state capital cities

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Why are state capital cities often relatively obscure small cities?
Albany, Sacramento, Tallahassee, Springfield, Lansing come to mind.
Which capitals are also the largest city population wise?

"Tim923" wrote in message
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This is not really a travel question, but it seemed like the best
newsgroup to post this:

Why are state capital cities often relatively obscure small cities?
Albany, Sacramento, Tallahassee, Springfield, Lansing come to mind.
Which capitals are also the largest city population wise?


Sacramento was a very important city when the capital was located there.

Tim923 filted:

This is not really a travel question, but it seemed like the best
newsgroup to post this:

Why are state capital cities often relatively obscure small cities?
Albany, Sacramento, Tallahassee, Springfield, Lansing come to mind.
Which capitals are also the largest city population wise?

Honolulu, Nashville, Atlanta, Denver, Boston, Oklahoma City are all the largest
cities in their respective states, and are all relatively sizeable in their own
rights...as is the one I happen to live in, the largest state capital there
is....

Smallest, of course, is Montpelier....r

Tim923 wrote in
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This is not really a travel question, but it seemed like the best
newsgroup to post this:

Why are state capital cities often relatively obscure small cities?
Albany, Sacramento, Tallahassee, Springfield, Lansing come to mind.
Which capitals are also the largest city population wise?


In some cases it is to avoid trouble with big city rivals like Pittsburgh
and Philadelphia, others it was a more significant place to start with.

Biggest capitol cities I can think of are Denver Columbus, and Atlanta.

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"Tim923" wrote in message
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This is not really a travel question, but it seemed like the best
newsgroup to post this:

Why are state capital cities often relatively obscure small cities?
Albany, Sacramento, Tallahassee, Springfield, Lansing come to mind.
Which capitals are also the largest city population wise?

Columbus, Ohio is the capital and largest city in the state.


Larger than Cleveland and Cincinnati?

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"Tim923" wrote in message
news This is not really a travel question, but it seemed like the best
newsgroup to post this:

Why are state capital cities often relatively obscure small cities?
Albany, Sacramento, Tallahassee, Springfield, Lansing come to mind.
Which capitals are also the largest city population wise?

Columbus, Ohio is the capital and largest city in the state.


Larger than Cleveland and Cincinnati?


I see now, larger by a wide margin.

I had to check it out myselfg I really thought Cleveland would be the
largest.

R H Draney wrote in
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Smallest, of course, is Montpelier....r

Smaller than Juneau?

Ken wrote in :

R H Draney wrote in
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Smallest, of course, is Montpelier....r

Smaller than Juneau?


or Carson City Nevada?

Ken wrote:

R H Draney wrote in
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Smallest, of course, is Montpelier....r

Smaller than Juneau?

It's small. I once made the mistake of heading there to find a hotel. I
had assumed that there would be room available in a state capital.
Wrong.

On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 11:37:26 -0700, "PeterL"
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"Tim923" wrote in message
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This is not really a travel question, but it seemed like the best
newsgroup to post this:

Why are state capital cities often relatively obscure small cities?
Albany, Sacramento, Tallahassee, Springfield, Lansing come to mind.
Which capitals are also the largest city population wise?

Columbus, Ohio is the capital and largest city in the state.


Larger than Cleveland and Cincinnati?

Cleveland and Cincinnati are hemmed in by suburbs. The total
metropolitan areas and population are larger than Columbus, but the
actual cities are smaller in both areas and population.

To the other question, most capitals are located centrally for easy
access to the State Government.

Charlie