page_title: List of capitals in the United States
section_title: State capitals
hierarchical_section_title: List of capitals in the United States / State capitals
context_page_description: This is a list of capital cities of the United States, including places that serve or have served as federal, state, insular area, territorial, colonial, and Native American capitals.
  Washington, D.C., has been the federal capital city of the United States since 1800. Each U.S. state has its own capital city, as do many of its insular areas. Most states have not changed their capital city since becoming a state, but the capital cities of their respective preceding colonies, territories, kingdoms, and republics typically changed multiple times. There have also been other governments within the current borders of the United States with their own capitals, such as the Republic of Texas, Native American nations, and other unrecognized governments.
context_section_description: Each state has a capital that serves as the seat of its government. Ten of the thirteen original states and 15 other states have changed their capital city at least once; the last state to move its capital city was Oklahoma in 1910.
  In the following table, the years listed in the "Capital Since" column represent that year that the city began serving as the state's current capital.
caption: States (highlighted in purple) whose capital city is also its most populous.