Capital district

A capital district or capital district is defined as the seat of government of a country (generally non-federal) where government is administered. the economy and politics, and has greater benefits for the other territories that make up a nation. The Capital District is therefore the only directly administered municipality that only includes the state capital.

The term begins in the United States and extends to many parts of the world, because it is typical of that country, a form of Anglicism, several countries have adopted other names such as territory, region or capital area.

Etymology

The term capital district is commonly used to refer to the area around the state capital. The first reference to the name capital district seems to arise from the abbreviation of police capital district in the late 1860s in New York as an intent to statehood comprising the areas of Albany, Troy, Rensselaer, Watervliet, and Cohoes together, after the creation of the Federal District, in the United States.

Differences

The term capital district is ambiguous, depending on the laws of each country. An example would be Colombia, where the capital district is the type of organization that governs Bogotá, which is the seat of national powers, as well as the capital of the department of Cundinamarca, its mayor is elected by popular vote and has local government.

In Venezuela, the Capital District since 1999 is a territory with the capital Caracas that has a head of government and a mayor elected by popular vote. In Paraguay, a district is the smallest local territorial constituency of a political-administrative nature, since it is a subdivision of a Department, but the Capital District has not been part of any of the Paraguayan departments since 1992: it is the national capital, Asuncion.

Another distinction must be made based on administrative divisions that include national capitals, but do not have a special legally designated status (for example, Île-de-France does not have a different quality from other regions of France). Some federal countries (like Belgium), give their national capitals the status of complete, equal federal units.

In some non-confederate countries there are capital regions that do not have a special meaning, but keep the name. For example the Capital Region of Denmark.