A capital is the area of a country, province, region, or state, regarded as enjoying primary status; it is almost always the city which physically encompasses the offices and meeting 9L0 509 places of the seat of government and fixed by law, but there are a number of exceptions. Alternate terms include capital city and political capital; the latter phrase has a second meaning based on an alternative sense of "capital".
The word capital is derived from the Latin caput meaning "head," and, in the United States, the related 9L0 402 term Capitol refers to the building where government business is chiefly conducted.
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