List of countries with multiple capitals

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Lists of capitals Some countries can be considered to have multiple capitals. In some cases, one city is the capital for some purposes, and one or more others are capital for other purposes, without any being considered an official capital in preference to the others. There are also cases where there is a single legally defined capital, but one or more other cities operate as the seat of government of some or all parts of the national government; in these situations, sources may disagree on whether these other cities are considered additional capital cities.

More than one capital at present

Country	Capitals	Details
Template:BEN	Porto-Novo	Official capital
	Cotonou	De facto administrative capital
Template:BOL	Sucre	Constitutional capital
	La Paz	De facto executive and legislative capital
Template:BDI	Gitega	Official political capital
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Template:ESW	Mbabane	Administrative capital
	Lobamba	Legislative capital (parliament) and place of royal residence
Template:IDN	Nusantara	Official capital
	Jakarta	De facto administrative capital<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
Template:CIV	Yamoussoukro	Official capital
	Abidjan	De facto administrative capital<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
Template:MYS	Kuala Lumpur	Constitutional and legislative capital (parliament), seat of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong
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Template:Flag	Amsterdam	Official capital
	The Hague	Seat of government and de facto administrative capital
Template:RSA	Pretoria	Administrative and executive capital
	Bloemfontein	Judicial capital
	Cape Town	Legislative capital (parliament)
Template:SRI	Colombo	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> capital
	Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte	Legislative capital (parliament)
Template:AFG	Kabul	Administrative, cultural and financial capital
	Kandahar	De facto capital, founding city of the Taliban and the seat of the Taliban Parliament. and the Supreme Leader<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

More than one capital in the past

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These countries have had two cities that served as administrative capitals at the same time, for various reasons such as war, weather or partition. In some cases, the second capital is considered a temporary capital.

Country	Year(s)	Capitals	Details
Template:Flag	1858–1947	Kolkata (a.k.a. Calcutta) (1858–1911)	Administrative capital
		New Delhi (1911–1947)
		Shimla (a.k.a. Simla)	Summer capital
Template:Flagicon image Austria-Hungary	1873–1918	Vienna	Cisleithania
		Budapest	Kingdom of Hungary
Template:Flagcountry	1937–1945	Nanjing (a.k.a. Nanking)	Capital of the Japanese-controlled puppet state
		Chongqing	Provisional capital of the Kuomintang-ruled Republic of China
	1945–1991	Nanjing	Administrative, legislative, and judicial capital (claimed between the 1949 Retreat and the 1992 Consensus)
		Taipei	Provisional capital of the Kuomintang-ruled Republic of China on Taiwan
Template:Flag	1940–1944	Vichy	De facto administrative capital
		Paris	De jure constitutional capital, also capital for the German military administration
Template:Flag	1943–1944	Brindisi (1943–Feb 1944)	De facto provisional capital
		Salerno (Feb–Jun 1944)
		Rome	De jure capital until 1944 when it was liberated by the Allies
Template:Flag	1943–1944	Salò	De facto capital until 1944 when it became the primary capital
		Rome	De jure capital until 1944 when it was liberated by the Allies
Template:Flag	1947–1975	Vientiane	Administrative capital
		Luang Prabang	Royal capital
Template:LBY	1951–1963	Tripoli	One of two official capitals of the Kingdom of Libya, then Bayda became the capital of Libya from 1963 to 1969
		Benghazi
Template:Flag	1974–1994	Lilongwe	Administrative and judiciary capital
		Zomba	Legislative capital
Template:Flagicon imageTemplate:Flagicon image Netherlands-Indonesia Union	1948–1956	Amsterdam	Kingdom of the Netherlands
		Batavia	United States of Indonesia
{{#invoke:flag	Norway}}	1940	Oslo	Official capital
	Hamar		Temporarily one-day capital that seated the parliament<ref>Kongens nei - 9. april Template:Small</ref>
Template:Flag	1962–1971	Rawalpindi (1962–14 August 1967)	Seat of the government
		Islamabad (14 August 1967–1971)
		Dhaka	Legislative capital
Template:PHL	1948–1976	Quezon City	Official capital
		Manila	De facto seat of government
	1901–1976	Baguio	Summer capital (still known as summer capital, outside of political use)
Template:Flagcountry	2003–2006	Belgrade	Administrative and legislative capital
		Podgorica	Judicial capital

See also

• List of national capitals
• List of purpose-built national capitals