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The Brazilian capital Brasilia made it to the UNESCO World Heritage List.
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AMSTERDAM – Indonesia gets a new capital on Borneo. The metropolis of Jakarta on Java, which has the sad title of ‘the fastest sinking city in the world’, is being replaced by Nusantara, which means archipelago in Indonesian. The plans have been in place for a long time, but the announcement was world news for a while. You don’t just move a capital city, although the phenomenon is centuries old and more common. Enough examples.