazzaville | 509 | 155 | |
Ukraine | Kyiv | 551 | 168 | |
Austria | Vienna | 558 | 170 | |
Cyprus | Nicosia | 557 | 170 | |
Laos | Vientiane | 570 | 174 | |
Belarus | Minsk | 650 | 198 | |
Niger | Niamey | 679 | 207 | |
India | New Delhi | 689 | 210 | |
Turkmenistan | Ashgabat | 705 | 215 | |
Ivory Coast | Yamoussoukro | 712 | 217 | |
Democratic Republic of the Congo | Kinshasa | 787 | 240 | |
North Macedonia | Skopje | 797 | 243 | |
Czech Republic | Prague | 801 | 244 | |
Luxembourg | Luxembourg | 896 | 273 | |
Slovenia | Ljubljana | 922 | 281 | |
Chad | N'Djamena | 978 | 298 | |
Burkina Faso | Ouagadougou | 1,001 | 305 | |
San Marino | San Marino | 1,076 | 328 | |
Kazakhstan | Astana | 1,109 | 338 | |
Mali | Bamako | 1,145 | 349 | |
Central African Republic | Bangui | 1,211 | 369 | |
Sudan | Khartoum | 1,237 | 377 | |
Georgia | Tbilisi | 1,480 | 451 | |
Liechtenstein | Vaduz | 1,493 | 455 | |
Uzbekistan | Tashkent | 1,506 | 459 | |
Chile | Santiago | 1,709 | 521 | |
Switzerland | Bern | 1,778 | 542 | |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Sarajevo | 1,800 | 550 | |
South Sudan | Juba | 1,800 | 550 | |
Pakistan | Islamabad | 1,830 | 560 | |
Bulgaria | Sofia | 1,900 | 580 | |
Australia | Canberra | 1,985 | 605 | |
Saudi Arabia | Riyadh | 2,047 | 624 | |
El Salvador | San Salvador | 2,159 | 658 | |
Spain | Madrid | 2,188 | 667 | |
Syria | Damascus | 2,267 | 691 | |
Cameroon | Yaoundé | 2,382 | 726 | |
Israel | Jerusalem | 2,474 | 754 | |
Kyrgyzstan | Bishkek | 2,530 | 771 | |
Nigeria | Abuja | 2,549 | 777 | |
Palestine | East Jerusalem | 2,557 | 779 | |
Tajikistan | Dushanbe | 2,589 | 789 | |
Jordan | Amman | 2,953 | 900 | |
Venezuela | Caracas | 2,982 | 909 | |
Turkey | Ankara | 3,077 | 938 | |
Botswana | Gaborone | 3,225 | 983 | |
Armenia | Yerevan | 3,246 | 989 | |
Honduras | Tegucigalpa | 3,250 | 990 | |
Andorra | Andorra la Vella | 3,356 | 1,023 | |
Malawi | Lilongwe | 3,360 | 1,024 | |
Brazil | Brasília | 3,540 | 1,079 | |
Tanzania | Dodoma | 3,675 | 1,120 | |
Costa Rica | San José | 3,760 | 1,146 | |
Uganda | Kampala | 3,904 | 1,190 | |
Eswatini | Mbabane | 4,078 | 1,243 | |
Zambia | Lusaka | 4,167 | 1,270 | |
South Africa | Pretoria | 4,170 | 1,271 | |
Madagascar | Antananarivo | 4,226 | 1,288 | |
Mongolia | Ulaanbaatar | 4,429 | 1,350 | |
Nepal | Kathmandu | 4,593 | 1,400 | |
Zimbabwe | Harare | 4,865 | 1,483 | |
Burundi | Gitega | 4,934 | 1,504 | |
Guatemala | Guatemala City | 5,016 | 1,529 | |
Rwanda | Kigali | 5,141 | 1,567 | |
Lesotho | Maseru | 5,489 | 1,673 | |
Namibia | Windhoek | 5,646 | 1,721 | |
Afghanistan | Kabul | 5,873 | 1,790 | |
Kenya | Nairobi | 5,889 | 1,795 | |
Iran | Tehran | 6,003 | 1,830 | |
Mexico | Mexico City | 7,350 | 2,240 | |
Yemen | Sanaʽa | 7,382 | 2,250 | |
Eritrea | Asmara | 7,628 | 2,325 | |
Bhutan | Thimphu | 7,657 | 2,334 | |
Ethiopia | Addis Ababa | 7,726 | 2,355 | |
Colombia | Bogotá | 8,612 | 2,625 | |
Bolivia | Sucre | 9,220 | 2,790 | |
Ecuador | Quito | 9,350 | 2,850 | |
Bolivia | La Paz | 11,942 | 3,640 |
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