capital city English

Meaning capital city meaning

What does capital city mean?

capital city noun

— A city that is a seat of government.

— 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).

— city designated as seat of government

Synonyms capital city synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as capital city?

capital city English » English

capital

metropolis

megalopolis

world

uppercase

seat of government

large city

city

Seoul

Examples capital city examples

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Simple sentences

What's the capital city of Finland?

Barcelona is the capital city of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain.

Movie subtitles

By contrast, it took the founder of the Ming dynasty 21 years to build a wall more than 20 miles long around his capital city, Nanjing.