In its 700-odd years of recorded history, the city has been both capital city and provincial backwater.

ECONOMIST: Vilnius

Among the affected areas was the provincial capital of Lata, a city of about 2, 300 in Temotu Province where hospital patients were evacuated to higher ground.

WSJ: Tsunami Destroys Villages in Solomon Islands

Both Mr. Sharif's PML-N and Mr. Khan's PTI draw much of their support from Punjab, the country's wealthiest province, and the election is particularly hard-fought in Lahore, the provincial capital and the country's second largest city.

WSJ: Irregularities at Polls, Strong Turnout as Pakistan Votes

Both Mr. Sharif's PML-N and Mr. Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf draw much of their support from Punjab, the country's wealthiest province, and the election was particularly hard-fought in Lahore, the provincial capital and the country's second largest city.

WSJ: Strong Turnout as Pakistan Votes

Thalmann had worked for six years at the city hospital in Klagenfurt, the small provincial capital in south Austria where the girl was resuscitated.

NEWYORKER: The Checklist

He tellingly refused to greet Mr Ban on his arrival in Kinshasa, the capital, but met him instead in the provincial city of Kisangani, in Congo's east, where the president is more popular.

ECONOMIST: International peacekeepers are still sorely needed

This has given them control of much of the city of Aleppo, Syria's largest, and one provincial capital, Raqqa.

NPR: Syria Opposition Pushes To Form Interim Government