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exercises its <a href="/wiki/Authority" title="Authority">authority</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In most countries, the nation's <a href="/wiki/Capital_city" title="Capital city">capital</a> is also seat of its government, thus that city is appropriately referred to as the national seat of government. The terms are not however, completely synonymous, as <a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_with_multiple_capitals" title="List of countries with multiple capitals">some countries</a>' seat of government differs from the capital. The <a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Netherlands</a>, for example, has <a href="/wiki/Amsterdam" title="Amsterdam">Amsterdam</a> as its capital but <a href="/wiki/The_Hague" title="The Hague">The Hague</a> is the seat of government; and the <a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a>, with <a href="/wiki/Manila" title="Manila">Manila</a> as its capital but the <a href="/wiki/Metro_Manila" title="Metro Manila">metropolitan area of the same name</a> (Metro Manila; also known as National Capital Region (NCR)), is the seat of government. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Local_seats_of_government">Local seats of government</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Seat_of_government&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Local seats of government"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Local and regional authorities usually have a seat, called an <a href="/wiki/Administrative_centre" title="Administrative centre">administrative centre</a>, as well. Terms for seats of local government of various levels and in various countries include: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/County_seat" title="County seat">County seat</a> (<a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> and <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/County_town" title="County town">County town</a> (<a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ireland" title="Ireland">Ireland</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/City_hall" class="mw-redirect" title="City hall">City hall</a>/<a href="/wiki/Town_hall" title="Town hall">Town hall</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Barrio-pueblo" class="mw-redirect" title="Barrio-pueblo">Barrio-pueblo</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Puerto_Rico" title="Puerto Rico">Puerto Rico</a>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Buildings_as_seats_of_government">Buildings as seats of government</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Seat_of_government&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Buildings as seats of government"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Examples of seats of government include: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a>: The suite of buildings on or near <a href="/wiki/Parliament_Hill" title="Parliament Hill">Parliament Hill</a> in <a href="/wiki/Ottawa" title="Ottawa">Ottawa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ontario" title="Ontario">Ontario</a>: the <a href="/wiki/Centre_Block" title="Centre Block">Centre Block</a> (legislative seat), the <a href="/wiki/Office_of_the_Prime_Minister_and_Privy_Council" title="Office of the Prime Minister and Privy Council">Langevin Block</a> (executive seat), and 301 <a href="/wiki/Wellington_Street_(Ottawa)" title="Wellington Street (Ottawa)">Wellington Street</a> (legislative seat).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>: Three sites in <a href="/wiki/Raisina_Hill" title="Raisina Hill">Raisina Hill</a>, <a href="/wiki/New_Delhi" title="New Delhi">New Delhi</a>: the <a href="/wiki/Parliament_House,_New_Delhi" title="Parliament House, New Delhi">Parliament House</a> (legislative seat), the <a href="/wiki/Rashtrapati_Bhavan" title="Rashtrapati Bhavan">Rashtrapati Bhavan</a>, <a href="/wiki/7,_Lok_Kalyan_Marg" title="7, Lok Kalyan Marg">7, Lok Kalyan Marg</a> (executive seat), <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_India" title="Supreme Court of India">Supreme Court of India</a> (judicial seat).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines">Philippines</a>: Four buildings in <a href="/wiki/Metro_Manila" title="Metro Manila">National Capital Region (NCR)/Metro Manila</a>, Philippines: the <a href="/wiki/GSIS_Building" title="GSIS Building">GSIS Building</a> in <a href="/wiki/Pasay" title="Pasay">Pasay</a> (<a href="/wiki/Senate_of_the_Philippines" title="Senate of the Philippines">Senate of the Philippines</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Batasang_Pambansa_Complex" title="Batasang Pambansa Complex">Batasang Pambansa Complex</a> in <a href="/wiki/Quezon_City" title="Quezon City">Quezon City</a>: <a href="/wiki/House_of_Representatives_of_the_Philippines" title="House of Representatives of the Philippines">House of Representatives of the Philippines</a> (legislative seat), the <a href="/wiki/Malaca%C3%B1ang_Palace" title="Malacañang Palace">Malacañang Palace</a> (executive seat), and <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_Philippines" title="Supreme Court of the Philippines">Supreme Court of the Philippines</a> (judicial seat) in <a href="/wiki/Manila" title="Manila">Manila</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>: Three sites in <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>: the <a href="/wiki/Palace_of_Westminster" title="Palace of Westminster">Palace of Westminster</a> (legislative seat), <a href="/wiki/10_Downing_Street" title="10 Downing Street">10 Downing Street</a> (executive seat), and <a href="/wiki/Middlesex_Guildhall" title="Middlesex Guildhall">Middlesex Guildhall</a> (judicial seat).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>: Three sites in <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a>: the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Capitol" title="United States Capitol">United States Capitol</a> (legislative seat), the <a href="/wiki/White_House" title="White House">White House</a> (executive seat), and the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Supreme_Court_Building" title="United States Supreme Court Building">United States Supreme Court Building</a> (judicial seat).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="List_of_seats_of_country_government_which_are_not_country_capitals">List of seats of country government which are not country capitals</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Seat_of_government&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: List of seats of country government which are not country capitals"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There are several countries where, for various reasons, the official capital and de facto seat of government are separated: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Benin" title="Benin">Benin</a>: <a href="/wiki/Porto-Novo" title="Porto-Novo">Porto-Novo</a> is the official capital, but <a href="/wiki/Cotonou" title="Cotonou">Cotonou</a> is the seat of government.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bolivia" title="Bolivia">Bolivia</a>: <a href="/wiki/Sucre,_Bolivia" class="mw-redirect" title="Sucre, Bolivia">Sucre</a> is the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Bolivia" title="Constitution of Bolivia">constitutional</a> capital, and the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Tribunal_of_Justice_(Bolivia)" class="mw-redirect" title="Supreme Tribunal of Justice (Bolivia)">supreme tribunal of justice</a> is located in Sucre, making it the judicial capital. The <span title="Spanish-language text"><i lang="es"><a href="/wiki/Palacio_Quemado" title="Palacio Quemado">Palacio Quemado</a></i></span>, the <a href="/wiki/Plurinational_Legislative_Assembly" title="Plurinational Legislative Assembly">national congress</a> and <a href="/wiki/Plurinational_Electoral_Organ" title="Plurinational Electoral Organ">national electoral court</a> are located in <a href="/wiki/La_Paz,_Bolivia" class="mw-redirect" title="La Paz, Bolivia">La Paz</a>, making it the seat of government.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eswatini" title="Eswatini">Eswatini</a> (Swaziland): <a href="/wiki/Lobamba" title="Lobamba">Lobamba</a> is the traditional, spiritual, and <a href="/wiki/Capital_(political)" class="mw-redirect" title="Capital (political)">legislative capital</a> city of Eswatini, seat of the <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Swaziland" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliament of Swaziland">Parliament</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-CPA_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CPA-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while the capital is <a href="/wiki/Mbabane" title="Mbabane">Mbabane</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a> and <a href="/wiki/State_of_Palestine" class="mw-redirect" title="State of Palestine">Palestine</a>: <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a> is considered by <a href="/wiki/Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a> to be the national capital since 1950 but was fully declared the undivided capital of the nation from 1980 according to the <a href="/wiki/Jerusalem_Law" title="Jerusalem Law">Jerusalem Law</a>, though most government offices are located in <a href="/wiki/West_Jerusalem" title="West Jerusalem">West Jerusalem</a>. This move is not recognized by the international community and thus the vast majority of embassies are located in <a href="/wiki/Tel_Aviv" title="Tel Aviv">Tel Aviv</a>. In addition, the <a href="/wiki/State_of_Palestine" class="mw-redirect" title="State of Palestine">State of Palestine</a> also declares <a href="/wiki/East_Jerusalem" title="East Jerusalem">East Jerusalem</a> or the entirety of Jerusalem as its capital but the seat of government resides in <a href="/wiki/Ramallah" title="Ramallah">Ramallah</a> as does the <a href="/wiki/Palestinian_National_Authority" class="mw-redirect" title="Palestinian National Authority">Palestinian National Authority</a>. (<i>For more details see: <a href="/wiki/Status_of_Jerusalem" title="Status of Jerusalem">Status of Jerusalem</a></i>.)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ivory_Coast" title="Ivory Coast">Ivory Coast</a>: <a href="/wiki/Yamoussoukro" title="Yamoussoukro">Yamoussoukro</a> was designated the national capital in 1983, but most government offices and embassies are still located in <a href="/wiki/Abidjan" title="Abidjan">Abidjan</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malaysia" title="Malaysia">Malaysia</a>: <a href="/wiki/Putrajaya" title="Putrajaya">Putrajaya</a> the federal administrative centre of the Malaysia. The seat of government was shifted in 1999 from <a href="/wiki/Kuala_Lumpur" title="Kuala Lumpur">Kuala Lumpur</a> to Putrajaya because of overcrowding and congestion in the former.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montserrat" title="Montserrat">Montserrat</a>: Its official capital is <a href="/wiki/Plymouth,_Montserrat" title="Plymouth, Montserrat">Plymouth</a>, but it was permanently abandoned in 1997 after it was completely destroyed by the eruptions of the <a href="/wiki/Soufri%C3%A8re_Hills_volcano" class="mw-redirect" title="Soufrière Hills volcano">Soufrière Hills volcano</a>. Since 1998 the <i>de facto</i> capital is <a href="/wiki/Brades" title="Brades">Brades</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The move was initially intended to be temporary, but it has remained the island's <i>de facto</i> capital ever since.<sup id="cite_ref-JonnardJonnard2009_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JonnardJonnard2009-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Several names have been suggested for the new official capital now being constructed in the Little Bay area.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Netherlands</a>: <a href="/wiki/Amsterdam" title="Amsterdam">Amsterdam</a> is the constitutional national capital even though the <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_of_the_Netherlands" title="Cabinet of the Netherlands">Dutch government</a>, the <a href="/wiki/States_General_of_the_Netherlands" title="States General of the Netherlands">parliament</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Hoge_Raad_der_Nederlanden" class="mw-redirect" title="Hoge Raad der Nederlanden">supreme court</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Council_of_State_of_the_Netherlands" class="mw-redirect" title="Council of State of the Netherlands">Council of State</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Noordeinde_Palace" title="Noordeinde Palace">work palace</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Willem-Alexander_of_the_Netherlands" title="Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands">King</a> are all located in <a href="/wiki/The_Hague" title="The Hague">The Hague</a>, as are almost all the embassies. (<i>For more details see: <a href="/wiki/Capital_of_the_Netherlands" title="Capital of the Netherlands">Capital of the Netherlands</a></i>.)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka" title="Sri Lanka">Sri Lanka</a>: <a href="/wiki/Sri_Jayawardenepura_Kotte" title="Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte">Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte</a>, commonly known as Kotte is the official administrative capital of <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lanka" title="Sri Lanka">Sri Lanka</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is a satellite city of and located within the urban area of Sri Lanka's de facto economic and legislative capital, <a href="/wiki/Colombo" title="Colombo">Colombo</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tanzania" title="Tanzania">Tanzania</a>: Until 1974, <a href="/wiki/Dar_es_Salaam" title="Dar es Salaam">Dar es Salaam</a> served as Tanzania's capital city, at which point the capital city commenced transferring to <a href="/wiki/Dodoma" title="Dodoma">Dodoma</a>, by order of then-president Julius Nyerere,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which was officially completed in 1996. However, as of 2018<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seat_of_government&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, it remained focus of central government bureaucracy, although this is in the process of fully moving to Dodoma.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Countries_with_no_official_capital">Countries with no official capital</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Seat_of_government&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Countries with no official capital"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nauru" title="Nauru">Nauru</a>: <a href="/wiki/Yaren_District" title="Yaren District">Yaren District</a> (in earlier times Makwa/Moqua), is the <i><a href="/wiki/De_facto" title="De facto">de facto</a></i> capital of <a href="/wiki/Nauru" title="Nauru">Nauru</a>; the republic does not have an official capital.<sup id="cite_ref-naurugov_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-naurugov-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Switzerland" title="Switzerland">Switzerland</a>: As of 2020<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seat_of_government&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, no Swiss city holds an official status of national capital. In 1848, the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Assembly_of_Switzerland" class="mw-redirect" title="Federal Assembly of Switzerland">Federal Assembly</a> voted to locate the seat of government in <a href="/wiki/Bern" title="Bern">Bern</a>, but no official status was granted to the city. The city has since been informally referred to as "<a href="/wiki/Federal_City" class="mw-redirect" title="Federal City">Federal City</a>".</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan">Republic of China (Taiwan)</a>: Since 7 December 1949, <a href="/wiki/Taipei" title="Taipei">Taipei</a> has been the <a href="/wiki/Provisional_capital" class="mw-redirect" title="Provisional capital">provisional capital</a> and the seat of government of the Republic of China after losing the <a href="/wiki/Chinese_Civil_War" title="Chinese Civil War">Chinese Civil War</a>. Although <a href="/wiki/Nanjing" title="Nanjing">Nanjing</a> had been claimed as the nominal capital of the country, its claims were downplayed in the 1990s.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-capital_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-capital-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Historical_examples">Historical examples</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Seat_of_government&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Historical examples"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/West_Germany" title="West Germany">Federal Republic of Germany</a>: Since <a href="/wiki/German_reunification" title="German reunification">German reunification</a> in 1990 at the end of the <a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a> and until 1999, <a href="/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a> was its capital and <a href="/wiki/Bonn" title="Bonn">Bonn</a> was the seat of government. However, the <a href="/wiki/Berlin-Bonn_Act" title="Berlin-Bonn Act">Berlin-Bonn Act</a> specifies that many federal government institutions are to maintain a seat in Bonn indefinitely. Prior to reunification, the question as to what was the <i>de jure</i> capital was complicated by questions regarding the status of Berlin.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_England" title="Kingdom of England">Kingdom of England</a>: The traditional capital was the <a href="/wiki/City_of_London" title="City of London">City of London</a>, while <a href="/wiki/Westminster" title="Westminster">Westminster</a>, outside of the boundaries of the City of London, was the seat of government. They are both today part of the urban core of <a href="/wiki/Greater_London" title="Greater London">Greater London</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_France" title="Kingdom of France">Kingdom of France</a>: The traditional capital was <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a>, though in the periods 1682–1789 and 1871–1879 the seat of government was at the <a href="/wiki/Palace_of_Versailles" title="Palace of Versailles">Palace of Versailles</a>, located southwest of Paris.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Seat_of_government&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Government" title="Government">Government</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lists_of_capitals" title="Lists of capitals">Lists of capitals</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Seat_of_government&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Comfort, N. 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