Friday, May 12, 2017

Capital cities - alphabetically - and the largest cities - would you have guessed?

Problem
Which are the capital cities?

Answer
https://www.countries-ofthe-world.com/capitals-of-the-world.html

Wiki tells you which capital cities are not the largest cities.

As I thought,
AMERICA
New York is larger than Washington DC.

CHINA
Shanghai is bigger than Beijing.

AUSTRALIA
Sydney is larger than Canberra.

CANADA
Toronto beats Ottawa.

UAE
Dubai is larger than Abu Dhabi.

TURKEY
Istanbul is bigger than lesser known and less visited Ankara.

INDIA
Mumbai (previously called Bombay) is bigger than the capital, New Delhi.

Author
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CountryCapitalPopulationLargest cityPopulationRatioNote
 AustraliaCanberra390,706Sydney4,921,00012.6Although Canberra has been Australia's Capital City since circa 1913, the national parliament met in Melbourne, Victoria until 1927. Melbourne is Australia's 2nd most populous city (4,529,500)
 BelizeBelmopan16,400Belize City70,0004.27Belize City was the capital until 1970.
 BeninPorto-Novo223,500Cotonou761,1003.4Cotonou is the de facto capital with seat of government. Both cities are part of the same metropolitan area
 BoliviaSucre259,388Santa Cruz de la Sierra[1]1,453,5497.1La Paz is the de facto capital with seat of government, is the third largest city of Bolivia and is the center of the second metropolitan area.
 BrazilBrasília2,557,158São Paulo11,150,2494.55Brasília is a planned city, inaugurated in 1960, and serving as the Brazilian capital since then. Rio de Janeiro, the former capital, was the capital of Brazil from 1763 until 1960 (and largest city in Brazil from 1654 to 1954). São Paulo has never been the capital, but became the most populous city in Brazil in 1954, a position it has held since then. As of the 2010 Brazilian census, Brasília is the fifth most populous city in Brazil, and the seventh largest metropolitan area.
 CameroonYaoundé1,430,000Douala2,000,000 +1.4Yaoundé is the second largest city of Cameroon.
 CanadaOttawa812,129Toronto2,503,2813.08Toronto was the capital of the united Province of Canada from 1849 to 1852 and 1856–1858.
 ChinaBeijing22,000,000Shanghai34,000,0001.55Beijing is the second largest city of China by a relatively small margin. Shanghai is the largest city proper in China and the world.
 Côte d'IvoireYamoussoukro200,659Abidjan4,348,00021.7Abidjan was the capital until 1983.
 EcuadorQuito1,397,698Guayaquil2,600,0001.86Quito is the second largest city of Ecuador.
 Equatorial GuineaMalabo187,302Bata250,7701.34The capital Malabo is the second largest city of Equatorial Guinea and has the specificity of being located on an island even though the country possesses mainland. It is about to be replaced by the planned city of Oyala, currently under construction.
 Federated States of MicronesiaPalikir5,000Weno13,0001.4Palikir is the second largest city of Micronesia. 
 IndiaNew Delhi249,998Mumbai12,442,37349.77New Delhi is part of the Delhi metropolitan area which has 21,753,486 inhabitants (the Mumbai metropolitan region has 20,748,395).
 KazakhstanAstana743,014Almaty1,450,0951.95Almaty was the capital from 1927 to 1997.
 LiechtensteinVaduz5,109Schaan5,8061.14Both cities are part of the same metropolitan area
 MaltaValletta6,000Birkirkara21,0003.5Both cities are part of the same metropolitan area
 MoroccoRabat627,000Casablanca4,150,0006.62Rabat is the second largest city of Morocco.
 MyanmarNaypyidaw925,000Yangon4,346,0004.7Yangon was the capital until 2006. Naypyidaw is de facto mainly rural county rather than contiguous urban area
 New ZealandWellington405,000Auckland1,495,0003.69Auckland was the capital 1841–1865, and Russell in 1840–41.
 NigeriaAbuja778,567Lagos7,937,93210.2Lagos was the capital until 1991.
 PakistanIslamabad1,740,000Karachi24,300,00013.97Karachi was the capital from 1947 to 1958. Islamabad is part of much larger Rawalpindi-Islamabad metropolitan area
 PalauNgerulmud271Koror11,20041.32Koror was the capital until 2006.
 PhilippinesManila1,780,148Quezon City2,936,1161.67Quezon City was the capital from 1948 until 1976. Both cities are in the Metropolitan Manila region with Quezon City bordering Manila on the northeast.
 San MarinoSan Marino4,211Serravalle10,6012.52
 South AfricaPretoria2,345,908Johannesburg3,888,1801.66Cape Town (pop. 3.5 mln) and Bloemfontein (pop. 370,000) serve as legislative and judicial capitals, respectively.
 Sri LankaSri Jayawardenepura Kotte115,826Colombo642,1635.54Colombo was the capital until 1982.
 SudanKhartoum2,207,794[citation needed]Omdurman2,395,1591.08Wikipedia articles on Khartoum and Omdurman contradict this. Both cities are part of the same metropolitan area
  SwitzerlandBern138,041Zürich397,6982.88Switzerland in its nature as a country with in every dimension decentralized political power actually doesn't have a capital (just as it doesn't have a head of state or prime minister). Bern has been designated as "federal city" with the seat of the two parliament chambers in 1848, when for the first time the independent Swiss states established standing federal authorities. Today, important federal authorities are also located in Lausanne (most notably: the Federal Supreme Court), ZürichLucerneBellinzona and St. Gallen. Until 1798, the council of the Swiss states met in various places - most frequently in LucerneZürichBaden and Frauenfeld. Between 1798 and 1803 there were three subsequent cities of government: AarauLuzern and Bern. Between 1815 and 1848 the meeting place of the council changed every two years between ZürichBern and Lucerne.
 TaiwanTaipei2,650,968New Taipei3,916,4511.48Both cities are in Taipei–Keelung metropolitan area with Taipei surrounded entirely by New Taipei, which was Taipei's suburbs before its comprehensive development.
 TanzaniaDodoma324,347Dar es Salaam2,497,9407.70Dar es Salaam was the capital until 1974.
 Trinidad and TobagoPort of Spain49,000Chaguanas67,4001.37Both cities are part of the same metropolitan area
 TurkeyAnkara5,150,072Istanbul14,377,0183.4Istanbul was the capital of the Ottoman Empire from 1453 to 1922.
 United Arab EmiratesAbu Dhabi896,751Dubai2,262,0002.52Abu Dhabi is the second largest city of United Arab Emirates.
 United StatesWashington, D.C.672,228New York City8,550,40512.72New York was the capital 1785–1790 and the largest city in 1790 (narrowly edging out the next capital, Philadelphia, which served as capital from 1790 to 1800). Philadelphia was the nation's second-largest city when it was the capital.
 VietnamHanoi6,500,000Ho Chi Minh City7,123,3401.1Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon, was the capital of South Vietnam prior to reunification.

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References[edit]

  1. Jump up ^ "Decreto Supremo Nº1672" (PDF). doctoraedilicia.com. Retrieved 2013-05-31.

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