Tag: capitals

• Capitals that moved: every capital move since 1500, and how far each went

  

  184 moves of a capital since 1500, from St Petersburg to Brasília to Ciudad de la Paz. The longest was a flight: the Portuguese court, 7,716 km from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro in 1808.

  Tristan Hotham

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