Edinburgh is the capital of the country of Scotland. It was founded prior to the seventh century. The population of Edinburgh is about 500,000 people.
Tokyo is the capital of the island nation of Japan. It was originally known as "Kyoto" during and prior to the Edo period.
Algiers is the capital of Algeria, now the largest country in Africa by land area. Prior to 2011, when Sudan was still united, it was larger than Algeria. The capital of Sudan was, and still remains, Khartoum.
The Inca civilization had the largest empire in the Americas prior to European colonization. The most famous cities of the Inca civilization were Cuzco and Machu Picchu. Cuzco was the capital of the Incan empire.
Bonn was the capital of West Germany from 1949 until 1989. Prior to 1949, Germany was one country, with Berlin as the capital city. Germany returned to being one country after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
There are two old or former capital cities in Brazil. Rio de Janeiro was the capital from 1793 until 1960. Salvadorwas the first capital, from 1549 to 1793. Brasilia became the capital of Brazil on April 21, 1960.
It's a country, The Kingdom of Bahrain and is an island. Manama is the capital.
In Minnesota near the twin cities.
The country whose capital is Sana'a is Yemen. Sana'a is located in the Yemeni Mountains. However, the seat of government moved to Aden after the 2014 coup d'etat against president Hadi. As of 2014, prior to the outbreak of civil war, the population of Sana'a was nearly 4 million people.
Canberra became the capital of Australia in 1927 and is located in the the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). A project to find a national capital was commenced in the 1890s prior to Federation. The on-going rivalry between Sydney and Melbourne prohibited either city from consideration as the national capital. It was decided that, following Federation in 1901, the nation's capital should be situated between the two cities. A location was chosen which was 248km from Sydney and 483km from Melbourne.
During the early middle ages both Deganwy (Carnarvon) and Aberffraw (Anglesey) functioned as Welsh capital. It is near impossible to say which of them has the prior claim. Both cities were abandoned as national capitals (due to English pressure) before 1170, and between then and 1955 Wales had no capital city.
Prior to the October Revolution of 1917, the capital was St.Petersburg. The capital was moved to Moscow after the Bolsheviks took power.