Capitol

A capitol, named after the Capitoline Hill in Rome, is usually a legislative building where a legislature meets and makes laws for its respective political entity.

Specific capitols include:

United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.
Numerous U.S. state and territorial capitols
Capitolio Nacional in Bogotá, Colombia
Capitolio Federal in Caracas, Venezuela
El Capitolio in Havana, Cuba
Capitol of Palau in Ngerulmud, Palau

Capitol, capitols, or The Capitol may also refer to:

Entertainment and Media

Capitol (board game), a Roman-themed board game
Capitol (The Hunger Games trilogy), a fictional city in The Hunger Games novels
Capitol (TV series), a U.S. soap opera
Capitol (collection), a book by Orson Scott Card
The Capitols, a Detroit, Michigan-based soul trio

Business

Capitol Wrestling Corporation, a predecessor organization to World Wrestling Entertainment
Capitol Records, a U.S. record label
Capitol Air, originally known as Capitol International Airways, an American charter airline operating from 1946 to the mid 1980s

Other locations

Capitoline Hill in Rome (from which the word capitol derives)
Capitols, former name of the Capitol Corridor passenger train route in California, United States
Capitole de Toulouse, a historic building in Toulouse, France, now used as a municipal and public-arts center
The capitouls of Toulouse, the city's former chief magistrates
Capitol College, a private, non-profit, and non-sectarian college located just south of Laurel, Maryland
Capitol Butte, a mountain in Arizona
Capitol Reef National Park, a U.S. National Park in south-central Utah
Capitolium, the temple for the Capitoline Triad in many cities of the Roman Empire
The Capitol (Hong Kong), a large private housing estate in Hong Kong
The Capitol (Fayetteville, North Carolina), department store
Capitol (Williamsburg, Virginia), a historic building that housed the House of Burgesses of the Colony of Virginia 1705–1779