The least populated capital in the world - a domed capitol on a hill in Melekeok, built in 2006 for a few hundred people.
A cruise harbour under Morne Fortune, a covered market selling cocoa sticks and bay rum, and the Pitons an hour down the coast.
The de facto capital of the smallest republic on Earth: an airstrip, a parliament and the moonscape left by a century of phosphate mining.
Tanzania's official capital since 1974, in the middle of the country and the middle of its wine region; parliament sits here, the embassies stayed in Dar es Salaam.
A capital of a few government buildings in the Pohnpei jungle, twenty minutes from the basalt city of Nan Madol.
The capital Myanmar built from farmland in 2005 and moved to overnight: twenty-lane highways with almost nothing on them, and an Uppatasanti Pagoda one foot shorter than Shwedagon.
One of the smallest capitals in the world, a clock tower copied from London and the Sir Selwyn Selwyn-Clarke market.
The Andes as backdrop to a capital of markets, Barrio Bellavista and the cable car up San Cristobal.
Walk the whole capital in an afternoon — a strip of land so thin the airstrip doubles as the village green.
Riverside capital on the White Nile.
Samoa’s waterfront capital: the fish market, the Immaculate Conception cathedral and Sunday church singing.
Sleepy colonial island capital.
The world's smallest national capital.
Cobbled capital of stone arches, the botanical gardens where Bligh’s breadfruit was planted, and Fort Charlotte above.
Cliff-carved tunnel fortifications.
Old churches of the capital.
One of the region’s biggest livestock markets, camels haggled over by the hundred.
Pastel Dutch waterfront, UNESCO-listed.
Wooden colonial capital and markets.
Giant hilltop statue of Christ.
Riverside old town below the cliffs.
Atlantic islands off Conakry.
Vast synchronised stadium spectacle.
Sleek modern-art museum in Vaduz.
Quiet beach across from Libreville.
Futurist petrol station shaped like an aeroplane — icon of Asmara’s modernism.
A horseshoe harbour of Georgian houses and fish-scale roof tiles, with Fort George above and spice markets below.
The largest church in the world, a marble replica of St Peter’s standing in the African bush.
Birthplace of the Liberian nation.
The Prince of Liechtenstein’s home on a crag above the capital — closed inside, but the hillside path gives the postcard view.
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