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Topic	If Earth became one nation, where should the capital be?
adjl 02/02/24 1:39:15 PM #38:	Dikitain posted... 239 - 94 is still most. I'd say you have to get below 100k for "a few thousand" to be a reasonable way to represent the figure, and of the 66 countries whose capitals are sub-100k, 50 have more than 10% of their total population in the capital city. Capitals aren't necessarily the largest urban centres in their respective countries, certainly (that Wikipedia article links to another one specifically dedicated to countries whose capitals aren't their largest cities), but a large majority of them do have a significant number of people (if not by raw numbers, in proportion to the total population of the country). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. <cite>adjl posted [p:978615874] in If Earth b... [t:80684996]...</cite> <quote>Dikitain posted... </cite><quote>239 - 94 is still most.</quote>I'd say you have to get below 100k for "a few thousand" to be a reasonable way to represent the figure, and of the 66 countries whose capitals are sub-100k, 50 have more than 10% of their total population in the capital city. Capitals aren't necessarily the largest urban centres in their respective countries, certainly (that Wikipedia article links to another one specifically dedicated to countries whose capitals aren't their largest cities), but a large majority of them do have a significant number of people (if not by raw numbers, in proportion to the total population of the country). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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