Talk:List of capital cities by elevation

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This page would be greatly improved with a citation for each entry, or at least a definition of which point it is in the city for which the "official" height is recorded.

Without these, there could be endless debate about whether the entries are correct. For example today (15/11/2011), a google search on altitude canberra (chosen because I have lived there, and have some familiarity with the layout) gives me the following values 605 (www.fallingrain.com/world/AS/01/Canberra.html) 571 (www.mapsofworld.com › Cities › Australia › Canberra) 606 (wiki.answers.com › ... › Australian Capital Territory and Canberra) 568 (www.bonzle.com/c/a?a=p&p=269264&cmd=sp) - for Canberra airport

and so on.

Such variation is only to be expected between different parts of a real-world ciy, but for a city where the altitude is given as 0 metres - or as 1 - it would be good to have some clarity Dhatherly (talk) 07:25, 15 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Criteria for placing and order of photos

Which criteria should we use?

Why Seoul, Cairo and Paris, the first 3 ones?

IMO we should place pictures of La Paz, Quito, Thimphu, because this is an article about capital cities and their altitude, not a random display of pictures of Capital cities. For such a purpose there are the cities itself pictures.

Please share your opinions Luis wiki (talk) 20:06, 8 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that's a beautiful picture of Seoul, but it's only 108 feet above sea level. I wondered why that was the top pic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.146.76.228 (talk) 19:34, 9 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Weak points of the article

No city or capital lies on a flat plateau. It is not clear from the article what point in the city decides the city's official altitude. I live in Vilnius, a relatively hilly city on many heights. My house is situated at 190 meters above sea level. Nevertheless, Lithuania's capital, listed at 124 meters above sea level. Jakro64 (talk) 10:05, 16 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Problem with sorting

The table isn't sorted correctly when clicking in any of "Altitude" rows. --Canyq (talk) 05:55, 10 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed in this edition by U+003F. Thank you very much. --Canyq (talk) 22:52, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Countries with multiple capitals

"If La Paz is considered the national capital, then it is ranked number one on the list. However, if Sucre is specified, then Ecuador's capital, Quito, is the national capital at the highest elevation."

I don't understand this. Where a country has multiple capitals, why is one being singled out for inclusion in the list, rather than listing them all? And how is it being decided which capital to single out?

This furthermore makes the content not match with the title, which is "List of capital cities by elevation" not "List of countries by elevation of one of its capitals". — Smjg (talk) 12:24, 30 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed! I see no reason to omit Sucre from this list. Settinger0603 (talk) 17:51, 13 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I was just trying to figure out which ones are missing. But are all the capitals listed on List of countries with multiple capitals actually capitals? How can we determine? I see that This Sporcle quiz accepts both capitals of Bolivia, Burundi, Eswatini and Sri Lanka, all three capitals of South Africa, but only the first-listed capitals of Benin, Ivory Coast, Malaysia, Netherlands (even though I think one of my books gives The Hague as the capital) and Afghanistan. Sporcle has a geography standard, but of course this isn't an authoritative source. Should we aim to list all of the ones listed in the aforementioned article, only the ones accepted by the Sporcle quiz, or do we need some other measure? — Smjg (talk) 15:46, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Article is incorrect

La Paz is not the capital of Bolivia. The constitutional capital is Sucre. 200.29.241.12 (talk) 23:38, 9 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

True. Saippuakauppias ⇄ 05:20, 24 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Most cities aren't flat

How is the elevation of a city determined for the listing here? By the lowest point, the highest point, the mean over the city's land area, or by some other means? Some cities even have an elevation range that dwarfs the difference between successive cities on this list, e.g. one of the missing cities, Cape Town ranges from 0 m to 1590.4 m according to that article.

If we give the range rather than a single figure for each city, it opens the further question of how to rank them. — Smjg (talk) 13:14, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]