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Cape Town
Cape Town is South Africa's legislative capital, dramatically set between Table Mountain and two oceans, with the V&A Waterfront, Robben Island (where Mandela was imprisoned), and Cape Point on the southern peninsula.
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Caracas
Caracas is the capital of Venezuela, set in a valley with El Avila mountain rising to the north, the historic centre with the Plaza Bolivar, and the Mausoleum of Simon Bolivar.
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Casablanca
Casablanca is Morocco's largest city and economic capital, on the Atlantic coast, with the spectacular Hassan II Mosque (the second-largest in Africa) and Art Deco buildings from the French Protectorate era.
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Copenhagen
Copenhagen is Denmark's capital, famously bicycle-friendly with around half of all commutes by bike, with the Tivoli Gardens, the Little Mermaid statue, and the colourful Nyhavn waterfront.
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Dakar
Dakar is the capital of Senegal, the westernmost city in mainland Africa, with the haunting Goree Island slave-trade memorial offshore and the African Renaissance Monument towering over the bay.
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Dhaka
Dhaka is the capital of Bangladesh, a fast-growing megacity in the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta, with the Mughal-era Lalbagh Fort, vibrant rickshaw traffic, and a textile industry that clothes much of the world.
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Doha
Doha is the capital of Qatar, transformed in three decades into a Persian-Gulf showpiece of skyscrapers along the Corniche, the Museum of Islamic Art, and the world-famous Souq Waqif.
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Dublin
Dublin is the capital of Ireland, sitting at the mouth of the River Liffey on the east coast, with Trinity College, the Guinness Storehouse, and a literary heritage from Joyce, Yeats, Beckett, and Shaw.
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Edinburgh
Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland, dramatically perched between the medieval Old Town and the Georgian New Town (both UNESCO sites), with Edinburgh Castle on a volcanic crag and the world-famous Fringe Festival every August.