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Area and Population of Countries

(mid-2009 estimates)

Country Capital Area
(in sq mi)		 Population
Afghanistan Kabul 250,000 33,609,937
Albania Tiranë 11,100 3,639,453
Algeria Algiers 919,590 34,178,188
Andorra Andorra la Vella 181 83,888
Angola Luanda 481,351 12,799,293
Antigua and Barbuda St. John's 171 85,632
Argentina Buenos Aires 1,068,296 40,913,584
Armenia Yerevan 11,506 2,967,004
Australia Canberra 2,967,893 21,262,641
Austria Vienna 32,382 8,210,281
Azerbaijan Baku 33,436 8,238,672
Bahamas Nassau 5,382 309,156
Bahrain Al-Manámah 257 727,785
Bangladesh Dhaka 55,598 156,050,883
Barbados Bridgetown 166 284,589
Belarus Mensk (Minsk) 80,154 9,648,533
Belgium Brussels 11,787 10,414,336
Belize Belmopan 8,867 10,414,336
Benin Porto-Novo 43,483 8,791,832
Bhutan Thimphu 18,147 691,141
Bolivia La Paz 424,162 9,775,246
Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo 19,741 4,613,414
Botswana Gaborone 231,803 1,990,876
Brazil Brasília 3,286,470 198,739,269
Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan 2,228 388,190
Bulgaria Sofia 42,822 7,204,687
Burkina Faso Ouagadougou 105,869 15,746,232
Burundi Bujumbura 10,745 8,988,091
Cambodia Phnom Penh 69,900 14,494,293
Cameroon Yaoundé 183,567 18,879,301
Canada Ottawa 3,855,081 33,487,208
Cape Verde Praia 1,557 429,474
Central African Republic Bangui 240,534 4,511,488
Chad N'Djamena 495,752 10,329,208
Chile Santiago 292,258 16,601,707
China Beijing 3,705,386 1,338,612,968
Colombia Bogotá 439,733 45,644,023
Comoros Moroni 838 752,438
Congo, Republic of Brazzaville 132,046 4,012,809
Congo, Democratic Republic of the Kinshasa 905,563 68,692,542
Costa Rica San José 19,730 4,253,877
Côte d'Ivoire Yamoussoukro 124,502 20,617,068
Croatia Zagreb 21,831 4,489,409
Cuba Havana 42,803 11,451,652
Cyprus Nicosia 3,571 796,740
Czech Republic Prague 30,450 10,211,904
Denmark Copenhagen 16,639 5,500,510
Djibouti Djibouti 8,880 516,055
Dominica Roseau 291 72,660
Dominican Republic Santo Domingo 18,815 9,650,054
East Timor Dili 5,794 1,131,612
Ecuador Quito 109,483 14,573,101
Egypt Cairo 386,660 83,082,869
El Salvador San Salvador 8,124 7,185,218
Equatorial Guinea Malabo 10,830 633,441
Eritrea Asmara 46,842 5,647,168
Estonia Tallinn 17,462 1,299,371
Ethiopia Addis Ababa 435,184 85,237,338
Fiji Suva 7,054 944,720
Finland Helsinki 130,558 5,250,275
France Paris 211,208 64,057,792
Gabon Libreville 103,346 1,514,993
Gambia Banjul 4,363 1,782,893
Georgia Tbilisi 26,911 4,615,807
Germany Berlin 137,846 82,329,758
Ghana Accra 92,456 23,832,495
Greece Athens 50,942 10,737,428
Grenada St. George's 133 90,739
Guatemala Guatemala City 42,042 13,276,517
Guinea Conakry 94,925 10,057,975
Guinea-Bissau Bissau 13,946 1,533,964
Guyana Georgetown 83,000 772,298
Haiti Port-au-Prince 10,714 9,035,536
Honduras Tegucigalpa 43,278 7,792,854
Hungary Budapest 35,919 9,905,596
Iceland Reykjavik 39,768 306,694
India New Delhi 1,269,338 1,166,079,217
Indonesia Jakarta 741,096 240,271,522
Iran Tehran 636,293 66,429,284
Iraq Baghdad 168,753 28,945,657
Ireland Dublin 27,135 4,203,200
Israel Jerusalem 8,019 7,233,701
Italy Rome 116,305 58,126,212
Jamaica Kingston 4,244 2,825,928
Japan Tokyo 145,882 127,078,679
Jordan Amman 35,637 6,342,948
Kazakhstan Astana 1,049,150 15,399,437
Kenya Nairobi 224,961 39,002,772
Kiribati Tarawa 313 112,850
Korea, North Pyongyang 46,540 22,665,345
Korea, South Seoul 38,023 48,508,972
Kuwait Kuwait City 6,880 2,691,158
Kyrgyzstan Bishkek 76,641 5,431,747
Laos Vientiane 91,428 6,834,942
Latvia Riga 24,938 2,231,503
Lebanon Beirut 4,015 4,017,095
Lesotho Maseru 11,720 2,130,819
Liberia Monrovia 43,000 3,441,790
Libya Tripoli 679,358 6,310,434
Liechtenstein Vaduz 62 34,761
Lithuania Vilnius 25,174 3,555,179
Luxembourg Luxembourg 998 491,775
Macedonia Skopje 9,781 2,066,718
Madagascar Antananarivo 226,656 20,653,556
Malawi Lilongwe 45,745 14,268,711
Malaysia Kuala Lumpur 127,316 25,715,819
Maldives Malé 116 396,334
Mali Bamako 478,764 12,666,987
Malta Valletta 122 405,165
Marshall Islands Majuro 4,577 64,522
Mauritania Nouakchott 397,953 3,129,486
Mauritius Port Louis 788 1,284,264
Mexico Mexico City 761,602 111,211,789
Micronesia Palikir 271 107,434
Moldova Chisinau 13,067 4,320,748
Monaco Monaco 1 32,965
Mongolia Ulan Bator 603,905 3,041,142
Montenegro Cetinje 5,415 672,180
Morocco Rabat 172,413 34,859,364
Mozambique Maputo 309,494 21,669,278
Myanmar (Burma) Rangoon 261,969 48,137,741
Namibia Windhoek 318,694 2,108,665
Nauru Yaren 8 14,019
Nepal Kathmandu 54,363 28,563,377
Netherlands Amsterdam 16,033 16,715,999
New Zealand Wellington 103,737 4,213,418
Nicaragua Managua 49,998 5,891,199
Niger Niamey 489,189 15,306,252
Nigeria Abuja 356,667 149,229,090
Norway Oslo 125,181 4,660,539
Oman Muscat 82,031 3,418,085
Pakistan Islamabad 310,401 176,242,949
Palau Koror 177 20,796
Panama Panama City 30,193 3,360,474
Papua New Guinea Port Moresby 178,703 6,057,263
Paraguay Asunción 157,046 6,995,655
Peru Lima 496,223 29,546,963
Philippines Manila 115,830 97,976,603
Poland Warsaw 120,728 38,482,919
Portugal Lisbon 35,672 3,971,020
Qatar Doha 4,416 833,285
Romania Bucharest 91,699 22,215,421
Russia Moscow 6,592,735 140,041,247
Rwanda Kigali 10,169 10,473,282
St. Kitts and Nevis Basseterre 101 40,131
St. Lucia Castries 238 160,267
St. Vincent and the Grenadines Kingstown 150 104,574
Samoa Apia 1,137 219,998
San Marino San Marino 24 30,324
São Tomé and Príncipe São Tomé 386 212,679
Saudi Arabia Riyadh 756,981 28,686,633
Senegal Dakar 75,749 13,711,597
Serbia Belgrade 29,913 7,379,339
Seychelles Victoria 176 87,476
Sierra Leone Freetown 27,699 6,440,053
Singapore Singapore 267 4,657,542
Slovakia Bratislava 18,859 5,463,046
Slovenia Ljubljana 7,827 2,005,692
Solomon Islands Honiara 10,985 595,613
Somalia Mogadishu 246,199 9,832,017
South Africa Pretoria 471,008 49,052,489
Spain Madrid 194,896 40,525,002
Sri Lanka Colombo 25,332 21,324,791
Sudan Khartoum 967,493 41,087,825
Suriname Paramaribo 63,039 481,267
Swaziland Mbabane 6,704 1,123,913
Sweden Stockholm 173,731 9,059,651
Switzerland Bern 15,942 7,604,467
Syria Damascus 71,498 20,178,485
Taiwan Taipei 13,892 22,974,347
Tajikistan Dushanbe 55,251 7,349,145
Tanzania Dodoma 364,898 41,048,532
Thailand Bangkok 198,455 65,905,410
Togo Lomé 21,925 6,019,877
Tonga Nuku'alofa 289 120,898
Trinidad and Tobago Port-of-Spain 1,980 1,229,953
Tunisia Tunis 63,170 10,486,339
Turkey Ankara 301,382 76,805,524
Turkmenistan Ashgabat 188,455 4,884,887
Tuvalu Funafuti 10 12,373
Uganda Kampala 91,135 32,369,558
Ukraine Kyiv (Kiev) 233,089 45,700,395
United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi 32,000 4,798,491
United Kingdom London 94,525 61,113,205
United States Washington, D.C. 3,718,691 307,212,123
Uruguay Montevideo 68,039 3,494,382
Uzbekistan Tashkent 172,741 27,606,007
Vanuatu Vila 4,710 218,519
Vatican City   0.17 826
Venezuela Caracas 352,143 26,814,843
Vietnam Hanoi 127,243 86,967,524
Western Sahara   102,703 405,210
Yemen Sanaá 203,849 23,822,783
Zambia Lusaka 290,584 11,862,740
Zimbabwe Harare 150,803 11,392,629
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, International Database, and The World Factbook, 2009.

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