capital city

As the challenge states, your challenge is to create a situation/scenario in which a nation of your choosing, real or fictitious, has the most capital cities functioning at the same time. Some good places to look may be countries like South Africa, which has 3 capitals.

I am creating a scenario in which Napoleon won the war and Napoleon II, to centralize power, avoid pressure from civil unrest and protect the political center of France from a possible external invasion, decide to move the capital from Paris to somewhere in the geographic center of the country...

OTL Which countries were most affected by technological development? Take the example of Canada, which was a loosely aligned cluster of Maritime Provinces with Quebec and Upper Canada (now Ontario) farther up the Saint Lawrence River. All the "Big Money" was based in Halifax (Nova Scotia...

I currently have a scenario in the works where, following the Spanish-American War, the United States aims to create a union of all Spanish-speaking Caribbean territories (those being Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico) under US protection. What would be the hypothetical capital of...

Hi again. So according to Wikipedia's article on Versailles and of the Kingdom of France, it mentions how it was the capital of France from 1682 till 1789 and after the revolution Returned to Paris as the capital and has not been changed back since then. But my question is... If the French...

Like the title said, what happens if Xi'an became the capital city of China, instead of Beijing or any usual capital cities in Chinese history? Period-wise, it can be around 17th/18th or Modern-day.

The following thread is for a timeline that got started as a result of THIS conversation that I started here last summer. I've been working on if off and on for the past 7 months, and still have a lot of ground to cover, but wanted to go ahead and create a separate thread to share and discuss...

IOTL, China's capitals would mainly be in the West (Chang'an, Luoyang...), the South (Nanjing) or the north (Beijing). What if China had a capital further South, say Canton? How much harder would it be to rule the north from Canton than ruling the South from Beijing? Would this result in...

So most of us know that the British burned the major public buildings in Washington DC when they temporarily occupied the city during the course of the War of 1812. A thunderstorm (or possibly worse) moved in and prevented the fires from doing more damage. When Congress reassembled on September...