Talk:List of national capitals

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The capital city of the United Kingdom is NOT London! The United Kingdom does not have a capital. The capital of England is London, the capital of Wales is Cardiff, The capital of Northern Ireland is Belfast and the capital of Scotland is Edinburgh. Please ammend.

I decided to add historical capital information. I'm not sure if this shouldn't be in the other list (or a seperate one), but I don't like to have redundant information. I think one list with capitals is enough, why have one sorted by capitalname and one sorted by nation. THe CTRL-F functions works fine.

Further, I don't know if I should add a new comment like this on the top or on the bottem of the page.

What the frig is going on with these stupid tables???

I thought you did an excellent job with this page before you tried converting it to tables. Why don't you just revert it? --Zundark, 2001 Oct 17

I will if I have to, but now it's getting personal :)

Zundark: Why the change for Bahrain to Al-Manamah? That article just links to a note saying it is an alternate spelling for Manama. Why not just link to Manama directly? - MMGB ... note added later: or maybe you didn't actually do this and it's a mistake I made earlier... :)

This page says that El Aaiun is the capital of Western Sahara, but the Western Sahara article says that there is no capital, and the list of national capitals by country name doesn't list it. I couldn't find anything on El Aaiun when I was trying to do my capital cities pages. -- Zoe

Well, I've started the long and tedious process of moving all the capital cities entries to 'city, country' format instead of just the city. If anyone wanted to help it would make things a LOT quicker! Step one - pick a city, any city and go to its entry (it's easier if you open it in a new window). Step two - if the entry is already under 'city, country' then leave it alone and proceed to the next capital city. Step three - if the entry is only listed under city name, then make a redirect and move the content to 'city, country'. If there is more than one city listed on the page then disambiguate it. Step four - come back here to the capital city list and proceed to the next entry Step five - when a whole letter is finished, change the links on this page to city, country so that it's easier to keep your place.--Karen

Very ambitious, and I applaud you for your effort -- however, it would be a lot easier if you simply waited for the administrative move feature to get fixed first. It also may be a bit premature to do go through all this work just yet -- I only posted the city, country naming convention idea to the wikipedia mailing list a couple of days ago (of course, with the noted exception to US cities being city, state). There does seem to be far more support for this convention than not, so it will probably stand. And if it does, I will update wikipedia:naming conventions -- then nobody can rightly complain about the moves and redirects. --maveric149

I didn't see anyone objecting to it either... I know I could wait but I'm not the patient type, and I had some time to spend and I couldn't think of any constructive article content to write so I figured why not start? ~KJ]

OK fair enough, but there is something for you to ponder over at Talk:New South Wales, Australia. Cheers! --maveric149

So what's going on here? I created several entries in the {city, country} format, and they got redirected to the {city} format. I've put some of them back, but I don't know if I should continue, if they're going to get re-redirected again.

Another question having to do with cities, not necessarily capitals. I was about to create an entry for Palma, Majorca -- should it be called "Palma de Majorca", "Palma, Spain", or "Palma de Majorca, Spain"? -- Zoe

Changing links on you? Well that is a bit rude. Who is changing the links back to the {city} format? Since there is still no official convention on this, whoever sees an article at either format should just leave it alone respecting the original author's choice and just make a redirect for their favorite convention. But please do continue with the {city, country} format, because this format appears to be the one that we will adopt as an official naming convention (with the noted exception about US states). Of course, you are more than free to reverse the article/redirect order of any articles you initially made in the {city} format to the {city, country} format. BTW, it looks like Palma, Spain would be your best bet -- it is in Anglicized as much as appropriate and is in the {city, country} format (the others can redirect there if you think it is needed). --maveric149

The fact that the Spaniards also call it Palma de Mallorca seems to indicate there are more than one Palmas. I know one of the Canary Islands (or a city there) is called La Palma. Also, Palma de Majorca (with the English spelling) doesn't seem to appear very frequently at all. I'd go for Palma de Mallorca, Spain. jheijmans
I think you are right -- I wasn't aware of the "ll" spelling (which got 21,000 Google hits to the "j" spelling's 360 and with "Palma, Spain" getting 3100). --maveric149
The reason I said "Palma de Majorca" is because "Mallorca" seems to have been redirected to "Majorca", so I didn't want to create a "Palma de Mallorca", if there's no entry for "Mallorca". - Zoe
The English name for the island of Mallorca seems to be Majorca, with a J (pronounciation is the same, though). But the name for the city seems to be Palma de Mallorca, however. jheijmans, Wednesday, June 26, 2002

I cannot help wondering: What do local people call "Luxembourg City"?
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How about a separate list of List of former capitals? --Jiang 21:59, 14 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Should Tel Aviv be mentioned as the administrative capital of Isreal? Afn 16:56, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] I do not understand...

why should it state that many country's dont see jerusalem as israels capital, that is very political. jerusalem is its capital by definition, I found that remark ofensive and took the liberty of removing it. I think the article is more objective this way and none less informative. that is an unnecessary piece of information wether true or not.

Jerusalem is Not the Capital of Israel Under international law, neither East nor West Jerusalem is considered Israel's capital. Tel Aviv is recognised as Israel's capital, pending a negotiated settlement with the Palestinians. East Jerusalem is considered by the international community to be illegally occupied by Israel, in contravention of several binding UN Security Council Resolutions listed here. A fuller document on the legal status of East Jerusalem is available at:' etc http://www.arabmediawatch.com/amw/CountryBackgrounds/Palestine/EastJerusalem/JerusalemisNottheCapitalofIsrael/tabid/308/Default.aspx

Please amend. Brian —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.202.43.53 (talk) 03:13, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Jerusalem

If you want to put Jerusalem as Israel's capital, you should balance between Arab and Jewish views and let us put it as Palestine's one.

Why, there is no Palestine, only a Palestinian Authority with its authoriy derived from Israel.--Tomtom9041 00:48, 3 January 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Where is Cardiff?

I notice that Scotlands capital is on here, I just think it's just plain racism not placing Wales's capital on here!

[edit] Valparaiso, Chile

I do not think Chile has a legislative capital. Just because the Parliament is in Valparaiso, it doesnt mean it is a capital of any sort...

yo no sabia que gibraltar fuera un pais y mucho menos que tuviera capital, por favor, reconsidere y se que en la realidad es una colonia Inglesa por lo tanto la Capital es Londres, seria justo que si la UN asi lo dice wiki tambien ............

[edit] Recent edit

Hello all,

Here are the details of my recent edit. St.-Barthelemy and St.-Martin have become Overseas Collectivities and have been added to the list. Plymouth in Montserrat has technically not been the capital of Montserrat since 1997 when it was abandoned due to a volcano eruption. Government offices have been setup in another part of the island; this has been noted in a footnote. Hope everyone likes this. - Thanks, Hoshie 04:02, 31 July 2007 (UTC)