api: YAML JSON TOON Database
version: 1.0.0
format: yaml
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:
    - 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:
    - 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:
    - world-continents
    - countries-capitals-europe
    - countries-capitals-africa
    - language-families
  entry_count: 47
  fields:
    - section: data
      field: country
      type: string
      example: China
    - section: data
      field: capital
      type: string
      example: Beijing
  category: Geography
  category_slug: geography
  tags: geography,countries,capitals,asia
  view_count: 97
  created_at: 1793403093
  updated_at: 1793403093
data:
  - country: China
    capital: Beijing
  - country: India
    capital: New Delhi
  - country: Japan
    capital: Tokyo
  - country: South Korea
    capital: Seoul
  - country: Indonesia
    capital: Jakarta
  - country: Thailand
    capital: Bangkok
  - country: Vietnam
    capital: Hanoi
  - country: Philippines
    capital: Manila
  - country: Turkey
    capital: Ankara
  - country: Iran
    capital: Tehran
  - country: Saudi Arabia
    capital: Riyadh
  - country: Pakistan
    capital: Islamabad
  - country: Bangladesh
    capital: Dhaka
  - country: Malaysia
    capital: Kuala Lumpur
  - country: Singapore
    capital: Singapore
  - country: Afghanistan
    capital: Kabul
  - country: Armenia
    capital: Yerevan
  - country: Azerbaijan
    capital: Baku
  - country: Bahrain
    capital: Manama
  - country: Bhutan
    capital: Thimphu
  - country: Brunei
    capital: Bandar Seri Begawan
  - country: Cambodia
    capital: Phnom Penh
  - country: Cyprus
    capital: Nicosia
  - country: Georgia
    capital: Tbilisi
  - country: Iraq
    capital: Baghdad
  - country: Israel
    capital: Jerusalem (status disputed; most embassies are in Tel Aviv)
  - country: Jordan
    capital: Amman
  - country: Kazakhstan
    capital: Astana
  - country: Kuwait
    capital: Kuwait City
  - country: Kyrgyzstan
    capital: Bishkek
  - country: Laos
    capital: Vientiane
  - country: Lebanon
    capital: Beirut
  - country: Maldives
    capital: Malé
  - country: Mongolia
    capital: Ulaanbaatar
  - country: Myanmar
    capital: Naypyidaw
  - country: Nepal
    capital: Kathmandu
  - country: North Korea
    capital: Pyongyang
  - country: Oman
    capital: Muscat
  - country: Qatar
    capital: Doha
  - country: Sri Lanka
    capital: Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (legislative); Colombo (commercial)
  - country: Syria
    capital: Damascus
  - country: Tajikistan
    capital: Dushanbe
  - country: Timor-Leste
    capital: Dili
  - country: Turkmenistan
    capital: Ashgabat
  - country: United Arab Emirates
    capital: Abu Dhabi
  - country: Uzbekistan
    capital: Tashkent
  - country: Yemen
    capital: Sana'a (the internationally recognized government sits in Aden)