Talk:List of highest towns by country

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How come there are two "world's highest cities"???

 Can we Change the name... I think it sounds grammatically painful...

That whole article looks like it was slapped together haphazardly. Why would you list the world's highest mines in a list of the world's highest cities? And it's got like 4 highest cities in the world... Peru, Tibet, Bolivia, the city in Nepal is higher than the one in Bolivia... I hope somebody re-writes the whole thing.

This list is towns right? Well in that case Denali in Alaska is the highest point in the US, but it is in fact not a town.

Leadville, Colorado is the highest incorporated city in the United States at 10,152ft(3,094m), Climax, Colorado is the highest settlement in the United States at 11,360ft.

I've given this a pretty severe trime; removing all but the highest claim for each country and rewording the intro to stress that any permanent settlement is accepted. Citations are needed for the heights and for the claims to be the highest place in the nation. Warofdreams talk 23:30, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Highest populated place in Europe?

It is claimed here that Juf (Switzerland) is the highest populated place in Europe (2126 m) This is probably not correct. There should be places in the Caucasus mountains higher than this, for example Kurush (Dagestan, Russian Federation) which also appears in this page (2480 m). The part of Caucasus that belongs to the Russian Federation is actually a part of Europe, and the highest peak of Europe is Elbruz in this area. Antipoeten 21:33, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Quito, Ecuador is not the highest capital of the world; La Paz, Bolivia is widely known as it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.105.222.22 (talk) 04:07, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Listing Quito as the highest capital may have merit, as La Paz is not strictly (or not the only) capital of Bolivia. La Paz is the administrative capital, but the Judicial capital is Sucre (roughly 2700m if I remember right.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.129.26.84 (talk) 17:10, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Majdal Shams

Although controlled by Israel, according to public international law this place is still part of Syria. --81.62.68.243 (talk) 00:41, 1 February 2008 (UTC)