A temporary capital or a provisional capital is a city or town chosen by a government as an interim base of operations due to some difficulty in retaining or establishing control of a different metropolitan area. The most common circumstances leading to this are either a civil war, where control of the capital is contested, or during an invasion, where the designated capital is taken or threatened.
By definition, a temporary capital is located somewhere on the country's territory, as opposed to a capital-in-exile located on the territory of a different country. However, a country's capital may move in and out of exile over the course of a conflict.
The following list is sorted by the most recent date the temporary capital's status existed.
A temporarycapital or a provisional capital is a city or town chosen by a government as an interim base of operations due to some difficulty in retaining...
The temporarycapital of Lithuania (Lithuanian: Laikinoji sostinė) was the official designation of the city of Kaunas in Lithuania during the interwar...
war, weather or partition. In some cases, the second capital is considered a temporarycapital. List of national capitals List of purpose-built national...
resulted in the residual state having no capital city, with Hyderabad serving as the state's temporarycapital city despite being located in the new state...
Aden used to be the capital of South Yemen until its unity with North Yemen in 22 May 1990. It is currently the temporarycapital of Yemen since the 2014...
city Temporarycapital Andreas Daum, "Capitals in Modern History: Inventing Urban Spaces for the Nation", in Berlin – Washington, 1800–2000: Capital Cities...
national capital at a site along the Potomac River that would become Washington, D.C. For the next ten years, Philadelphia served as the temporarycapital. There...
becoming the new temporarycapital in 1998. The move is intended to be temporary, but it has remained the island's de facto capital ever since. Several...
MEL-bərn; locally [ˈmælbən], Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: Narrm or Naarm) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most...
Tifariti (Arabic: تيفاريتي) is an oasis town and the temporarycapital of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, located in north-eastern Western Sahara...
Temporary work or temporary employment (also called gigs) refers to an employment situation where the working arrangement is limited to a certain period...
Capital of Pakistan can mean any of the following: Karachi, Karachi Capital Territory (1948-1958) Rawalpindi, Temporarycapital (1958-1967) Islamabad...
president of Yemen. The following month, Hadi declared Aden Yemen's "temporary" capital. The Houthis, however, rebuffed an initiative by the Gulf Cooperation...
deadline of December 1800 for the capital to be ready, and designated Philadelphia as the nation's temporarycapital while the new seat of government was...
Civil War to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and set up a provisional capital in Taipei. The CCP established the People's Republic. As such, the political...
Sahara). Since the SADR does not control El Aaiún, it has established a temporarycapital in Tifariti, although most of the day-to-day administration happens...
Nanjing was designated in official documents as the actual capital and Beijing as a temporarycapital from 1425 to 1441. In 1441, the Yingzong Emperor ordered...
The capital of Yemen is disputed between two cities: Sana'a, the constitutional capital and seat of government for the Houthis Aden, the temporary capital...
8 February 1920, the Congress of Lushnjë proclaimed Tirana as the temporarycapital of Albania, which had gained independence in 1912. The city acquired...
the aftermath of the Houthi occupation. Aden was declared as the temporarycapital by then-president Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi in March 2015. At an elevation...
widely described as a government-in-exile, it has not declared a temporarycapital in another country or in Myanmar, and instead conducts its operations...
the city of Kunming was prepared as a national redoubt in case the temporarycapital, Chongqing, fell. An elaborate system of caves to serve as offices...
Empire, it was the capital of the Kaunas Governorate from 1843 to 1915. During the interwar period, it served as the temporarycapital of Lithuania, when...
names Kororareka as the country's first capital. There is no doubt that Hobson regarded Russell as a temporarycapital only. On 18 April 1840, he sent Mathew...
Dehradun is the temporarycapital of The Indian state of Uttarakhand, and has a rich and eventful history, it also finds mention in scriptures as well...
Russian Civil War from September 1919 to March 1920. The emirate's temporarycapital was established in the village of Vedeno and its leader, Uzun Hajji...
by the 19th century. During World War II, Chongqing served as the temporarycapital of the Republic of China, and was thus heavily bombed. It was one...
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