capital city
A city that is a seat of government.
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Linking it to ‘climate crisis’, Amsterdam to ban public ads for meat and fossil fuels | World News https://www.europesays.com/netherlands/8901/ Amsterdam has become the first capital city in the world to ban public…
Week two of our sold out run of #UnderMilkWood in #Cardiff Its so good to be doing this beautiful hit show in our capital city ❤️🏴 #actorslife #theatre #stage
Via Euronews: Amsterdam becomes world's first capital city to ban public adverts for fossil fuels and meat www.euronews.com/2026/02/06/a...
Celebrate Cinco de Mayo at these hot spots around the capital city.
Another day in the capital city…war on/war off 👁️🤡🦨
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A city (or cities) much larger or more important to a country than all others, regardless of the actual seat of government (cf., Moscow and Saint Petersburg regardless of moves of the Russian government; Amsterdam despite the Dutch government having been situated in The Hague since 1588).
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(AU) The major metropolitan areas of Australia (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide), all of which happen to be state capitals, and by extension the major metropolitan areas of other countries; note that other state capitals Hobart, Darwin, and national capital Canberra are often excluded.
“Celebrate Cinco de Mayo at these hot spots around the capital city.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Another day in the capital city…war on/war off 👁️🤡🦨”
— Bluesky· May 2026“At this point, the Met gala just reminds me of those people around power at the Capital city in The Hunger Games.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“These modules represent specific concepts/entities (e.g., China) and relations (e.g., any country's capital city) across prompt contexts. We find that selective ablation and amplification of component features yields predictable counterfactual outputs...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Amsterdam introduces advertisement ban on fossil fuel and meat https://www.europesays.com/dk/75419/ Amsterdam has become the world’s first capital city to prohibit public advertisements for meat products, alongside fossil fuels,.…”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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A city that is a seat of government.
“Linking it to ‘climate crisis’, Amsterdam to ban public ads for meat and fossil fuels | World News https://www.europesays.com/netherlands/8901/ Amsterdam has become the first capital city in the world to ban public advertisements for meat and fossil…”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Week two of our sold out run of #UnderMilkWood in #Cardiff Its so good to be doing this beautiful hit show in our capital city ❤️🏴 #actorslife #theatre #stage”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Via Euronews: Amsterdam becomes world's first capital city to ban public adverts for fossil fuels and meat www.euronews.com/2026/02/06/a...”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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