World capital elevations
23 capitals, highest first. Values are terrain-tile elevations at each city's center coordinates.
Data updated · By Ankit Kumar, compiled from public U.S. government and open datasets · How these numbers are made
- 1.La Paz, Bolivia11,977 ft (3,651 m)
- 2.Thimphu, Bhutan7,734 ft (2,357 m)
- 3.Kabul, Afghanistan5,900 ft (1,798 m)
- 4.Brasília, Brazil3,582 ft (1,092 m)
- 5.Andorra la Vella, Andorra3,385 ft (1,032 m)
- 6.Gaborone, Botswana3,321 ft (1,012 m)
- 7.Yerevan, Armenia3,270 ft (997 m)
- 8.Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina1,768 ft (539 m)
- 9.Minsk, Belarus713 ft (217 m)
- 10.Vienna, Austria563 ft (172 m)
- 11.Tirana, Albania355 ft (108 m)
- 12.Luanda, Angola249 ft (76 m)
- 13.Belmopan, Belize247 ft (75 m)
- 14.Algiers, Algeria121 ft (37 m)
- 15.Buenos Aires, Argentina121 ft (37 m)
- 16.Porto-Novo, Benin73 ft (22 m)
- 17.Bridgetown, Barbados50 ft (15 m)
- 18.Dhaka, Bangladesh46 ft (14 m)
- 19.Saint John’s, Antigua and Barbuda32 ft (10 m)
- 20.Nassau, Bahamas31 ft (9 m)
- 21.Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei31 ft (9 m)
- 22.Manama, Bahrain30 ft (9 m)
- 23.Baku, Azerbaijan10 ft (3 m)
Sources
- Terrain Tiles by Mapzen, hosted on AWS Open Data — elevation at each city center
- Wikidata (elevation statements that cite a source; the cited source is listed with each value) — capital names and coordinates
How each number is produced: methodology and data sources.