But the current capital is more or less an area carved out of the former one. It's as if the US moved the Capital to Georgetown. The Metro area would still be Washington DC Looking at google maps it's 9.8 kms from city center to city center. For a metro area of 5.5 million I imagine that the drive between the center of one to the other is continuous urban development.
Everyone in Sri Lanka says the capital is SJK, and while it is a district of Colombo it is very much separate. If you go there you will find that the two are quite different. Probably best to trust the Sri Lankan government on this one.
No, best NOT to trust the ones trying to peddle a nonsense for their own vested interests. The resident government is trying to convince someone that its capital is new and separate. Its not. The government buildings in Colombo were replaced with new ones in a different suburb of Colombo. Is the capital of the US Capitol Hill? No,it's Washington. Is the capital of London Westminster? No, its London. Colombo is the city and capitals are a city, not a district, not a suburb, not a street. Trying to say SJK is a separate, new city is a bureaucratic fantasy. Other countries have tried to do the same thing - New Delhi is a suburb of Delhi. Quezon City is a suburb of Manila. Putrajaya is a suburb of Kuala Lumpur. None of these should be questions in this quiz because the capital is still in the same city.
that's like saying every city in the metro area of a bigger city is automatically a suburb of that city. also capitals are not always cities: yaren (capital of nauru) is a district, majuro (capital of the marshall islands) is a coral atoll, south tarawa (capital of kiribati) is a population center made of multiple islands, saipan (capital of northern mariana islands) is an island. also quezon city is not a suburb of manila, even though it is located in manila's metro area; in fact, counting city proper populations, quezon city is bigger than manila
MDW has settled it for everyone then - the Sri Lankan government have no say at all in where their capital is located and how it should be referred. We'd better inform the UN that the Sri Lankan government cannot be trusted on this issue.
SJK is the capital of Sri Lanka, which is a suburb of Colombo. But they are two different municipal areas officially, having separate mayors and they are from two different political parties.
Personally, I can accept that "SJK" is the capital of Sri Lanka, but it bothers me that no quizzes allow "Colombo" as a type-in. It just seems silly to me. It's like not accepting "Delhi" for "New Delhi"
There are many reasons why Sri Lanka moved its capital. For one, Colombo is extremely crowded and SJK isn't very far from it. In addition, Kotte has a lot of historical significance. In fact, Colombo is *technically* one of Sri Lanka's capitals - it's the executive & judicial capital of the country.
Im pretty sure about 6 cities was the capital of the us between philadelphia and dc. Annapolis, trenton, princeton, baltimore and new york comes up straight away and im pretty sure there is some more.
You have to look at the date. U.S. capital was Philadelphia from 1790-1800, then moved to D.C. Other countries on this list have had multiple previous capital cities as well (Nara/Heijo, Nagaoka, Fujiwara, etc. in Japan, Luoyang, Chang'an, etc. in China).
If we have "Constantiople" as a clue for the name of the city as it was at that time (330), then Petrograd should also be given as it was the name of St. Petersburg in 1918.
Even Constantinople is not really right, since the city was known as Byzantium when the capital was moved. But I agree that there should be some consistency
If you want to get specific, Byzantium was renamed to Nova Roma (New Rome) and that continued to be it's official name until 1453. Constantinople was actually just a nickname of the city.
Am I incorrect in believing that the actual capital of the Roman Empire was Ravenna? I thought Rome was only the cultural capital. I may very well be mistaken, though. Nice quiz though. (I know this list isn't complete, but any sequels should have Krakow and Warszawa) :)
I'm not sure that the idea of a Capital existed in the Roman Empire. I suspect the capital was wherever the Emperor happened to be. Some Emperors moved around a lot (the aggressive ones); others were more sedate (Nero - fiddling !)
But certainly there is evidence that once Alaric sacked Rome, Ravenna was more usually regarded as the capital.
Of course this may all be a degree of bullsh1t, but some is correct
Nice quiz - one day i will remember Astana. My trouble I am astill with Alma Ata, for Almaty
I think Rio also became the capital of Portugal for a short period after this. Would be an interesting one for the list, i believe it is the only capital of a European country to be outside Europe.
When the Real Family moved to Rio, started the process of independence. Rio won privileges existent in Portugal, and became the capital of Portugal of the junction of the countries, making the Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil, and Algarves
Oh yeah, Salvador was in the most next place to Portugal, and they choose the place for build Salvador. After, became Rio de Janeiro, because the discovery of gold in the region of the actual state of Minas Gerais, and because the port for export the gold to Portugal was in the city. In 1960, was introduced a project for build a new capital in the middle of Brazil, the city of Brasília. Projected by Juscelino Kubitscheck, Lúcio Costa, and Oscar Niemeyer, Brasília was planned in the shape of a airplane. They moved the capital once again, for people the Brazilian countryside, and protect the capital of marine attacks. Depends of the concept you want to use: the capital before the actual, or all the former capitals
Moreso change the answer to Constantinople as that was the official name then, and have Istanbul as an accepted answer. But I don't think Turkey should even be on this quiz as there is somewhat of a distinction between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey.
Shouldn't we say that the change of capital from Nanjing to Beijing happened in 1949 with the formation of the PRC as the capital of China (ROC) in Nanjing was moved as Beijing was declared the capital of China (PRC)?
Though the ROC is well and alive on Taiwan, in terms of de jure international recognition, the PRC is considered the successor of the ROC, even more so since 1971 when PRC replaced ROC in the UNSC
Technically, there never was a 'West Germany'. The Federal Republic of Germany was created in 1949, first with Bonn and then, after absorbing the territory of 'East Germany' (the GDR), with Berlin as its capital. It exists to this day.
You should change the points system so that it's based on the percentage of questions you answer correctly instead of how many you get right after the 50 percent mark.
Great quiz but you missed Pakistan which changed its capital from Karachi to Islamabad (with Rawalpindi being an "interim" capital while Islamabad was being built).
Was the capital really moved from Rome to Constantinople* though? The Empire split in two and the latter was really the capital of a whole new country. It's an easy question to answer with the clues provided but I'm not sure it counts as moving the capital.
*or Byzantium, Nova Roma, Istanbul, Miklagard.. take your pick
Let's throw in another random one: Prussia 1701 Königsberg to Berlin
(Or I propose to focus only on countries which exist today. Skipping Prussia but also the 330 answer. ;-) )
https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/168699/all-historic-capitals-of-the-us
Also, please accept Peking for Beijing.
But certainly there is evidence that once Alaric sacked Rome, Ravenna was more usually regarded as the capital.
Of course this may all be a degree of bullsh1t, but some is correct
Nice quiz - one day i will remember Astana. My trouble I am astill with Alma Ata, for Almaty
Though the ROC is well and alive on Taiwan, in terms of de jure international recognition, the PRC is considered the successor of the ROC, even more so since 1971 when PRC replaced ROC in the UNSC
https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/168699/all-historic-capitals-of-the-us
1. It's hard to spell, and the type-in says you must get the spelling exactly correct.
2. The ones who do think it's Abidjan may not know where Yamoussoukro is.
3. Yamoussoukro is one of the harder capitals to memorize.
4. Even the ones who do know Yamoussoukro may not now Abidjan.
Thanks
*or Byzantium, Nova Roma, Istanbul, Miklagard.. take your pick