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Best Asian Capitals

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Tokyo (Japan)1494

The worldwide ranking generated by 2.2k votes

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Tokyo (Japan)1494

Manila (Philippines)1384

Beijing (China)1368

Seoul (South Korea)1364

Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)1350

Hanoi (Vietnam)1349

Bangkok (Thailand)1348

New Delhi (India)1331

Singapore (Singapore)1325

#10

Phnom Penh (Cambodia)1320

#11

Jakarta (Indonesia)1307

#12

Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (Sri Lanka)1291

#13

Ankara (Turkey)1289

#14

Amman (Jordan)1286

#15

Kathmandu (Nepal)1262

#16

Taipei (Taiwan)1248

#17

Yerevan (Armenia)1236

#18

Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates)1224

#19

Nicosia (Cyprus)1212

#20

Jerusalem (Israel)1207

#21

Bandar Seri Begawan (Brunei)1207

#22

Vientiane (Laos)1205

#23

Dushanbe (Tajikistan)1198

#24

Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia)1193

#25

Beirut (Lebanon)1187

#26

Nur-Sultan (Kazakhstan)1182

#27

Doha (Qatar)1178

#28

Dhaka (Bangladesh)1177

#29

Muscat (Oman)1167

#30

Thimphu (Bhutan)1167

#31

Baku (Azerbaijan)1167

#32

Manama (Bahrain)1161

#33

Malé (Maldives)1159

#34

Kuwait City (Kuwait)1157

#35

Islamabad (Pakistan)1134

#36

Tehran (Iran)1132

#37

Tashkent (Uzbekistan)1127

#38

Riyadh (Saudi Arabia)1124

#39

Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan)1121

#40

Ashgabat (Turkmenistan)1099

#41

Damascus (Syria)1095

#42

Naypyidaw (Myanmar)1084

#43

Dili (East Timor)1062

#44

Pyongyang (North Korea)1046

#45

Sana'a (Yemen)1012

#46

Kabul (Afghanistan)1007

#47

Ramallah (Palestine)978

#48

Baghdad (Iraq)968

What the community says

Tokyo (Japan) leads with an ELO of 1,494, ahead of Manila (Philippines) (1,384) and Beijing (China) (1,368). Ranked over 2,189 duels between 48 contenders, last updated October 6, 2026.

Discover the ranking of the most beautiful capitals in Asia! Vote for your favorite Asian capital among the 48 major cities on the continent.

How this ranking is computed

Every duel won lifts a contender and every loss drops them, by an amount that depends on the opponent's strength: beating the leader is worth more than beating the last. It is an ELO, the same principle as in chess. Duels are not drawn at random — an adaptive entropy sort puts the least predictable match-ups first, which settles the ranking far faster than a full round robin. A worldwide ranking is only published past 30 completed plays. Known limit: a contender who has faced few opponents keeps an approximate score, and the bottom of the table moves more than the podium.