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10 states with two or more capitals

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10 states with two or more capitals
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10 states with two or more capitals

Benin, a country in West Africa has two capitals, Port-Novo and Cotonou. In Benin, Porto-Novo has always been the official capital, even when Benin was a French colony. Despite this, Cotonou has always been the city that has housed the country's government.

Bolivia

10 states with two or more capitals

The reason Bolivia has two capitals goes back to the Federal Revolution of 1899. The Liberal Party was mainly supported by tin mining families in La Paz, while the ruling conservative party was mainly supported by silver mining families in Sucre. The liberals overthrew the conservatives and one of their demands was to move the official capital to La Paz.

Chile

10 states with two or more capitals

The reason Chile has two capitals goes back to the end of the reign of dictator and president Augusto Pinochet. Santiago has always been the official capital of Chile, until 1990, it was decided to move the National Congress of Chile from Santiago to the city of Valparaiso as a gesture of decentralization as well as an attempt to appease the public to stay in power.

Georgia

10 states with two or more capitals

The reason Georgia has two capitals is that it can distribute the functions of its government between the two cities and also honor the past of both cities. The city of Tbilisi is the official capital of the country, and is where the executive functions of the government are carried out. The city of Kutaisi, on the other hand, is the legislative capital of the government.

Honduras

10 states with two or more capitals

Tegucigalpa had been the capital of Honduras since 1880 when it was designated as the capital. The catalyst for changing Honduras from a single capital to a country with two capitals then began in 1937. That year the 1936 Honduran Constitution was amended to combine the capital of Tegucigalpa and its sister city of Comayagüela into a Central District.

Ivory Coast

10 states with two or more capitals

The city of Abidjan was declared the capital of Ivory Coast in 1933 when it was still under French rule as a colony and remained the capital after the country became independent. After twenty-three years in office, President Félix Houphouët-Boigny decided to move the country's official capital from Abidjan to his hometown of Yamoussoukro.

Malaysia

10 states with two or more capitals

The reason Malaysia has two capitals is recent and has to do with overcrowding and political gridlock in the official capital of Kuala Lumpur. The Malaysian government recognized that this was a problem and decided to take action. The city of Putrajaya was established in 1995 and by 1999 it was ready for the seat of government and the judiciary to move to the city.

Montenegro

10 states with two or more capitals

The reason Montenegro has two capitals is because it is a way to honor its past history. Podgorica is the official capital of Montenegro and where all the functions of the country's government take place. The city of Cetinje has the honor of having the status of being the historical capital of the country.

Netherlands

10 states with two or more capitals

Unlike most of the countries on this list, the Netherlands has always had two capitals. Amsterdam has been the country's official and constitutionally mandated capital since 1814 when the country's new kingdom was established after independence from French rule. However, The Hague has been the seat of all government functions for the country since 1588.

South Africa

10 states with two or more capitals

The reason South Africa is the only country in the world with three different official capitals goes back to the 1910 unification of South Africa. At this point in time the four founding provinces of South Africa, Cape Colony, Orange River Colony, Transvaal Colony and Natal Colony, could not establish a capital that could be shared by all. They eventually came to an agreement where each would have a capital: Cape Town, Bloemfontein and Pretoria.

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