If your country had 3 capitals like South Africa witch citis you think would/should be?
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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Singapore, Singapore and Singapore
Rotterdam – Where they work for the money
The Hague – Where they decide how the money is to be spent
Amsterdam – Where the money is spent
I think for my country the three capitals would be Pretoria, Cape Town and Bloemfontein
New Zealand:
Wellington – Executive, current capital, it’s where all the executive offices are already.
Auckland – Legislative, former capital and largest city in NZ, it has 22 out of the 72 electorates in the whole country.
Christchurch – Judicial, the largest city on the south island, not hard to access, has a central position on the island but isn’t too far from the other capitals.
These all happen to be the 3 biggest cities in New Zealand, but I figured they would realistically fit, despite me wanting to pick Dunedin or Napier as a capital lol
London, Edinburgh, Cardiff
Lisbon – Porto – Coimbra
Bern – Geneva – Zürich
Milton Keynes, Blackpool and Dundee
The logical one would be Paris-Lyon-Bordeaux
Luxembourg city. – legislative,
Mersch – economic,
Clervaux – judiciary
Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. Represents 3 cultures and geographical areas
For India: Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru
Edit: I was wrong, Chennai over Bengaluru
For Ireland it’s gotta be Dublin, Cork, Galway
Astana as executive capital, Almaty as legislative capital, Atyrau would get the Supreme Court.
Wow, that’s an interesting question.
I live in Brazil, and its ethnic and cultural diversity is pretty similar to South Africa, but with some differences. Applying this concept to Brazil would be cool since it’s such a large country with very diverse cities.
I’d go with this: Brasília as the executive capital (central and already built for that purpose), São Paulo as the judicial capital (biggest economic hub, pragmatic and efficient), and Salvador as the legislative/cultural capital (largest city in the Northeast, rich in history and culture, and it’d bring more regional diversity).
warszawa, gdansk and krakow
Stockholm, malmö, göteborg most likely
Bangkok: Executive
Chiang Mai: Judicial
Nakhon Ratchasima: Legislative
In Greece we actually call the second biggest city (Thessaloniki) co-capital.
We would have Athens, Thessaloniki and then either Patras or Herakleion.
Huh that’s interesting.
OK the first two are obvious: **Madrid** and **Barcelona**, the two largest cities in spain by far.
Plus for historical reasons it also kinda makes sense. One for the crown of castille and one for the crown of aragon.
The third one is a bit more complicated. Imo it would be between Valencia and Seville. The third and fourth largest cities respectively.
And actually, I would give the edge to **Seville**, despite being a bit smaller. Mostly because it’s the capital and largest city of Andalusia which is the largest and most populated region in Spain.
As for their functions.
I would definetely give Madrid the executive, because I think it’s the hardest to move and it’s also the most important so it makes sense it stays in the largest city. Then I would give Barcelona the legislative, and Seville the judicial.
My country _is_ South Africa.
I don’t understand the question /s
We kind of have 3 capitals already
Brussels – Flanders
Namur – Wallonia
Eupen – East Cantons
Manila, Cebu, Davao
For Germany that’s hard to say.
Berlin – Government.
Karlsruhe – Judiciary, for sure.
Where do we put the Legislative, if not to Berlin? Munich is too far off and too Bavarian, Frankfurt too economical, Bonn too pedestrian, Cologne has no political history and Hamburg better represents its own legacy. Maybe Leipzig?
In Finland the most logical pick would be Helsinki (our current capital) – Turku (our old capital and culturally important city) and maybe Tampere (the 3rd biggest city)
But all these 3 are located very close to each other so Tampere could be replaced with Oulu, the biggest city in the north.
Sydney, Melbourne
Maybe Perth for some Western representation
Fuck Canberra for whatever reason
Bern and Zurich for sure, I’d say the 3rd would be Lausanne
most people would say Geneva, but since it is the “Neutrality City” witz UNO and CERN and so on, i think its better to stay as international as it is, so I’d say Lausanne so we still get a French speaking city.
Switzerland: Zurich, Bern, Geneva
Athens, Thessaloniki and Patra
But Athens would still be the biggest tho, by a lot
DC, Chicago, LA
Kyiv – Executive, Lviv – Judiciary and Kharkiv – Legislative (former capital until 1937 btw)
Copenhagen, Aarhus, and Odense.
Ottawa. Montreal. Vancouver.
In Switzerland the saying is that Bern is the political capital, Zürich the economic capital and Geneva the diplomatic capital.
So yeah, those three.
Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim
Moscow – St. Petersburg – Ekaterinburg