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South Africa is split into 4 segments. Johannesburg is not a capital. Otherwise South Africa has 3 capital cities - administrative (Pretoria), legislative (Cape Town) and judicial (Bloemfontein) - but Pretoria is informally considered the "main" capital.
the choice of which city makes it into a dot seems very arbitrary, just for my corner of the woods, I see Genova and Lyons are omitted even they they are larger than their dot-neighbours on this map...
South Africa is split into 4 segments. Johannesburg is not a capital. Otherwise South Africa has 3 capital cities - administrative (Pretoria), legislative (Cape Town) and judicial (Bloemfontein) - but Pretoria is informally considered the "main" capital.
Ukraine's capital is misspelled "Kiev". Should be "Kyiv"
I find it very funny to imagine Keralam and Tamil Nadu part of Sri Lanka.
Interesting, if a country has multiple capitals, it gets split even more!
Also, the Vatican is the Holy See (as in seat), not Holy Sea (as in water)...
I think Montevideo’s slice of Antarctica is the craziest.
Hmm, looks like it models capital cities as a single point, and therefore assigns much more territory to Vatican City than would a model that took into account Rome's city boundaries
Yes, this is the point, right?
The Vatican is surrounded on all sides by Rome. It is on the boundary of Municipio I (historical center) and Municipio XIII (Aurelia), however. So is Municipio I considered the "actual" capital of Italy? Also, the Vatican is the Holy See (as in seat), not Holy Sea (as in water)...