Spain is probably the only country that I could think of that has its capital located in the center of it, then Toledo, and now Madrid. This is where a capital city should be located, in the center.

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  5. Brazil changed its capital city to its centre and it made it much harder for people to interact with the government (protesting etc.) because nobody lives around there.

  8. Riga is kinda in the centre of Latvia, though it’s hard to define that for such an irregular shape

    Similarly, Dhaka for Bangladesh, Addis Ababa for Ethiopia and Bagdad for Iraq are pretty centered

  9. What do you mean lol, there’s a lot of countries like that.

    Budapest, Kiev, Warsaw, Sarajevo, Tirana, Brussels, Brasilia, Bogota, Mexico City, Rome, Prague, Belgrade, etc.

    Also, a lot of countries have had their borders change a lot over the centuries. Remember that capital cities have usually been founded, a long, long time ago, before they were capitals or part of their current country

    But there’s plenty of countries with central capitals, plenty with coastal or close to border capitals, it is pretty well distributed. Depends of many factors like climate, terrain, history, import/exports, war defences, etc..

    For example, very Northern countries tend to always have capitals close to the southern coast, for trade and because it has the best climate. Spain generally has a tolerable climate everywhere so central is fine.

    Spain also has a very large coastal perimeter, so central capital makes sense for quicker access to any coast of the country, this allows for good trade and also quick invasion defence.

  12. Strategically speaking it could make sense if ICBMs didn’t exist (still it could give you a small margin to react)

    As a symbolic thing it depends on what events happened on said cities, I mean countries like Russia and the US for example don’t have their capital in the centre

  14. Not always. Countries that thrived on trading or buying/selling goods almost always placed their capital in a coastal area, where the goods can be imported/exported by boat, which was, and still is, one of the greatest ways to move economy forward.

  15. Toledo and Madrid appear, but Burgos, Seville, and Valladolid are missing. Even if we get picky we can include Cádiz. And that without counting the changes of capital during the Civil War.

  17. Santiago is basically in the middle of Chile. People who live north of Santiago are “from the north of Chile” and people who live south are “from the south of Chile”

  22. Brazil, Switzerland, belgium, poland, nigeria, italy etc

    All of these counties have their capitol in the geographic center

  24. Huh? There are tons of countries with capitals in the center. Colombia and Italy come to mind immediately, but there are definitely many more.

  25. > This is where a capital city should be located, in the center.

    Yeah? Well, you know, that’s just like uh, your opinion, man.

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