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capital cities A capital city or capital is the municipality holding primary status in a country, state, province, department, or other subnational entity, usually as its seat of the government. A capital is typically a city that physically encompasses the ...

National capitals

List of national capitals This is a list of national capitals, including capitals of territories and dependencies, non-sovereign states including associated states and entities whose sovereignty is disputed. The capitals included on this list are those associated with ...

List of national capitals by latitude This is a list of official national capitals by latitude, including territories and dependencies, non-sovereign states including associated states and entities whose sovereignty is disputed. Sovereign states are shown in bold text. See also ...

List of national capitals by population This is a list of national capitals, ordered according to population. Capitals of dependent territories and disputed territories are marked in ''italics''. The population statistics given refer only to the official capital area, and do not inclu ...

List of national capitals by area This is a list of national capitals, ordered according to total area. Capitals of dependent territories and disputed territories are marked in ''italics''. The area of the capital city only includes the area occupied by the city and not the wider ...

List of capital cities by elevation This is a list of national capitals ordered by elevation. Higher elevations typically have social, economic, and architectural effects on cities, in particular colder temperatures in winter. Low elevation cities are often seaports or ar ...

List of national capitals serving as administrative divisions The table below lists capitals serving as administrative divisions by country. Countries where the capital is a first-level subdivision Countries where the capital is a second-level subdivision Countries where the capital is a third-level s ...

List of former national capitals Throughout the world there are many cities that were once national capitals but no longer have that status because the country ceased to exist, the capital was moved, or the capital city was renamed. This is a list of such cities, sorted by co ...

* List of countries whose capital is not their largest city *

List of purpose-built national capitals This is a list of capital cities that were specially designed, planned, and built to be a national or regional capital. Built Currently proposed or under construction Former proposals and attempts * Welthauptstadt Germania was th ...

List of national capitals situated on an international border This is a list of capital city, capital cities of sovereign states that share a border with another sovereign state. Current capitals See also * :Capitals for other lists of capitals References

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Subnational capitals

List of capitals outside the territories they serve There are many cases where a subnational territory (a federated state, municipality, or other unit) is governed from a capital city that is not itself a part of that territory. In most of these cases, the city itself is constituted as a sepa ...

List of purpose-built capitals of country subdivisions This is a list of purpose-built capitals of country subdivisions. List See also * Lists of capitals Below is an index of pages containing lists of capital cities. National capitals *List of national capitals * List of national capitals ...

Countries

List of capitals in Australia There are eight capital cities in Australia, each of which functions as the seat of government for the state or territory in which it is located. One of these, Canberra, is also the national capital. Section 125 of the Constitution of Australi ...

List of capitals of subdivisions of Brazil This is a list of the cities that are or have been considered capitals of one of the country subdivisions of Brazil. For the national capital see: Capital of Brazil. State capitals Acre ''created out of Amazonas'' * Porto Acre, present Xapur ...

List of capitals in China The scope of this list is limited to capital cities of first-level administrative divisions such as provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities, and special administrative regions, also including sub-provincial cities which are governed by ...

List of state and union territory capitals in India India is a federal constitutional republic governed under a parliamentary system consisting of 28 states and 8 union territories. All states, as well as the union territories of Jammu and Kashmir, Puducherry and the National Capital Territory ...

List of capitals in Japan A prefectural capital is a city where a prefectural government and assembly is located. Japan In Japan, a prefectural capital is officially called , but the term is also used (). List of Japanese prefectural capitals Notes: ¹ Non-capitals ...

List of capitals in Malaysia The following is a list of capitals in Malaysia. It mainly describes the capitals of the states, districts, as well as the national capitals of Malaysia. National capital The national capital of Malaysia is Kuala Lumpur. It remains the primary cu ...

List of capitals of states of Mexico The states of Mexico are first-level administrative territorial entities of the country of Mexico, which is officially named United Mexican States. There are 32 federal entities in Mexico (31 states and the capital, Mexico City, as a separate ent ...

List of capitals in Pakistan This is a list of capital cities of Pakistan and its current and former provinces, territories, and states. National capital Islamabad officially became the capital of Pakistan on 14 August 1967, exactly 20 years after the country's independen ...

List of capitals in South Korea This is a list of capital cities, including the legislature or seat of government, of South Korea and its current provinces and provincial-cities. National capital Seoul has been the capital of South Korea since the Division of Korea in 1945 ...

List of capitals in the United States This is a list of capital cities of the United States, including places that serve or have served as federal, state, insular area, territorial, colonial and Native American capitals. Washington has been the federal capital of the United Sta ...

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