api: YAML JSON TOON Database
version: 1.0.0
format: toon
dataset:
  id: 2763
  slug: countries-capitals-asia
  title: Countries and Capitals of Asia
  description: Selected countries and capitals of Asia.
  summary: "Forty-seven sovereign states of Asia with their capital cities, including the Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia, East Asia and Southeast Asia. Transcontinental countries are listed under Asia when most of their territory or population is there, and states with multiple or contested capitals are annotated."
  use_when[2]: "You need a country's capital in Asia, or to validate a list.","You are building a quiz, a form dropdown or a geographic lookup."
  caveats[2]: "Where a country's capital is disputed (for example Israel and Yemen), the entry states the facts and the disagreement instead of picking a side silently.","Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus and Kazakhstan are transcontinental or border cases; some references place them in Europe."
  related[4]: world-continents,countries-capitals-europe,countries-capitals-africa,language-families
  entry_count: 47
  fields[2]{section,field,type,example}:
    data,country,string,China
    data,capital,string,Beijing
  category: Geography
  category_slug: geography
  tags: "geography,countries,capitals,asia"
  view_count: 96
  created_at: 1793403093
  updated_at: 1793403093
data[47]{country,capital}:
  China,Beijing
  India,New Delhi
  Japan,Tokyo
  South Korea,Seoul
  Indonesia,Jakarta
  Thailand,Bangkok
  Vietnam,Hanoi
  Philippines,Manila
  Turkey,Ankara
  Iran,Tehran
  Saudi Arabia,Riyadh
  Pakistan,Islamabad
  Bangladesh,Dhaka
  Malaysia,Kuala Lumpur
  Singapore,Singapore
  Afghanistan,Kabul
  Armenia,Yerevan
  Azerbaijan,Baku
  Bahrain,Manama
  Bhutan,Thimphu
  Brunei,Bandar Seri Begawan
  Cambodia,Phnom Penh
  Cyprus,Nicosia
  Georgia,Tbilisi
  Iraq,Baghdad
  Israel,Jerusalem (status disputed; most embassies are in Tel Aviv)
  Jordan,Amman
  Kazakhstan,Astana
  Kuwait,Kuwait City
  Kyrgyzstan,Bishkek
  Laos,Vientiane
  Lebanon,Beirut
  Maldives,Malé
  Mongolia,Ulaanbaatar
  Myanmar,Naypyidaw
  Nepal,Kathmandu
  North Korea,Pyongyang
  Oman,Muscat
  Qatar,Doha
  Sri Lanka,Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (legislative); Colombo (commercial)
  Syria,Damascus
  Tajikistan,Dushanbe
  Timor-Leste,Dili
  Turkmenistan,Ashgabat
  United Arab Emirates,Abu Dhabi
  Uzbekistan,Tashkent
  Yemen,Sana'a (the internationally recognized government sits in Aden)