● Afghanistan: President - Hamid Karzai; Capital - Kabul. ● Algeria: President - Abdelaziz Bouteflika; Prime Minister - Ahmed Ouyahia; Capit...
● Afghanistan: President - Hamid Karzai; Capital - Kabul.
● Algeria: President - Abdelaziz Bouteflika; Prime Minister - Ahmed Ouyahia; Capital-
Algiers.
● Argentina: President- Ms. Cristina Fernandez Kirchner; Capital- Buenos Aires.
● Australia: Governor-General- Ms. Quentin Bryce; PRIME MINISTER- Kevin Rudd; Capital (Federal)- Canberra.
● Austria: President- Heinz Fischer; Chancellor-Werner Faymann, Capital- Vienna.
● Bahrain: King - Hamad ibn al-Khalifah; Prime Minister - Sheikh Khalifah Sulman al-Khalifah; Capital- Manama.
● Bangladesh: President - Zillur Rahman; PRIME MINISTER - Ms. Sheikh Hasina; Capital- Dhaka.
● Belarus: President- Alexander Lukashenko; Prime Minister - Sergei Sidorsky; Capital- Minsk.
● Belgium: King - Albert II; Prime Minister-Herman Van Rompuy; Capital- Brussels.
● Bhutan: King - Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuk; Prime Minister-Jigmi Y. Thinley;
Capital – Thimphu
● Bolivia: President- Evo Morales; Capital – La Paz.
● Brazil: President- Ms. Dilma Rousseff; Capital - Brasilia.
● Bulgaria: President - Georgi Purvanov; Prime Minister - Boyko Borisov; Capital-
Sofia.
● Burkina Faso: President – Blaise Compaore; Prime Minister – Tertius Zongo; Capital-
Ouagadougou.
● Cambodia: King - Norodom Sihamoni; Prime Minister - Hun Sen; Capital – Phnom Penh.
● Canada: Governor-General Ms. Michaelle Jean; PRIME MINISTER - Stephen Harper; Capital- Ottawa.
● Chile: President - Ms. Sebastian Pinera; Capital - Santiago.
● China: President- Hu Jintao; Prime Minister-Wen Jiabao; Capital- Beijing.
● Colombia: President- Juan Manuel Santos; Capital - Bogota.
● Croatia: President - Stjepan Mesic; Prime Minister -Dr. Ivo Sanader; Capital-Zagreb.
● Cuba: President- Raul Castro; Capital -Havana.
● Czech Republic: President- Vaclav Klaus; Prime Minister -Jan Fischer; Capital-Prague.
● Denmark: Queen - Margrethe II; Prime Minister- Lars Lokke Rasmussen; Capital - Copenhagen.
● Ecuador: President- Rafael Correa; Capital-Quito.
● Egypt: President - Mohamed Hussein Tantawi (Acting); Capital-Cairo.
● Finland: President - Ms. Tarja Halonen; Prime Minister - Matti Vanhanen; Capital-Helsinki.
● France: President- Nicolas Sarkozy; Prime Minister - Francois Fillon; Capital- Paris.
● Germany: President - Horst Koehler; Chancellor - Ms. Angela Merkel; Capital-Berlin.
● Guyana: President - Bharrat Jagdeo; Prime Minister - Samuel Hinds; Capital- Georgetown.
● Greece: President – Karolos Papoulias; Prime Minister – George Papandreou; Capital - Athens.
● Hungary: President- Pal Schmitt; PRIME MINISTER - Viktor Orban; Capital- Budapest.
● Indonesia: President - Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono; Capital- Jakarta.
● Iran: President - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; Capital- Teheran.
● Iraq: President -Jalai Talabani; Prime Minister - Nuri al-Maliki, Capital- Baghdad.
● Ireland: President- Ms. Mary McAleese; Prime Minister - Brian Cowen, Capital- Dublin.
● Israel: President - Shimon Peres; PRIME MINISTER - Benjamin Netanyahu; Capital- Jerusalem.
● Italy: President - Georgio Napolitano; Prime Minister- Silvio Berlusconi; Capital- Rome.
● Japan: Emperor- Akihito; Prime Minister: Naoto Kan; Capital- Tokyo.
● Jordan: King - Abdullah II; Prime Minister-Nader al-Dahabi; Capital- Amman.
● Kazakhstan: President - Nursultan A. Nazarbayev; Prime Minister – Karim Masimov; Capital- Astana.
● Kenya: President - Mwai Kibaki; Prime Minister - Raila Odinga; Capital - Nairobi.
● Korea, North: President – Marshal Kim Jong II; Prime Minister – Hong Song Nam;
Capital- Pyongyang.
● Korea, South: President-, Lee Myung-Bak; Prime Minister - Kim Hwang-sik; Capital -
Seoul.
● Kuwait: Emir - Sheikh Sabah ai-Ahmad al-Sabah; Capital - Kuwait.
● Kyrgyzstan: President (Interim) – Kurmanbek Bakiyey; Prime Minister - Daniyar Usenov
Capital - Bishkek.
● Madagascar: President - Andy Rajoelina; Prime Minister - Eugene Mangalaza; Capital-
Antananarivo.
● Malaysia: King - T. S. S. Syed Putra Jamalullail; Prime Minister- Najib Tun Razak; Capital-Kuala Lumpur.
● Maldives: President - Mohammed "Anni" Nasheed; Capital - Male.
● Mauritius: President - Anerood Jugnauth; Prime Minister - Navinchandra Ramgoolam; Capital - Port Louis.
● Mexico: President – Felipe Calderon; Capital – Mexico City.
● Mongolia: President - Nambaryn Enkhbayar; Prime Minister - Sukhbaatar Batblod; Capital - Ulan Bator.
● Montenegro: President - Filip Vujanovic; Prime Minister-Milo Dukanovic; Capital – Podgorica
● Morocco: King - Mohammed VI; Prime Minister - Abbas El Fassi; Capital - Rabat.
● Myanmar (Burma) : Head of Govt. : Gen. Than Shwe; Capital - Nyapidaw.
● Nepal: President - Dr. Ram Baran Yadav; Prime Minister – Jhala Nath Khanal; Capital -Kathmandu.
● Netherlands: Queen - Beatrix; Capital-Amsterdam.
● New Zealand: Governor-General – Anand Satyanand; PrimeMinister - John Key; Capital-
Wellington.
● Nigeria: President - Goodluck Jonathan; Capital - Abuja.
● Norway: King - Harald V; Prime Minister – Jens Stoltenberg; Capital - Oslo.
● Pakistan: President - Asif Ali Zardari; Prime Minister - Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani; Capital -Islamabad. .
● Panama: President - Ricardo Martenelli; Capital - Panama City.
● Paraguay: President - Fernando Lugo; Capital – Asuncion
● Peru: President - Alan Garcia; Prime Minister -Javier Velasquez; Capital- Lima.
● Philippines: President - Ms. Gloria Macapagal- Arroyo; Capital - Manila.
● Poland: President - Lech Kaczynski; Prime Minister- Donald Tusk; Capital- Warsaw.
● Portugal: President - Amibal Cavaco Silva; Prime Minister - Jose Socrates; Capital-
Lisbon.
● Romania: President - Traian Basecue; Prime Minister - Emil Boc; Capital - Bucharest.
● Russia: President - Dmitry Medvedev; Prime Minister - Vladimir Putin; Capital - Moscow.
● Rwanda: President - Paul Kagame; Prime Minister - Bernard Makuza; Capital -Kigali.
● Saudi Arabia : King - Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud; Capital- Riyadh.
● Serbia: President - Boris Tadic; Prime Minister - Mirko Cvetkovic; Capital - Belgrade.
● Singapore: President - S. R. Nathan; PRIME MINISTER - Lee Hsien Loong; Capital - Singapore.
● Slovakia: President - Ivan Gasparovic; Prime Minister - Robert Fico; Capital-Bratislava.
● South Africa : President- Jacob Zuma; Capital-Cape Town (Legislative) and Tshwane
(Formerly Pretoria) (Administrative).
● Spain: King - Juan Carlos I; Prime Minister-Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero; Capital -Madrid.
● Sri Lanka: President - Mahinda Rajapaksa; Prime Minister - – D.M. Jayaratne; Capital- Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte (Colombo).
● Sudan: President - Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir; Capital - Khartoum.
● Sweden: King - Carl XVI Gustaf; PRIME MINISTER – Fredrik Reinfeldt; Capital - Stockholm.
● Switzerland: President - Hans-Rudolf Merz; Capital – Berne
● Syria: President - Bashar Al-Assad; Prime Minister - Muhammad Naji al-Otari; Capital- Damascus.
● Taiwan: President - Ma Ying-jeou; Prime Minister -Wu Den-yih; Capital – Taipei.
● Turkey: President - Abdullah Gul; Prime Minister - Recep Tayyip Erdogan; Capital- Ankara.
● Ukraine: President - Victor Yushchenko; Prime Minister- Mykola Azarov; Capital- Kiev.
● United Arab Emirates: Prime Minister- Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum;
Capital- Abu Dhabi.
● United Kingdom: Queen - Elizabeth II; Prime Minister - Gordon Brown; Capital - London.
● United States of America: President – Barack Obama; Secretary of State -Ms. Hillary Clinton; Capital- Washington, D.C.
● Uzbekistan: President - Islam A. Karimov; Prime Minister - Shavkat Mirziyayev; Capital- Tashkent.
● Venezuela: President - Hugo Chavez Frias; Capital - Caracas.
● Vietnam: President - Nguyen Minh Triet; Prime Minister - Nguyen Tan Dung; Capital-
Hanoi.
● Zimbabwe: President - Robert G. Mugabe; PRIME MINISTER - Morgan Tsvangirai; Capital- Harare.
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