Definition of "provincial capital" []

• The capital of a province. (noun)

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• "Tarin Kowt, the provincial capital of Uruzgan, is a dusty one-horse town around which would swirl one of the most crucial battles of the war against the Taliban."
• "He then led the men in a final push north away from the sea more than a hundred miles to the provincial capital at the shabby frontier town of Paura on the road to Persepolis."
• "No occupying force in the provincial capital of Qhoyre."