But the Colombian capital faces similar problems of uncontrolled growth, pollution and high crime.

The capital of Nunavut faces an extreme affordability challenge mainly due to the supply side.

After years dominated by Federal budget deficits, the capital faces a new quandary: how to deal with the prospect of surpluses.

How has this country, whose name derives from a Latin word meaning money and whose elegant capital faces an estuary called the River of Silver, managed to go bankrupt?

Last month, the London mayor, Boris Johnson, said claims that the capital would face gridlock were "complete and utter nonsense".

The Greek capital is facing severe water shortages as a result of prolonged drought, wasteful consumption, and losses from an ageing distribution network.

The capital may once again face months, if not years, of yet another investigation of the White House featuring the volatile mix of money, influence, access and politics.

Steve Gibbs (Alan Ladd), an American arms dealer, flies into a small Indian state intending to sell weapons to a local maharajah whose capital is facing an attack from a bandit army.

Thus the ancient capital of California faces across the bay, while the Pacific Ocean, though hidden by low hills and forest, bombards her left flank and rear with never-dying surf.

The capital of the former Soviet republic sat on the edge of the Caspian Sea and faced Iran.