Key:capital_city
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 capital_city
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Capital city 
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This appears to be used in very low numbers, there is the tag capital=* which is established to indicate that a settlement has capital status, and it has much higher usage numbers. The tag capital_city seems to add redundancy where it doesn't seem useful. |
A capital city is the municipality exercising primary status in a country, state, province, or other administrative region.
It is used in conjunction with the following:
Example
place=country name=Ísland capital_city=Reykjavík
See also
capital=*the standard way to denote a capital in OSM