Statistics for Former Capitals

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Year	Country	Former Capital	Current Capital	% Correct
1868	Japan	Kyoto	Tokyo	92%
1918	Russia	Saint Petersburg	Moscow	92%
1960	Brazil	Rio de Janeiro	Brasília	90%
1595	Poland	Kraków	Warsaw	88%
1975	Vietnam	Ho Chi Minh City	Hanoi	86%
1923	Turkey	Istanbul	Ankara	83%
1857	Canada	Toronto	Ottawa	83%
1865	New Zealand	Auckland	Wellington	81%
1991	Nigeria	Lagos	Abuja	81%
1927	Australia	Melbourne	Canberra	81%
1800	United States	Philadelphia	Washington, D.C.	80%
1982	Sri Lanka	Colombo	Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte	75%
1967	Pakistan	Karachi	Islamabad	75%
1898	Bolivia	Sucre	La Paz	75%
1421	China	Nanjing	Beijing	71%
1999	Germany	Bonn	Berlin	68%
1996	Tanzania	Dar Es Salaam	Dodoma	68%
1911	India	Kolkata	New Delhi	68%
2005	Myanmar	Yangon	Naypyidaw	68%
1998	Kazakhstan	Almaty	Nur-Sultan	63%
1961	Belize	Belize City	Belmopan	63%
1671	Morocco	Marrakesh	Rabat	63%
1983	Ivory Coast	Abidjan	Yamoussoukro	54%
2019	Burundi	Bujumbura	Gitega	42%
1944	Lithuania	Kaunas	Vilnius	39%
1436	Sweden	Uppsala	Stockholm	36%
1776	Afghanistan	Kandahar	Kabul	34%
1812	Finland	Turku	Helsinki	34%
1936	Uzbekistan	Samarkand	Tashkent	27%
1779	Iran	Mashhad	Tehran	24%
2006	Palau	Koror City	Ngerulmud	19%
1935	Zambia	Livingstone	Lusaka	15%
1962	Uganda	Entebbe	Kampala	14%
1902	Senegal	Saint-Louis	Dakar	14%
1949	Indonesia	Yogyakarta	Jakarta	12%
1975	Laos	Luang Prabang	Vientiane	8%
1989	F. S. Micronesia	Kolonia	Palikir	5%
1920	D. R. Congo	Boma	Kinshasa	3%
1941	Guinea-Bissau	Bolama	Bissau	2%
1818	Saudi Arabia	Diriyah	Riyadh	2%
1965	Botswana	Mafikeng	Gaborone	2%
1975	Malawi	Zomba	Lilongwe	2%