But Santa Fe has a longer history of serving as a capital city than any of the other capitals of the fifty states.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

In Spain, obviously Madrid, Madrid is the capital but Barcelona is terribly, terribly important, and was always a much more economically important city than the kind of command economy that was Madrid.

在西班牙,显然是马德里了,尽管马德里是首都,但巴塞罗那也,相当重要,巴塞罗那的经济地位要比,马德里这个所谓的经济中心更为重要

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And,in Mali,the famous city of Timbuktu was once a cultural capital of West Africa.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

Sudanese soldiers carried Jaafar Nimeiri's flag-draped body from the presidential palace in Khartoum to a cemetery in Omdurman, the capital's sister city across the Nile river.

VOA: standard.2009.05.31

Military planners say a barrage of North Korean short range missiles and artillery could kill hundreds of thousands in the capital city,Seoul, in a matter of hours.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

Two vehicles entered and then exploded in the African Union peacekeeping force compound, sending a heavy trail of black smoke into the skyline of the capital city.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

Somaliland authorities blame al-Shabab for October 2008 suicide bombings that rocked its capital city and tarnished its image as a pocket of peace and stability in the region.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

But in the 13th century, the capital city,Angkor,died off, and a new scientific study indicates that climate, specifically decades of drought interspersed with intense monsoons, helped bring down the Khmer capital.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

In the days when millions of men smoked cigars at work and at home, Ybor City was the undisputed cigar capital of the world, and brands like Have-a-Tampa became household names.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15