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Form of Government, Capital City, and Major Languages
COUNTRY | GOVERNMENT | CAPITAL | MAJOR LANGUAGES | Afghanistan | Theocratic republic/transitional | Kabul | Dari, Pashton, Uzbek, Turkmen | Albania | Democratic | Tiranë | Albanian, Greek | Algeria | Military/transitional | Algiers | Arabic, Berber dialects, French | Andorra | Parliamentary democracy | Andorra | Catalán, French, Spanish | Angola | Multiparty democracy | Luanda | Portugese, indigenous | Argentina | Federal republic | Buenos Aires | Spanish, English, Italian, German | Armenia | Republic | Yerevan | Armenian, Azerbaijani, Russian | Australia | Federal parliamentary | Canberra | English, indigenous | Austria | Federal republic | Vienna | German | Azerbaijan | Republic | Baku | Azerbaijani, Russian, Armenian | Bahrain | Traditional monarchy | Manama | Arabic, English, Farsi, Urdu | Bangladesh | Republic | Dhaka | Bangla, English | Barbados | Parliamentary state | Bridgetown | English | Belarus | Republic | Minsk | Byelorussian, Russian | Belgium | Constitutional monarchy | Brussels | Dutch (Flemish), French, German | Belize | Parliamentary state | Belmopan | English, Spanish, Garifuna, Mayan | Benin | Republic | Porto-Novo | French, Fon, Adja, indigenous | Bhutan | Monarchy | Thimphu | Dzongha, Tibetan, Nepalese | Bolivia | Republic | La Paz | Spanish, Quechua, Aymara | Bosnia- Herzegovina | Republic/transitional | Sarajevo | Serb, Croat, Albanian | Botswana | Parliamentary republic | Gaborone | English, Tswania | Brazil | Federal republic | Brasília | Portugese, Spanish, English, French | Brunei | Constitutional monarchy | Bandar | Malay, English, Chinese | Bulgaria | Republic/transitional | Sofia | Bulgarian | Burkina Faso | Provisional military | Ouagadougou | French, indigenous | Burundi | Republic/transitional | Bujumbura | French, Kirundi, Swahili | Cambodia | Transitional UN management | Phnom Penh | Khmer, French | Cameroon | Republic | Yaoundé | English, French, indigenous | Canada | Federal parliamentary | Ottawa | English, French | Cape Verde | Republic | Praia | Portugese, Crioulu | Central African Republic | Republic | Bangui | French, Sango, Arabic, indigenous | Chad | Republic | N'Djamena | Arabic, French, indigenous | Chile | Republic | Santiago | Spanish | China | Single-party communist state | Beijing | Chinese dialects | Colombia | Republic | Bogotá | Spanish | Comoros | Republic | Moroni | Arabic, French, Shaafi Islam | Congo | Republic | Brazzaville | French, indigenous | Costa Rica | Republic | San José | Spanish | Croatia | Parliamentary democracy | Zagreb | Croat, Serb | Cuba | Single-party communist state | Havana | Spanish | Cyprus | Republic | Nicosia | Greek, Turkish, English | Czech Republic | Federal republic | Prague | Czech, Slovak, Hungarian | Denmark | Constitutional monarchy | Copenhagen | Danish | Djibouti | Republic | Djibouti | French, Somali, Afar, Arabic | Dominica | Republic | Rosseau | English, French | Dominican Republic | Republic | Santo Domingo | Spanish | Ecuador | Republic | Quito | Spanish, Quechua, indigenous | Egypt | Republic | Cairo | Arabic | El Salvador | Republic | San Salvador | Spanish, Nahua | Equatorial Guinea | Republic | Malabo | Spanish, indigenous, English | Eritrea | Transitional government | Asmara | Afar, Bilen, Hadareb, Kunuama, Nara | Estonia | Republic | Tallinn | Estonian, Russian | Ethiopia | Republic/transitional | Addis Ababa | Amharic, Tigrinya, Orominga, Arabic | Fiji | Republic | Suva | English, Fijian, Hindustani | Finland | Republic | Helsinki | Finnish, Swedish | France | Republic | Paris | French | Gabon | Single-party republic | Libreville | French, Fang, indigenous | Gambia | Republic | Banjul | English, Mandinka, Wolof, Fula | Georgia | Republic | Tbilisi | Georgian, Russian, Armenian | Germany | Federal republic | Berlin and Bonn | German | Ghana | Parliamentary democracy | Accra | English, Akan, indigenous | Greece | Parliamentary democracy | Athens | Greek | Grenada | Parliamentary state | St. George's | English, French | Guatemala | Republic | Guatemala | Spanish, indigenous | Guinea | Republic/transitional | Conakry | French, indigenous | Guinea-Bissau | Single-party republic | Bissau | Portugese, Crioulo, indigenous | Guyana | Republic | Georgetown | English, indigenous | Haiti | Republic | Port-au-Prince | Creole, French | Honduras | Republic | Tegucigalpa | Spanish, indigenous | Hungary | Republic | Budapest | Hungarian | Iceland | Republic | Reykjavík | Icelandic | India | Federal republic | New Delhi | English, Hindi, Telugu, Bengali | Indonesia | Republic | Jakarta | Indonesian, Javanese, Sundanese | Iran | Theocratic republic | Tehran | Farsi, Turkish, Kurdish, Arabic, English | Iraq | Single-party republic | Baghdad | Arabic, Kurdish, Assyrian, Armenian | Ireland | Republic | Dublin | English, Irish Gaelic | Israel | Republic | Jerusalem | Hebrew, Arabic, English, Yiddish | Ivory Coast | Republic | Abidjan | French, indigenous | Italy | Republic | Rome | Italian | Jamaica | Parliamentary state | Kingston | English, Creole | Japan | Constitutional monarchy | Tokyo | Japanese | Jordan | Constitutional monarchy | Amman | Arabic | Kazakhstan | Republic/transitional | Alma-Ata | Kazakh, Russian, German, Ukranian | Kenya | Republic | Nairobi | English, Swahili, indigenous | Korea, North | Single-party communist state | Pyongyang | Korean | Korea, South | Republic | Seoul | Korean | Kuwait | Constitutional monarchy | Kuwait | Arabic, English | Kyrgyzstan | Republic/transitional | Bishkek | Kirghiz, Russian, Uzbek | Laos | Single-party communist state | Vientiane | Lao, French, Thai, indigenous | Latvia | Republic | Riga | Latvian, Russian | Lebanon | Republic | Beirut | Arabic, French, Armenian, English | Lesotho | Constitutional monarchy | Maseru | English, Sesotho, Zulu, Xhosa | Liberia | Republic | Monrovia | English, indigenous | Libya | Single-party parliamentary state | Tripoli | Arabic | Liechtenstein | Constitutional monarchy | Vaduz | German | Lithuania | Republic | Vilnius | Lithuanian, Russian, Polish | Luxembourg | Constitutional monarchy | Luxembourg | French, Luxembourgish, German | Macedonia | Republic/transitional | Skopje | Macedonian, Albanian | Madagascar | Republic | Antananarivo | Malagasy, French | Malawi | Single-party republic | Lilongwe | Chichewa, English, Tombuka | Malaysia | Constitutional monarchy | Kuala Lumpur | Malay, Chinese, English | Maldives | Republic | Male | Divehi | Mali | Single-party republic | Bamako | French, Bambara, indigenous | Malta | Parliamentary democracy | Valletta | English, Maltese | Mauritania | Republic/transitional | Nouakchott | Arabic, French, indigenous | Mauritius | Parliamentary state | Port Louis | English, Creole, Bhojpun, Hindi | Mexico | Federal republic | Mexico City | Spanish, indigenous | Micronesia | Republic | Kolonia | English, Malay-Polynesian languages | Moldova | Republic | Kishinev | Moldavian, Russian, Ukrainian | Mongolia | Single-party communist state | Ulan Bator | Khalkha Mongol, Kazakh, Russian | Morocco | Constitutional monarchy | Rabat | Arabic, Berber dialects, French | Mozambique | Republic | Maputo | Portuguese, indigenous | Myanmar (Burma) | Provisional military | Rangoon | Burmese, indigenous | Namibia | Republic | Windhoek | Afrikaans, English, German, indigenous | Nepal | Constitutional monarchy | Kathmandu | Nepali, Maithali, Bhojpuri, indigenous | Netherlands | Constitutional monarchy | Amsterdam | Dutch | New Zealand | Parliamentary state | Wellington | English, Maori | Nicaragua | Republic | Managua | Spanish, English, indigenous | Niger | Provisional military | Niamey | French, Hausa, Djerma, indigenous | Nigeria | Provisional military | Lagos/Abuja | English, Hausa, Fulani, Yorbua, Ibo | Norway | Constitutional monarchy | Oslo | Norwegian, Lapp | Oman | Traditional monarchy | Muscat | Arabic, English, Baluchi, Urdu | Pakistan | Federal Islamic republic | Islamabad | English, Urdu, Punjabi, Pashto, Sindhi | Panama | Republic | Panama | Spanish, English, indigenous | Papua New Guinea | Parliamentary state | Port Moresby | English, Motu, Pidgin, indigenous | Paraguay | Republic (authoritarian) | Asunción | Spanish, Guarani | Peru | Republic | Lima | Quechua, Spanish, Aymara | Philippines | Republic | Manila | English, Pilipino, Tagalog | Poland | Republic | Warsaw | Polish | Portugal | Republic | Lisbon | Portuguese | Qatar | Traditional monarchy | Doha | Arabic, English | Romania | Republic | Bucharest | Romanian, Hungarian, German | Russia | Republic | Moscow | Russian, Tatar, Ukranian | Rwanda | Provisional military | Kigali | French, Kinyarwanda | St. Kitts and Nevis | Parliamentary state | Basseterre | English | St. Lucia | Parliamentary state | Castries | English, French | St. Vincent/Grenadines | Parliamentary state | Kingstown | English, French | São Tomé and Príncipe | Republic | São Tomé | Portuguese, Fang | Saudi Arabia | Islamic monarchy | Riyadh | Arabic | Senegal | Republic | Dakar | French, Wolof, indigenous | Seychelles | Republic | Victoria | English, French, Creole | Sierra Leone | Republic | Freetown | English, Krio, indigenous | Singapore | Republic | Singapore | Mandarin Chinese, English, Malay | Slovakia | Parliamentary democracy | Bratislava | Slovak, Hungarian, Polish | Slovenia | Republic/transitional | Ljubljana | Slovene | Solomon Islands | Parliamentary state | Honiara | English, Malay-Polynesian languages | Somalia | Provisional military | Mogadishu | Arabic, Somali, English, Italian | South Africa | Republic | Pretoria | Afrikaans, English, Zulu, Xhosa | Spain | Parliamentary monarchy | Madrid | Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Basque | Sri Lanka | Republic | Colombo | English, Sinhala, Tamil | Sudan | Islamic republic | Khartoum | Arabic, Dinka, Nubian, Nuer, Beja | Suriname | Military/transitional | Paramaribo | Dutch, Sranan Tongo, English | Swaziland | Monarchy | Mbabane | English, Swahili | Sweden | Constitutional monarchy | Stockholm | Swedish | Switzerland | Federal republic | Bern | German, French, Italian, Romansch | Syria | Republic (authoritarian) | Damascus | Arabic, Kurdish, Armenian, Aramaic | Taiwan | Single-party Republic | Taipei | Chinese dialects | Tajikistan | Republic | Dushanbe | Tajik, Uzbek, Russian | Tanzania | Republic | Dar es Salaam | English, Swahili, indigenous | Thailand | Constitutional monarchy | Bangkok | Thai, indigenous | Togo | Single-party republic | Lomé | French, indigenous | Trinidad and Tobago | Parliamentary democracy | Port of Spain | English, Hindi, French, Spanish | Tunisia | Republic | Tunis | Arabic, French | Turkey | Parliamentary democracy | Ankara | Turkish, Kurdish, Arabic | Turkmenistan | Republic | Ashkhabad | Turkmen, Russian, Uzbek, Kazakh | Uganda | Republic | Kampala | English, Luganda, Swahili, indigenous | Ukraine | Republic | Kiev | Ukranian, Russian | United Arab Emirates | Federated monarchy | Abu Dhabi | Arabic, English, Farsi, Hindi, Urdu | United Kingdom | Constitutional monarchy | London | English, Welsh, Gaelic | United States | Federal republic | Washington | English, Spanish | Uruguay | Republic | Montevideo | Spanish | Uzbekistan | Republic | Tashkent | Uzbek, Russian, Kazakh, Tajik, Tatar | Venezuela | Federal republic | Caracas | Spanish, indigenous | Vietnam | Single-party communist state | Hanoi | Vietnamese, French, Chinese, English | Yemen | Republic | San`a | Arabic | Yugoslavia (Serbia-Montenegro) | Republic | Belgrade | Serb, Albanian, Hungarian | Zaire | Republic | Kinshasa | French, Kikongo, Lingala, Swahili | Zambia | Single-party republic | Lusaka | English, Tonga, Lozi, other indigenous | Zimbabwe | Republic | Harare | English, Shona, Sindebele |
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