A country's capital city is the economic and political hub of the nation, attracting millions of people to live and work there. But while in most countries the title of capital is reserved for ...

Outside the Great White North, warm-weather cities rank favorably. Barcelona, Miami, Dubai, and Valencia round out the top ...

An Iranian government spokesperson announced that the country is moving its capital city to the south by the coast, inciting ...

largely a result of new countries emerging after the collapse of the British and French empires, the Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia. Most nations chose one city as their official capital ...

Almost half the city is now below sea level ... But Indonesia is by no means the first country to consider moving its capital. Here are some other notable examples: In 1997, President Nursultan ...

Another country - Myanmar (formerly Burma) - also has a remote capital city, and its one is four times the size of London. Nay Pyi Taw was built in 2005 as an isolated refuge for the paranoid ...

To visit, tourists must rely on nearby airports in France and Spain, before completing the final part of the journey by road.

There's a reason states with big-city capitals produce different policies than those headquartered in out of the way places.

Eventually, "the whole country will be managed from within the new capital", Abbas added, but not everyone is convinced. There has been "little public fanfare" over the new city, said The Times ...