Did You Know?..... Washington Dc....

[ToraToraTora]

The capital of the USA is not actually in the USA.

[ladybirder]

Yes.

[johnny.5]

no

[Cloverjo]

Ok, I’ll bite. Where is it then?

[zebo]

Yes.

[THECORBYLOON]

It is in the United States.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/21/387#22

"(22)United States

The term “United States” means the 50 States of the United States of America and the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Wake Island, Midway Islands, Kingman Reef, Johnston Atoll, the Northern Mariana Islands, and any other trust territory or possession of the United States.

(June 25, 1938, ch. 675, § 900, as added Pub. L. 111–31, div. A, title I, § 101(b)(3), June 22, 2009, 123 Stat. 1784.)"

[douglas9401]

Chortle

[Togo]

Columbia is a Federal district and does not have State representation in Congress. The District of Columbia’s creation is rooted in Article I, section 8, clause 17 of the Constitution, which says that the “Seat of the Government of the United States” shall be a district that is at most ten square miles and separate and apart from the other “particular States.” It is deliberate and not a misnomer.

[Togo]

No State jurisdiction in Washington. They can do as they please on the hill.

[William51]

Yes. It is in the region " District of Columbia " which is in the country.

[Peter Pedant]

They had a few goes at the Capital -
New York being one
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Washington,_D.C.

states are primus inter pares - first amongst equals ( oops sozza anti-latinists!, mods et al) and so one state should not have the accolade of hosting the capital

[Hopkirk]

Well it's certainly not in Washington

[Canary42]

Australia used the same trick with Canberra.

[Hopkirk]

It's not unusual to move the capital.
We have had Winchester and Northampton.

[Canary42]

. . . and Norwich

[jno]

it's in the USA, it's just not a state. It's a territory, the same as Canberra in Australia.

[jno]

whoops, I missed your post, canary. Brasilia is also a "federal district".

[Hopkirk]

Canary, Google suggests you are wrong.
Just capital of East Anglia.

I'm happy to be proven wrong myself though.

[jno]

you need to ask "capital of what?" Up till the late 900s about half of England was still Scandinavian, so London was capital of Wessex/Mercia rather than of England (let alone Britain).