Talk:Capital city

TOKYO IS NOT A CITY!

Remove it because it's just stupid. It's an administrative region and if you read the link that redirects it to the Wiki Tokyo site, it specifical says it's not a city! Change it if you want the article to be correct.

-G

東京都. 都 is a 'large city'.... (-__-") 222.165.73.184 (talk) 19:02, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Capital- Architecturally Speaking

I followed a link in the Secular Medieval Architecture section and ended-up with the political definition of capital. For those of you who have suffered the same fate, here is the correct link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_(architecture)

Although, I don't see what is circular about definining a political or economic capital. It is the major (jointly or alone) or sole location of decision making processes. Or perhaps I am being overly simplistic? Also, I tend to think not only in terms of modern society, but also ancient and medieval as well.

Brendan Sullivan

Definition of "capital"

Can a capital be the entirety of an entity? — Instantnood 04:01 Mar 2 2005 (UTC)

I suppose so, in the case of small nations like Vatican City, Singapore, etc. Funnyhat 01:17, 23 May 2005 (UTC)

Rio de Janeiro

The city of Rio de Janeiro was never corrupt. The Brazilian politicians wanted to move away from the eyes of the population, when they moved to Brasília. The politicians were the ones corrupt in that case not the city itself.

it was never corrupt no matter what anyone says.

Political capital

I noticed Political capital redirects here. I was searching for the things politicians spend, such as when they nominate Supreme Court Justices who are close friends. Wonder why this is not covered? Is it a neologism? [[User:JonMoore|— —JonMoore 20:24, 29 May 2006 (UTC)]] 02:38, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Largest capital cities

Some of the largest cities in the world are not national capitals. The largest capital cities in each continent, by urban/metropolitan area are: South America: Buenos Aires (13,349,000) Buenos Aires is the capital of Argentina. The biggest city of South America was supposed to be São Paulo... Diotti 02:04, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

That portion of the article was referring to a national capital, so Sao Paulo, as a state capital, would not be applicable. I'll clarify that in the article. - Hinto 03:17, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

Can someone make a disambiguation page?

I came here from political philosopy section, looking for capital (economic). There are different meaning of capital and it certainly deserve disambiguation page. I don't know how though. FWBOarticle

• There already is a link at the top of the article to a disambiguation page. - Hinto 22:30, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Stop calling Ottawa a neutral city.

Stop it. Ottawa, the capital of Canada, is in the province of Ontario. It does not have its own jurisdiction, thus it is not a "neutral" city. This is the third time I have corrected the article because of this. Jareand 06:06, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

My guess is that what was meant by "neutral city" in the case of Ottawa is merely that it was chosen as the site of the capital city as a political compromise owing to its location near the border between the two dominant provinces at the time. I don't think "neutral city" is a political geography term that has any specific meaning with regard to local government arrangements; it's just two descriptive words. =J //Big Adamsky 08:06, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

The Map Is Wrong

I can find at least one problem with that map. The capital of Trinidad and Tobago (Port of Spain) is not it's largest city. The largest city in the country is Chaguanas (pop. 67,433), next is San Fernando (pop. 55,419) and then is Port of Spain with a population of 49,031. Jvlm.123 16:07, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Actualy, there is at least an other big mistake: Canada. The federal capital, Ottawa, with a population of 859,704 is only the 4th largest city in Canada, after Toronto (2,481,494), Montréal (1,583,590) and Calgary (991,759).Boris Crépeau 11:19, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Russia in Europe

In many cases, It is appropriate to list Russia and especially Moscow as European. I do not beleive, however, that if I was looking for the largest European capital, Moscow would be quite the kind of answer for which I was looking. I was looking for that information, actually. I think it's London, but I'm not sure. Euroster 23:43, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Where did these 14 million originate? The London page says 9 million, the Moscow page says 10 million (in fact, the Moscow number has been claimed to be underestimated by at least half a million, possibly by two million). I suppose the London figure includes suburbs, but Moscow too has those. I am reverting. --Pan Gerwazy 14:30, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Could we stop the racism and bigotry here? Mosocw is the largest city in Europe and get over it. You lose.

-G —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 134.117.157.7 (talk) 22:30, 18 January 2007 (UTC).

Seoul

The government of South Korea announced in 2004 it would move its capital from Seoul to Yeongi-Gongju — even though the word Seoul itself means "capital" in the Korean language.

1. I don't think this is true. Seoul will stay the capital of Korea. 2. I doubt Seoul means "capital" in the Korean language. I asked a Korean and she confirmed 'soo-do'.

Who can confirm this?

Cetinje

see Article 7 of Constitution of Montenegro. 217.198.224.13 21:16, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Buenos Aires isn't the biggest city of South America

The city with the largest population in South America is São Paulo, not Buenos Aires.

Capital not the largest city...

Seeing as neither the USA or Canada has its capital as its largest city, but the vast majority of people on the Internet are USAns, and Canada is a good second, which leads to an image that USAns and Canadians do not know, or care, much about the world outside North America, does this mean that they consider the capital not being the largest city as entirely natural and would be completely astonished if they were to learn that the vast majority of the world's countries do, in fact, have their capital as their largest city? JIP | Talk 19:33, 8 May 2007 (UTC) I don't think the vast majority of people on the Internet are American actually - China has overtaken US on Internet usage. Additionally Canada will be well behind UK, Germany

Largest Capital Cities

The population for largest capital cities is wrong. When we are talking about capital cities, we should just consider the city population, not the population of the metro area of them. If so, Tehran has more population as it has 14,000,000 and Tokyo has 12,570,000.

For example according to wikipedia the population of these cities are:

1. Africa: Cairo (16,100,000?)=> 7,500,000
2. Asia: Tokyo (21,237,000?)=> 8,520,000
3. Europe: London (14,400,000?)=> 8,500,000
4. North America: Mexico City (19,809,471) => 8,720,916
5. Oceania: Wellington (445,400) => 410,328
6. South America: Buenos Aires (12,430,000) => 2,776,138
7. USA: Washington, D.C. (5,290,400) => 550,521

Secondly, I live in Tokyo and I am sure Tokyo has not 21,370,000 people population. Its Population is 8,520,000 in special 23 wards and for the metro area it is 12,570,000 people.

And at last, why we have US capital here? Is the US a new continent? I think if we are talking about regions, we should consider regions much bigger than single countries like the Middle East, Western Europe, and the Eastern Europe. --Najand 20:20, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

picture of Countries whose capital city is not the most populous city

The picture shows that Belgium is NOT a country whose capital city is not the most populous city. That is wrong; Brussels, the capital of Belgium, has only got around the 140,000 inhabitants, while Antwerp, the biggest city in Belgium, has got around the 470,000 inhabitants. Brussels has a larger agglomeration, but if only the city self is counted, Brussels is the fifth city of Belgium (Antwerp, Ghent, Charleroi and Liege are all bigger than Brussels). I hope to see the picture is changed, or perhaps the picture should even be removed, for it is not a correct one. --Robster1983 15:53, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

What's the difference?

I think it might be of some usage if there was an explanation to the difference between capital and capitol. Reginmund 05:38, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

a capital can also be the capital of ta major company and it can also be..... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.123.207.50 (talk) 21:09, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Distances Between Capital Cities (Nearest & Farthest)

• Farthest

Please pay attention that "the capital of a sovereign country which is farthest from the nearest other country's capital" is not the same as "the greatest distance between the capitals of two countries that share a border". We are talking about different categories. Both are correct.

An example should make it crystal clear: Pyongyang is only 197 Km far from Seoul, 810 Km from Beijing, 1300 Km from Tokyo, and so on. But the closest other capital Wellington is Canberra, 2330 Km far away. Do you understand the difference? Luis wiki (talk) 20:28, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Capitals that are not seats of government

The introduction should be changed to reflect that while the capital is most commonly the seat of government it is not always the case. An example is the Netherlands. The capital is Amsterdam but the seat of government is The Hague. Indeed, one can argue that the definition of capital as described in this WP article and most dictionaries is in fact incorrect. AJKGORDON«» 17:58, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

It seems I misread the intro. It does say that it is typically the seat of government but there are some exceptions. Please ignore my comment above! AJKGORDON«» 15:50, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Busywork

What is the purpose of having students memorize lists of names of capitals? Are they really that important? Once you know the name of a capital, what else do you know about it? (nothing). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.122.63.142 (talk) 20:04, 13 March 2008 (UTC)