Salvador also used to be Brazil's capital. Another example would be Portugal's capital being Rio de Janeiro for a few years, making it the only European country which had its capital outside Europe.
No, Bonn is no capital anymore. They just call it "Bundesstadt Bonn", which doesn´t have a real value, except that they still have some ministries there.
Agent Coco Also at the time, Germany had a very limited souvereignity over Berlin. It was jointly governed by the four victory powers of WW2. Only local administration was delegated to the inhabitants.
+Conchita Mendez Actually the "Ghost Entity" wouldn't be the German Empire, which was legally abolished, but the Weimar Republic. When the Nazis surrendered in World War 2, the state of Germany did not technically surrender but only the armed forces. When Hitler died he appointed Karl Donitz as the new "President" but this would technically be illegal as the Enabling Act did not change the fact that the President still had to be democratically elected by the German people. Therefore when Hitler died the Weimar Constitution effectively became valid again before Germany surrendered. According to the Weimar Constituition only a legally elected President could sign a deed of surrender. As a result only the army could technically surrender, not the state of Germany which still existed, but was now without a President or government. The allied forces then illegally occupied Germany and created two illegal constructs (BDR and DDR) on top of the still existing Weimar Republic. It's very much a legal anomaly if you want to get technical about it. The same is also the case with Danzig which was illegally made a part of Poland. The Free City of Danzig was actually completely neutral during the war as it's annexaiton was what started it. Therefore the Nazi annexation was illegal and it's occupation by the Soviets. Giving Poland Danzig would also then be illegal as the Free City of Danzig was neutral and occupied. So technically the Weimar Republic and the Free City of Danzig legally speaking still exist with their 1933 borders. They just don't have a government and exist in perpetual legal limbo, occupied by three illegal constructs (BDR, Poland and the Kaliningrad Oblast).
You forgot Berlin which became the capital of Germany again in 1990 after the unification of East and West Germany. Before that Bonn was the capital of West Germany.
@@moormonkey it actually didnt. the democratic german republic ceased to exist, but the federal republic of germany didnt. they just gained more territory.
Just to clarify Australia making Canberra the capital - the site was chosen as it was central to 5 of the 6 Capital cities (Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and Hobart). You were never going to please Perth.
The US changed it’s capital like 8 or 9 times. This was in its early history so no one here thinks of New York as the capital. It’s just our largest city.
Pakistan didn't do a bad job changing its capital. You believe it or not but Islamabad is actually at the center of Pakistan. Because the Himalayas are in the north and on those curvy roads you can't drive at a speed more than 60 km/h.However the south is almost plain. So, keeping in view the time it takes to reach Islamabad is same from the most northern parts of Pakistan and the most southern parts of Pakistan.
london has always been capital of england since england was unifired from the small countries which are now counties of wessex sussex etc until the norman invastion england wasnt engalnd as its known now untill 1300s parts of normandy in france was part of england and wales was ruled by a prince
Winchester was the capital of England until 1066 with the Norman conquest, it was also the capital of Wessex which united all the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms into England in 927 AD
Globalization in Question Westminster hasn't been separate from London for centuries. I'll admit that the city of London is a different entity to London but Westminster is definitely part of London, as are all the former villages and towns that got absorbed and became boroughs.
A couple of main reasons for Islamabad being the new capital of Pakistan is that they wanted to assert more of a claim on the Jammu & Kashmir region that they are in dispute with India, & to be closer to the tribal areas that themselves assert their autonomy from the government. It was not so much centralization.
I was waiting if Malaysia would make an appearance in this video, since I live somewhere near between now Capital city Putrajaya, and Silicon valley Cyberjaya.
Of course. I just thought that it would be signifficant, because it was very recently. But I don't really think that I'm the one to judge :) Really appreciate the thing you are doing, keep it up. Looking forward to your future educational videos
So not talking about Germany once in this video? You know FRG/ BRD/ Western Germany kinda changed it twice in the last 100 years. From Berlin to Bonn after WW2 and then back to Berlin with the reunion. The twice thing would have been a cool fact I guess.
I decided not to cover the countries which newly existed and such (even though western germany technically existed since 45 the reunified germany is kind of like a new country in some ways) but that is one of the most fascinating examples
+ibx2cat hm i kinda see the where Western Germany can be seen as a new country. I personally thought of it that Western Germany just lost the area of GDR back then, existed continously until today, even getting the GDR area back. I feel that way its taught in German schools. But i understand your arguement too.
I disagree there.....Germany was always Germany, wall or not, and it is not like West Germany wouldn't have the theoretical option to keep the half of Berlin it still had as capital. The reasons why they didn't are quite interesting.
+swanpride You dont send your most important politicians into an area that is surrounded by your kinda enemy. The soviets could easily taken over West Berlin if they wanted to risk 3rd world war. Then the cancelor and president are in soviet captivity... Thats probably the main reason or did i miss it?
In my school they think the same plus they think Sydney is the capital of Australia, Barcelona the capital of Spain, New York the capital of USA and maybe even Tokyo capital of China fpp
Luciano Petrucci nobody, someone maybe said that long ago and it became a thing here in Brazil (people think Buenos Aires is the capital of Brazil) but people aren't this dumb since the digital revolution
In 1861, when Italy unificated, the capital was set to Turin, and then moved to Florence, because Rome was still under Pope state. When Pope state was reduced to what is now, the capital was set to Rome, according to the original plan.
It also actually had an interesting reason (reinforcing Kazakh claims to the Russian-majority north and providing a strong defensive base against Russia) rather than being another instance of centralization.
Well, Brasilia is pretty well centered if you consider that most of the north (mostly Acre, Amazonas, Rondonia and Roraima) is uninhabited rainforest... also, oftenly countries don't really want to move the capital to the center, but away from the larger cities since that makes revolutions a lot harder.
Islamabad was chosen as Pakistan's capital city because it is defensible given the geography of the region. The city lies on the hills which eventually become the Himalaya mountains. It is surrounded on all sides by hills or mountains meaning that movement of foreign troops is seriously impeeded. It was choosen as the capital of the country at a time when armed conflict with India was regularly taking place (since becoming a nuclear power India does not pose an existential threat to Pakistan anymore but it did in the decades just after independence). As for Karachi being violent, that is a very recent phenomenon. For most of Pakistan's history Karachi has been a perfectly safe city and it is only in the decade following the US invasion of Afghanistan that the whole region was destabilized including Karachi which recieved an influx of Afghan refugees. Today Karachi is much safer again as the "Rangers" have been deployed in the city to aid the local police.
Brasil changed its capital to Brasilia more as an economic tool to move cities in new agricultural area of country. by adding phosphorous and limestone to soil they expanded there agriculture lands 5x. also Rio and Soa Paulo where built wedged between the mountains and the sea, so basically they are about maxed out in size. You should do an episode on Brasil, very interesting geography and history of why its developed the way it did because of it.
Great video - I really like your work. I think you might have forgotten two recent very obscure ones: Equatorial Guinea changed its capital from Malabo to Oyem inland. And Burma. Keep up the good work though! Thank you.
I really like the way you talk. I find it very easy to stay on topic and your enthusiasm gets me as well. Don't listen to all those people telling you to talk slower. My ADHD brain would not be able to watch 20 minute Geography videos other ways :P
Brazil didn't make a bad job putting the Capital Brasília in the center of the country, actually, the distance between the city and the center point (Planaltina) is about 38 kilometers.
Hey, so the reason some countries say that they changed their capital to be more centralized is because it is centered around the populous areas of a country, not around its borders. Most of northern and western Brazil is unpopulated because of the rainforests, and most of the population of Australia is on the east coast.
Brasília is estimated to have now (as of late 2021) surpasses Salvador to become Brazil's third biggest city. São Paulo is also now estimated to be the most populous city (metropolitan region included) in the West.
actually once you leave out the Amazon rain forest (and there's hardly anyone past Manaus up there) Brasilia is pretty central for the rest of the country.
The U.S. has had several capital cities lol. Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York, and Washington, including others during the revolution. Also I guess you could include Richmond, as it was the capital of the Confederacy.
This is very informative and entertaining. thanks for the good job you do. One minor note. Because I'm autistic, anything that is a little bit distracting is VERY distracting. I would appreciate it a lot if you slowed down your speech about 20%. I know that can be done with youtube settings, but it hurts the quality to do that. Just relax. Take a deep breath, and use a conversational tone, and I think you'll do great. It's not a race, it's a journey. :-) thanks! I gave you a thumbs up.
*In 1944-45 nazi germany destroyed Warsaw to zero. Warsaw didn't exist in 1945. Until now, rubble is being exported from Warsaw.* The first capital of Poland was Gniezdno, second - Cracow, and now Warsaw. America loves Poland, America loves polish people.
You should do a video on countries with multiple capitals, like South Africa. Not de-facto capitals but fully recognised capitals. Or atleast one on South Africa's capitals.
fjellyo32 most of the population lives in the south east, so Canberra is in the most ideal spot. Like nobody lives in the outback, it’s way too hot and isolated.
If Finland were to change capital away from Helsinki then Tampere would make most sense. It's the 3rd biggest one and biggest outside capital region and biggest inland city. Then if capital would need to be closer to geopraphical center then Oulu would make most sense. Finland's weber point (center of population) is at Hämeenlinna which is roughly halfway between Helsinki (100km) and Tampere (70km) so maybe that would be a weird compromise.
You missed Montserrat, I believe it was 92 or 97 they changed their capital due to their former capital Plymouth being buried under several layers of volcanic ash and lahars.
You could also mantion Italy, that changed capital a lot of times, the last one being Salerno during the IIWW, I didn't know about Salerno before now, I serched on Wikipedia
Bangladesh used to be east Pakistan. The only thing united them was the religion and struggle for freedom. The location was chosen so that no single ethnicity would feel left out, to balance Bengal and Punjab. edit: Pakistan has google and google maps lol.
Swap religion with language. Bengali nationalism didn't care about religion (Bangladesh had about 15% Hindu population then), but about the pride of the Bengali language
You left out how Russian had their capital first Moscow then Saint Petersburg and then Moscow again (last switch happened about 100 years ago) In Finland there has been capital switching too, first capital was Turku, but when Russian taked over them from Sweden they ordered to switch capital to Helsinki. (that happened 195 years ago)
All of the capital changes shown here are when countries have built a new purpose-built capital city. This video should be called "6 Countries That Built a New Capital City". I used to think New York & Sydney were capitals because they were the only cities I'd heard of in their respective countries. It was used as a trick question in school. I ended up hearing of Canberra before I heard of Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane or Perth for this very reason.
some countries have 2 capital citys 1 is usaly a financal capital (frankfurt, lagos, amsterdam) and the other polictical (berlin, abuja, the hague) also york was known as the capital of the north until the turdor times and the royal family often living in york castle rather then london
Abuja was built because lots of Nigerians from the north complaind that the capital is very far some them, so the government built abuja from dust, the place abuja is located now was a forest 35 years ago
Tropicalblueful South Africa now has three capitals. Cape Town is its legislative capital, Pretoria is where the President lives, and Bloemfontein is the judicial capital.
Poland has changed capital 2 times! At first its capital was in Gniezno, in Wielkopolska, region, in which the Poland started existing. In 1038 it was moved to Cracow, because Gniezno was crashed. And it was capital for hundreds of years, but in 1609 it was changed to Warsaw, because it was more centralized and waterways were shorter than from Cracow, located in south. After WW2 communists wanted to centralize capital and move it to Łódź (almost in the center of Poland), because Warsaw was crashed in 84% by Germans. But by very hard and *great* work of workers it was reconstructed, so if you'll go to Warsaw, you won't think this city was in 84% reconstructed in 40's, 50's, 60's, 70s, and 80s. *AND YOU DIDN'T MENTION THAT?*
For Australia, the compromise was that Melbourne would be the capital until Canberra was built. Consequently, Sydney has never been the capital of Australia, while Melbourne has. Of course, Sydney was the capital of the colony of New South Wales, which until around 170 years ago, included the territories of both the, first colonies, now states of Queensland and Victoria.
correct me if i'm wrong, but trying to remember what we learned at school when i was little, i think in Norway, Nidaros (later renamed Trondheim) was the capital, and i think even before that, Bjørgvin (later renamed Bergen) was the capital sometime for 500 years ago until it changed for 100-200 years ago from Trondheim to Christiania (later renamed Oslo)
Norway has changed it's capital quite a lot of times. It used to be Bergen, then it was Oslo, then we were in a union with Denmark (making Copenhagen the capital), then we were in a union with Sweden (Stockholm). Then back to Oslo again What a bruh moment
I'm surprised you didn't talk about Myanmar at all, because it changed its capital from Yangon to Naypyidaw only a few years ago and for pretty much no reason at all
*More facts about Brazil and its capital:* .Rio used to be the capital of Portugal .Brasilia is shaped like an aeroplane .Also only took 44 months to build Brasilia from scratch, including a giant artificial lake .One of the main reasons the capital was moved was because popular movements were very effective in Rio since the streets are narrow and it is faced against the ocean so war ships were often used to threat the government also... it kind of is a ... "big player"...but you know... maybe I'm biased
South Korea didn't change capitals per se... but they did adopt a 2 capital model and there is Seoul, the main capital, and Sejong, the second capital. I think that's correct...
Bolivia didn't change it's capital but it technically has 3, Sucre is the Plurinational Capital, La Paz is the Political Capital and Santa Cruz is the Econimic Capital
Salvador also used to be Brazil's capital. Another example would be Portugal's capital being Rio de Janeiro for a few years, making it the only European country which had its capital outside Europe.
When Salvador was the "capital" of Brazil, it was not a country yet though, so I'm not sure if it counts...
@@jvspa2000 It was considered by Portugal a state
@@jvspa2000 claro que conta
The capital of the Federal Republic of Germany was changed as recently as 1990... It used to be Bonn before that
'de jure' It still is, if im not mistaking.
No, Bonn is no capital anymore. They just call it "Bundesstadt Bonn", which doesn´t have a real value, except that they still have some ministries there.
I wouldnt count it
It was just to make germanies capital more safe
So if russia would have invaded they would have captured berlin really fast
Agent Coco Also at the time, Germany had a very limited souvereignity over Berlin. It was jointly governed by the four victory powers of WW2. Only local administration was delegated to the inhabitants.
+Conchita Mendez
Actually the "Ghost Entity" wouldn't be the German Empire, which was legally abolished, but the Weimar Republic. When the Nazis surrendered in World War 2, the state of Germany did not technically surrender but only the armed forces. When Hitler died he appointed Karl Donitz as the new "President" but this would technically be illegal as the Enabling Act did not change the fact that the President still had to be democratically elected by the German people.
Therefore when Hitler died the Weimar Constitution effectively became valid again before Germany surrendered. According to the Weimar Constituition only a legally elected President could sign a deed of surrender. As a result only the army could technically surrender, not the state of Germany which still existed, but was now without a President or government.
The allied forces then illegally occupied Germany and created two illegal constructs (BDR and DDR) on top of the still existing Weimar Republic. It's very much a legal anomaly if you want to get technical about it.
The same is also the case with Danzig which was illegally made a part of Poland. The Free City of Danzig was actually completely neutral during the war as it's annexaiton was what started it. Therefore the Nazi annexation was illegal and it's occupation by the Soviets. Giving Poland Danzig would also then be illegal as the Free City of Danzig was neutral and occupied.
So technically the Weimar Republic and the Free City of Danzig legally speaking still exist with their 1933 borders. They just don't have a government and exist in perpetual legal limbo, occupied by three illegal constructs (BDR, Poland and the Kaliningrad Oblast).
I just noticed that there's a country called Benin and there's the Benin city, but Benin city is not in Benin, it's in Nigeria
Thanks colonialism
Like Oklahoma City
@@thecommunistpartyofvooperi9613 Oklahoma City is in Oklahoma and it's the capital of the state.
@@thecommunistpartyofvooperi9613 but oklahoma city is in oklahoma
@@carpetchair5778 Oklahoma isn't real. It's a liberal myth.
The former kingdom of Benin is in modern day Nigeria
You forgot Berlin which became the capital of Germany again in 1990 after the unification of East and West Germany. Before that Bonn was the capital of West Germany.
it doesn't count, for obvious reasons
@@moormonkey it actually didnt. the democratic german republic ceased to exist, but the federal republic of germany didnt. they just gained more territory.
@@johnappleseed3428 I didn’t know that! Cool!
Just to clarify Australia making Canberra the capital - the site was chosen as it was central to 5 of the 6 Capital cities (Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and Hobart). You were never going to please Perth.
yeah, screw perth
😂😂
Rio de Janeiro was the capital of Portugal too. Rio was the first European capital outside of Europe.
I am portuguese and i didn´t knew about that :p
It wasn't the capital of Portugal, it was the capital of the Portuguese Empire as a whole
Rafael Fronja Then Istanbul was the first european capital outside europe.
+Lucas And Portugal was part of the Portuguese empire, wasn't it?
Cool fact
The US changed it’s capital like 8 or 9 times. This was in its early history so no one here thinks of New York as the capital. It’s just our largest city.
Dunkleosteus the capitol moved a lot with the continental congress right?
Yes, The First and Second Continental Congress, Congress under the Articles of Confederation, and Congress under the Constitution.
new york was only a few years philadelphia was a few decades before it became washington d.c
I used to think new York was the capital so don't assume that no one is as ignorant as me.
Declaration of independence was signed in Philly, it's first capitol as an independent country
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Ah, yes, Pakistan's old capital, *Pakistan.*
France is the capital of Paris?Are you sure about that Toycat.
I am sure Holland is the capital of Amsterdam. :p
France is my city?
ibx2cat you’ve just made my day
+ibx2cat Hahaha Toy Crompton
ibx2cat FYROM
Pakistan didn't do a bad job changing its capital. You believe it or not but Islamabad is actually at the center of Pakistan. Because the Himalayas are in the north and on those curvy roads you can't drive at a speed more than 60 km/h.However the south is almost plain. So, keeping in view the time it takes to reach Islamabad is same from the most northern parts of Pakistan and the most southern parts of Pakistan.
brilliant!
London was made the capital because of its river access, the world doesn't wanna trade with Tom from the midlands city,
londinium was capital since Rome collapsed
london has always been capital of england since england was unifired from the small countries which are now counties of wessex sussex etc until the norman invastion england wasnt engalnd as its known now untill 1300s parts of normandy in france was part of england and wales was ruled by a prince
Winchester was the capital of England until 1066 with the Norman conquest, it was also the capital of Wessex which united all the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms into England in 927 AD
Globalization in Question Westminster hasn't been separate from London for centuries. I'll admit that the city of London is a different entity to London but Westminster is definitely part of London, as are all the former villages and towns that got absorbed and became boroughs.
Colchester was the Capital city when the Romans were here
A couple of main reasons for Islamabad being the new capital of Pakistan is that they wanted to assert more of a claim on the Jammu & Kashmir region that they are in dispute with India, & to be closer to the tribal areas that themselves assert their autonomy from the government. It was not so much centralization.
hey! How about Kazakhstani capital? It was changed quite recently. In 1997
It wasn't meant to be every capital change, maybe I should do another in the future though!
I was waiting if Malaysia would make an appearance in this video, since I live somewhere near between now Capital city Putrajaya, and Silicon valley Cyberjaya.
I'd be surprised to see any southeast asian country mentioned here.
Palau?
Of course. I just thought that it would be signifficant, because it was very recently. But I don't really think that I'm the one to judge :) Really appreciate the thing you are doing, keep it up. Looking forward to your future educational videos
almost every country has changed their capital city
Not my city
london?
NeverStopQuestioning yes
Except México, since the Aztec era, Tenochtitlán (México City) has always been the capital of Mexico.
So not talking about Germany once in this video? You know FRG/ BRD/ Western Germany kinda changed it twice in the last 100 years. From Berlin to Bonn after WW2 and then back to Berlin with the reunion. The twice thing would have been a cool fact I guess.
I decided not to cover the countries which newly existed and such (even though western germany technically existed since 45 the reunified germany is kind of like a new country in some ways) but that is one of the most fascinating examples
+ibx2cat hm i kinda see the where Western Germany can be seen as a new country. I personally thought of it that Western Germany just lost the area of GDR back then, existed continously until today, even getting the GDR area back. I feel that way its taught in German schools. But i understand your arguement too.
twitertaker he did mention Germany, he said everyone knows Germany’s capital is Berlin
I disagree there.....Germany was always Germany, wall or not, and it is not like West Germany wouldn't have the theoretical option to keep the half of Berlin it still had as capital. The reasons why they didn't are quite interesting.
+swanpride You dont send your most important politicians into an area that is surrounded by your kinda enemy. The soviets could easily taken over West Berlin if they wanted to risk 3rd world war. Then the cancelor and president are in soviet captivity... Thats probably the main reason or did i miss it?
All my friends at school think rio is the capital of Brazil I try telling them but they disagree
at least they think Rio is the capital, some people say it's Buenos Aires
In my school they think the same plus they think Sydney is the capital of Australia, Barcelona the capital of Spain, New York the capital of USA and maybe even Tokyo capital of China fpp
How does such a conversation last more than the two seconds it takes to look it up on your phone?
who the hell thinks Buenos Aires is the capital of Brazil
Luciano Petrucci nobody, someone maybe said that long ago and it became a thing here in Brazil (people think Buenos Aires is the capital of Brazil) but people aren't this dumb since the digital revolution
In 1861, when Italy unificated, the capital was set to Turin, and then moved to Florence, because Rome was still under Pope state.
When Pope state was reduced to what is now, the capital was set to Rome, according to the original plan.
What about Kazakhstan?
1997 Almaty -> Astana
It also actually had an interesting reason (reinforcing Kazakh claims to the Russian-majority north and providing a strong defensive base against Russia) rather than being another instance of centralization.
Turn the speed down to 0.75x and he sounds normal hahaha
2x is normaal u dum dum
I love when my country is mentioned, but when my city is mentioned, i cry tears of joy
VAPORWAVE WILL NEVER DIE which
Well, Brasilia is pretty well centered if you consider that most of the north (mostly Acre, Amazonas, Rondonia and Roraima) is uninhabited rainforest... also, oftenly countries don't really want to move the capital to the center, but away from the larger cities since that makes revolutions a lot harder.
Islamabad was chosen as Pakistan's capital city because it is defensible given the geography of the region. The city lies on the hills which eventually become the Himalaya mountains. It is surrounded on all sides by hills or mountains meaning that movement of foreign troops is seriously impeeded. It was choosen as the capital of the country at a time when armed conflict with India was regularly taking place (since becoming a nuclear power India does not pose an existential threat to Pakistan anymore but it did in the decades just after independence).
As for Karachi being violent, that is a very recent phenomenon. For most of Pakistan's history Karachi has been a perfectly safe city and it is only in the decade following the US invasion of Afghanistan that the whole region was destabilized including Karachi which recieved an influx of Afghan refugees. Today Karachi is much safer again as the "Rangers" have been deployed in the city to aid the local police.
Well, it is about being near to Punjab, which is the dominant community in Pakistan.
Brasil changed its capital to Brasilia more as an economic tool to move cities in new agricultural area of country. by adding phosphorous and limestone to soil they expanded there agriculture lands 5x. also Rio and Soa Paulo where built wedged between the mountains and the sea, so basically they are about maxed out in size. You should do an episode on Brasil, very interesting geography and history of why its developed the way it did because of it.
Great video - I really like your work. I think you might have forgotten two recent very obscure ones: Equatorial Guinea changed its capital from Malabo to Oyem inland. And Burma. Keep up the good work though! Thank you.
romania changed capital from sani segetuza to agres to targoviste then to Bucharest
I really like the way you talk. I find it very easy to stay on topic and your enthusiasm gets me as well. Don't listen to all those people telling you to talk slower. My ADHD brain would not be able to watch 20 minute Geography videos other ways :P
Indonesia is planning to change the capital
i thought that england was a city....
Septowngames 🤦♂️
lol england is my city
it had to be said...
Brazil didn't make a bad job putting the Capital Brasília in the center of the country, actually, the distance between the city and the center point (Planaltina) is about 38 kilometers.
Central capitals should be based on the population center, not the geographical center.
Hey, so the reason some countries say that they changed their capital to be more centralized is because it is centered around the populous areas of a country, not around its borders. Most of northern and western Brazil is unpopulated because of the rainforests, and most of the population of Australia is on the east coast.
Brasília is estimated to have now (as of late 2021) surpasses Salvador to become Brazil's third biggest city. São Paulo is also now estimated to be the most populous city (metropolitan region included) in the West.
actually once you leave out the Amazon rain forest (and there's hardly anyone past Manaus up there) Brasilia is pretty central for the rest of the country.
The U.S. has had several capital cities lol.
Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York, and Washington, including others during the revolution. Also I guess you could include Richmond, as it was the capital of the Confederacy.
This is very informative and entertaining. thanks for the good job you do. One minor note. Because I'm autistic, anything that is a little bit distracting is VERY distracting. I would appreciate it a lot if you slowed down your speech about 20%. I know that can be done with youtube settings, but it hurts the quality to do that. Just relax. Take a deep breath, and use a conversational tone, and I think you'll do great. It's not a race, it's a journey. :-) thanks! I gave you a thumbs up.
Bulgaria changed capital twice
Tanzania 1996 from Dar es Salam to Dodoma
You forgot Poland. Poland changed their old capital, Kraków (Cracow), to Warsaw in 1595 (i think).
I thought melbourne was the capital of Australia. well rip
Mr. H damn I randomly found you here
Admit it, you're just a stalker
*facepalm*
Dang you caught me, I'm such a bad liar
“well”, honey you’re wrong
Fun fact: Equatorial Guinea is currently building a new capital called "Oyala"
Poland changed its capital city twice
JakubdotPLGB The past 105 years
:(
JakubdotPLGB ha goteeeeeeem
Sir Cheeseaton nah what fits is truth teller
*In 1944-45 nazi germany destroyed Warsaw to zero. Warsaw didn't exist in 1945. Until now, rubble is being exported from Warsaw.* The first capital of Poland was Gniezdno, second - Cracow, and now Warsaw. America loves Poland, America loves polish people.
Finland changed it's capital from Turku to Helsinki
More like Russians changed Finnish capital from Turku to Helsinki, but noting wrong with that.
Kosta M. vitun ryssä
You should do a video on countries with multiple capitals, like South Africa. Not de-facto capitals but fully recognised capitals. Or atleast one on South Africa's capitals.
New York was never the US's capital. Its old capital was Philadelphia.
It was
Australia should've moved the capital to Alice.
revin hatol only about 20,000 live people live there, it’s really small and isolated so no. Our capital is canberra :)
Ayrton Fry but Alive Springs is really central located^^
fjellyo32 most of the population lives in the south east, so Canberra is in the most ideal spot. Like nobody lives in the outback, it’s way too hot and isolated.
Ayrton Fry Alice springs is not in the outback
GREATESTLEGENDEVER 08 um yes it is, I live in australia
If Finland were to change capital away from Helsinki then Tampere would make most sense. It's the 3rd biggest one and biggest outside capital region and biggest inland city. Then if capital would need to be closer to geopraphical center then Oulu would make most sense. Finland's weber point (center of population) is at Hämeenlinna which is roughly halfway between Helsinki (100km) and Tampere (70km) so maybe that would be a weird compromise.
You missed Germany. Changed its capital from Bonn to Berlin in 1991 by the "Hauptstadtbeschluss".
Hungary's capital used to be Debrecen but now, Budapest
You missed Montserrat, I believe it was 92 or 97 they changed their capital due to their former capital Plymouth being buried under several layers of volcanic ash and lahars.
You could also mantion Italy, that changed capital a lot of times, the last one being Salerno during the IIWW, I didn't know about Salerno before now, I serched on Wikipedia
Bangladesh used to be east Pakistan.
The only thing united them was the religion and struggle for freedom.
The location was chosen so that no single ethnicity would feel left out, to balance Bengal and Punjab.
edit: Pakistan has google and google maps lol.
Swap religion with language. Bengali nationalism didn't care about religion (Bangladesh had about 15% Hindu population then), but about the pride of the Bengali language
You left out how Russian had their capital first Moscow then Saint Petersburg and then Moscow again (last switch happened about 100 years ago) In Finland there has been capital switching too, first capital was Turku, but when Russian taked over them from Sweden they ordered to switch capital to Helsinki. (that happened 195 years ago)
Fun fact: Finland’s capital used to be Turku, but it was changed to Helsinki, since there was a massive fire. Helsinki was founded in the 1500’s.
16:52 "I've offended literally everyone." I fucking died lmao
All of the capital changes shown here are when countries have built a new purpose-built capital city. This video should be called "6 Countries That Built a New Capital City".
I used to think New York & Sydney were capitals because they were the only cities I'd heard of in their respective countries. It was used as a trick question in school. I ended up hearing of Canberra before I heard of Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane or Perth for this very reason.
I remember thinking that Sidney was the Australian capital 😂
Same. Lol 🤣
Philadelphia then Washington D.C.
You forgot Poland
some countries have 2 capital citys 1 is usaly a financal capital (frankfurt, lagos, amsterdam) and the other polictical (berlin, abuja, the hague)
also york was known as the capital of the north until the turdor times and the royal family often living in york castle rather then london
Doesn't South Africa have 3 capitals?
You forgot about Lithuania. Their capitol used to be Kaunas before WWII and then once the Soviet Union dissolved Vilnius became their new capitol.
Torino and firenze were capitals before rome here in italy
"Do you want a baby? CUT IT IN HALF!" - ibx2cat xddd
13:55
Ibx: N-gr
Media: *pulls out shotgun
Abuja was built because lots of Nigerians from the north complaind that the capital is very far some them, so the government built abuja from dust, the place abuja is located now was a forest 35 years ago
You forgot South Africa. Its capital was once Johannesburg then they changed it to Cape Town and of recent. It changed to Pretoria.
Tropicalblueful South Africa now has three capitals. Cape Town is its legislative capital, Pretoria is where the President lives, and Bloemfontein is the judicial capital.
I live in Brasilia, and it really grows really fast.
Poland has changed capital 2 times! At first its capital was in Gniezno, in Wielkopolska, region, in which the Poland started existing. In 1038 it was moved to Cracow, because Gniezno was crashed. And it was capital for hundreds of years, but in 1609 it was changed to Warsaw, because it was more centralized and waterways were shorter than from Cracow, located in south. After WW2 communists wanted to centralize capital and move it to Łódź (almost in the center of Poland), because Warsaw was crashed in 84% by Germans. But by very hard and *great* work of workers it was reconstructed, so if you'll go to Warsaw, you won't think this city was in 84% reconstructed in 40's, 50's, 60's, 70s, and 80s.
*AND YOU DIDN'T MENTION THAT?*
For Australia, the compromise was that Melbourne would be the capital until Canberra was built. Consequently, Sydney has never been the capital of Australia, while Melbourne has. Of course, Sydney was the capital of the colony of New South Wales, which until around 170 years ago, included the territories of both the, first colonies, now states of Queensland and Victoria.
Toycat this isn’t my favourite second channel series it’s actually the hearthstone videos and the power up podcast if that counts
I'll do some hearthstone on 3cat sometime
What about Kazakhstan
*british mexico not british hunduras
St Petersburg -> Moscow
What about Sri Lanka? Their capital changed from Colombo to Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte very recently!
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He can't even pronounce Canberra and Melbourne, do you think he's going to pronounce that?
Bob T lol
correct me if i'm wrong, but trying to remember what we learned at school when i was little, i think in Norway, Nidaros (later renamed Trondheim) was the capital, and i think even before that, Bjørgvin (later renamed Bergen) was the capital sometime for 500 years ago until it changed for 100-200 years ago from Trondheim to Christiania (later renamed Oslo)
Norway has changed it's capital quite a lot of times. It used to be Bergen, then it was Oslo, then we were in a union with Denmark (making Copenhagen the capital), then we were in a union with Sweden (Stockholm). Then back to Oslo again
What a bruh moment
Brasília and Belo Horizonte (both planned cities) are the largest cities in Brazil's hinterland. They're designed to "interiorize" Brazil.
Malta changed it's capital once too. It used to be the old city of Mdina, now it's Valletta
I'm surprised you didn't talk about Myanmar at all, because it changed its capital from Yangon to Naypyidaw only a few years ago and for pretty much no reason at all
Brazil's first capital was Salvador, in the north east. It was located in an strategic point for the Portuguese settlers for trade with Portugal.
Equatorial Guinea is actually constructing a new city right now.
*More facts about Brazil and its capital:*
.Rio used to be the capital of Portugal
.Brasilia is shaped like an aeroplane
.Also only took 44 months to build Brasilia from scratch, including a giant artificial lake
.One of the main reasons the capital was moved was because popular movements were very effective in Rio since the streets are narrow and it is faced against the ocean so war ships were often used to threat the government
also... it kind of is a ... "big player"...but you know... maybe I'm biased
It's best to have your capital have access to the ocean for trade.
That's why London location is perfect.
I remember when I used to watch these videos. Just got hit with random nostalgia
No mention of Kazakhstan?
Who are watching this video in Corona period they like
He should’ve mentioned Moscow
The other reason for Brazil changing its capital was to populate the middle, and it worked, instead of Palau's attempt of a new capital.
How do you manage to upload so much every day Toycat? You work yourself too hard, Andrew.
ivory coast and sri Lanka have also changed their capitals recently. and their new capitals have got much more difficult names....
Good video hugs from Brazil
Finland also changed the capital (190 years ago) from Turku to Helsinki
Exactly. 190 years ago.
Finland wasn't an independent country then
0:45 Philadelphia is shown first on the map. That makes me very happy
South Korea didn't change capitals per se... but they did adopt a 2 capital model and there is Seoul, the main capital, and Sejong, the second capital.
I think that's correct...
Greece is going to change capitals soon :)
Pakistan has google maps. Do your research before making videos, n btw whats wrong with naming the capital Islamabad?
You forgot (West) Germany changing its Capital back to Berlin after the wall was taken down. It was Bonn while Germany was still split...
Bolivia didn't change it's capital but it technically has 3, Sucre is the Plurinational Capital, La Paz is the Political Capital and Santa Cruz is the Econimic Capital
You should've mentioned Kazakhstan. They changed their capital from Almaty to Astana
Why not talk about Myanmar? They changed their capital from Yangon (Rangoon) to Naypyidaw less than 10 years ago
And for no real political reason at that, Naypyidaw was made for the sole purpose of being a capital while Yangon has years of history behind it