Why NOBODY Lives in these 10 EMPTY Capital Cities
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- When you think of the word capital city, you likely think of skyscrapers and a bustling city. However, what if I told you that there were capital cities that feel like small towns and are practically deserted? The following 10 capital cities combined are equivalent to barely 20% of the population of Phoenix, the capital of Arizona.
So, what's the story behind these tiny capitals - and why are some of them practically deserted? These are the 10 emptiest capital cities in the United States.
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You might want to point out that Chicago isn't the capital of Illinois. Springfield, a much smaller town, is the capital
Tell that to Prickster and his cronies.
Exactly. And right at the beginning of the video. I almost stopped watching immediately.
@@anthonybroadnax4987None of those are capital cities, was just a population reference. Agreed though that he should have listed some of the top capital cities instead.
@@kamX-rz4uy So where do you think the capital of Colorado is? It’s not the 1860s anymore …
@@MichaelScottRammingOops. As someone once sang, two out of three ain't bad.
This script had to be written by AI. Why are small populations being portrayed as a bad thing?
DYWTV? They didn't say it was a bad thing at all.
Small cities usually contribute nothing to the economy, and are generally disconnected feom the outside. Not that thats a bad thing, but that depends on what you want.
@@epicow_1973 Depends on your definition of "nothing."
Personally.. I like to eat...
It's not a bad thing. Some of these towns are quaint, gorgeous, and a nice quiet place for a capital city. As an allegory, NC chose a deserted hill in the middle of nowhere (at that time), for its chief state university. Being a small place is not bad for a college town or a capital city.
Not everyone loves small rural, dying Walmart towns.
Jefferson City was built to be the capital. It is located on several rivers so that at the time before planes, trains, and automobiles, travel from all corners of the state could be done by steamboat. It’s growth was hampered by the construction of I-70 which passes through Columbia 30 miles to the north. Finally, the Missouri legislature only meets from January to May so for most of the year there isn’t a lot going on there.
And speaking of fires, the Jefferson City capitol has burned and been rebuilt more than once as well.
Btw your talking about Capital Cities and you bring up Seattle WA I don't know why
BECAUSE OLYMPIA IS THE CAPITAL OF WASHINGTON STATE not Seattle !!
Just an FYI 😀
He was obviously just bringing up a few better known cities, considering Chicago isn't a capital either.
Human..doubt it…if so they are morons.
@@rusrockt10 Either way I was letting whomever know
Okay thanks for your concern 😀✌️
Having live in Pierre Sd for 2 years, the locals hate when you get it wrong. Spelling aside it is actually pronounced like pier.
South Dakota's Pierre is pronounced "peer", not pee-air.
I'm french and it's strang to see à us city with thé name of Pierre !!!! 😅
@@Jeremie-pt2uz The French owned what became 1/3 of the US. Thank the Louisiana Purchase when France sold land to the Americans for 12 cents per acre.
I did not know that!
@@Jeremie-pt2uzapparently you don't know much about the US
@@lylecampbell9036 why ? I love US !!
Frankfort is a small city, but it's far from "practically deserted." Plus, it's almost smack dab between Louisville and Lexington.
There is a big difference between "empty" and small. None of these cities are empty. Not one genuine reason for these populations is given.
Bigger does not mean better in fact as cities go it’s worse.
tokyo is the biggest city, and one of the nicest. try reading more instead of listening to your prejudices.
I went to Montpelier this past summer. It is a lovely city to walk around. They embrace being the smallest capital city and love visitors. I have been to quite a few capital cites and Montpelier was my favorite with Frankfort coming im second. The capitol building are nice too. Hartford is where Mark Twains home is. It is a must see along with the Capitol buiding.
My parents and younger siblings lived near Montpelier for several years in the 1990s, and I always liked the area.
Annapolis may have a smaller population as a city, but it's in a county of over 500k.
It might be more useful to consider the population of the entire Metropolitan Statistical Area, or MSA. For an example, Harrisburg, the capital of PA, has a population of about 50,000 but the MSA is about 500,000 -- ten times as big as the city itself.
Locals refer the city as "Peer" instead of using the French pronunciation. Pierre is the center of South Dakota, just a couple of hours east or west of bigger cities like Rapid City or Sioux Falls. Pierre sits on the missouri river, but has no interstate near it. Nearest interstate is 30 miles south which is interstate 90. Pierre mainly attracts hunters and fishers when the season opens.
Yeah, it's a common mistake, but the only correct pronunciation is how locals pronounce it.
Alex Trebek always got it right.
Cries in [bo:ahz].
So much for AI is always incorrect in pronunciation. 😮.
They are not empty, they are just smaller. And all very nice.
Montpellier is small, but you can't beat it for charm, and the capitol building is just perfect for a small state like Vermont. It's not far from Burlington, which is not large, but pinches above it's weight for hipness and culture.
Yep. I want to stay small and the fewer flatlanders, the better
I love your capital city. I just love Vermont. I always wanted to live there. I would vacation their often!
Bit misleading though, most of the "bigger" towns are actually suburbs of Burlington. :)
The state isn't that large, you pretty much have to drive to Burlington (or Nashua NH) to do any serious shopping.
The capital of South Dakota is pronounced Peer😢
Montpelier is a gem, but this flooding has become a serious liability.
In some cases, like Annapolis, *at the time it was established* the location *did* make sense as a center of activity, but the passing of history changed how the economy grew (Baltimore had a better port for bigger ships).
In many others, the capital was placed more or less "in the middle", even if it was the middle of nowhere, to make it possible for people from all parts of the state to get there equally, in the days before modern transportation.
At times, there was a deliberate choice to NOT place the capital in one of the major economic centers so as to prevent the influence of the interests of that big city.
And if what you have is a one-industry company town where the most important people in the business are there only 2, 4, or 8 years on average -- elected government -- then it's not going to become a major city "just because" -- your factories and financial centers are going to be at the place with the deep port and rail connections.
How could you ignore Trenton NJ, though everyone else does. An abandoned hellscape that even the State Government does want. Much of the Bureaucracy has decamped to its treed suburbs or Newark NJ. Even the Governor doesn't live there.
Trenton used to have a variety of industry that is long gone. The 'downtown' has many non-government buildings that are empty as businesses moved to the suburbs, merged with other companies. It has a high crime rate. Its capitol building is one of the worst mashes of buildings added on over the years. It has a high crime rate. I don't think there is a decent motel/hotel in town.
Newark is a dump
@@pollypurree1834 So is Camden, and Atlantic City
Trenton has a population too high to be on this list, which are the 10 least populated.
I could be wrong, but I don't think the governor's mansion has ever been in Trenton.
I think the author assumes that everyone would freak out about the idea of leaving their comfortable cities and suburbs to go somewhere that has no McDonald's, Starbucks, or Target
or anything that "normal" places have. There is nothing quite like being able to wake up and see pretty countryside around and not have people up in your business. I know a lot of people feel like that.
When I think of empty capital cities, I think of cities that are losing population and rife with crime and abandoned buildings like Jackson MS, Trenton NJ, Harrisburg PA, and Baton Rouge LA
Baton Rouge is FULL of people though, Crime, yeah. Crumbling infrastructure, terrible traffic, and corruption.
Baton Rouge is like many Democratic states are Paying the Great price for Stupidity and their Wrongly Proud attitude. These places when called out on their b.s. are like the Jerk that was going to blackmail Batman in the Dark Knight! We all seen how that worked out 😊. I have no Pity for those places that have Failed it's Tax Base.
Silly narrative. Just because they cities/towns are small doesn't mean they are empty. Kinda of definition, empty would mean vacant houses and storefronts.
This is kind of an odd listing. Does it really matter that the population of these capitols is so tiny? Certainly in the cases of Annapolis and Montpelier, they’re incredibly charming places to visit and live.
I wonder if that’s the case for other tiny capitols on this list.
This ignores the size of the area of the capital cities and the immediate suburbs surrounding the city. I have to wonder if there would be a difference in the list if it didn’t just consider the population within the city boundries. Also, it would be expected that states with the lower density populations would have cities with lower populations.
An example of a city with a small area is Annapolis, MD which is only 8 square miles and although there are only 40,000+ people within the city boundries the surrounding county of Anne Arundell has a population of 588,000+ (2020 census). Also, Annapolis and Anne Arundell are considered to be a part of the suburbs of Baltimore.
yes, There is a lot considered "Annapolis" that is not in the downtown area like Parole and other parts of Anne Arundel county. I never thought of it as a small capital as it's always hopping on nice weekends with tourists, Navy games and events.
This is definitely AI generated. I've been to several of these cities and they're not empty. They have thriving downtowns, lively arts etc.And people do indeed live there.
Before you do a video such as this, you really should be sure of pronunciations, such as the way you say "Louisville" and "Pierre."
It is not pronounced “Pierre” but ‘Pier’, one syllable.
I'm gonna correct my first comment; NYC was our first capital, then philly then DC
Time to move it again. DC is a dump
Ya and they all suck
Even so the capital of New York is Albany not New York City.
American cities are deserted even with many people out in the streets..It's not the cities ...it's the people who are devoid of humanity.
Why would you think it's the people?
Now hear this: 301,323 people = _nobody._ (Yeah, I did the math.) I hate click bait terms, such as NOBODY and EMPTY. Notice that the census graphs highlighted actually show that most of these capital cities are _growing._ I hope NOBODY is fooled by the EMPTY content of Across The Globe.
@@moreayf2319 Watching it is necessary to know whether I like it.
You would only have to drive around Annapolis once to understand the problem. There just isn’t that much space to grow. Annapolis is situated on a small peninsula. Part of its charm is being an old city on the water, but that location also limits its growth.
I'm not sure if you intentionally implied chicago as the capital of Illinois. Springfield, the capital, with a pop of 110,000, is small in comparison
This is really weird to me since capitals usually also are the biggest city in the country or the biggest town in the region here in Europe.
Chicago is not the capital of Illinois.
The national USA capitol was not moved from Annapolis to Washington, DC. It was moved to New York City and later to Washington, DC.
Annapolis was the national capital for under one year, 1783-84, during the period of The Articles of Confederation.
After the constitution was ratified, the capital was New York City, but only for two years. Philadelphia was the capital from 1790 to 1800, then Washington ever since.
The national capital was also temporally in Philadelphia at one time as well.
Well now! Richmond is the only state capitol that actually was home to two states of different nations. Of course, that is completely politically inappropriate, but factually.
Dont forget it was also Capitol of a country as well. 🤣
Concord NH is huge compared to Sacramento. Concord is a whopping 3% of NH population while Sacramento is only 1.5% of CA. Sacramento is 41% of NH population. Meaning NH is really small, so of course Concord is small.
Dispite these being "small" their populatiosns would still classify them as cities, not towns
Frankfort may be small but it’s a gorgeous city! And it’s definitely not “empty” ;)
I was there yesterday, saw a lot of rundown homes. It’s nice hilly terrain though
Exactly. It is also close to two big cities.
I was very surprised that Harrisburg, PA wasn’t on this list.
I had friends who lived in Phoenix. Two years ago they moved to Portland Oregon because Arizona was just too hot and dry. The climate change was too much for them.
I moved to Phoenix from Maryland and love it lol
St Louis was a fur trading hub, and The Gateway to the West and that is why it attracted more people than Jefferson City. It is also on the confluence of the Missouri and the Mississippi Rivers. Jefferson City did not grow because the new growth went to Colombia, Mo which is just a couple of miles away from Jefferson City.
I can understand Jefferson City as a good place for Missouri's capital, as Missouri has two major metro areas (St. Louis and KC) on opposite sides of the state that straddle state boundaries.
Concord NH is actually large for NH, I think Portsmouth is the smallest city in NH at just over 30 thousand, others corrected the pronunciation
You make it sound like everyone should want to live in a big city....big news....we don't.
My Tallahassee Lassie!
That's what I'm saying. I'd much rather live in a smaller area, or even in a rural area over a big city, any day.
Well said.
It isn’t Con cord, NH. You have the accent on the wrong syllable. Conc ord. Pet peeve is when the names of places are mispronounced. MA says it one way, NH the other. Many towns in this country are the same way.
Also, South Dakota's capital was not correctly pronounced. It's "Peer", not Pee-AIR.
It's not really a matter of syllables. It's more like Con-kerd. Also, Concord MA is often pronounced the same way unless you've got the Boston accent, where it's more like Con-kid.
Seattle isn't a capital city. Olympia is the capital of Washington and it's pretty chill place.
It is pronounced PIER S.D.like a wooden pier.
Pierre is pronounced "peer", not the French pronunciation.
Small population is good to a city.
Pierre, South Dakota is pronounced as pier (like a place a ship ties up)
When I was a small child, I received "The MAD Worry Book", which was a listing of silly and unrealistic things to be worried about. One of them mentioned the city of Albany, which apparently was losing its population in the 1970s. It indicated that at the rate it was going, in 50 years (now the present, give or take a few years) there would be no one living there.
If anyone from Albany is reading this (or if you had the same MAD book), I would really like to hear from you.
Concord NH is actually large for NH, I think Portsmouth is the smallest city in NH at just over 30 thousand, others corrected the pronunciation
If you combine Montpelier with Barre, it becomes more than 2x the size. They're right next to each other and might as well combine together. Montpelier is not empty by any means.
A lot of cities could be combined together. Little Rock and North Little Rock, Charleston and North Charleston, Anniston and Oxford, etc...
@@1113-f7o It might be more useful to consider the population of the entire Metropolitan Statistical Area, or MSA. For an example, Harrisburg, the capital of PA, has a population of about 50,000 but the MSA is about 500,000 -- ten times as big as the city itself.
@@AndrewAMartin Yes but we don't do that for one simple reason, Harrisburg is a hellhole and the surrounding area refuses to be governed by the Harrisburg mayor. The areas around it are outside of city limits and those places insist on remaining such for good reason.
When did capital city's have to be the most popular?
If it did the capital would change over time a lot.
Populated he's talking about
Least populated capitals
Not popular but ya know
Same same 😂
Nicely done with the click bait thumbnail. Menu>Don't recommend channel.
Wtf? Philadelphia was the original US Capitol, not Annapolis 😂😂😂
Well yeah, though I think the "capital" back then was wherever Congress convened. They did meet in Annapolis at one point.
@@JLAvey I think you're correct -- even York, PA lays claim to US Capitol status as it held that distinction briefly.
This video completely ignores the main reason some of these small capitals exist: people specifically avoided putting capitals in major cities to avoid the influence of business interests on state politics.
I said what the hell newark? But I realized is the Delaware city,not the NJ city 4:50
Augusta became capital the same way Richmond became Virginia's capital.
Sensible people should not want their state capital to have a large population! Large government is almost invariably BAD government!
Olympia, the capital of Washington state has grown significantly in the last 20 years, more than tripling in population. Almost entirely Government employees and Lobbiests!
Government is necessary, however, Bloated Bureaucracies are a heavy burden upon the economy and the Citizens!
Juneau looks like a good place to get away from an ex
Pierre is pronounced“PEER” not PeeAir.
Americans are moving to small towns and not big cities anymore
At 0:03 you are showing Chicago which is not a capital city and plenty of people live there.
Chicago us not central to Illinois. In fact it is closer to Wisconsim than Cairo Illinois.
America is; the beaches, Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Yellowstone, Sequias/Redwoods, Zion, Shasta, Glacier, Grand Teton, and Arches National Parks, Alaska...most of those are with unique features existing only in the US! Most Americans love open spaces and freedom! If they could afford to leave the mega-cities and relocate to a country home - they would. Remote workers are moving to small towns with good satellite communications. Farmers and ranchers are not flocking to the cities for a better life - they are staying home where life is actually much better. Suburbs are still viable for working professionals working in the cities, like cops, teachers, store owners, lawyers, etc... The sad reality is that the US is slowly destroying the concept of cities which are becoming traps for poor people or homeless and/or mentally ill!
Anyone who calls Baltimore a “bustling city” has never been there. 😂
Ok, you ai robot! Eat this, learn the local languages of the places you criticize. In South Dakota Pierre is pronounced “peer”. In Nebraska Norfolk is pronounced “norfork” and Kearney is pronounced “carney”. So any opinion you may have of state capitols is pronounced “ear ev uh lent”
I wish they move alaska state capital closer to Anchorage
@@moreayf2319 we voted for to move capital closer a few times but failed every time
Thank you that's very interesting
Please! Capitol not Capital.
Alaska doesn't actually have a Capital building. There has been talk about moving the capital all together.
They were supposed to have a Capitol in Willow January 1st, 1980. Someone even set up a wall tent with a platform on the site with a flag pole with the state and US flag on it. There was a sign posted that read “ Governor’s Office “.
There was only 17,000 people in the Mat Su then.
Do some research on Annapolis. I'm from and live in Reston, Virginia which is in the Washington, DC metro area. As is Annapolis. The metro area has a bigger official name. I think Mileage Mike or Beaver Geography did a video featuring it. It was about metro areas.
Where is Harrisburg? With Philadelphia and Pittsburgh both in the state, why small and ugly Harrisburg as the capital.
It's pronounced "Peer".
Love the misspelled title right at the start “10 Empties Capital…” and the fact they aren’t all Capital cities. Solid research smh.
Carson City, NV
Tallahassee, FL
Pierre SoDak is pronounced “Pier”. Put some respect on its name.
I lived in Jefferson City for 15 years. I loved the town. Strong German influence and very high church attendance. The River and the railroad made it what it was in the 1800s. Government now keeps it going.
Pierre is pronounced as “Pier.”
“Pierre” is better pronounced as “Peer.”
If there's a worse place than Harrisburg, Pennsylvania I don't want to know about it. My blood freezes just driving past it.
As a Pennsylvanian, the only nice thing about Harrisburg is that we have One of The Most Beautiful State Capitol Buildings in America, sad to say that that is the only Building in Harrisburg that is actually nice. Dauphin County isn't too bad, but without Harrisburg it would probably be much nicer. I believe the State Capital should be located in Bellefonte as it is the geographical center of PA and Center County is more scenic than Dauphin County. Just my opinion.
Wow, Cheyenne didn’t even make the list.
I kinda knew they wouldn’t as soon as I saw 10th place. Cheyenne has more than 10% of the state’s population at 65k. Plus, 2 major interstates interchange there and it’s also not too far off from Denver, so the geography helps it a little too.
Is there some reason we'd WANT state administrators to be crowded into already crowded big cities? It's always a head-scratcher for me when people are so surprised that state capitals are often out-of-the-way towns without much else going on besides state administration.
Well, it is the norm here in Europe that capitals also are the largest city in the country or the largest town in the region.
@@Furienna Well, that’s because European capitals were mostly founded centuries ago, when of course the big center of population and commerce was the most important place to defend and govern directly from up close. But in places and times that are past such concerns, there’s no reason to put the capital in the economic center, and it might even be inconvenient.
@@jerrysstories711 How can it be inconvenient though?
@@Furienna Big cities tend to be crowded, expensive, and heavily trafficked. So why increase all three by cramming in a capital that doesn't really need to be right there?
@@jerrysstories711 Lots of people will have to go to big cities anyway, and it really makes sense for the government to reside in the largest city as well.
It is not a problem either for most of Europe or for many countries in Asia and Africa and Latin America and South America.
Really, you will never hear anybody here in Sweden seriously suggest that the government should reside anywhere except for in Stockholm.
It would be seen as ridiculous even if attempts to spread out different authorities and such to smaller towns were made in the past.
But I get that if you're from the US or Canada or Australia or New Zeeland, you will see things differently because they have other traditions...
Bro I live in Augusta Maine and sometimes it is so busy that I have to find I different route! he knows nothing at this point
Montpelier is the only state capital without a McDonald's.
Good for them. Who needs that garbage anyway 😂
Still trying to figure out how St. Louis got the Olympics back then.
Because it was the 4th largest city in the US at the time, behind New York, Chicago and Philadelphia.
Santa Fe is capitol of New Mexico even though it is a lot smaller than Albuquerque.
you need to do more research on your subject i gave you a thumbs down and no subscribe because this subject just does not get me excited
Thanks for a great video!
Delaware is a small, dumpy state
yessss i was waiting for my girlie montpelier. very cute downtown and a genuinely impressive capital building that we all went to on field trips to as kids. then there's like one street and an ice cream stand. all vermonters do know each other btw there are so few of us
Sounds like a great place to live
And Montpelier has an amazing, spectacular, and extraordinary chocolate shop. I could not live too close to that.
"Pierre" is pronounced as "peer!" If you are going to talk about state capitals, make sure you check the pronunciation of the names.
I came to say that too…pier
Bismarck ND, Carson City NV, Santa Fe NM, and maybe even Topeka KS all qualify as small cities. I can think of others too. Tallahassee FL, Albany NY....................................and so on.
Blather on Mr. Boring. DISLIKE.
How is Harrisburg Pa not on the list?
You act like 40K is a teeny tiny city. That's actually a pretty substantial population. 76% of all incorporated areas in the US are less than 5,000 in population. 42% have populations of less than 500 people. Only 4% of US cities have a population greater than 50,000 people. My source is the US census bureau.
It's actually pretty amazing that Juneau made it to 30k given it's inaccessibility.
Hello Fellow Humans,
I am from California and currently live in Sacramento County. Which has 1.5 million people. Although most people think LA or San Francisco are California capital. Which is fine by me because if another country wants to bomb California Sacramento is fine. But it is insane to think these cities don't even add up to where I live.
The capital of SD is pronounced "Peer." It rhyme with fear, near and here. It's great limericks: There once was a lady from Pierre...Who knew she had nothing to fear...But she got in a hurry... on the banks of the MIssouri...Whose waters are anything but clear...
FYI, you lose all credibly when you fail to pronounce the names of the cities you are discussing. Hearing you repeatedly mispronouncing Pierre (it’s pronounced like you would say “pier”) makes me wonder what else you’re getting wrong or failing to tell your audience.
Most capitals are not the largest cities.
Annapolis is hardly empty and you are comparing cities that have nothing except they are considered cities. Annapolis has no skyscrapers and they don't build up in the same way you can in Baltimore or NYC. It also goes out of it's way to save it's historic charm. It pulls in a ton of tourism as well as a popular place for a lot of Marylanders to ho when the weather is not. Not to mention it's huge boating and military community. The housing prices are also outrageous. Not in most people's budget. It is hardly irrelevant.
the thing about Montana is it's huge. Then almost half is covered by very high mountains. It's extremely cold. What isn't covered in mountains is high desert. It's only the 43rd state in population. So with all that put together. There's nobody there
So what? Why does a State Capitol have in a big city. I lived near Frankfort KY a Small Capitol I loved it. It was strategically located between Louisville and Lexington KY.
0:29 No, the title says "Empties", not emptiest as you read it, so I insist you read it as "empties". Sounds so much butter (see, you're not the only one that can possibly, maybe, use intentional misspelling to possibly, probably, drive engagement up).
I am not Montpellier is pronounced correctly. Surely the last three letters is pronounced "a" like the French city of the same name. Anybody from that state please let me know. I am not American and half French on my mother's side.