capital city

A capital city is the municipality designated as the official seat of a country's or region's government, typically hosting its central administrative, legislative, and often judicial institutions.

Aliases (12)

• state capital ×68
• provincial capital ×52
• regional capital ×13
• national capital ×11
• seat of legislature ×9
• former capital ×8
• former national capital ×8
• seat of parliament ×8
• administrative capital ×2
• federal city ×1
• legislative capital ×1
• national capitol ×1

Instances (393)

• Brussels, Belgium
• Lagos ("state capital")
• Bangkok
• Abu Dhabi
• Algiers
• Jackson, Mississippi ("state capital")
• Semarang ("provincial capital")
• Simferopol ("regional capital")
• River City ("provincial capital")
• Ankara ("national capital")
• Milan ("regional capital")
• Valladolid ("provincial capital")
• Tunis
• Madison, Wisconsin, United States ("state capital")
• Parliament House, Canberra ("seat of parliament")
• Cardiff
• Tripoli
• Luanda
• Copenhagen
• Athens
• Mauritania
• Doha
• Mogadishu
• Port Blair
• Naha
• Budapest
• Mozambique
• Kuwait City
• Nouakchott
• Dakar
• Old Royal Palace of Greece ("seat of parliament")
• Prague
• Helsinki
• Brisbane ("state capital")
• Baghdad ("national capital")
• Taipei, Taiwan
• Brazzaville
• Damascus ("national capital")
• Stockholm
• Perth ("state capital")
• Victoria, British Columbia ("provincial capital")
• Adelaide ("state capital")
• Canberra
• Bogotá
• Amman
• Muscat
• San Salvador ("national capital")
• Austin ("state capital")
• Addis Ababa
• Sanaʽa
• Hobart ("state capital")
• Panama City
• Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada ("provincial capital")
• Manama
• Guatemala City
• Nicaragua
• Lansing, Michigan ("state capital")
• Edinburgh
• Latvia
• Moscow
• Bratislava
• Managua
• Carson City
• Kyiv
• Raleigh ("state capital")
• Wellington
• London, England
• Dominican Republic
• Bern
• Nara ("former national capital")
• Halifax ("provincial capital")
• Nashville ("state capital")
• Topeka, Kansas ("state capital")
• Seoul
• Tbilisi
• Hamilton, Bermuda
• Santiago
• Little Rock, Arkansas ("state capital")
• Shenyang ("provincial capital")
• Tallinn
• Riga
• Munich
• Cusco ("former national capital")
• Hanover
• Sarajevo
• Suva, Fiji
• Salt Lake City ("state capital")
• Lucknow ("state capital")
• Medan ("provincial capital")
• Washington, D.C.
• Tegucigalpa
• Beijing
• Edmonton ("provincial capital")
• Makassar ("regional capital")
• Babylon ("former capital")
• Salonika ("regional capital")
• El Capitolio ("national capitol")
• Charlotte Amalie
• Cape Town ("legislative capital")
• Belgrade
• Recife ("state capital")
• Pyongyang
• Ulaanbaatar
• Des Moines, Iowa ("state capital")
• Boise, Idaho, United States ("state capital")
• Parliament Building, Harare ("seat of parliament")
• East Berlin
• Belfast
• Atlanta ("state capital")
• Dhaka
• Lima
• Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
• Grozny
• Augusta, Maine ("state capital")
• Manf ("former national capital")
• Jefferson City, Missouri ("state capital")
• Nicosia
• Białystok
• Reykjavík, Iceland
• Salem, Oregon ("state capital")
• Paramaribo
• San Lázaro Legislative Palace ("seat of parliament")
• Port-au-Prince
• Saint Helier
• Jakarta
• Nanjing ("provincial capital")
• Changsha ("provincial capital")
• Saint Peter Port
• San José
• Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
• Caesarea Maritima ("provincial capital")
• Banten
• Providence ("state capital")
• Sofia
• Quetta ("provincial capital")
• Lisbon
• Zagreb
• Bucharest
• Lusaka, Zambia
• Suriname
• Ljubljana
• Kathmandu
• Saipan
• Digges farm, Prince George’s County, Maryland
• Skopje
• Dili
• Tirana
• Podgorica
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States ("state capital")
• Pristina
• Sucre
• United States Capitol Complex ("seat of legislature")
• Brasília
• New Delhi, India
• La Paz ("administrative capital")
• Kazan
• Helena ("state capital")
• Bakhchisarai ("former capital")
• Trenton, New Jersey ("state capital")
• Oslo
• Augusta Treverorum ("provincial capital")
• Stuttgart ("state capital")
• Rome
• Düsseldorf ("state capital")
• Cairo
• CUHAV
• Dili, Timor-Leste
• Monrovia
• Male
• Lincoln, Nebraska ("state capital")
• Ernő Gerő
• Nineveh ("former national capital")
• Port of Spain
• Havana, Cuba
• Sapporo
• Kampala
• Guinea
• Samsun ("provincial capital")
• Columbia, South Carolina ("state capital")
• Togo
• Moscow City Duma building ("seat of legislature")
• Moscow City Duma building on Strastnoy Boulevard ("seat of legislature")
• United States Capitol ("seat of legislature")
• Ottawa
• Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America ("state capital")
• Montpelier, Vermont ("state capital")
• Cheyenne ("state capital")
• Minsk
• Sacramento ("state capital")
• Pontianak ("provincial capital")
• Douglas
• Palikir
• Arusha, Tanzania ("regional capital")
• Kuala Lumpur
• Shillong
• Madrid
• Hagåtña, Guam
• Tanta ("regional capital")
• Beirut
• Spanish Town ("former national capital")
• Parliament Building of Quebec ("seat of legislature")
• Port Louis
• Cockburn Town
• ancient city of Memphis ("former national capital")
• Chief Neharawa
• Montevideo
• Libreville
• Windhoek
• Calcutta ("former national capital")
• Gaborone
• Phnom Penh
• León ("provincial capital")
• Frankfort, Kentucky ("state capital")
• Vientiane
• Murcia ("provincial capital")
• Olympia ("state capital")
• La Serena ("provincial capital")
• Astana
• Iqaluit
• Valletta
• Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States ("state capital")
• Legislature Building ("seat of legislature")
• Tehran
• Pretoria, South Africa
• Buenos Aires
• Capitolio Nacional ("seat of parliament")
• Peshawar ("provincial capital")
• Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada ("provincial capital")
• Kinshasa
• Albany ("state capital")
• Caracas
• Kabul
• Canton ("provincial capital")
• Ngerulmud ("national capital")
• Tokyo
• Berlin
• Paris
• Islamabad
• The Gathering Place ("state capital")
• St. John’s ("provincial capital")
• Majuro
• Charlottetown ("provincial capital")
• Indianapolis ("state capital")
• Córdoba, Argentina ("provincial capital")
• Fredericton ("provincial capital")
• Johor Bahru ("state capital")
• Jos ("state capital")
• Yola ("state capital")
• San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca ("provincial capital")
• Yenagoa ("state capital")
• Hartford, Connecticut, United States ("state capital")
• Maiduguri ("state capital")
• George Town
• Kuching ("state capital")
• Santa Fe, Argentina ("provincial capital")
• Gombe ("state capital")
• Kota Kinabalu ("state capital")
• Concord, New Hampshire ("state capital")
• Hanoi
• Sejm complex in Warsaw ("seat of legislature")
• Panaji ("state capital")
• Minna ("regional capital")
• Nairobi
• Saigon ("former capital")
• Hangzhou ("provincial capital")
• Huelva ("provincial capital")
• San Juan
• Sokoto ("regional capital")
• St. George's, Grenada
• Nanchang ("provincial capital")
• Apia
• Ilorin ("state capital")
• Dehradun ("state capital")
• GWW
• Lahore ("provincial capital")
• Hartford ("state capital")
• Erbil ("provincial capital")
• Christiansborg Palace ("seat of parliament")
• Accra
• Charleston, West Virginia ("state capital")
• Mexico City
• Bamako
• Edo ("former capital")
• Ouagadougou
• Jerusalem
• Conakry
• Praia
• Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
• Maputo ("national capital")
• Tarawa Atoll
• Vienna
• Freetown
• Scottish Parliament Building ("seat of legislature")
• Denver, Colorado, United States ("state capital")
• City of Hamilton
• Washington, D.C. (administrative base via the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts)
• Karachi ("provincial capital")
• Lomé
• Kingstown
• Niamey
• Banjul
• Qazvin, Iran ("provincial capital")
• Stanley, Falkland Islands
• Quebec City ("provincial capital")
• Bandar Seri Begawan
• King Edward Point
• Samarinda ("provincial capital")
• Bridgetown
• Larissa ("regional capital")
• Riyadh
• Khartoum
• Ṭarābulus
• Tarabulus al-Gharb
• Federal Palace of Switzerland ("seat of parliament")
• Palace of Westminster ("seat of legislature")
• Patna
• Maseru ("national capital")
• Baton Rouge, Louisiana ("state capital")
• Ashgabat
• Manila
• Buildings of the European Parliament ("seat of parliament")
• Thimphu
• Djibouti City
• Turkmenabat ("regional capital")
• town of Balanga ("provincial capital")
• Port Moresby ("national capital")
• Balkanabat ("regional capital")
• Manado ("provincial capital")
• Taiyuan ("provincial capital")
• Jinan ("provincial capital")
• Kendari ("provincial capital")
• Richmond, Virginia ("state capital")
• Bern, Switzerland ("federal city")
• Harrisburg, Pennsylvania ("state capital")
• Utrecht ("provincial capital")
• Tashkent
• Baku
• Georgetown, Guyana
• Naypyidaw
• Bhisho ("provincial capital")
• Castries
• Hamilton
• Warsaw
• Sydney ("state capital")
• Mataram ("former capital")
• Santa Fe, New Mexico ("state capital")
• Belmopan
• Kunming, China ("provincial capital")
• Quito
• Harare
• Gilgit ("regional capital")
• Honiara
• Kigali
• Uyo ("state capital")
• Boston, Massachusetts ("state capital")
• Rabat
• Pekanbaru ("provincial capital")
• St. George's
• State of Berlin
• St. John’s
• America/Managua
• Bandar Lampung ("provincial capital")
• LYBE
• Abuja
• Kazakhstan
• Nuuk
• Columbus, Ohio ("state capital")
• Asmara ("national capital")
• Corte ("former capital")
• Caesarea in Cappadocia ("provincial capital")
• Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte ("administrative capital")
• Dublin
• Poh Pitu ("former capital")
• Kandy ("former capital")
• Bishkek
• Montgomery, Alabama ("state capital")
• Mbabane ("national capital")
• Phoenix ("state capital")
• Stanley
• Douglas, Isle of Man
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Mỹ Tho ("provincial capital")
• Boston is a major city in New England ("state capital")
• Linares ("provincial capital")
• Asunción
• Darwin
• Dushanbe
• Waset ("former national capital")
• Surabaya ("provincial capital")
• Springfield, Illinois ("state capital")
• Corrientes ("provincial capital")