North and Central America Capitals

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   In the table below a summary with all the capitals of North and Central America, you find also a useful map with their position on the continent and the population updated to the latest data or available estimates, both of the city itself and of its urban agglomeration.

   The capital of Mexico, Mexico City, is also the most populated city on the continent, with an urban agglomeration that exceeds 20 million inhabitants; it is also one of the 8 world capitals above 2,000 meters of altitude.

   Washington, on the other hand, is not among the largest cities in the United States of America, same as Ottawa in Canada; Santo Domingo, counting the entire urban area, is the largest city in the Caribbean, where several capitals of the smaller countries do not even reach 100,000 inhabitants.

   With the exception of Panama, all the capitals of Central America are located in the inland and not on the coastal strip; Guatemala City, for example, lies at an altitude of 1,500 meters.

Flag	Country	Capital	Population	Urban aggl.	Elevation
	Antigua and Barbuda	Saint John's	21,600	21,600	8 m
	Bahamas	Nassau	297,000	297,000	9 m
	Barbados	Bridgetown	98,500	98,500	10 m
	Belize	Belmopan	28,300	28,300	64 m
	Canada	Ottawa	1,017,000	1,087,000	90 m
	Costa Rica	San José	352,000	2,106,000	1,170 m
	Cuba	Havana	2,138,000	2,138,000	21 m
	Dominica	Roseau	14,700	14,700	43 m
	Dominican Republic	Santo Domingo	1,029,000	4,345,000	14 m
	El Salvador	San Salvador	210,000	1,677,000	772 m
	Grenada	St. George's	38,300	38,300	30 m
	Guatemala	Guatemala City	965,000	2,765,000	1,500 m
	Haiti	Port-au-Prince	978,000	1,712,000	98 m
	Honduras	Tegucigalpa	1,212,000	1,599,000	993 m
	Jamaica	Kingston	585,000	990,000	9 m
	Mexico	Mexico City	8,844,000	21,905,000	2,240 m
	Nicaragua	Managua	1,047,000	1,419,000	163 m
	Panamá	Panamá City	1,133,000	2,067,000	12 m
	Saint Kitts and Nevis	Basseterre	14,000	14,000	10 m
	Saint Lucia	Castries	22,000	22,000	2 m
	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Kingstown	12,900	12,900	6 m
	United States	Washington	672,000	7,853,000	68 m

* data on urban agglomerations updated to 2023 (estimates), those on population according to official data or more recent estimates of the national statistical services, when different from urban agglomerations.

CAPITALS OF NORTH AMERICA AND CENTRAL AMERICA

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