City
City noun - A thickly settled, highly populated area.
Provincial capital and city are semantically related. In some cases you can replace phrase "Provincial capital" with "City", this terms are similar.
Provincial capital
Provincial capital noun - The capital city of a province.
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Synonyms for Provincial capital
City and provincial capital are semantically related. You can use "City" instead a noun phrase "Provincial capital".
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Sindh, home of Pakistan's largest city and business hub, the provincial capital Karachi.
Source: Useful Notes / Pakistan - In addition to their enmity with the Bruins and the Leafs, the Canadiens also had an ugly relationship with the Quebec Nordiques, who played in the provincial capital of Quebec City.
Source: Arch Enemy / Sports - The only reason the Persians even thought about conquering mainland Greece was a peculiar battle in which an Athenian army assisted Miletos (a Greek city in Ionia) in reasserting its independence; in the process, they managed to torch the Persian provincial capital at Sardis.
Source: Forever War
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