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World Leaders
Countries and their leaders
| Country | President | Prime Minister/ Vice President | Capital |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afghanistan | Hamid KARZAI | (blank) | Kabul |
| Albania | Bamir TOPI | Sali BERISHA | Tirana |
| Algeria | Abdelaziz BOUTEFLIKA | Ahmed OUYAHIA | Algiers |
| Andorra | Albert PINTAT | Joan Enric VIVES i SICILIA ; Jacques CHIRAC | Andorra la Vella |
| Angola | Jose Eduardo DOS SANTOS | Fernando DOS SANTOS | Luanda |
| Antigua and Barbuda | James B. CARLISLE (Gov. General) | Baldwin SPENCER | St. John's |
| Argentina | Cristina FERNANDEZ DE KIRCHNER | Julio COBOS | Buenos Aires |
| Armenia | Serzh SARGSIAN | Tigran SARGSIAN | Yerevan |
| Aruba | Fredis REFENJOL (Gov.) | Nelson ODUBER | Oranjestad |
| Australia | Michael JEFFERY (Gov. General) | Kevin RUDD | Canberra |
| Austria | Heinz FISCHER | Alfred GUSENBAUER (Chancellor) | Vienna |
| Azerbaijan | Ilham ALIYEV | Artur RASIZADE | Baku |
| Bahrain | HAMAD bin Isa al-Khalifa (King) | KHALIFA bin Salman al-Khalifa | Manama |
| Bahamas, The | Arthur Dion HANNA (Gov. General) | Hubert INGRAHAM | Nassau |
| Bangladesh | Iajuddin AHMED | Fakhruddin AHMED (Chief CA) | Dhaka |
| Belarus | Aleksandr LUKASHENKO | Sergei SIDORSKIY | Minsk |
| Belgium | ALBERT II (King) | Yves LETERME | Brussels |
| Belize | Colville YOUNG (Gov. General) | Dean BARROW | Belmopan |
| Benin | Thomas YAYI Boni | (blank) | Porto-Novo |
| Bhutan | Jigme Khesar Namgyel WANGCHUCK (King) | Jigme THINLEY | Thimphu |
| Cameroon | Paul BIYA | Ephraim INONI | Yaounde |
| Canada | Michaelle JEAN (Gov. General) | Stephen HARPER | Ottawa |
| Central African Republic | Francois BOZIZE | Faustin-Archange TOUADERA | Bangui |
| Cape Verde | Pedro PIRES | Jose Maria Pereira NEVES | Praia |
| Chad | Idriss DEBY | Youssof Saleh ABBAS | N'Djamena |
| Chile | Michelle BACHELET | (blank) | Santiago ; Valparaiso (legislative) |
| China | HU Jintao | WEN Jiabao (Premier) | Beijing |
| Colombia | Alvaro URIBE Velez | (blank) | Bogota |
| Comoros | Ahmad Adbullah SAMBI | (blank) | Moroni |
| Democratic Republic of Congo | Joseph KABILA | Antoine GIZENGA | Kinshasa |
| Republic of Congo | Denis SASSOU-Nguesso | Isidore MVOUBA | Brazzaville |
| Cook Islands | (blank) | Jim MARURAI | Avarua |
| Costa Rica | Oscar ARIAS Sanchez | (blank) | San Jose |
| Cote d'Ivoire | Laurent GBAGBO | Guillaume SORO | Yamoussoukro (official) ; Abidjan (administrative) |
| Croatia | Stjepan MESIC | Ivo SANADER | Zagreb |
| Cuba | Raul CASTRO Ruz, Gen. | Jose Ramon MACHADO Ventura (1st Vice President of Council of State) | Havana |
| Cyprus | Demetris CHRISTOFIAS | (blank) | Nicosia |
| Czech Republic | Vaclav KLAUS | Mirek TOPOLANEK | Prague |
| Denmark | MARGRETHE II (Queen) | Anders Fogh RASMUSSEN | Copenhagen |
| Djibouti | Ismail Omar GUELLEH | Mohamed Dileita DILEITA | Djibouti |
| Dominica | Nicholas J. O. LIVERPOOL | Roosevelt SKERRIT | Rouseau |
| Dominican Republic | Leonel FERNANDEZ Reyna | (blank) | Santo Domingo |
| East Timor | Jose RAMOS-HORTA | Kay Rala Xanana GUSMAO | Dili |
| Ecuador | Rafael CORREA Delgado | (blank) | Quito |
| Egypt | Mohammed Hosni MUBARAK | Ahmed Mohamed NAZIF | Cairo |
| El Salvador | Elias Antonio SACA Gonzalez | Ana Vilma de ESCOBAR (VP) | San Salvador |
| Equitorial Guniea | Teodoro OBIANG Nguema Mbasogo, Brig. Gen. (Ret.) | Ricardo MANGUE Obama Nfube | Malabo |
| Eritrea | ISAIAS Afworki | (blank) | Asmara |
| Estonia | Toomas ILVES | Andrus ANSIP | Tallinn |
| Ethiopia | GIRMA Woldegiorgis | MELES Zenawi | Addis Ababa |
| Fiji | Josaia Voreqe BAINIMARAMA, Commodore | Suva | |
| Finland | Tarja HALONEN | Matti Taneli VANHANEN | Helsinki |
| France | Nicolas SARKOZY | Francois FILLON | Paris |
| Gabon | BONGO ODIMBA, El Hadj Omar | NTOUTOUME-EMANE , Jean-Francois | Libreville |
| Gambia, The | Yahya JAMMEH | (blank) | Banjul |
| Georgia | Mikheil SAAKASHVILI | Zurab NOGHAIDELI | Tbilisi |
| Germany | Horst KOEHLER | Angela MERKEL (Chancellor) | Berlin |
| Ghana | John Agyekum KUFUOR | (blank) | Accra |
| Greece | Karolos PAPOULIAS | Konstandinos KARAMANLIS | Athens |
| Grenada | Daniel WILLIAMS (Gov. General) | Keith MITCHELL | St. George's |
| Guatemala | Oscar BERGER Perdomo | (blank) | Guatemala City |
| Guinea | Lansana CONTE, Gen. | Lansana KOUYATE | Conakry |
| Guinea-Bissau | Joao Bernardo VIEIRA | Martinho CABI | Bissau |
| Guyana | Bharrat JAGDEO | Samuel HINDS | Georgetown |
| Haiti | Rene Garcia PREVAL | Jacques-Edouard ALEXIS | Port-au-Prince |
| Holy See (Vatican City) | BENEDICT XVI, Pope | (blank) | (blank) |
| Honduras | Manuel ZELAYA Rosales | Elvin Ernesto SANTOS Ordonez | Tegucigalpa |
| Hungary | Laszlo SOLYOM | Ferenc GYURCSANY | Budapest |
| Iceland | Olafur GRIMSSON | Geir H. HAARDE | Reykjavik |
| India | Abdul KALAM | Manmohan SINGH | New Delhi |
| Indonesia | Susilo Bambang YUDHOYONO | (blank) | Djakarta |
| Iran | Mahmud AHMADI-NEJAD | Supreme Leader - Ali Hoseini-KHAMENEI, Ayatollah | Tehran |
| Iraq | Jalal TALABANI | Nuri al-MALIKI | Baghdad |
| Ireland | Mary MCALEESE | Bertie AHERN | Dublin |
| Israel | Dalia ITZIK | Ehud OLMERT | Jerusalem |
| Italy | Giorgio NAPOLITANO | Romano PRODI | Rome |
| Jamaica | Kenneth HALL (Gov. General) | Portia SIMPSON-MILLER | Kingston |
| Japan | AKIHITO (Emperor) | Shinzo ABE | Tokyo |
| Jordan | ABDALLAH II (King) | Marouf al-BAKHIT | Amman |
| Kazakhstan | Nursultan NAZARBAYEV | Karim MASIMOV | Astana |
| Kenya | Mwai KIBAKI | (blank) | Nairobi |
| Kiribati | Atone TONG | (blank) | Tarawa |
| Korea, North | KIM Jong Il | (blank) | Pyongyang |
| Korea, South | ROH Moo-hyun | HAN Duck-soo | Seoul |
| Kuwait | SABAH al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah (Amir) | NASIR MUHAMMAD al-Ahmad al-Sabah | Kuwait |
| Kyrgyzstan | Kurmanbek BAKIYEV | Almaz ATAMBAYEV | Bishkek (formerly Frunze) |
| Laos | CHOUMMALI Saignason, Lt. Gen. | BOUN-GNANG Volachit | Vientiane |
| Latvia | Vaira VIKE-FREIBERGA | Aigars KALVITIS | Riga |
| Lebanon | Emile LAHUD | Fuad SINIORA | Beirut |
| Lesotho | LETSIE III (King) | Pakalitha Bethuel MOSISILI | Maseru |
| Liberia | Ellen JOHNSON SIRLEAF | (blank) | Monrovia |
| Libya | Muammar Abu Minyar al-QADHAFI, Col. | (blank) | Tripoli |
| Liechtenstein | HANS ADAM II, Prince (Head of State) | Otmar HASLER | Vaduz |
| Lithuania | Valdas ADAMKUS | Gediminas KIRKILAS | Vilnius |
| Luxembourg | HENRI (Grand Duke) | Jean-Claude JUNCKER | Luxembourg |
| Macedonia | Branko CRVENKOVSKI | Nikola GRUEVSKI | Skopje |
| Madagascar | Marc RAVALOMANANA | Charles RABEMANANJARA, Gen. | Antananarivo |
| Malawi | Bingu wa MUTHARIKA | (blank) | Lilongwe |
| Malaysia | Sultan MIZAN Zainal (Paramount Ruler) | ABDULLAH bin Ahmad Badawi | Kuala Lumpur |
| Maldives | Maumoon Abdul GAYOOM | (blank) | Male |
| Mali | Amadou Toumani TOURE | Ousmane Issoufi MAIGA | Bamako |
| Malta | Edward FENECH ADAMI | Lawrence GONZI | Valleta |
| Marshall Islands | Kessai Hesa NOTE | (blank) | Majuro |
| Mauritania | Ely Ould Mohamed VALL, Col. (Chairman of Justice Council) | Sidi Mohamed Ould BOUBAKAR | Nouakchott |
| Mauritius | Anerood JUGNAUTH, Sir | Navinchandra RAMGOOLAM, Dr. | Port Louis |
| Mexico | Felipe de Jesus CALDERON Hinojosa | (blank) | Mexico City |
| Micronesa, Federated States of | Joseph J. URUSEMAL | (blank) | Palikir |
| Moldova | Vladimir VORONIN | Vasile TARLEV | Chisinau |
| Monaco | ALBERT II, Prince | Jean-Paul PROUST | Monaco |
| Mongolia | Nambaryn ENKHBAYAR | Miegombyn ENKHBOLD | Ulaan Baatar |
| Montenegro | Filip VUJANOVIC | Zeljko STURANOVIC | Podgorica (administrative) ; Cetinje |
| Morocco | MOHAMED VI (king) | Driss JETTOU | Rabat |
| Mozambique | Armando GUEBUZA | Luisa Dias DIOGO | Maputo |
| Namibia | Hifikepunye POHAMBA | Nahas ANGULA | Windhoek ; Swakopmund (summer capital) |
| Nauru | Ludwig SCOTTY | (blank) | no official capital ; office located on Yaren district |
| Nepal | GYANENDRA (Bir Bikram Shah Dev) (king) | Girija Prasad KOIRALA | Kathmandu |
| Netherlands | BEATRIX (Queen) | Jan Peter BALKENENDE | Amsterdam (official) ; The Hague (administrative) |
| Netherlands Antilles | Frits GOEDGEDRAG (Governor) | Etienne YS | part of Netherlands |
| New Zealand | Anand SATYANAND (Gov. General) | Helen CLARK | Wellington |
| Nicaragua | Daniel ORTEGA Saavedra | (blank) | Managua |
| Niger | Mamadou TANDJA | Hama AMADOU | Niamey |
| Nigeria | Olusegun OBASANJO | (blank) | Abuja |
| Norway | HARALD V (King) | Jens STOLTENBERG | Oslo |
| Oman | QABOOS bin Said al-Said (Sultan) | QABOOS bin Said al-Said | Muscat |
| Pakistan | Pervez MUSHARRAF, Gen. | Shaukat AZIZ | Islamabad |
| Palau | Tommy REMENGESAU, Jr. | (blank) | Koror |
| Panama | Martin TORRIJOS Espino | (blank) | Panama City |
| Papua New Guinea | Paulius MATANE, Sir (Gov. General) | Michael SOMARE, Sir | Port Moresby |
| Paraguay | Nicanor DUARTE FRUTOS | (blank) | Asuncion |
| Peru | Alan GARCIA Perez | Jorge DEL CASTILLO Galvez | Lima |
| Philippines | Gloria MACAPAGAL-ARROYO | (blank) | Manila |
| Poland | Lech KACZYNSKI | Jaroslaw KACZYNSKI | Warsaw |
| Portugal | Anibal Antonio CAVACO SILVA | Jose SOCRATES | Lisbon |
| Qatar | HAMAD bin Khalifa al-Thani (Amir) | (blank) | Doha |
| Romania | Nicolae VACAROIU | Calin Popescu-TARICEANU | Bucharest |
| Russia | Vladimir Vladimirovich PUTIN | Mikhail Yefimovich FRADKOV (Premier) | Moscow |
| Rwanda | Paul KAGAME | Bernard MAKUZA | Kigali |
| St. Kitts and Nevis | (blank) | Denzil DOUGLAS, Dr. | Basseterre |
| St. Lucia | Pearlette LOUISY, Dame | (blank) | Castries |
| St. Vincent and the Grenadines | Frederick Nathaniel BALLANTYNE, Sir | (blank) | Kingstown |
| Senegal | Abdoulaye WADE | Macky SALL | Dakar |
| Serbia | Boris TADIC | Vojislav KOSTUNICA | Belgrade |
| Sierra Leone | Ahmad Tejan KABBAH | (blank) | Freetown |
| Syria | Bashar al-ASAD | (blank) | Damascus |
| Sweden | (blank) | Fredrik REINFELDT | Stockholm |
| Sudan | al-BASHIR | (blank) | Khartoum |
| Tanzania | Jakaya Mrisho KIKWETE | (blank) | Dodoma |
| Tunisia | BEN ALI | (blank) | Tunis |
| Turkey | Ahmet Necdet SEZER | Recep Tayyip ERDOGAN | Ankara |
| Uganda | MUSEVENI | (blank) | Kampala |
| Uzbekistan | Islom KARIMOV | (blank) | Tashkent |
| Ukraine | Viktor YUSHCHENKO | (blank) | Kiev |
| Uruguay | Tabare VAZQUEZ | (blank) | Montevideo |
| Vietnam | Nguyen Minh TRIET | Nguyen Tan DUNG | Hanoi |
| Bolivia | Juan Evo MORALES Ayma | Alvaro GARCIA Linera | La Paz (admininstrative) ; Sucre (judicial) |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | A Croat, A Serb, and a Bosniak all went into a bar... | ...and blew it up. | Sarajevo |
| Botswana | Seretse Khama Ian KHAMA | Mompati MERAFHE | Gaborone |
| Brazil | Luiz Inacio LULA DA SILVA | Jose ALENCAR | Brasilia |
| Brunei | HASSANAL Bolkiah, Sir (Sultan) | (blank) | Bandar Seri Begawan |
| Bulgaria | Georgi PARVANOV | Angel MARIN | Sofia |
| Burkina Faso | Blaise COMPAORE | Tertius ZONGO | Ouagadougou |
| Burma | THAN SHWE, Sr. Gen. | THEIN SEIN, Lt. Gen. | Naypyidaw |
| Bermuda | Richard GOZNEY, Sir (Governor) | Alex SCOTT (Premier) | Hamilton |
| Burundi | Pierre NKURUNZIZA | Bujumbura | |
| Cambodia | Norodom SIHAMONI (King) ; HENG SAMRIN (pres.) | HUN SEN | Phnom Penh |
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