Search results for "List of national capitals" - New World Encyclopedia
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- communications, and economic center of Ghana. Located on the Gulf ... Among the attractions of Accra are the National Museum, with a display ...15 KB (2,198 words) - 07:30, 14 June 2023
- This is a list of the countries of the world by continent, according ... displayed with their respective national flags and capitals. This ...20 KB (2,886 words) - 04:26, 29 October 2022
- Brazzaville is the capital and largest city of the Republic of the ... Brazzaville was founded in 1880, on the site of a village named Nkuna ...18 KB (2,623 words) - 22:54, 20 November 2023
- Capital Cities and Tombs of the Ancient Koguryo Kingdom, located in ... The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and the turning away from communism ...12 KB (1,765 words) - 19:34, 25 November 2023
- Abuja is both a Federal Capital Territory within the nation of Nigeria ... Nigeria, is two and half times the size of Lagos city, the former capital ...14 KB (2,053 words) - 07:06, 14 June 2023
- and Breg rivers, which join at the town of Donaueschingen. From this point ... Known to history as one of the long-standing frontiers of the Roman ...23 KB (3,172 words) - 22:13, 25 January 2024
- Gaborone is the capital and largest city of the landlocked nation ... Gaborone was founded in 1965, as the capital of Botswana. It is notable ...17 KB (2,344 words) - 09:18, 4 December 2023
- Manhattan is a borough of New York City, New York, USA, coterminous ... A commercial, financial, and cultural center of the city, Manhattan ...28 KB (4,296 words) - 11:05, 9 March 2023
- text in three languages, telling the story of King Darius' conquests ... The document most crucial in the deciphering of a previously lost script. It ...13 KB (1,988 words) - 10:27, 26 September 2023
- Addis Ababa is the capital city of Ethiopia and the African Union ... mountain setting is recognized as one of the world¹s most problematic ...20 KB (2,986 words) - 05:49, 15 June 2023
- Oslo is the capital and largest city of Norway. It is also a municipality ... several times by fire, King Christian IV of Denmark (and Norway) in 1624 ...29 KB (4,349 words) - 04:40, 18 November 2022
- ), is a province of the People's Republic of China located in ... it is traditionally regarded as the cradle of Chinese civilization. ...27 KB (3,852 words) - 17:21, 7 February 2022
- Dakar, the largest city of Senegal, is located on the Cape Verde Peninsula ... An administrative center, Dakar is home to the National Assembly of ...23 KB (3,372 words) - 08:41, 24 January 2024
- figure associated with a collection of poems from the Chinese Tang ... Most of Hanshan's 600 poems were inscribed on tree trunks or ...19 KB (3,199 words) - 20:34, 3 May 2021
- (Senkadagalapura), a city in the center of Sri Lanka. The name Kandy derives ... most often shortened to Nuvara. The capital of the Central Province and Kandy ...14 KB (1,979 words) - 07:07, 28 February 2023
- , is the most populous prefecture and city in Japan, and the center ... It is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and, unique among the prefectures ...39 KB (5,420 words) - 03:54, 1 May 2023
- Montevideo is the largest city, capital, and chief port of Uruguay ... Montevideo is the commercial, political, and intellectual center of ...15 KB (2,073 words) - 13:12, 10 March 2023
- Abidjan is the largest city, chief port, and de facto capital of Côte ... between an old man, with an armful of branches, and a lost European ...16 KB (2,261 words) - 04:48, 14 June 2023
- Bamako, a city of nearly 1.7 million people, is the capital and largest ... the area that is now Bamako has been part of the great west African empires ...22 KB (3,196 words) - 17:23, 10 February 2023
- The Canary Islands, though politically a part of Spain, are only 67 ... The autonomous community of the Canary Islands was established by ...28 KB (4,064 words) - 19:14, 25 November 2023
- (Nepali/Hindi: गंगटोक), the capital and largest town of ... and temperate climate, this hill station of about fifty thousand people ...22 KB (3,354 words) - 04:26, 18 April 2024
- Seoul, the capital of South Korea, sits on the Han River (Korea) in ... Seoul, one of the world's most densely populated major cities ...25 KB (3,283 words) - 19:52, 6 March 2024
- Antananarivo is the capital, largest city and the economic center ... This city of 1.4 million people is the doorway to Madagascar's ...13 KB (1,867 words) - 05:19, 31 July 2023
- communications, and economic center of Burundi. Bujumbura is the capital ... situated on the northeastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, is Burundi ...18 KB (2,590 words) - 18:38, 22 November 2023
- ) refers to a town situated on the southwestern tip of Sri Lanka, ... ornate pepperpot towers. The Fort, like most of the forts in Sri Lanka, sits ...17 KB (2,690 words) - 03:58, 18 April 2024
- Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, was born out of a union of four villages ... crime-free environment, and for being one of the cleanest cities of Africa ...18 KB (2,473 words) - 21:16, 30 January 2023
- Ajanta Caves in Maharashtra, India are a Buddhist monastery complex ... The caves are located just outside the village of Ajinṭhā ...19 KB (2,978 words) - 07:12, 16 June 2023
- Sucre, which is located in the south-central part of Bolivia, is the ... Sucre is also called “The City of Four Names.” Charcas was the ...15 KB (2,191 words) - 13:44, 28 April 2023
- Buenos Aires is the capital of Argentina and its largest city. It ... Buenos Aires is the center of the Argentina's government, commerce ...30 KB (4,453 words) - 18:37, 22 November 2023
- Lusaka is the capital and largest city of Zambia, as well as its chief ... The four main highways of Zambia; the Great North Road to Tanzania ...21 KB (2,892 words) - 10:38, 9 March 2023
- is the fourth largest city in Japan and one of the country's ... The city of Nagoya was established in 1610 when Tokugawa Ieyasu moved ...21 KB (2,938 words) - 02:41, 11 March 2023
- Brasília is the capital of Brazil, located in the central part of ... As the world's first capital city conceived by modern standards ...27 KB (4,135 words) - 22:51, 20 November 2023
- |observedby = Commonwealth of Nations United States ... – is a day to commemorate the sacrifices of members of the armed forces ...26 KB (4,040 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
- ) is the capital and largest city of the Tunisian Republic. It is ... by the Romans. It became the capital city of the Arab Aghlabid dynasty and ...17 KB (2,367 words) - 12:23, 18 April 2023
- South Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United ... In the southwestern portion of the state rise the Black Hills, a group ...41 KB (6,101 words) - 15:37, 4 February 2023
- Washington, D.C. is the capital city of the United States of America ... The centers of all three branches of the U.S. federal government are ...39 KB (5,697 words) - 23:11, 3 May 2023
- city area in the United States state of Hawaii. Although Honolulu refers ... century C.E., annexation as a protectorate of the United States in 1900, ...22 KB (3,108 words) - 13:26, 2 February 2024
- Kinshasa (Léopoldville until 1966), the capital and largest city ... A colony of Belgium, the country received its independence in 1960 ...28 KB (3,888 words) - 23:14, 3 March 2023
- or the Mazarin Bible) is a printed version of the Latin Vulgate translation ... The advent of the printed Bible ushered in an age in which Bibles ...21 KB (3,123 words) - 02:56, 27 July 2023
- ), is the capital and largest city of Guinea, a resource-rich but ... brief, somewhat turbulent history as capital of a French colony, then of a ...17 KB (2,442 words) - 02:37, 8 January 2024
- ) is renowned as a monument of Christianity, of Gothic architecture ... Cologne Cathedral is one of the world's largest churches, being ...24 KB (3,597 words) - 22:36, 7 January 2024
- Nepal in the west, Tibet Autonomous Region of China to the north and east ... highest peak, sits in the northwestern part of the state on the boundary with ...35 KB (5,094 words) - 20:10, 21 April 2023
- Pretoria is one of South Africa's three capital cities, serving ... In the mid-twentieth century racial segregation in the form of apartheid ...25 KB (3,503 words) - 00:35, 12 April 2023
- Cape Town (Afrikaans: Kaapstad; Xhosa: iKapa) is one of South Africa ... Cape Town is well-known for its history of apartheid, a system of ...27 KB (3,877 words) - 19:33, 25 November 2023
- The polka is a fast, lively Central European dance, and also a genre ... 1800s. As immigrants from different parts of Europe spread across the U ...27 KB (4,215 words) - 00:17, 12 April 2023
- Kampala, the largest city of Uganda, became that nation's capital ... Beginning with the end of colonialism, Uganda had suffered an era ...20 KB (2,883 words) - 07:05, 28 February 2023
- large white-colored obelisk at the west end of the National Mall in Washington ... The monument is made of marble, granite, and sandstone. It was designed ...23 KB (3,484 words) - 23:12, 3 May 2023
- Santiago, officially Santiago de Chile, is the federal capital of ... Approximately two decades of uninterrupted economic growth have transformed ...25 KB (3,606 words) - 18:44, 25 January 2024
- Luanda (formerly spelled Loanda) is the capital and largest city of ... in 1844, and by 1850, Luanda had become one of the most developed cities in ...24 KB (3,367 words) - 10:35, 9 March 2023
- Georgetown is the capital and largest city of Guyana on the mainland ... Founded by the British in 1781 and named for King George III of the ...22 KB (3,061 words) - 20:14, 13 December 2023
