Key:capital_city

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Overview of Proposed Capital City in Washington D.C. by Michael E. Arth.jpg
Description
Capital city Show/edit corresponding data item.
Group: places
Used on these elements
may be used on nodesshould not be used on waysshould not be used on areasshould not be used on relations (except multipolygon relations)
Status: in use

A capital city is the municipality exercising primary status in a country, state, province, or other administrative region.

It is used in conjunction with the following:

Example

place=country
name=Ísland
capital_city=Reykjavík

See also

  • capital=* the standard way to denote a capital in OSM