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The municipality with the longest name in Brazil is Vila Bela da Santíssima Trindade, with 32 characters (including spaces). The municipality with the longest name in Mexico is Dolores Hidalgo Cuna de la Independencia Nacional (49 characters). [39] The longest place name in Mexico is San Pedro y San Pablo Tequixtepec (28 letters).
Old capital city Country Today a part of From Until Change, reason Melbourne: Australia: Australia 1901–1908: 1927 Melbourne was the de facto seat of Government from 1901 until 1927, when in 1908, it was decided that the planned city of Canberra be the capital city and seat of Government. [8] [9] [a] Levuka: Colony of Fiji: Fiji: 1874 1877 ...
Quezon City (1948–1976): named after Manuel L. Quezon, the former president of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, during whose term the city was established and began to be developed to replace Manila as the country's capital. Cebu City (1565–1571): Spanish corruption of the Cebuano word sugbu ("to walk on shallow waters"), referring to ...
Belize City was the capital of Belize's predecessor, British Honduras. Berlin Germany: Europe: Bonn was the capital of West Germany and remained the seat of government for reunified Germany until 1999, and is still the primary seat of six ministries. See also Capital of Germany. Bern (de facto) Switzerland: Bishkek Kyrgyzstan: Asia: Bissau ...
States (highlighted in purple) whose capital city is also their most populous States (highlighted in blue) that have changed their capital city at least once. This is a list of capital cities of the United States, including places that serve or have served as federal, state, insular area, territorial, colonial and Native American capitals.
At 58 characters it is the longest place name in the United Kingdom and second longest official one-word place name in the world. SEE MORE: Watch Naomi Watts pronounce the longest town name in Britain
List of capital cities by elevation; List of national capitals serving as administrative divisions; List of former national capitals; List of countries whose capital is not their largest city; List of purpose-built national capitals; List of national capitals situated on an international border
This is a list of cities and towns whose names were officially changed at one or more points in history. It does not include gradual changes in spelling that took place over long periods of time.