Braingle: 'A City Within a City' Brain Teaser

A City Within a City

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Puzzle ID:	#14419
Fun:	(2.59)
Difficulty:	(2.43)
Category:	Trivia
Submitted By:	mathemagician
Corrected By:	phrebh

Notice how the following words contain the spelled out name of a U.S. city:

TEMPErature (Tempe, Az.)
RENOvate (Reno, Nev.)

Can you give the name of a world city that contains within it the spelled out name of a U.S. state capital?

Hint

The world city is in the Middle East;
the U.S. state capital is in the Northwest.
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Comments

jimbo Sep 04, 2003	Gee I got that one. I must be Americanising.
tsimkin Dec 20, 2004	Jimbo -- you'll be Americanising when you start to spell it Americanizing.
kcelf27 Apr 28, 2005	If I read it right I may have had a clue, but I read WORD city instead of WORLD city. I live in OR, I should have had a heads up.
silly_goose May 19, 2005	Way to go OREGON! Even though I live in Washington... It's fun when things relate to nearby places...not much happens here in the Pacific nw, can you tell?
geofreak2010 Jun 24, 2005	Very easy, got it in like 2 seconds. Partly because I live an hour from Salem, too.
smarty_blondy Oct 01, 2005	Got me stumped but fun. Keep up the good job.
Kalliann Jan 05, 2006	I must be tired becasue this one flew right over my head. I could not figure it out and then I seen the answer! It is a head slapper for sure.
sishead Apr 01, 2006	that was a good one
Albinoblade Oct 02, 2007	I got this one, but my first thought was Dover, name after Dover England. But I'm not sure I would call it a world city.