# 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:

## Arts, Entertainment, 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

## Sports

* Bismarck Capitols, a sem-pro ice hockey team in Bismarck, North Dakota, USA, in the Southwest Hockey League
* Des Moines Capitols, a minor league professional ice hockey team from Des Moines, Iowa, USA, in the International Hockey League (IHL)
* Harlingen Capitols, a minor league professional baseball team from Harlingen, Texas, USA
* Harrisburg Capitols, a minor league American football team from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA, in the Atlantic Coast Football League
* Harrisburg Capitols, and Harrisburg Caps; a professional basketball team from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA, in the Eastern Professional Basketball League; the successor of the Harrisburg Senators (basketball)
* Hartford Capitols, a professional basketball team from Hartford, Connecticut, USA, in the Eastern Professional Basketball League
* Indianapolis Capitols, a professional American football team from Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, in the Continental Football League
* Lincoln Capitols, an indoor arena football (American gridiron) team from Lincoln, Nebraska, USA, in the Indoor Football League
* Madison Capitols, a top-tier junior ice hockey team in Middleton, Wisconsin, USA, in the United States Hockey League (USHL)
* Sacramento Capitols, a professional American football team from Sacramento, California, USA, in the Continental Football League
* Springfield Capitols, an ice hockey team from Springfield, Illinois, USA, in the All-American Hockey League
* Tallahassee Capitols, a Class-D minor league professional baseball team from Tallahassee, Florida, USA, in the Georgia–Florida League
* Washington Capitols, a professional ice hockey team from District of Columbia, USA, in the National Hockey League (NHL)
* Wisconsin Capitols, a junior ice hockey team in Madison, Wisconsin, USA, in the United States Hockey League (USHL)

## Transport and vehicular

* Capitol Air, originally known as Capitol International Airways, an American charter airline operating from 1946 to the mid-1980s
* Le Capitole (train), a former express train between Paris and Toulouse
* Capitols, former name of the Capitol Corridor passenger train route in California, United States
* Chevrolet Series AA "Capitol", an American automobile

## Other locations

* Capitoline Hill in Rome (from which the word capitol derives)
* Capitole de Toulouse, a historic building in Toulouse, France, now used as a municipal and public-arts center
* Capitol College, a private, non-profit, and non-sectarian college located just south of Laurel, Maryland, USA
* Capitol Butte, a mountain in Arizona
* Capitol Reef National Park, a U.S. National Park in south-central Utah
* The Capitol (Hong Kong), China; a large private housing estate in Hong Kong
* The Capitol (Fayetteville, North Carolina), USA; department store
* Capitol (Williamsburg, Virginia), USA; a historic building that housed the House of Burgesses of the Colony of Virginia 1705–1779

## Other uses

* Capitol Records, a U.S. record label
* The capitouls of Toulouse, the city's former chief magistrates
* Capitolium, the temple for the Capitoline Triad in many cities of the Roman Empire