List of civilization abilities in Civ6

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The following is a list of civilization abilities in Civilization VI and its expansions.

Civilization abilities

Ability	Civilization	Effects
Aksumite Legacy	Ethiopian	Improved resource tiles receive +1 Faith for each copy of the resource the city owns. International Trade Routes grant +0.5 Faith for each resource in the origin city. Can purchase Archaeologists and Archaeological Museums with Faith.
All Roads Lead to Rome	Roman	Founded or conquered cities start with a Trading Post and, if within Trade Route range of the Capital, a road to it. Trade Routes generate +1 additional Gold from Roman Trading Posts they pass through.
Amazon	Brazilian	Rainforest tiles provide a +1 adjacency bonus for Campus, Commercial Hub, Holy Site, and Theater Square districts. Owned Rainforests provide +1 Appeal to adjacent tiles, instead of the usual -1.
British Museum	English	Each Archaeological Museum can hold six Artifacts instead of three and can build two Archaeologists instead of one. Archaeological Museums are automatically themed when they have six Artifacts.
Casa da Índia	Portuguese	International Trade Routes can only be sent to cities on the coast or with a Harbor, but gain a +50% increase to all yields. Traders have +50% range over water, and can embark as soon as they are unlocked.
Dharma	Indian	Indian cities receive the Follower Beliefs of all religions with at least one follower in them, not just the majority religion. Indian cities receive the Follower Beliefs of all religions with at least one follower in them, not just the majority religion, and gain +1 Amenity for each religion with at least one follower in them. +2 Spread Religion charges for Missionaries. +100% Religious pressure from Indian Trade Routes.
Dynastic Cycle	Chinese	Eurekas and Inspirations provide an extra 10% of the Science and Culture cost for researching technologies and civics. Completing a Wonder grants a Eureka and Inspiration from that Wonder's era.
Ejército Patriota	Gran Colombian	+1 Movement for all units. Promoting a unit does not end that unit's turn.
Enuma Anu Enlil	Babylonian	Eurekas instantly unlock their respective technologies. -50% Science per turn.
Epic Quest	Sumerian	Capturing a Barbarian Outpost also grants a Tribal Village reward. Levying city-state units costs 50% less Gold.
Founding Fathers	American	Government legacy bonuses accumulate in half the usual number of turns. All Diplomatic policy slots in the current government are converted to Wildcard slots. All Diplomatic policy slots in the current government are converted to Wildcard slots. +1 Diplomatic Favor per turn for each Wildcard slot in the current government.
Four Faces of Peace	Canadian	Cannot declare Surprise Wars or war on city-states. Surprise Wars cannot be declared on Canada. For every 100 Tourism earned, gain 1 Diplomatic Favor. +100% Diplomatic Favor gained from successfully completing Emergencies or Scored Competitions.
Free Imperial Cities	German	Each city can build one more specialty District than the Population limit would normally allow.
Golden Liberty	Polish	Building an Encampment or Fort triggers a Culture Bomb, claiming surrounding tiles. One Military policy slot in all governments is converted into a Wildcard policy slot.
Grand Barays	Khmer	Cities with an Aqueduct receive +1 Amenity, and +1 Faith for every Population. Farms receive +2 Food when adjacent to an Aqueduct, and +1 Faith when adjacent to a Holy Site.
Grand Tour	French	+20% Production towards Medieval, Renaissance and Industrial Era Wonders. Double Tourism from Wonders of any Era.
Great Nusantara	Indonesian	Coast and Lake tiles provide a +0.5 adjacency bonus for Holy Site, Campus, Industrial Zone, and Theater Square districts. Entertainment Complexes built adjacent to a Coast or Lake tile provide +1 Amenity.
Great Turkish Bombard	Ottoman	+30% Production toward Siege units. Siege units gain +5 Combat Strength when attacking defensible districts. Conquering a city doesn't cause that city to lose Population. +1 Amenity and +4 Loyalty per turn for cities not founded by the Ottomans.
Grote Rivieren	Dutch	Rivers provide a +2 adjacency bonus for Campus, Theater Square, and Industrial Zone districts. Building a Harbor triggers a Culture Bomb, claiming surrounding tiles. Rivers provide a +2 adjacency bonus for Campus, Theater Square, and Industrial Zone districts. Building a Harbor triggers a Culture Bomb, claiming surrounding tiles. +50% Production towards the Dam district and Flood Barrier building.
Hallstatt Culture	Gallic	Mines gain +1 Culture, provide a +0.5 adjacency bonus for all districts and trigger a Culture Bomb when built, claiming surrounding unowned tiles. Specialty districts do not receive an adjacency bonus from other districts and cannot be built next to the City Center.
Hellenistic Fusion	Macedonian	Conquering a city grants a free Eureka for each Encampment and Campus district in the conquered city and a free Inspiration for each Holy Site and Theater Square district.
Isibongo	Zulu	Capturing a city will upgrade the capturing unit, as long as the necessary civics are unlocked: from a normal unit into a Corps or Fleet, and from a Corps or Fleet into an Army or Armada. Cities with a garrisoned unit gain +3 Loyalty per turn, increasing to +5 Loyalty if the garrisoned unit is a Corps or Army.
Iteru	Egyptian	+15% Production towards districts and wonders built next to a River. Floodplains do not prevent placement of districts and wonders. +15% Production towards districts and wonders built next to a River. Districts, improvements and units are immune to damage from floods.
Knarr	Norwegian	Norwegian units gain the ability to enter Ocean tiles with Shipbuilding, instead of Cartography, and pay no additional Movement costs to embark or disembark. Naval melee units can heal in neutral territory.
Land Down Under	Australian	+3 Housing in coastal cities. Building a Pasture triggers a Culture Bomb, claiming surrounding tiles. Campus, Commercial Hub, Holy Site, and Theater Square districts gain +1 to their yields in tiles with Charming Appeal, and +3 in tiles with Breathtaking Appeal.
Legend of the Five Suns	Aztec	Can spend Builder charges to complete 20% of a district's Production cost.
Mana	Māori	Starts with Sailing and Shipbuilding unlocked and the ability to enter Ocean tiles. +5 Combat Strength and +2 Movement for embarked units. Unimproved Woods and Rainforests grant +1 Production, increasing to +2 Production with Mercantilism and +3 Production with Conservation. +1 Food from Fishing Boats. Building a Fishing Boat triggers a Culture Bomb, claiming surrounding tiles. Resources cannot be harvested. Great Writers cannot be earned.
Mayab	Mayan	Cities do not receive additional Housing from being adjacent to fresh water or coast. Cities gain +1 Amenity for each Luxury Resource adjacent to the City Center. Farms grant +1 Housing, +1 Production if adjacent to an Observatory, and +1 Gold.
Mediterranean Colonies	Phoenician	Starts with the Eureka for Writing. Coastal cities founded by Phoenicia and in the same continent as their Capital always have full Loyalty. Settlers receive +2 Movement and Sight while embarked, and pay no Movement costs to embark or disembark.
Meiji Restoration	Japanese	Districts receive a +1 adjacency bonus for each adjacent district, instead of +0.5.
Mit'a	Incan	Citizens may work Mountain tiles. Mountain tiles provide +2 Production, and +1 Food for each adjacent Terrace Farm. Mountain tiles provide an additional +1 Production when Inca reaches the Industrial Era.
Mother Russia	Russian	Founded cities start with five additional tiles. Tundra tiles provide +1 Faith and +1 Production, in addition to their usual yields. Founded cities start with five additional tiles. Tundra tiles provide +1 Faith and +1 Production, in addition to their usual yields. Units are immune to damage from Blizzards. +100% damage from Blizzards inside Russian territory to civilizations at war with Russia.
Nîhithaw	Cree	Gains +1 Trade Route capacity and a free Trader with Pottery. Unclaimed tiles within three tiles of a Cree city come under Cree control when a Trader first moves into them.
Nine Dragon River Delta	Vietnamese	Land specialty Districts can only be built on Woods, Rainforest or Marsh tiles. Buildings on these features receive additional yields: +1 Culture in Woods, +1 Science in Rainforest, and +1 Production in Marsh. Can plant Woods with Medieval Faires, instead of Conservation.
Nkisi	Kongolese	Relics, Artifacts and Sculptures grant +2 Food, +2 Production, +1 Faith, and +4 Gold. The Palace has four extra slots for Great Works. +50% Great Artist, Great Musician, and Great Merchant points gained from all sources.
Nobel Prize	Swedish	Gains 50 Diplomatic Favor whenever a Great Person is earned. +1 Great Engineer points from Factories and +1 Great Scientist points from Universities. Sweden's presence in the game adds three unique World Congress competitions in the Industrial Era.
Örtöö	Mongolian	Sending a Trade Route immediately creates a Trading Post in the destination city, instead of when the Trade Route is completed. Gains an extra level of Diplomatic Visibility with civilizations that have a Mongolian Trading Post. +6 Combat Strength for all units for each level of Diplomatic Visibility Mongolia has over the other civilization, instead of the usual +3 Combat Strength.
Pearl of the Danube	Hungarian	+50% Production for districts and buildings built across a river from a City Center.
People of the Steppe	Scythian	Building a light cavalry unit or Saka Horse Archer grants a free second copy of that unit.
Plato's Republic	Greek	Gains an additional Wildcard policy slot in all Governments.
Satrapies	Persian	Gains +1 Trade Route capacity with Political Philosophy. Domestic Trade Routes provide +2 Gold and +1 Culture. Roads built inside Persian territory are one level more advanced than usual.
Scottish Enlightenment	Scottish	Happy cities gain +5% Science and +5% Production, and generate +1 Great Scientist point in their Campuses and +1 Great Engineer point in their Industrial Zones. Ecstatic cities double these bonuses.
Songs of the Jeli	Malian	City Centers receive +1 Faith and +1 Food for every adjacent Desert and Desert Hills tile. Mines receive -1 Production and +4 Gold. May purchase Commercial Hub buildings with Faith. -30% Production towards buildings and units.
Strength in Unity	Georgian	Dedications chosen at the beginning of a Golden Age or Heroic Age also grant their Normal Age bonuses towards improving Era Score, in addition to their regular bonuses. +50% Production towards walls.
Ta-Seti	Nubian	+30% Production toward Ranged units. Ranged units gain +50% combat experience. +1 Production for Mines over strategic resources, and +2 Gold for Mines over bonus and luxury resources.
Taxis	Byzantine	+3 Combat and Religious Strength for all units for each Holy City converted to Byzantium's Religion (including Byzantium's own Holy City). Byzantium's Religion is spread to nearby cities when a unit from an enemy civilization or city-state is defeated. +1 Great Prophet point from Holy Sites.
The Last Prophet	Arabian	Automatically receives the final Great Prophet when the next-to-last one is claimed (unless one has already been earned through other means). +1 Science per foreign city following Arabia's Religion.
Three Kingdoms	Korean	Farms receive +1 Food and Mines receive +1 Science for each adjacent Seowon.
Toqui	Mapuche	Cities with an established Governor gain +5% Culture, +5% Production, and +10% combat experience towards all units trained in the city. These numbers are tripled in cities not founded by the Mapuche. All cities within 9 tiles of a city with your Governor gain +4 Loyalty per turn towards your civilization.
Treasure Fleet	Spanish	May form Fleets and Armadas with Mercantilism, instead of Nationalism and Mobilization. Trade Routes receive 3 Gold, 2 Faith and 1 Production. Trade Routes between cities on different continents gain triple these yields. Cities not on your original Capital's continent receive 25% extra Production towards Districts and a Builder when founded.
Workshop of the World	English	Iron and Coal Mines accumulate +2 resources per turn. +100% Production towards Military Engineers. Military Engineers receive +2 charges. Buildings that provide additional yields when powered receive +4 of their respective yields. +20% Production towards Industrial Zone buildings. Harbor buildings grant +10 Strategic Resource stockpiles.

Added in the Rise and Fall expansion pack.

Added in the Gathering Storm expansion pack.