eli5 Why is it so important to „capture“ the capital city in a war?

Question

Does it really change the outcome of the war? Does a country fall when the capital city is captured?

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Answer 1

A lot of important info in this thread, but just to nerd out a second, recently capturing the capital has led to transferring the country’s web domains (for example Yemen in 2015: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ye](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ye) )