Sunday 18 March 2012

Capital Cities




Collecting Research on the capital cities throughout the world, The Story of Now focusing on selling clothes to the Urban Traveller will be based in the capital cities... I will choose 5 cities for the store to be based within. Each store will reflect its country through variations in the promotion.
 

A
Afghanistan: Kabul (1.4 million)
Albania: Tirana (0.3 million)
Algeria: Algiers (1.5 million)
Andorra: Andorra la Vella (0.02 million)
Angola: Luanda (1.8 million)
Antigua and Barbuda: St John's (0.02 million)
Argentina: Buenos Aires (3.0 million)
Armenia: Yerevan (1.3 million)
Australia: Canberra (0.3 million) - SYDNEY
Austria: Vienna (1.5 million)
Azerbaijan: Baku (1.8 million)

B
Bahamas: Nassau (0.02 million)
Bahrain: Manama (0.1 million)
Bangladesh: Dhaka (3.4 million)
Barbados: Bridgetown (0.008 million)
Belarus: Minsk (1.7 million)
Belgium: Brussels (1.0 million)
Belize: Belmopan (0.008 million)
Benin: Porto-Novo (n/a)
Bhutan: Thimphu (n/a)
Bolivia: La Paz (seat of government) (0.09 million), Sucre (legal capital) (0.2 million)
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Sarajevo (0.5 million)
Botswana: Gaborone (0.2 million)
Brazil: Brasilia (2.0 million)
Brunei: Bandar Seri Begawan (0
.05 million)
Bulgaria: Sofia (1.1 million)
Burkina Faso: Ouagadougou (0.6 million)
Burma (also Myanmar): Naypyidaw (0.9 million)
Burundi: Bujumbura (0.2 million)

C
Cambodia: Phnom Penh (1.0 million)
Cameroon: Yaounde (0.6 million)
Canada: Ottawa (1.0 million)
Cape Verde: Praia (0.06 million)
Central African Republic: Bangui (0.5 million)
Chad: N'Djamena (0.5 million)
Chile: Santiago (4.8 million)
China: Beijing (7.4 million)
Colombia: Bogota (6.4 million)
Comoros: Moroni (0.02 million)
Congo (formerly Zaïre): Kinshasa (2.7 million)
Congo (Republic of the Congo): Brazzaville (0.6 million)
Costa Rica: San Jose (0.3 million)
Côte d'Ivoire: Yamoussoukro (0.1 million)
Croatia: Zagreb (0.9 million)
Cuba: Havana (2.2 million)
Cyprus: Nicosia (0.2 million)
Czech Republic: Prague (1.2 million)

D
Denmark: Copenhagen (0.5 million)
Djibouti: Djibouti (0.06 million)
Dominica: Roseau (0.02 million)
Dominican Republic: Santo Domingo (2.7 million)

E
East Timor: Dili (0.05 million)
Ecuador: Quito (1.6 million)
Egypt: Cairo (6.8 million)
El Salvador: San Salvador (0.5 million)
Equatorial Guinea: Malabo (0.03 million)
Eritrea: Asmara (0.4 million)
Estonia: Tallinn (0.4 million)
Ethiopia: Addis Ababa (2.4 million)

F
Fiji: Suva (0.07 million)
Finland: Helsinki (0.5 million)
France: Paris (2.2 million)

G
Gabon: Libreville (0.4 million)
Gambia, The: Banjul (0.04 million)
Georgia: T'bilisi (1.3 million)
Germany: Berlin (3.4 million)
Ghana: Accra (0.9 million)
Greece: Athens (0.8 million)
Grenada: Saint George's (0.005 million)
Guatemala: Guatemala (1.0 million)
Guinea: Conakry (0.2 million)
Guinea-Bissau: Bissau (0.1 million)
Guyana: Georgetown (0.07 million)

H
Haiti: Port-au-Prince (1.0 million)
Holy See (Vatican City): Vatican City (n/a)
Honduras: Tegucigalpa (0.5 million)
Hungary: Budapest (1.8 million)

I
Iceland: Reykjavik (0.1 million)
India: New Delhi (Delhi: 7.2 million)
Indonesia: Jakarta (9.4 million)
Iran: Tehran (6.8 million)
Iraq: Baghdad (3.8 million)
Ireland: Dublin (0.5 million)
Israel: Jerusalem (0.6 million) (The international community does nor recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Most foreign embassies are in Tel Aviv.) (0.4 million)
Italy: Rome (2.6 million)

J
Jamaica: Kingston (0.1 million)
Japan: Tokyo (8.1 million)
Jordan: Amman (1.1 million)

K
Kazakhstan: Astana (until 1998 Alma Ata was the capital) (0.3 million)
Kenya: Nairobi (1.3 million)
Kiribati: Tarawa (0.03 million)
Korea, North: Pyongyang (2.7 million)
Korea, South: Seoul (10.2 million)
Kuwait: Kuwait City (0.03 million)
Kyrgyzstan: Bishkek (0.8 million)

L
Laos: Vientiane (0.2 million)
Latvia: Riga (0.8 million)
Lebanon: Beirut (0.5 million)
Lesotho: Maseru (0.1 million)
Liberia: Monrovia (0.4 million)
Libya: Tripoli (1.5 million)
Liechtenstein: Vaduz (0.005 million)
Lithuania: Vilnius (0.6 million)
Luxembourg: Luxembourg (0.08 million)

M
Macedonia: Skopje (0.4 million)
Madagascar: Antananarivo (0.4 million)
Malawi: Lilongwe (0.2 million)
Malaysia: Kuala Lumpur (1.1 million)
Maldives: Male (0.05 million)
Mali: Bamako (0.8 million)
Malta: Valletta (0.007 million)
Marshall Islands: Majuro (n/a)
Mauritania: Nouakchott (0.1 million)
Mauritius: Port Louis (0.1 million)
Mexico: Mexico City (8.2 million)
Micronesia: Palikir (n/a)
Moldova: Kishinev (0.7 million)
Monaco: Monaco (0.03 million)
Mongolia: Ulan Bator (0.7 million)
Montenegro: Podgoria (0.17 million)
Morocco: Rabat (1.2 million)
Mozambique: Maputo (1.0 million)
Myanmar (formerly Burma): Naypyidaw (0.9 million)

N
Namibia: Windhoek (0.1 million)
Nauru: Yaren District (n/a)
Nepal: Kathmandu (0.4 million)
Netherlands: Amsterdam (capital) (0.7 million); The Hague (seat of government) (0.4 million)
New Zealand: Wellington (0.4 million)
Nicaragua: Managua (1.1 million)
Niger: Niamey (0.4 million)
Nigeria: Abuja (0.4 million)
Norway: Oslo (0.5 million)

O
Oman: Muscat (0.005 million)

P
Pakistan: Islamabad (0.5 million)
Palau: Koror (n/a)
Panama: Panama City (0.5 million)
Papua New Guinea: Port Moresby (0.2 million)
Paraguay: Asuncion (0.5 million)
Peru: Lima (5.7 million)
Philippines: Manila (1.7 million)
Poland: Warsaw (1.6 million)
Portugal: Lisbon (0.6 million)

Q
Qatar: Doha (0.2 million)

R
Réunion: Saint-Denis (0.1 million)
Romania: Bucharest (2.0 million)
Russia: Moscow (8.3 million)
Rwanda: Kigali (0.2 million)

S
Saint Kitts and Nevis: Basseterre (0.01 million)
Saint Lucia: Castries (0.002 million)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Kingstown (0.02 million)
Samoa: Apia (0.03 million)
San Marino: San Marino (0.003 million)
Sao Tome and Principe: Sao Tome (0.006 million)
Saudi Arabia: Riyadh (1.8 million)
Senegal: Dakar (0.9 million)
Serbia: Belgrade (1.6 million)
Seychelles: Victoria (0.02 million)
Sierra Leone: Freetown (0.5 million)
Singapore: Singapore (3.9 million)
Slovakia: Bratislava (0.5 million)
Slovenia: Ljubljana (0.3 million)
Solomon Islands: Honiara (0.03 million)
Somalia: Mogadishu (0.2 million)
South Africa: Pretoria is the administrative capital (0.7 million), Cape Town is the legislative capital (n/a)
Spain: Madrid (2.8 million)
Sri Lanka: Colombo (0.6 million)
Sudan: Khartoum (0.9 million)
Suriname: Paramaribo (0.2 million)
Swaziland: Mbabane (0.04 million)
Sweden: Stockholm (0.7 million)
Switzerland: Bern (0.1 million)
Syria: Damascus (1.4 million)

T
Taiwan: Taipei (2.6 million)
Tajikistan: Dushanbe (0.5 million)
Tanzania: Dodoma, (0.2 million)
Thailand: Bangkok (7.5 million)
Togo: Lome (0.5 million)
Tonga: Nuku'alofa (0.02 million)
Trinidad and Tobago: Port-of-Spain (0.04 million)
Tunisia: Tunis (0.7 million)
Turkey: Ankara (3.0 million)
Turkmenistan: Ashgabat (0.4 million)
Tuvalu: Fongafale (n/a)

U
Uganda: Kampala (0.8 million)
Ukraine: Kiev (2.6 million)
United Arab Emirates: Abu Dhabi (0.2 million)
United Kingdom: London (7.1 million)
United States: Washington DC (0.6 million)
Uruguay: Montevideo (1.3 million)
Uzbekistan: Tashkent (2.1 million)

V
Vanuatu: Port-Vila (0.02 million)
Venezuela: Caracas (1.8 million)
Vietnam: Hanoi (1.1 million)

W
Western Sahara: El Aaiun (0.02 million)

X

Y
Yemen: Sanaa (0.9 million)

Z
Zambia: Lusaka (1.3 million)
Zimbabwe: Harare (1.2 million)


I want to reflect the design/ culture of that country/ city through certain key points such as font, passport design (Stamp Logo), Travel Guide/ Style Guide Lookbook for each country... This will mean continued research. I've picked out some countries so far, these will be shortlisted after further research.   

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