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national capital

n. the capital city of a nation

Usage examples of "national capital".

Are you going to bomb every national capital in the Balkans and the Transcaucasus, just to lay down some pipe?

Conakry was a city and a national capital only in the technical sense.

He had cast tie-breaking votes in the Senate of historic importance--in protecting the President's sole authority over the removal of appointees, for example, and in the several stages leading to the location of the national capital.

The little boy was allowed to spend his days in the suburbs of the national capital, where the foreigners lived.

The visit of Senator Dilworthy had become of more importance to her, and it by and by bore the fruit she longed for, in an invitation to visit his family in the National Capital during the winter session of Congress.

The skyline of the national capital actually looked pretty good in his rearview mirror.

Rather, he is a victim of this place, and I mean not Emma's delicious Africa, the national capital, but the country itself.

Equipped with this product, he visits all four occupation zones and the quartered remains of the former national capital.

This might seem an odd choice bearing in mind that the national capital since 1949 has been in Bonn, hundreds of miles away on the Rhine.

Clay's apartment was a single furnished room with a double window overlooking Connecticut Avenue, a wide thoroughfare whose trees and low buildings made it seem more like the main street of some small town than a principal avenue of a national capital.

They would be, of course, pursuers of Link and Thistlethwaite, who hadn't spent any time in a diversion like a trip to the Ufftian National Capital.