List of national capitals in East, South, and Southeast Asia

This is a list of East, South, and Southeast Asian capitals.

East Asia

Name	Country	View	Population	Mayor or governor or president
Beijing	China		21,542,000 (2018, municipality)	Chen Jining
Pyongyang	North Korea		2,870,000 (2016)	Kim Jong-Un
Seoul	South Korea		9,963,000 (2020)	Park Won-soon
Taipei	Taiwan		2,646,000 (2019) Metropolitan: 8,535,000 (2019)	Chiang Wan-an
Tokyo	Japan		13,929,300 (2019) Metropolitan: 27,140,000 (2019)	Yuriko Koike
Ulaanbaatar	Mongolia		1,372,000 (2013)	Sunduin Batbold

South Asia

Name	Nation	View	Population	Mayor or governor
Dhaka	Bangladesh		6,594,962 (2013)	Atiqul Islam and Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh.
Islamabad	Pakistan		1,330,000 (2011)	Sheikh Ansar Aziz
Kabul	Afghanistan		3,895,000 (2011)	Hamdullah Nomani
Kathmandu	Nepal		822,930	Balendra Shah( Balen)
Malé	Maldives		81,647	Shifa Mohammed
New Delhi	India		16,321,883	Krishna Sharma
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (administrative capital) Colombo (commercial capital)	Sri Lanka		5,648,000	Rosy Senanayake
Thimphu	Bhutan		50,000	Kinlay Dorjee

Southeast Asia

Name	Nation	View	Population	Mayor or governor
Bandar Seri Begawan	Brunei Darussalam		64,526 (1997)	N/A
Bangkok	Thailand		8,305,200 (2019) Metropolitan: 14,626,200 (2019)	Chadchart Sittipunt
Dili	Timor-Leste		222,323 (2015) Metropolitan: 234,331 (2015)	Denise Dauphinais
Hanoi	Vietnam		3,642,100 (2019) Metropolitan: 16,100,000 (2019)	Chu Ngoc Anh
Jakarta	Indonesia		10,565,800 (2015)) Metropolitan: 31,689,500 (2015)	Anies Baswedan
Kuala Lumpur (official), Putrajaya (Federal Administrative center)	Malaysia		City: 1,790,000 (2017) Metropolitan: 7,969,700 (2017)	Mhd Amin Nordin Abdul Aziz
Manila	Philippines		115,559,009 (2022) Metropolitan: 115,647,029 (2022)	Honey Lacuna
Naypyidaw	Myanmar		683,000 (2022)	Myo Aung
Phnom Penh	Cambodia		City: 2,129,300 (2019)	Khuong Sreng
Singapore	Singapore		5,896,686 (2021)	N/A
Vientiane	Laos		City: 249,800 (2015) Metropolitan: 820,900 (2015)	N/A