Capital: Caracas.Major Cities: Caracas, 1.8 million inhabitants; Zulia, 2.9 million; and Carabolo...

Capital: Baghdad.Major Cities (in order of population size): Baghdad, Mosul (Al Mawsil), Basra (A...

Capital: Moscow (Moskva).Major Cities (in order of population): St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yeka...

Capital: Nairobi.Major Cities: The country's largest cites are Nairobi, the capital and chief man...

Capital: Tripoli (also known as Tarabulus), with an estimated population of 1,223,300 in 2002.Maj...

Capital: Since 1999 Putrajaya (25 kilometers south of Kuala Lumpur)has been the administrative ca...

Capital: Rabat.Major Cities: Morocco's most populous cities, in order of their population as of 2...

Capital: Hanoi.Major Cities: With 5.6 million people, Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) is the m...

Capital: Ankara.Other Major Cities: Istanbul, ¿zmir (Smyrna), Bursa, Adana, Gaziantep, and Konya ...

Capital: Addis Ababa.Major Cities: Addis Ababa, Dire Dawa, Nazret, Harer, Mekele, Jima, Dese, Bah...

Capital: Damascus (population estimated at 5 million in 2004).Other Major Cities: Aleppo (4.5 mil...

Formal Name: Republic of Bulgaria (Republika B¿lgariya).Short Form: Bulgaria.Term for Citizens(s)...

Capital: Bucharest (Bucure¿ti).Major Cities: As of 2003, Bucharest is the largest city in Romania...

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Capital: Berlin, with a population of about 3.4 million.Major Cities: After Berlin, the most popu...

Capital: Abu Dhabi City. ¿ ¿¿Major Cities: Al Ayn, capital of the Eastern Region, and Madinat Zay...

Capital: Asunción.Major Cities: Asunción (508,000 inhabitants), Ciudad del Este (261,000), San Lo...

Major Cities: The largest city is P'y4ngyang, with a reported 3.3 million inhabitants in 2005.Acc...

Capital: Amman (with a population of about 2 million).Other Major Cities: Az Zarqa (472,830 inhab...

Capital: Singapore.Major Cities: Singapore is a city-state. The city of Singapore is located on t...

Capital: Seoul. ¿¿Major Cities: The largest cities are Seoul (11 million), Pusan (3.9 million), T...

Capital: Kathmandu.Major Cities: According to the 2001 census, only Kathmandu had a population of...

Capital: Islamabad (Islamabad Capital Territory).Major Cities: Pakistan has seven cities with a p...

Capital: Abuja has been the capital of Nigeria since December 12, 1991. Previously, the capitalwa...

Capital: Mexico City (Ciudad de México), located in the FederalDistrict (Distrito Federal) with a...

Capital: New Delhi (formally called the National CapitalTerritory of Delhi).Other Major Cities: I...

Capital: Jakarta (Special Capital City Region of Jakarta), located on the north coast of Java.Maj...

Capital: Manila.Major Cities: Located on Luzon Island, Metropolitan Manila, including the adjacen...

Capital: Port-au-Prince.Major Cities: Port-au-Prince (917,112 inhabitants), Carrefour (306,074), ...

Major Cities: The country's capital Paris, the only French citywith more than 1 million inhabitan...

Capital: Bangkok (in Thai, Krung Thep, ¿ ¿¿¿-City of Angels).Major Cities: The largest metropolit...

Capital: Astana (formerly Aqmola) became the official capital of Kazakhstan in 1997,succeeding Al...

Capital: Tehran.Other Major Cities (in order of population): Mashhad, Esfahan, Tabriz, Karaj, Shi...

Major Cities: Based on 2000 census data, the largest cities are the four centrally administeredmu...

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Capital: La Habana (Havana). Term for residents: Habaneros (males), Habaneras (females).Major Cit...

Capital: Bamako.Major Cities: Bamako (more than 1 million inhabitants according to the 1998 censu...

Formal Name: Islamic Republic of Afghanistan(DowlateEslamiyeAfghanestan).Short Form: Afghanistan....

Capital: Bogotá.Major Cities: According to the 2005 census, the four cities with more than 1 mill...

Formal Name: Commonwealth of Australia.Short Form: Australia.Term for Citizen(s): Australian(s).C...

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