Are the same cities critical for vortex campaign victory for all races?

In the vortex campaign you need to gather certain amount of resources and perform 5 critical rites to achieve the victory.

I am playing as Lizardmen - most local capitals provide 1 Ancient Plaque per round, but few critical cities provide 10 of them, making them crucial to secure.

Of course, it seems that as much important as securing your path to victory is to deny your opponent the same, hence I am trying to capture/destroy as many enemy cities as I can. Once again, holding to the critical cities would be a wise tactical choice. Going north from the hot Lustria I've noticed only one or tho Dark Elf city with the Ancient Plaques symbol, yet they are almost as far (if not further - AI tends to keep accumulating resources and then perform few rites at once) in the victory progress.

So are the same cities critical to the same races? If not, how can you find which cities are?