Author Topic: Should Poor Countries Build New Capital Cities?  (Read 318 times)

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Offline JBG

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Re: Should Poor Countries Build New Capital Cities?
« on: December 18, 2017, 04:24:49 pm »
There can be many reasons for locating capitals away from established centres.

Canberra Australia was also created expressly to become a national capital because of competition between Melbourne and Sydney. Ottawa was selected as a compromise between Toronto and Montreal and because it was easier to defend from you lot than either of the other two.
Drats. I was hoping our suicide bombers and tunnelers would have any easier target.
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