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What's in a Capital Name?: Where the World's Capitals Came From, What Their Names Mean, and Why Each One Is Where It Is

What's in a Capital Name?: Where the World's Capitals Came From, What Their Names Mean, and Why Each One Is Where It Is

Publishing, Parma

Paperback

Series: What's in a Name?

AtlasesGeneral ReferenceGeneral World History

Currently unavailable to order

ISBN13: 9798177634579
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.51 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Why does Ethiopia's capital mean New Flower? Why is Iceland's capital named Smoky Bay when it's one of the cleanest cities on Earth?

Every national capital has a name, and every name has a reason. Some capitals were built from nothing on empty land. Some were chosen to keep two rival cities from winning. Some carry the name of a king, a saint, or a slogan from a revolution - and a few are still fighting over what to be called next.

What's in a Capital Name? is a complete, one-page-per-country guide to all 197 national capitals on Earth - their origins, their name meanings, and the sometimes strange history of how each one won the job.

Every entry includes:

  • The name's origin and what it literally means
  • An American-English pronunciation guide, with native-script spelling where it applies
  • How the city became the capital - and which rival city it beat
  • A five-point timeline from founding to today
  • Former and alternative names
  • A locator map
  • A stand-out fact you'll actually remember
Plus back-of-book guides to capitals that were purpose-built, capitals that moved, capitals that aren't their country's largest city, contested and multi-seat capitals, a quiz, and a glossary.

Whether you're a geography obsessive, a trivia-night ringer, or just someone who has always wondered why the capital of Bolivia isn't the city everyone thinks it is, this is the reference book that finally explains it.

Part of the What's in a Name? series from Parma Publishing, alongside What's in a Name? (country names) and the forthcoming What's in a Flag? and What's in a State Name?

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