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abuja
n.
the capital of Nigeria, in the central part. 378,671.
accra
n.
a seaport in and the capital of Ghana, on the Gulf of Guinea. 700,000.
addis ababa
n.
a city in and the capital of Ethiopia, in the central part. 1,161,267.
algiers
n.
a seaport in and the capital of Algeria, in the N part. 1,839,000.
alofi
n.
the capital of the Pacific Ocean island of Niue, a New Zealand dependency. 750.
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amman
n.
a city in and the capital of Jordan, in the W part. 615,000.
amsterdam
n.
a city in and the official capital of the Netherlands. 712,294.
andorra la vella
n.
a republic in the E Pyrenees between France and Spain, under the joint suzerainty of France and the Spanish Bishop of Urgel. 74,839; 191 sq. mi. (495 sq. km).
ankara
n.
a city in and the capital of Turkey, in the central part. 1,522,350.
antananarivo
n.
a city in and the capital of Madagascar, in the central part. 650,000.
apia
n.
a seaport in and the capital of Western Samoa, on N Upolu. 30,593.
ashgabat
n.
a city in and the capital of Turkmenistan, in the S central part, near the Iranian border. 412,000.
asmara
n.
a city in and the capital of Eritrea, in N Ethiopia. 276,355.
asuncion
n.
a city in and the capital of Paraguay, in the S part. 400,000.
athens
n.
a city in and the capital of Greece, in the SE part. 885,136.
baghdad
n.
a city in and the capital of Iraq, in the central part, on the Tigris. 2,800,000.
baku
n.
a city in and the capital of Azerbaijan, in the E part, on the Caspian Sea. 1,022,000; with suburbs, 1,550,000.
bamako
n.
a city in and the capital of Mali: inland port on the Niger River. 380,000.
bandar seri begawan
n.
a seaport in and the capital of the sultanate of Brunei, on the NW coast of Borneo, in the Malay Archipelago. 36,987.
bangkok
n.
a seaport in and the capital of Thailand, in the S central part, on the Chao Phraya. 4,000,000.
bangui
n.
a city in and the capital of the Central African Republic, in the SW part. 350,000.
banjul
n.
a port in and the capital of The Gambia. 42,689.
basseterre
n.
a seaport in and the capital of St. Kitts-Nevis, in the West Indies. 15,897.
beijing
n.
a city in and the capital of the People's Republic of China, in the NE part, in central Hebei province: traditional capital of China. 7,570,000.
beirut
n.
a seaport in and the capital of Lebanon. 702,000.
belfast
n.
a seaport in and capital of Northern Ireland, on the E coast. 374,300.
belmopan
n.
a seaport in and the main city of Belize. 50,000.
berlin
n.
the capital of Germany, in the NE part: constitutes a state. 3,121,000; 341 sq. mi. (883 sq. km.). Formerly (1948-90) divided into a western zone
bern
n.
a city in and the capital of Switzerland, in the W part: capital of Bern canton. 149,800.
bishkek
n.
the capital of Kirghizia (Kyrgyzstan), in the N part. 616,000.
bissau
n.
a seaport in and the capital of Guinea-Bissau, in the W part. 75,000.
bogota
n.
a city in and the capital of Colombia, in the central part. 2,855,065.
brasilia
n.
a city in and the capital of Brazil, on the central plateau. 411,505.
bratislava
n.
the capital of Slovakia, in the SW part, on the Danube River: a former capital of Hungary. 435,000.
brazzaville
n.
a port in and the capital of the People's Republic of the Congo, in the S part, on the Congo (Zaire) River: former capital of French Equatorial Africa. 290,000.
bridgetown
n.
a seaport on and the capital of Barbados, on the SW coast. 8789.
bucharest
n.
a city in and the capital of Romania, in the S part. 1,832,015.
budapest
n.
a city in and the capital of Hungary, in the central part, on the Danube River: formed 1873 from two cities on the W bank of the Danube
buenos aires
n.
a seaport in and the capital of Argentina, in the E part, on the Río de la Plata. 9,927,404.
bujumbura
n.
a port in and the capital of Burundi, in the W part, on Lake Tanganyika. 160,000.
cairo
n.
a city in and the capital of Egypt, in the N part on the E bank of the Nile. 5,517,000.
canberra
n.
a city in and the capital of Australia, in the SE part, in the Australian Capital Territory. 219,331 (with suburbs).
caracas
n.
a city in and the capital of Venezuela, in the N part. 1,035,499.
castries
n.
a port in and the capital of the state of St. Lucia, on the NW coast. 45,000.
charlotte amalie
n.
a seaport in and the capital of the Virgin Islands, on St. Thomas. 12,372.
chisinau
n.
a city in and the capital of Moldavia (Moldova), in the central part. 503,000.
conakry
n.
a seaport in and the capital of Guinea, in NW Africa. 525,671 with suburbs.
copenhagen
n.
a seaport in and the capital of Denmark, on the E coast of Zealand. 802,391; with suburbs, 1,380,204.
dakar
n.
a seaport in and the capital of Senegal; capital of former French West Africa. 600,000; 68 sq. mi. (176 sq. km).
damascus
n.
a city in and the capital of Syria, in the SW part: reputed to be the oldest continuously existing city in the world. 936,567.
dhaka
n.
a city in and the capital of Bangladesh, in the central part. 2,365,695.
dili
n.
a city on NE Timor, in S Indonesia. 52,158.
djibouti
n.
a seaport in and the capital of this republic, in the SE part. 399,000.
dodoma
n.
a city in and the capital of Tanzania, in the central part. 45,703.
doha
n.
a city in and the capital of the state of Qatar, on the Persian Gulf. 100,000.
dublin
n.
a seaport in and the capital of the Republic of Ireland, in the E part, on the Irish Sea. 422,220.
dushanbe
n.
a city in and the capital of Tadzhikistan, in the SW Russian Federation in Asia, SW of Tashkent. 493,000.
edinburgh
n.
a city in and the capital of Scotland, in the SE part: administrative center of the Lothian region. 470,085.
freetown
n.
a seaport in and the capital of Sierra Leone, in W Africa. 214,000.
funafuti
n.
a village in and the capital of Tuvalu. 900.
gaborone
n.
a town in and the capital of Botswana, in the SE part. 59,700.
george town
n.
a seaport in and the capital of Guyana, at the mouth of the Demerara. 182,000.
guatemala city
n.
a city in and the capital of this republic. 917,322.
hanoi
n.
a city in and the capital of Vietnam, in the N part, on the Songka River. 1,443,500.
harare
n.
a city in and the capital of Zimbabwe, in the NE part. 675,000.
havana
n.
a seaport in and the capital of Cuba, on the NW coast. 1,800,000.
helsinki
n.
a seaport in and the capital of Finland, on the S coast. 484,471.
honiara
n.
a city in and the capital of the Solomon Islands, N Guadalcanal. 11,191.
islamabad
n.
the capital of Pakistan, in the N part, near Rawalpindi. 77,318.
jakarta
n.
a seaport in and the capital of Indonesia, on the NW coast of Java. 4,576,009.
jerusalem
n.
a city in and the capital of Israel: an ancient holy city and a center of pilgrimage for Jews, Christians, and Muslims; divided between Israel and Jordan 1948–67; Jordanian sector annexed by Israel 1967; capital of Israel since 1950. 407,100.
kabul
n.
a city in and the capital of Afghanistan, in the NE part. 377,715.
kampala
n.
a city in and the capital of Uganda, in the S part. 331,900.
kathmandu
n.
a city in and the capital of Nepal, in the central part. 150,000.
khartoum
n.
a city in and the capital of the Sudan, at the junction of the White and Blue Nile rivers: besieged 1885; retaken by the British 1898. 400,000.
kiev
n.
a city in and the capital of Ukraine, on the Dnieper River. 2,144,000.
kigali
n.
a town in and the capital of Rwanda, in the central part. 40,000.
kingston
n.
a seaport in and the capital of Jamaica. 600,000.
kingstown
n.
a city in and the capital of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, on SW St. Vincent island. 4308.
kinshasa
n.
a port in and capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in the NW part, on the Congo (Zaire) River. 1,990,717.
kuala lumpur
n.
a city in and the capital of Malaysia, in the SW Malay Peninsula. 937,875.
kuwait
n.
a seaport in and the capital of this monarchy. 800,000.
la paz
n.
a city in and the administrative capital of Bolivia, in the W part; Sucre is the official capital. 660,700; ab. 12,000 ft. (3660 m) above sea level.
libreville
n.
a port in and the capital of Gabon, in the W part, on the Gulf of Guinea. 60,000.
lima
n.
a city in and the capital of Peru, near the Pacific coast. 3,317,648.
lisbon
n.
a seaport in and the capital of Portugal, in the SW part, on the Tagus estuary. 760,150.
ljubljana
n.
a city in and the capital of Slovenia, in the central part. 305,211.
lome
n.
a seaport in and the capital of Togo, on the Gulf of Guinea. 135,000.
london
n.
a metropolis in SE England, on the Thames: capital of the United Kingdom.
luanda
n.
a seaport in and the capital of Angola, in SW Africa. 475,328.
lusaka
n.
a city in and the capital of Zambia, in the S central part. 415,000.
luxembourg
n.
a city in and the capital of this grand duchy. 78,400.
madrid
n.
a city in and the capital of Spain, in the central part. 3,500,000.
majuro
n.
the capital island of the Marshall Islands. 25,400; 4 sq. mi. (10 sq. km).
malabo
n.
a town in and the capital of Equatorial Guinea, on N Bioko island. 75,000.
male
n.
a city in and the capital of the Maldives. 17,000.
managua
n.
a city in and the capital of Nicaragua, in the W part, on Lake Managua. 556,470.
manama
n.
a city in and the capital of Bahrain, on N Bahrain island. 94,697.
manila
n.
a seaport in and the capital of the Philippines, on W central Luzon. 1,630,485.
maputo
n.
a seaport in and the capital of Mozambique, on Delagoa Bay. 383,775.
maseru
n.
a town in and the capital of Lesotho, in the NW part. 29,000.
mbabane
n.
a city in and the capital of Swaziland, in the NW part. 24,000.
mexico city
n.
a city in and the capital of Mexico, in the central part. 8,906,000; ab. 7400 ft. (2255 m) above sea level.
minsk
n.
a city in and the capital of Byelorussia (Belarus), in the central part, on a tributary of the Berezina. 1,589,000.
mogadishu
n.
a seaport in and the capital of Somalia, in the S part. 400,000.
monaco
n.
the capital of this principality. 1685.
monrovia
n.
a seaport in and the capital of Liberia, in W Africa. 204,000.
montevideo
n.
a seaport in and the capital of Uruguay. 1,229,748.
moroni
n.
a town in and the capital of the Comoros. 12,000.
moscow
n.
a city in and the capital of the Russian Federation, in the W part: capital of the former Soviet Union. 8,967,000.
muscat
n.
a seaport in and the capital of Oman. 70,000.
n'djamena
n.
a city in and the capital of Chad, in the SW part. 192,962.
nairobi
n.
a city in and the capital of Kenya, in the SW part. 650,000.
nassau
n.
a seaport on New Providence Island: capital of the Bahamas; seaside resort. 100,000.
new delhi
n.
a city in and the capital of India, in the N part, adjacent to Delhi. 301,800.
niamey
n.
a port in and the capital of Niger, in the SW part, on the Niger River. 102,000.
nicosia
n.
a city on and the capital of Cyprus, in the central part. 115,700.
nouakchott
n.
a city in and the capital of Mauritania, on the W coast. 130,000.
nukualofa
n.
a seaport in and the capital of Tonga, in the S Pacific Ocean. 15,545.
oslo
n.
a seaport in and the capital of Norway, in the SE part, at the head of Oslo Fiord. 463,022.
ottawa
n.,
a city in and the capital of Canada, in SE Ontario. 304,462.
ouagadougou
n.
a city in and the capital of Burkina Faso, in the central part. 124,779.
pago pago
n.
the chief harbor and town of American Samoa, on Tutuila island: naval station. 2491.
palikir
n.
the capital of the Federated States of Micronesia, on the island of Pohnpei. 6200.
panama city
n.
a city in and the capital of Panama, at the Pacific end of the Panama Canal. 438,000.
paramaribo
n.
a seaport in and the capital of Suriname, in NE South America. 150,000.
phnom penh
n.
a city in and the capital of Cambodia, in the S part. 400,000.
podgorica
n.
the capital of Montenegro, in SW Yugoslavia. 132,290.
port louis
n.
a seaport in and the capital of Mauritius, in the Indian Ocean, E of Madagascar. 136,000.
port moresby
n.
a seaport in and the capital of Papua New Guinea: important Allied base in World War II. 76,507.
port of spain
n.
a seaport on NW Trinidad, in the SE West Indies: the national capital of Trinidad and Tobago. 67,867.
port-au-prince
n.
a seaport in and the capital of Haiti, in the S part. 550,000.
prague
n.
a city in and the capital of the Czech Republic, in the W central part, on the Vltava: formerly capital of Czechoslovakia. 1,211,000.
praia
n.
the capital of Cape Verde, in the S Atlantic Ocean, on S São Tiago Island. 39,000.
pretoria
n.
a province in the NE Republic of South Africa. 8,717,530; 110,450 sq. mi. (286,066 sq. km).
pristina
n.
the capital city of Kosovo, S Serbia, Serbia and Montenegro: site of 1389 battle against Turks and center of modern Kosovar (Albanian) separatist movement. 165,800.
pyongyang
n.
a city in and the capital of North Korea, in the SW part. 1,500,000.
quito
n.
a city in and the capital of Ecuador, in the N part. 599,828; 9348 ft. (2849 m) above sea level.
rabat
n.
a seaport in and the capital of Morocco, in the NW part. 724,100.
reykjavik
n.
a seaport in and the capital of Iceland, in the SW part. 84,856.
riga
n.
a seaport in and the capital of Latvia, on the Gulf of Riga. 915,000.
riyadh
n.
a city in and the capital of Saudi Arabia. 450,000.
rome
n.
a city in and the capital of Italy, in the central part, on the Tiber: ancient capital of the Roman Empire; site of Vatican City, seat of authority of the Roman Catholic Church. 2,600,000.
roseau
n.
a seaport on and the capital of Dominica. 10,417.
saipan
n.
an island in and the capital of the North Mariana Islands in the N Pacific, about 1350 mi. (2173 km) S of Japan: taken by U.S. forces June–July 1944. 14,000; 71 sq. mi. (184 sq. km).
san jose
n.
a city in and the capital of Costa Rica, in the central part. 228,302.
san juan
n.
a seaport in and the capital of Puerto Rico, in the N part. 424,600.
san marino
n.
a town in and the capital of this republic. 4189.
san salvador
n.
a city in and the capital of El Salvador. 368,313.
sanaa
n.
a city in and the capital of the Republic of Yemen, in SW Arabia. 150,000.
santiago
n.
a city in and the capital of Chile, in the central part. 1,759,087.
santo domingo
n.
a city in and the capital of the Dominican Republic, on the S coast: first European settlement in America 1496. 980,000.
sao tome
n.
a city on this island: capital of the republic. 5714.
sarajevo
n.
a city in and the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the central part: assassination of the Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand here June 28, 1914, was the final event that precipitated World War I. 448,519.
seoul
n.
a city in and the capital of South Korea, in the W part. 6,889,470.
singapore
n.
a seaport in and the capital of this republic. 1,400,000.
skopje
n.
a city in and the capital of Macedonia, in N part. 504,932.
sofia
n.
a city in and the capital of Bulgaria, in the W part. 965,728.
st. john
n.
a seaport on and the capital of Antigua and Barbuda, in the E West Indies. 13,000.
stockholm
n.
the chief seaport in and the capital of Sweden, in the SE part. 647,214; with suburbs 1,493,546.
sucre
n.
a city in and the official capital of Bolivia, in the S part. 57,090.
suva
n.
a seaport in and the capital of Fiji, on Viti Levu island. 96,000.
taipei
n.
a city in and the capital of Taiwan, in the N part. 2,100,000.
tallinn
n.
a seaport in and the capital of Estonia, on the Gulf of Finland. 499,800.
tashkent
n.
a city in and the capital of Uzbekistan, in the NE part. 2,073,000.
tbilisi
n.
a city in and the capital of the Georgian Republic, in the SE part, on the Kura. 1,194,000.
tegucigalpa
n.
a city in and the capital of Honduras, in the S part. 270,645.
tehran
n.
a city in and the capital of Iran, in the N part: wartime conference of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin 1943. 3,150,000.
thimphu
n.
a city in and the capital of Bhutan, in the W part. 20,000.
tirana
n.
a city in and the capital of Albania, in the central part. 192,300.
tokyo
n.
a seaport in and the capital of Japan, on Tokyo Bay: one of the world's largest cities; destructive earthquake and fire 1923; signing of the Japanese surrender document aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, September 2, 1945. 11,468,516.
torshavn
n.
the capital of the Faeroe Islands, on the S tip of Streymoy Island. 12,600.
tripoli
n.
a seaport in and the capital of Libya, in the NW part. 551,477.
tunis
n.
a city in and the capital of Tunisia, in the NE part. 944,000.
vaduz
n.
a city in and the capital of Liechtenstein, on the upper Rhine. 7500.
valletta
n.
a seaport in and the capital of Malta, on the NE coast. 14,049.
vatican city
n.
an independent state within the city of Rome, on the right bank of the Tiber. Established in 1929, it is ruled by the pope and includes St. Peter's Church and the Vatican, 1000; 109 acres (44 hectares).
victoria
n.
a port in and the capital of the Seychelles. 13,736.
vienna
n.
a port in and the capital of Austria, in the NE part, on the Danube. 1,515,666.
vientiane
n.
a city in and the capital of Laos, on the Mekong River, in the NW part. 176,637.
vilnius
n.
a city in and the capital of Lithuania, in the SE part: formerly in the Soviet Union and earlier in Poland. 582,000.
warsaw
n.
a city in and the capital of Poland, in the E central part, on the Vistula River. 1,436,000.
wellington
n.
a seaport in and the capital of New Zealand, on S North Island. 349,628.
windhoek
n.
a city in and the capital of Namibia, in the central part. 62,000.
yamoussoukro
n.
a city in and the capital of the Ivory Coast, in the S central part. 120,000.
yaounde
n.
a city in and the capital of Cameroon, in the SW part. 180,000.
yaren
n.
the capital of the Republic of Nauru. 700.
yerevan
n.
a city in and the capital of Armenia, in the W part. 1,199,000.
zagreb
n.
a city in and the capital of Croatia, in the NW part. 1,174,512.

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