capital city

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capital city (plural capital cities)Category:English lemmas#CAPITALCITYCategory:English nouns#CAPITALCITYCategory:English countable nouns#CAPITALCITYCategory:English multiword terms#CAPITALCITYCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#CAPITALCITYCategory:Pages with entries#CAPITAL%20CITYCategory:Pages with 1 entry#CAPITAL%20CITY

  1. A city that is a seat of government.
  2. A city (or cities) much larger or more important to a country than all others, regardless of the actual seat of government (cf., Moscow and Saint Petersburg regardless of moves of the Russian government; Amsterdam despite the Dutch government having been situated in The Hague since 1588).
  3. (AustraliaCategory:Australian English#CAPITALCITY) The major metropolitan areas of Australia (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide), all of which happen to be state capitals, and by extension the major metropolitan areas of other countries; note that other state capitals Hobart, Darwin, and national capital Canberra are often excluded.

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