There are approximately 48 to 50 countries in Asia, depending on whether you include transcontinental countries like Russia and Turkey, or states with limited recognition like Taiwan.
Here is a comprehensive list of the countries in Asia with their capital cities:
- Afghanistan (Kabul)
- Armenia (Yerevan)
- Azerbaijan (Baku)
- Bahrain (Manama)
- Bangladesh (Dhaka)
- Bhutan (Thimphu)
- Brunei (Bandar Seri Begawan)
- Cambodia (Phnom Penh)
- China (Beijing)
- Cyprus (Nicosia)
- East Timor (Dili)
- Georgia (Tbilisi)
- India (New Delhi)
- Indonesia (Jakarta)
- Iran (Tehran)
- Iraq (Baghdad)
- Israel (Jerusalem)
- Japan (Tokyo)
- Jordan (Amman)
- Kazakhstan (Astana)
- Kuwait (Kuwait City)
- Kyrgyzstan (Bishkek)
- Laos (Vientiane)
- Lebanon (Beirut)
- Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur)
- Maldives (Malé)
- Mongolia (Ulaanbaatar)
- Myanmar (Naypyidaw)
- Nepal (Kathmandu)
- North Korea (Pyongyang)
- Oman (Muscat)
- Pakistan (Islamabad)
- Palestine (Ramallah/East Jerusalem)
- Philippines (Manila)
- Qatar (Doha)
- Russia (Moscow)
- Saudi Arabia (Riyadh)
- Singapore (Singapore)
- South Korea (Seoul)
- Sri Lanka (Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte)
- Syria (Damascus)
- Taiwan (Taipei)
- Tajikistan (Dushanbe)
- Thailand (Bangkok)
- Turkey (Ankara)
- Turkmenistan (Ashgabat)
- United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi)
- Uzbekistan (Tashkent)
- Vietnam (Hanoi)
- Yemen (Sana’a)
