• Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
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    4 days ago

    this is starting to look like a conspiracy to make your largest city not the capital, lol

    Usually this is because the capital doesn’t generally change over time while the relative size of cities often does, especially on the scale of a century or more.

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      4 days ago

      Looking at China’s provincial capitals and EU’s capitals, they all look like they hoovered up all the population around them, why doesn’t that happen in the US? Lemme guess…car culture?