Country histories
The history of every country
Each country's whole story, from its first peoples to today, with key dates, the empires that held its land, and links to its borders on our maps.
Europe
46- AlbaniaTirana
- AndorraAndorra la Vella
- AustriaVienna
- BelarusMinsk
- BelgiumBrussels
- Bosnia and HerzegovinaSarajevo
- BulgariaSofia
- CroatiaZagreb
- CyprusNicosia
- Czech RepublicPrague
- DenmarkCopenhagen
- EstoniaTallinn
- FinlandHelsinki
- FranceParis
- GermanyBerlin
- GreeceAthens
- HungaryBudapest
- IcelandReykjavík
- IrelandDublin
- ItalyRome
- KosovoPristina
- LatviaRiga
- LiechtensteinVaduz
- LithuaniaVilnius
- LuxembourgLuxembourg
- MaltaValletta
- MoldovaChișinău
- MonacoMonaco
- MontenegroPodgorica
- NetherlandsAmsterdam
- North MacedoniaSkopje
- NorwayOslo
- PolandWarsaw
- PortugalLisbon
- RomaniaBucharest
- RussiaMoscow
- San MarinoSan Marino
- SerbiaBelgrade
- SlovakiaBratislava
- SloveniaLjubljana
- SpainMadrid
- SwedenStockholm
- SwitzerlandBern
- UkraineKyiv
- United KingdomLondon
- Vatican CityVatican City
Asia and the Middle East
48- AfghanistanKabul
- ArmeniaYerevan
- AzerbaijanBaku
- BahrainManama
- BangladeshDhaka
- BhutanThimphu
- BruneiBandar Seri Begawan
- CambodiaPhnom Penh
- ChinaBeijing
- GeorgiaTbilisi
- IndiaNew Delhi
- IndonesiaJakarta
- IranTehran
- IraqBaghdad
- IsraelJerusalem
- JapanTokyo
- JordanAmman
- KazakhstanAstana
- KuwaitKuwait City
- KyrgyzstanBishkek
- LaosVientiane
- LebanonBeirut
- MalaysiaKuala Lumpur
- MaldivesMalé
- MongoliaUlaanbaatar
- MyanmarNaypyidaw
- NepalKathmandu
- North KoreaPyongyang
- OmanMuscat
- PakistanIslamabad
- PalestineRamallah
- PhilippinesManila
- QatarDoha
- Saudi ArabiaRiyadh
- SingaporeSingapore
- South KoreaSeoul
- Sri LankaColombo
- SyriaDamascus
- TaiwanTaipei
- TajikistanDushanbe
- ThailandBangkok
- Timor-LesteDili
- TurkeyAnkara
- TurkmenistanAshgabat
- United Arab EmiratesAbu Dhabi
- UzbekistanTashkent
- VietnamHanoi
- YemenSanaa
Africa
54- AlgeriaAlgiers
- AngolaLuanda
- BeninPorto-Novo
- BotswanaGaborone
- Burkina FasoOuagadougou
- BurundiGitega
- CameroonYaoundé
- Cape VerdePraia
- Central African RepublicBangui
- ChadN'Djamena
- ComorosMoroni
- Democratic Republic of the CongoKinshasa
- DjiboutiDjibouti
- EgyptCairo
- Equatorial GuineaCiudad de la Paz
- EritreaAsmara
- EswatiniMbabane
- EthiopiaAddis Ababa
- GabonLibreville
- GhanaAccra
- GuineaConakry
- Guinea-BissauBissau
- Ivory CoastYamoussoukro
- KenyaNairobi
- LesothoMaseru
- LiberiaMonrovia
- LibyaTripoli
- MadagascarAntananarivo
- MalawiLilongwe
- MaliBamako
- MauritaniaNouakchott
- MauritiusPort Louis
- MoroccoRabat
- MozambiqueMaputo
- NamibiaWindhoek
- NigerNiamey
- NigeriaAbuja
- Republic of the CongoBrazzaville
- RwandaKigali
- São Tomé and PríncipeSão Tomé
- SenegalDakar
- SeychellesVictoria
- Sierra LeoneFreetown
- SomaliaMogadishu
- South AfricaPretoria
- South SudanJuba
- SudanKhartoum
- TanzaniaDodoma
- The GambiaBanjul
- TogoLomé
- TunisiaTunis
- UgandaKampala
- ZambiaLusaka
- ZimbabweHarare
North America and the Caribbean
23- Antigua and BarbudaQ36262
- BarbadosBridgetown
- BelizeBelmopan
- CanadaOttawa
- Costa RicaSan José
- CubaHavana
- DominicaRoseau
- Dominican RepublicSanto Domingo
- El SalvadorSan Salvador
- GrenadaSt. George's
- GuatemalaGuatemala City
- HaitiPort-au-Prince
- HondurasTegucigalpa
- JamaicaKingston
- MexicoMexico City
- NicaraguaManagua
- PanamaPanama City
- Saint Kitts and NevisBasseterre
- Saint LuciaCastries
- Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesKingstown
- The BahamasNassau
- Trinidad and TobagoPort of Spain
- United StatesWashington, D.C.