Countries That Start With X

Places Checked 9 Oct 2026

Looking for countries that start with X? No country starts with X. None of the 193 United Nations member states or the two UN observer states has a common English name beginning with X. Below are the countries with X elsewhere in their names, capital cities and other places that do start with X.

There are no countries starting with X, and no capital cities either, so this page is honest about coming up empty. X is simply rare at the start of English place names.

That does not leave X useless for geography games. Many Chinese cities begin with X, such as Xian and Xiamen, and the cities page has a full list of them. You can also look for countries with X inside the name, like Mexico and Luxembourg, which works well when a game only asks for the letter somewhere in the word.

Countries with X in the name

Luxembourg
Mexico

Big cities that start with X

City	Country	Population
Xian	China	9.6 million
Xiamen	China	4.6 million
Xining	China	1.7 million
Xiangyang	China	1.3 million
Xuchang	China	1.3 million
Xuzhou	China	1.3 million
Xinyang	China	1.2 million
Xuhui	China	1.1 million
Xinxiang	China	1.0 million
Xianyang	China	1.0 million
Xiangtan	China	959,303
Xiaogan	China	908,266

More cities that start with X

More that start with X

Questions people ask

Is there a country that starts with X?

No. No UN member or observer state has a common English name starting with X.

Which countries have the letter X in their name?

Luxembourg, Mexico.

Source: the 193 United Nations member states plus the two UN observer states (Vatican City and Palestine). Capitals, regions and land areas come from the open mledoze countries dataset; populations from the GeoNames database. Country names use common English short forms.

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