Western Capital may refer to:
China
* The former name of
Xi'an
Xi'an is the list of capitals in China, capital of the Chinese province of Shaanxi. A sub-provincial city on the Guanzhong plain, the city is the third-most populous city in Western China after Chongqing and Chengdu, as well as the most populou ...
, called Xijing during the Han, Sui and Tang dynasties
* The former name of
Luoyang
Luoyang ( zh, s=洛阳, t=洛陽, p=Luòyáng) is a city located in the confluence area of the Luo River and the Yellow River in the west of Henan province, China. Governed as a prefecture-level city, it borders the provincial capital of Zheng ...
, called Xijing during the Later Jin of the Five Dynasties period
* The former name of
Datong
Datong is a prefecture-level city in northern Shanxi Province, China. It is located in the Datong Basin at an elevation of and borders Inner Mongolia to the north and west and Hebei to the east. As of the 2020 census, it had a population o ...
, called Xijing during the (Khitan) Liao and (Jurchen) Jin dynasties
* The former name of
Lingwu
Lingwu (, Xiao'erjing: لِئٍوُ شِ) is a county-level city of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Southwest China, it is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Yinchuan. It is the most important industrial city of Ningxia. ...
* The former name of
Fengxiang
Fengxiang District (), formerly, Fengxiang County and its ancient name is Yong county (雍县), is a district administered by Baoji City in the west of Shaanxi province, China. The county covers an area of and as of 2004 had a population of 510, ...
* The former name of
Linjiang
Linjiang (; listed as Linkiang on old maps) is a county-level city in Baishan, Jilin, China. It is located to the east of Tonghua, and borders North Korea along the Yalu River.
Culture
During 1953–76, there was a total of twenty-one Chinese ...
* The former name of
Chengdu
Chengdu; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ; Chinese postal romanization, previously Romanization of Chinese, romanized as Chengtu. is the capital city of the Chinese province of Sichuan. With a ...
, called Xijing by a short-lived successor state to the Ming
Japan
* Another name of
Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi
270px, Yamaguchi City Hall
270px, Aerial photograph of central Yamaguchi
is the capital city of Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 191,470 in 88,799 households and a population density of 190 persons per km ...
, by contrast with Kyoto "Capital"
* Another name of
Kyoto
Kyoto ( or ; Japanese language, Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan's largest and most populous island of Honshu. , the city had a population of 1.46 million, making it t ...
, by contrast with Tokyo "Eastern capital"
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Nishikyō-ku, Kyoto
is one of the eleven wards in the city of Kyoto, in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. Its name means "west capital ward" and it is situated on the western edge of the city, to the south of center. The ward was established on October 1, 1976, after it wa ...
, a ward located in western Kyoto
Korean peninsula
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Pyongyang
Pyongyang () is the Capital city, capital and largest city of North Korea, where it is sometimes labeled as the "Capital of the Revolution" (). Pyongyang is located on the Taedong River about upstream from its mouth on the Yellow Sea. Accordi ...
, was changed to "Seogyeong" by Wang's Goryeo on the Korean peninsula
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Cheongju
Cheongju (; ) is the capital and largest list of cities in South Korea, city of North Chungcheong Province in South Korea. The 'Cheong' in the name of Chungcheong Province is the Cheong of Cheongju.
History
Cheongju has been an important prov ...
, was one of the five small capitals of Unified Silla on the Korean peninsula
Vietnam
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Ho Chi Minh City
Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) ('','' TP.HCM; ), commonly known as Saigon (; ), is the most populous city in Vietnam with a population of around 14 million in 2025.
The city's geography is defined by rivers and canals, of which the largest is Saigo ...
, formerly called "Saigon"
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Thanh Hóa
Thanh Hóa () is the capital of Thanh Hóa Province. The city is situated in the east of the province on the Ma River (Sông Mã), about 150 kilometers (93 miles) south of capital Hanoi and 1560 kilometers (969 miles) north of Ho Chi Minh Cit ...
, western capital of Lê dynasty
See also
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Beijing (disambiguation)
Beijing, literally "northern capital" in Chinese, is the capital city of the People's Republic of China.
Beijing may also refer to:
Historical capitals
* Taiyuan, formerly Běijīng or Běidū, capital city under the Tang Dynasty and Later Five ...
— Beijing means "Northern Capital".
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Nanjing (disambiguation)
Nanjing means "southern capital" and is the name of the current capital of Jiangsu Province and a former capital of China.
Nanjing, and romanizations Nanking, Nan-ching, and Nankin may also refer to:
Places
* Nanjing (Liao Dynasty), the histori ...
— Nanjing means "Southern Capital".
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Dongjing (disambiguation) Dongjing may refer to:
Eastern Capital (東京)
* Luoyang, eastern capital of Sui and Tang dynasties
* Kaifeng, eastern and main capital of the Northern Song dynasty
* Shangjing Longquanfu, or Dongjing
Other uses
* Dongjing, Changsha (), a subdis ...
— Dongjing means "Eastern Capital".
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Shangjing (disambiguation) — Shangjing means "Supreme Capital".
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