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Honiara is a settlement on the island of Guadalcanal. Karachi was selected as the first capital of Pakistan and served as such from 1948 until the capital was shifted to Rawalpindi in 1958. Rawalpindi served as an interim capital until the construction of Islamabad was complete; the capital became Islamabad in 1967.
Cities portal. v. t. e. This is a list of national capitals, ordered according to population. Capitals of dependent territories and disputed territories are marked in italics. The population statistics given refer only to the official capital area, and do not include the wider metropolitan/urban district.
Lists of capitals. This is a list of official national capitals by latitude, including territories and dependencies, non-sovereign states including associated states and entities whose sovereignty is disputed. Sovereign states are shown in bold text. Highest official capital. Country does not have an official capital; however, the government ...
Sana'a, Yemen. Mexico City, Mexico. Tehran, Iran. Kabul, Afghanistan. Nairobi, Kenya. Kathmandu, Nepal. This is a list of national capitals ordered by elevation. Higher elevations typically have social, economic, and architectural effects on cities, in particular colder temperatures in winter. Low elevation cities are often seaports or are ...
List of capitals in Antigua and Barbuda. List of capitals in Australia. List of capitals of subdivisions of Brazil. List of capitals in China. List of state and union territory capitals in India. List of capitals in Japan. List of capitals in Malaysia. List of capitals of states of Mexico. List of capitals in Pakistan.
This is a list of national capitals, ordered according to total area.Capitals of dependent territories and disputed territories are marked in italics.The area of the capital city only includes the area occupied by the city and not the wider urban/metropolitan district or administrative division created solely for the city.
Lisbon is one of the oldest cities in the world [6] and the second-oldest European capital city (after Athens), predating other modern European capitals by centuries. [7] Settled by pre-Celtic tribes and later founded and civilized by the Phoenicians, Julius Caesar made it a municipium called Felicitas Julia, [8] adding the term to the name ...
World map. A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.