English
Pronunciation
Noun
capital city (plural capital cities )
A city that is a seat of government .
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).
( Australia ) 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.
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Translations
city designated as seat of government
Afrikaans: hoofstad (af)
Akan: ahenkuro
Albanian: kryeqytet (sq) m
Amharic: ዋና ከተማ ( wana kätäma )
Arabic: عَاصِمَة (ar) f ( ʕāṣima ) , حَاضِرَة f ( ḥāḍira )
Armenian: մայրաքաղաք (hy) ( mayrakʻaġakʻ )
Asturian: capital f
Avar: тахшагьар ( taxšahar )
Azerbaijani: baş şəhəri , paytaxt (az)
Bashkir: башҡала ( başqala )
Basque: hiriburu (eu)
Bavarian: Hauptstod
Belarusian: сталі́ца f ( stalíca )
Bengali: রাজধানী ( rajdhani )
Breton: kêrbenn
Bulgarian: сто́лица (bg) f ( stólica )
Burmese: မြို့တော် (my) ( mrui.tau )
Buryat: ниислэл хото ( niislel xoto ) , ниислэл ( niislel )
Catalan: capital (ca) f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 首都 ( sau2 dou1 ) ( of a country ) , 省會 / 省会 ( saang2 wui6 ) , 省会 ( saang2 wui6 ) ( of a province )
Dungan: җинчын ( žinčɨn )
Hakka: 首都 ( sú-tû ) ( of a country )
Mandarin: 首都 (zh) ( shǒudū ) ( of a country ) , 省會 / 省会 (zh) ( shěnghuì ) , 省会 (zh) ( shěnghuì ) ( of a province ) , 京城 (zh) ( jīngchéng ) ( literary )
Min Dong: 首都 ( siū-dŭ ) ( of a country )
Min Nan: 首都 (zh-min-nan) ( siú-to͘ ) ( of a country )
Wu: 首都 ( seu tu ) ( of a country )
Chukchi: эвынным ( ėvynnym ) , авынгород ( avyngorod )
Chuvash: тĕп хула ( tĕp hula )
Coptic: ϩⲛⲟⲩⲛⲧⲙⲏ ( hnountmē )
Crimean Tatar: paytaht
Czech: hlavní město (cs) n
Danish: hovedstad (da)
Dutch: hoofdstad (nl) m or f
East Central German: Hauptstoadt f ( Silesian )
Erzya: прявтош ( pŕavtoš )
Esperanto: ĉefurbo (eo)
Estonian: pealinn (et)
Faroese: høvuðsstaður (fo) m
Finnish: pääkaupunki (fi)
French: capitale (fr) f ( of nation ) , chef-lieu (fr) m ( of a region or département )
Friulian: capitâl f
Gagauz: baş kasaba
Georgian: დედაქალაქი ( dedakalaki ) , სატახტო ქალაქი ( saṭaxṭo kalaki )
German: Hauptstadt (de) f
Greek: πρωτεύουσα (el) f ( protévousa )
Ancient: μητρόπολις f ( mētrópolis )
Guaraní: tavusu
Gujarati: રાજધાની ( rājdhānī )
Hawaiian: kapikala
Hebrew: בִּירָה (he) f ( birá )
Hindi: राजधानी f ( rājdhānī ) , दारुलहुकूमत m ( dārulhukūmat )
Hungarian: főváros (hu)
Hunsrik: Hauptstatt f
Icelandic: höfuðborg (is) f
Ido: chef-urbo (io)
Indonesian: ibukota
Irish: príomhchathair f , ceannphort m , ardchathair f
Italian: ( of nation ) capitale (it) f , ( of a state or regione ) capoluogo (it) m
Japanese: 首都 (ja) ( しゅと, shuto ) , 都 (ja) ( miyako )
Javanese: ibu kutha
Kachchi: રાજધાની ( rājdhānī )
Kalmyk: хотл балһсн ( xotl balğsn )
Kannada: ರಾಜಧಾನಿ (kn) ( rājadhāni )
Kashubian: stolëca (csb) f
Kazakh: астана (kk) ( astana )
Khmer: រដ្ឋធានី ( rŏətthaʼthiənii ) , រាជធានី (km) ( riəcthiənii )
Korean: 수도 (ko) ( sudo ) (首都 (ko) ), 서울 (ko) ( seoul )
Kurdish:
Kurmanji: paytext (ku)
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Kyrgyz: борбор (ky) ( borbor ) , борбор шаар ( borbor şaar ) , ордошаар ( ordoşaar ) , башкалаа ( başkalaa )
Lao: ນະຄອນຫລວງ ( na khǭn lūang ) , ກຸງ (lo) ( kung )
Latvian: galvaspilsēta f
Lithuanian: sostinė (lt) f
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Lule Sami: oajvvestáda
Macedonian: гла́вен град m ( gláven grad )
Malagasy: renivohiny (mg)
Malay: ibu negara ( of country ) , ibu negeri ( of state ) , ibu kota ( in general )
Malayalam: തലസ്ഥാനം (ml) ( talasthānaṁ )
Maltese: belt kapitali
Manchu: ᡤᡝᠮᡠᠨ ( gemun ) , ᡥᡝᠴᡝᠨ ( hecen )
Manx: ard-valley m , preeu-valley m
Maori: tino tāone , tāone matua
Marathi: राजधानी f ( rājdhānī )
Moksha: пряош ( pŕaoš )
Mongolian: нийслэл хот (mn) ( niislel xot ) , нийслэл (mn) ( niislel )
Navajo: Wááshindoon bikin
Northern Sami: oaivegávpot
Norwegian:
Bokmål: hovedstad (no) m
Nynorsk: hovudstad m
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Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: стольнъ градъ m ( stolĭnŭ gradŭ )
Old English: hēafodburg f
Old Norse: hǫfuðstaðr m
Ossetian: сӕйраг сахар ( sæjrag saxar )
Pashto: پلازمېنه f ( plâzmena )
Persian: پایتخت (fa) ( pâytaxt )
Pitcairn-Norfolk: kapitel citii
Polish: stolica (pl) f
Portuguese: capital (pt) m or f
Punjabi: ਰਾਜਧਾਨੀ ( rājdhānī )
Romani:
Kalo Finnish Romani: ȟeeresko fooros
Romanian: capitală (ro) f
Romansch: chapitala f ( Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader ) , capitala f ( Sursilvan, Surmiran ) , tgapitala f ( Sutsilvan ) , chapitela f ( Puter ) , cauliug m ( Sursilvan )
Russian: столи́ца (ru) f ( stolíca ) , сто́льный град m ( stólʹnyj grad ) ( archaic or poetic )
Rusyn: головне місто n ( holovne misto )
Sanskrit: राजधानी (sa) f ( rājadhānī )
Scots: caipital ceety
Scottish Gaelic: prìomh-bhaile
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: престоница f , главни град m
Roman: prestonica (sh) f , glavni grad (sh) m
Shor: ӧӧн тура ( öön tura )
Sicilian: capitali (scn)
Sinhalese: අගනුවර (si) ( aganuwara )
Slovak: hlavné mesto n
Slovene: glavno mesto (sl) n , prestolnica (sl) f
Somali: caasimad , magaalomadax
Sorbian:
Upper Sorbian: stolica f , stolica f
Spanish: capital (es) f
Sundanese: dayeuh
Swabian: Haubdschdadd
Swedish: huvudstad (sv) c
Tagalog: kapital , ulunlunsod , pununglunsod
Tajik: пойтахт (tg) ( poytaxt )
Tamil: தலைநகர் ( talainakar )
Tatar: башкала (tt) ( başkala )
Telugu: రాజధాని (te) ( rājadhāni )
Thai: เมืองหลวง (th) ( mʉʉang-lǔuang )
Tibetan: རྒྱལ་ས ( rgyal sa )
Turkish: başkent (tr)
Turkmen: paýtagt
Ukrainian: столи́ця (uk) f ( stolýcja )
Urdu: دارالحکومت ( dār-ul-ḥukūmat )
Uyghur: پايتەخت ( paytext )
Uzbek: poytaxt (uz)
Venetian: cavedal
Vietnamese: thủ đô (vi) (首都 )
Volapük: cifazif (vo) , ( older term ) glezif
Welsh: prifddinas (cy) f
West Frisian: haadstêd (fy)
Western Kayah: ꤠꤟꤤ꤭ꤗꤟꤌꤣ ( vī̤mṳeoe )
Yakut: киин куорат ( kiin kuorat )
Yiddish: הויפּטשטאָט f ( hoyptshtot )
Zhuang: soujduh ( of a country ) , gingsingz ( of a country )