More miscellaneous towns that are not national capitals
Arvada (Colorado)
Benešov (Czech Republic)
Cedar Rapids (Iowa)
Des Plaines (Illinois)
More miscellaneous towns that are not national capitals
Arvada (Colorado)
Benešov (Czech Republic)
Cedar Rapids (Iowa)
Des Plaines (Illinois)
Essex (UK)
More miscellaneous towns that are not national capitals
Arvada (Colorado)
Benešov (Czech Republic)
Cedar Rapids (Iowa)
Des Plaines (Illinois)
Essex (UK)
Franklin (Virginia)
Kicking myself that I wasn’t here in time to post “Blawnox (Penna.)”! The ugliest placename I know, and something of a SDMB meme.
More miscellaneous towns that are not national capitals
Arvada (Colorado)
Benešov (Czech Republic)
Cedar Rapids (Iowa)
Des Plaines (Illinois)
Essex (UK)
Franklin (Virginia)
George (Washington)
More miscellaneous towns that are not national capitals
Arvada (Colorado)
Benešov (Czech Republic)
Cedar Rapids (Iowa)
Des Plaines (Illinois)
Essex (UK)
Franklin (Virginia)
George (Washington)
Hell (Michigan)
More miscellaneous towns that are not national capitals
Arvada (Colorado)
Benešov (Czech Republic)
Cedar Rapids (Iowa)
Des Plaines (Illinois)
Essex (UK)
Franklin (Virginia)
George (Washington)
Hell (Michigan)
Itasca, (Texas)
More miscellaneous towns that are not national capitals
Arvada (Colorado)
Benešov (Czech Republic)
Cedar Rapids (Iowa)
Des Plaines (Illinois)
Essex (UK)
Franklin (Virginia)
George (Washington)
Hell (Michigan)
Itasca, (Texas)
Jalisco (Mexico)
More miscellaneous towns that are not national capitals
Arvada (Colorado)
Benešov (Czech Republic)
Cedar Rapids (Iowa)
Des Plaines (Illinois)
Essex (UK)
Franklin (Virginia)
George (Washington)
Hell (Michigan)
Itasca, (Texas)
Jalisco (Mexico)
Knippa, Texas
The K is not silent.
More miscellaneous towns that are not national capitals
Arvada (Colorado)
Benešov (Czech Republic)
Cedar Rapids (Iowa)
Des Plaines (Illinois)
Essex (UK)
Franklin (Virginia)
George (Washington)
Hell (Michigan)
Itasca, (Texas)
Jalisco (Mexico)
Knippa, Texas
Liverpool (England)
I was there last year and it was a much more pleasant city than I expected.
More miscellaneous towns that are not national capitals
Arvada (Colorado)
Benešov (Czech Republic)
Cedar Rapids (Iowa)
Des Plaines (Illinois)
Essex (UK)
Franklin (Virginia)
George (Washington)
Hell (Michigan)
Itasca, (Texas)
Jalisco (Mexico)
Knippa, Texas
Liverpool (England)
Mashpee (Massachusetts)
More miscellaneous towns that are not national capitals
Arvada (Colorado)
Benešov (Czech Republic)
Cedar Rapids (Iowa)
Des Plaines (Illinois)
Essex (UK)
Franklin (Virginia)
George (Washington)
Hell (Michigan)
Itasca, (Texas)
Jalisco (Mexico)
Knippa, Texas
Liverpool (England)
Mashpee (Massachusetts)
Neepawa (Manitoba)
Birthplace of Canadian fiction wirter Margaret Laurence. Served as the basis for the “Manawaka” in several of her novels.
More miscellaneous towns that are not national capitals
Arvada (Colorado)
Benešov (Czech Republic)
Cedar Rapids (Iowa)
Des Plaines (Illinois)
Essex (UK)
Franklin (Virginia)
George (Washington)
Hell (Michigan)
Itasca, (Texas)
Jalisco (Mexico)
Knippa, Texas
Liverpool (England)
Mashpee (Massachusetts)
Neepawa (Manitoba)
Oughterard (Ireland)
Named as the birthplace and burial place of Michael Furey, by James Joyce in his great short story “The Dead”. Joyce was fictionalizing Michael Bodkin, a young man from Oughterard in Galway, who had been the first love of Nora Barnacle, Joyce’s wife.
More miscellaneous towns that are not national capitals
Arvada (Colorado)
Benešov (Czech Republic)
Cedar Rapids (Iowa)
Des Plaines (Illinois)
Essex (UK)
Franklin (Virginia)
George (Washington)
Hell (Michigan)
Itasca, (Texas)
Jalisco (Mexico)
Knippa, Texas
Liverpool (England)
Mashpee (Massachusetts)
Neepawa (Manitoba)
Oughterard (Ireland)
Poughkeepsie (New York)
This popped into my head for no reasons other than (a) it’s funny to say, and (b) I just watched The French Connection last night and remembered the line, “Do you pick your feet in Poughkeepsie?”
More miscellaneous towns that are not national capitals
Arvada (Colorado)
Benešov (Czech Republic)
Cedar Rapids (Iowa)
Des Plaines (Illinois)
Essex (UK)
Franklin (Virginia)
George (Washington)
Hell (Michigan)
Itasca, (Texas)
Jalisco (Mexico)
Knippa, Texas
Liverpool (England)
Mashpee (Massachusetts)
Neepawa (Manitoba)
Oughterard (Ireland)
Poughkeepsie (New York)
Quincy (Massachusetts)
More miscellaneous towns that are not national capitals
Arvada (Colorado)
Benešov (Czech Republic)
Cedar Rapids (Iowa)
Des Plaines (Illinois)
Essex (UK)
Franklin (Virginia)
George (Washington)
Hell (Michigan)
Itasca, (Texas)
Jalisco (Mexico)
Knippa, Texas
Liverpool (England)
Mashpee (Massachusetts)
Neepawa (Manitoba)
Oughterard (Ireland)
Poughkeepsie (New York)
Quincy (Massachusetts)
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
It’s the capital of its state but not of the country
More miscellaneous towns that are not national capitals
Arvada (Colorado)
Benešov (Czech Republic)
Cedar Rapids (Iowa)
Des Plaines (Illinois)
Essex (UK)
Franklin (Virginia)
George (Washington)
Hell (Michigan)
Itasca, (Texas)
Jalisco (Mexico)
Knippa, Texas
Liverpool (England)
Mashpee (Massachusetts)
Neepawa (Manitoba)
Oughterard (Ireland)
Poughkeepsie (New York)
Quincy (Massachusetts)
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Saint-Pie (Quebec)
Named for the patron saint of the SDMB?
More miscellaneous towns that are not national capitals
Arvada (Colorado)
Benešov (Czech Republic)
Cedar Rapids (Iowa)
Des Plaines (Illinois)
Essex (UK)
Franklin (Virginia)
George (Washington)
Hell (Michigan)
Itasca, (Texas)
Jalisco (Mexico)
Knippa, Texas
Liverpool (England)
Mashpee (Massachusetts)
Neepawa (Manitoba)
Oughterard (Ireland)
Poughkeepsie (New York)
Quincy (Massachusetts)
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Saint-Pie (Quebec)
Trenčín (Slovakia)
More miscellaneous towns that are not national capitals
Arvada (Colorado)
Benešov (Czech Republic)
Cedar Rapids (Iowa)
Des Plaines (Illinois)
Essex (UK)
Franklin (Virginia)
George (Washington)
Hell (Michigan)
Itasca, (Texas)
Jalisco (Mexico)
Knippa, Texas
Liverpool (England)
Mashpee (Massachusetts)
Neepawa (Manitoba)
Oughterard (Ireland)
Poughkeepsie (New York)
Quincy (Massachusetts)
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Saint-Pie (Quebec)
Trenčín (Slovakia)
Uxbridge (Massachusetts)
(Named for the Earl of Uxbridge)
More miscellaneous towns that are not national capitals
Arvada (Colorado)
Benešov (Czech Republic)
Cedar Rapids (Iowa)
Des Plaines (Illinois)
Essex (UK)
Franklin (Virginia)
George (Washington)
Hell (Michigan)
Itasca, (Texas)
Jalisco (Mexico)
Knippa, Texas
Liverpool (England)
Mashpee (Massachusetts)
Neepawa (Manitoba)
Oughterard (Ireland)
Poughkeepsie (New York)
Quincy (Massachusetts)
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Saint-Pie (Quebec)
Trenčín (Slovakia)
Uxbridge (Massachusetts)
Versailles (France)
Not currently a national capital, anyway. 
More miscellaneous towns that are not national capitals
Arvada (Colorado)
Benešov (Czech Republic)
Cedar Rapids (Iowa)
Des Plaines (Illinois)
Essex (UK)
Franklin (Virginia)
George (Washington)
Hell (Michigan)
Itasca, (Texas)
Jalisco (Mexico)
Knippa, Texas
Liverpool (England)
Mashpee (Massachusetts)
Neepawa (Manitoba)
Oughterard (Ireland)
Poughkeepsie (New York)
Quincy (Massachusetts)
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Saint-Pie (Quebec)
Trenčín (Slovakia)
Uxbridge (Massachusetts)
Versailles (France)
Williamsburg (Virginia)
Former colonial and state capital.