Every capital on every map
If you opened the map over a country you had not flown before, there was a decent chance it told you nothing about where you were. Reykjavík needed zoom 8 before it appeared. At the world view the shell map drew twelve capitals out of
- The in-game map drew no city names at all, which was easy to miss because
both big maps default to satellite imagery, and satellite tiles carry no labels of their own. You were looking at coastlines and guessing.
That is fixed. Every national capital is now drawn at every zoom level, on all four surfaces: the corner minimap you fly with, the big in-game map, the /map page in the shell, and the voxel minimap. Below the capitals sits a second tier, 2,364 first-level administrative seats, the oblast and state and province capitals, which appear as you zoom in. Ordinary cities fill in below that by population, roughly as before.
The label list is a new file baked from Natural Earth, 3,755 rows with a rank on each one. It is a display layer and nothing else reads it, so the city data that drives world generation, place pages and the cityAt lookup is untouched. No new landing pages, no change to what the game calls a city.
Two details are worth knowing if the map looks busier or emptier than you expect. A marker and its name are now placed separately, so when two names cannot both fit on screen the smaller city keeps its dot and loses only the text. Previously it lost both, which is how small capitals disappeared. And rows are walked capitals first, so a capital takes the space and a neighbouring town yields it rather than the other way round.
The search box on the in-game map reads the same list, so you can now type the name of a provincial capital and fly to it even if the game has never generated a city there.