Does Bolivia have two capitals? What other countries have two or more capitals?
A number of cases exist where states or other entities have multiple capitals. In South Africa, for example, the administrative capital is Pretoria, the legislative capital is Cape Town, and the judicial capital is Bloemfontein, the outcome of the compromise that created the Union of South Africa in 1910. In others, the “effective” and “official” capital may differ for pragmatic reasons, resulting in a situation where a city known as “the capital” is not, in fact, host to the seat of government: -Yamoussoukro was designated the national capital of Côte d’Ivoire in 1983, but as of 2004 most government offices and embassies were still located in Abidjan -Sucre is still the constitutional capital of Bolivia, but most of the national government long abandoned that region for La Paz -Amsterdam is the nominal national capital of the Netherlands even though the Dutch government and supreme court are both located in The Hague. -Kuala Lumpur is the nominal capital of Malaysia even though the Ma
