List Of North America Capital By Countries In Alphabetical Order

List Of Capital City In  North America Countries:


The capitals play a big part in how the functioning of a nation or a state goes forward.  The name capital in itself signifies the same.  The seat of power resides with the capital.  If you look at the type of capitals in the world, there are mainly two kind if you are looking with regard to political mapping. National capitals and state capitals.  There could be cases where you see that two capitals are not required for two states and hence a city is shared as a capital.  However, when it comes to National capitals, there is a always a requirement to have a single capital.  Only change would be when the capitals are determined by climatic changes in which case there may be a summer capital as well as a winter capital.  Governments choose capitals and its legislative, administrative, and judicial powers are usually centralized there.

It is always interesting to learn more about the capital city of a nation. There are many things about its past that comes forth when you try to learn more about a country.  Let us take the capitals of North American countries. Starting with Washington DC the most famous.  It was formerly the District of Columbia.  This district is not part of any state and is a federal district. The states of Maryland and Virginia provided land to form the federal district.  It has been named in the honour of George Washington, a founding father of the United states of America.

Another famous capital of North America is Havana.  It is the capital of Cuba and also its biggest city, province, and major port.  It is also the most populous city in Cuba.  It was founded by the Spanish and used as a port from where its conquests were made of the mainland.


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