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| 1 | Hanoi ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 21.0283 / 105.8542 | Hanoi is the capital of Vietnam and the country's second largest city by population. The population in 2015 was estimated at 7.7 million people. The city lies on the right bank of the Red River. Hanoi is north of Ho Chi Minh City and west of Haiphong (...) | |
| 2 | Da Nang International Airport ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 16.0439 / 108.1994 | Da Nang International Airport is located in Da Nang, the largest city in central Vietnam. It is the third international airport in the country, besides Noi Bai International Airport (Hanoi) and Tan Son Nhat International Airport (Ho Chi Minh City), and is an important gateway to access central (...) | |
| 3 | Da Nang ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 16.0486 / 108.2206 | Da Nang is the fifth largest city in Vietnam after Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Hanoi, Can Tho and Haiphong in terms of urbanization and economy. Located on the coast of the South China Sea at the mouth of the Han River, it is one of Vietnam's most important port cities (...) | |
| 4 | Haiphong ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : 20.8651 / 106.6838 | Haiphong is a major industrial city, the second largest city in the northern part of Vietnam, and third largest city overall in Vietnam. Hai Phong is also the center of technology, economy, culture, medicine, education, science and trade in the northern coast of Vietnam (...) | |
| 5 | District 2, Ho Chi Minh City ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 10.7808 / 106.7569 | District 2, in which the new urban area of Thu Thiem is located, is an urban district of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. As of 2010, the district had a population of 140,621, a total area of 50 km². (...) | |
| 6 | Tan Son Nhat International Airport ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : 7 Lat/Lng : 10.8189 / 106.6519 | Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport is the busiest airport in Vietnam with 32.5 million passengers in 2016, serving Ho Chi Minh City as well as the rest of southeastern Vietnam. As of January 2017, it had a total capacity of only 25 million passengers, which has caused constant congestion and sparked (...) | |
| 7 | Singapore Changi Airport ![]() FeatureType : airport Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 1.3594 / 103.9894 | Changi Airport is the major civilian airport for Singapore, and one of the largest transportation hubs in Southeast Asia. It is currently rated the World's Best Airport by Skytrax, for the sixth consecutive year since 2013 and is one of the world's busiest airports by international passenger and (...) | |
| 8 | Vientiane ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 174 Lat/Lng : 17.9667 / 102.6 | Vientiane (; ; ; , Viang chan) is the capital and largest city of Laos, on the banks of the Mekong River near the border with Thailand. Vientiane became the capital in 1563 due to fears of a Burmese invasion but was later looted then razed to the ground in 1827 by the Siamese (Thai) (...) | |
| 9 | 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay route ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 5 Lat/Lng : 18.255 / 109.5119 | The 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay route involved 21 countries where the Olympic torch was carried between its lighting in Greece in March 2008 and the Olympic opening ceremony in China's host city of Beijing in August 2008 (...) | |
| 10 | Nha Trang ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 12.25 / 109.1961 | Nha Trang is a coastal city and capital of Khánh Hòa Province, on the South Central Coast of Vietnam. It is bounded on the north by Ninh Hoà district, on the south by Cam Ranh town and on the west by Diên Khánh District (...) | |
| 11 | Yangon ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : 16.8053 / 96.1561 | Yangon (MLCTS rankun mrui, ; formerly known as Rangoon, lit. "End of Strife") is the capital of the Yangon Region of Myanmar (also known as Burma). Yangon served as the capital of Myanmar until 2006, when the military government relocated the capital to the purpose-built city of Naypyidaw in central (...) | |
| 12 | Tainan ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 22.9833 / 120.1833 | Tainan (Hokkien POJ: Tâi-lâm), officially Tainan City, is a special municipality of Taiwan, facing the Formosan Strait or Taiwan Strait in the west and south. Tainan is the oldest city on the island of Taiwan and also commonly known as the "Capital City" (; POJ: Hú-siâⁿ) for its over 200 years of (...) | |
| 13 | Paris ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 48.8567 / 2.3508 | Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488."Paris perd ses habitants, la faute à la démographie et aux… meublés touristiques pour la Ville." Le Parisien, 28 December 2017 Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of Europe's major centres of (...) | |
| 14 | Helsinki Airport ![]() FeatureType : airport Lat/Lng : 60.3172 / 24.9633 | Helsinki Airport is the main international airport of the city of Helsinki, its surrounding metropolitan area, and the Uusimaa region. The airport is located in the city of Vantaa, about west of Tikkurila, the administrative center of Vantaa and north of Helsinki city center (...) | |
| 15 | Busan ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 2 Lat/Lng : 35.1028 / 129.0403 | Busan , formerly known as Pusan and now officially is South Korea's second most-populous city after Seoul, with a population of over 3.5 million inhabitants. It is the economic, cultural and educational center of southeastern Korea, with its port—Korea's busiest and the 9th-busiest in the world—only (...) | |
| 16 | Sai Kung District ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : 22.3814 / 114.2705 | Sai Kung District is the second largest district in Hong Kong in terms of area. It comprises the southern half of Sai Kung Peninsula and Clear Water Bay Peninsula in the New Territories plus a strip to the east of Kowloon (...) | |
| 17 | Shenyang ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 53 Lat/Lng : 41.7956 / 123.4481 | Shenyang , formerly known by its Manchu name Mukden or Fengtian , is the provincial capital and the largest city of Liaoning Province, People's Republic of China, as well as the largest city in Northeast China by urban population.2010 census According to the 2010 census, the city's urban area has 6 (...) | |
| 18 | Osaka ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 34.6938 / 135.5022 | (; listen) is a designated city in the Kansai region of Japan. It is the capital city of Osaka Prefecture and the largest component of the Keihanshin Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Japan and among the largest in the world with over 19 million inhabitants (...) | |
| 19 | Penang ![]() FeatureType : isle Elevation : 483 Lat/Lng : 5.4 / 100.2333 | Penang is a Malaysian state located on the northwest coast of Peninsular Malaysia, by the Malacca Strait. It has two parts: Penang Island, where the capital city, George Town, is located, and Seberang Perai (formerly Province Wellesley) on the Malay Peninsula (...) | |
| 20 | Laos ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 174 Lat/Lng : 17.9667 / 102.6 | Laos (;, UK pronunciations, US pronunciations , Lāo), officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic , commonly referred to by its colloquial name of Muang Lao (Lao: ເມືອງລາວ, Muang Lao), is a socialist state and the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia at the heart of the Indochinese (...) | |
| 21 | Vietnam Airlines ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 13 Lat/Lng : 21.0456 / 105.8807 | Vietnam Airlines is the flag carrier of Vietnam. Founded in 1956 under the name Vietnam Civil Aviation, the airline was established as a state-owned enterprise in April 1989. Vietnam Airlines is headquartered in Long Biên District, Hanoi, with hubs at Noi Bai International Airport and Tan Son Nhat (...) | |
| 22 | RMIT University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : -37.8078 / 144.9633 | RMIT University (officially the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, informally RMIT) is an Australian public research university located in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1887 as the Working Men's College by Francis Ormond, it initially opened as a private night school offering instruction in (...) | |
| 23 | USS Oriskany (CV-34) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 0 Lat/Lng : 30.0425 / -87.0064 | USS Oriskany (CV/CVA-34) – nicknamed Mighty O, and occasionally referred to as the O-boat – was one of the few s completed after World War II for the United States Navy. The ship was named for the Battle of Oriskany during the Revolutionary War (...) | |
| 24 | South Central Coast ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 15.6971 / 108.4241 | South Central Coast is one of the regions of Vietnam. It consists of the independent municipality of Đà Nẵng and seven other provinces. The two southern provinces Ninh Thuận and Bình Thuận are sometimes seen as part of the Southeast region (...) | |
| 25 | Independence Palace ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 18 Lat/Lng : 10.7771 / 106.6956 | Independence Palace (Dinh Độc Lập), also known as Reunification Palace , built on the site of the former Norodom Palace, is a landmark in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It was designed by architect Ngô Viết Thụ and was the home and workplace of the President of South Vietnam during the Vietnam War (...) | |
| 26 | École française d'Extrême-Orient ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 59 Lat/Lng : 48.8644 / 2.2922 | The École française d'Extrême-Orient (French School of the Far East), abbreviated EFEO, is an associated college of PSL University dedicated to the study of Asian societies. It was founded in 1900 with headquarters in Hanoi in what was then French Indochina (...) | |
| 27 | Sihanoukville (city) ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 6 Lat/Lng : 10.6333 / 103.5 | Sihanoukville (Krong Preah Sihanouk), also known as "Kampong Som" , is a coastal city in Cambodia and the capital city of Sihanoukville Province, at the tip of an elevated peninsula in the country's south-west on the Gulf of Thailand (...) | |
| 28 | Tzu Chi University ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 31 Lat/Lng : 23.9931 / 121.5899 | Tzu Chi University (TCU;) is a private university in Hualien City, Hualien County, Taiwan. It was founded by the Tzu Chi Foundation (NGO) and is famous in Taiwan for the quality of the medical education it provides (...) | |
| 29 | Global city ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 40.39 / -73.56 | A global city, also called world city or sometimes alpha city or world center, is a city which is a primary node in the global economic network. The concept comes from geography and urban studies, and the idea that globalization is created, facilitated, and enacted in strategic geographic locales (...) | |
| 30 | Saigon South International School ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 1 Lat/Lng : 10.7238 / 106.709 | Saigon South International School, shortened as SSIS, is an international school in Ho Chi Minh City offering an American standards based curriculum for grades EC-12. They offer both the IB diploma program and AP coursework, and is fully accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (...) | |
| 31 | Hải Dương Province ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 20.9167 / 106.333 | Hải Dương is a province in the Red River Delta of northern Vietnam. Its name derives from Sino-Vietnamese "ocean sun", though the modern province is in fact landlocked. Nowadays, Hải Dương is among the most industrialized and developed provinces in Vietnam. (...) | |
| 32 | Pasteur Institute ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 52 Lat/Lng : 48.8404 / 2.3108 | The Pasteur Institute is a French non-profit private foundation dedicated to the study of biology, micro-organisms, diseases, and vaccines. It is named after Louis Pasteur, who made some of the greatest breakthroughs in modern medicine at the time, including pasteurization and vaccines for anthrax (...) | |
| 33 | Yunnan ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 1042 Lat/Lng : 24.5 / 101.5 | Yunnan is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the far southwest of the country. It spans approximately and has a population of 45.7 million (as of 2009). The capital of the province is Kunming, formerly also known as Yunnan (...) | |
| 34 | Bayan Lepas ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 3 Lat/Lng : 5.2833 / 100.2667 | Bayan Lepas is a town within the city of George Town in the Malaysian state of Penang. It is located within the Southwest Penang Island District, near the southeastern tip of Penang Island. Founded in the 19th century, Bayan Lepas is now home to the Penang International Airport and an eponymous Free (...) | |
| 35 | Sihanoukville Province ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : 10.6233 / 103.525 | Preah Sihanouk Province ("King Sihanouk"), commonly referred to as Sihanoukville Province, is a province (ខេត្ត, khaet) in the south-west of Cambodia at the Gulf of Thailand. The provincial capital, also called Sihanoukville, is a deep-water port city and a steadily growing and diversifying urban (...) | |
| 36 | Southeast Asia ![]() FeatureType : country Elevation : 3 Lat/Lng : 12.0 / 105.1 | Southeast Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of Japan and China, east of India, west of Papua New Guinea, and north of Australia. Southeast Asia is bordered to the north by East Asia, to the west by South Asia and the Bay of (...) | |
| 37 | Rubber Duck (sculpture) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1 Lat/Lng : 47.2087 / -1.7289 | Rubber Duck refers to any of several giant floating sculptures designed by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman, which have appeared in many cities around the world, including Hong Kong, Pittsburgh, Toronto, Baku, and Sydney (...) | |
| 38 | Greater Penang Conurbation ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 5.205 / 100.35 | The Greater Penang Conurbation that covers all of Penang, southern Kedah and northern Perak is Malaysia's second most populous metropolitan area. It is centred in George Town, Penang's capital city and also the second most populous city in Malaysia after Kuala Lumpur (...) | |
| 39 | 2010 Pacific typhoon season ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 12.0 / -172.0 | The 2010 Pacific typhoon season was the least active Pacific typhoon season on record, featuring only 14 named storms; seven of them strengthened into typhoons while one reached super typhoon intensity. The Pacific typhoon season during 2010 was in fact less active than the 2010 Atlantic hurricane (...) | |
| 40 | Tarlac State University ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 55 Lat/Lng : 15.4852 / 120.5878 | Tarlac State University (also referred to as TSU; Filipino: Pambansang Pamantasan ng Tarlac) is a public university located in Tarlac City, Philippines. Established in 1906, it is the premier academic institution of higher learning in the province offering different degree programs through its nine (...) | |
| 41 | 2002 Bali bombings ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 9 Lat/Lng : -8.7172 / 115.1742 | The 2002 Bali bombings occurred on 12 October 2002 in the tourist district of Kuta on the Indonesian island of Bali. The attack killed 202 people (including 88 Australians, 38 Indonesians, and people of more than 20 other nationalities). A further 209 people were injured (...) | |
| 42 | MV Neptuna ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : -12.4717 / 130.8492 | MV Neptuna was a 5,952 ton cargo motor vessel. She was launched as MV Rio Panuco in 1924, renamed MV Neptun in 1931 and finally became MV Neptuna in 1935. She was sunk during the Japanese air raid on Darwin on 19 February 1942, during World War II. (...) | |
| 43 | Nihonjin gakkō ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 216 Lat/Lng : 42.1214 / -87.9814 | , also called Japanese school, is a full-day school outside Japan for native speakers of Japanese. It is an expatriate school designed for children whose parents are working on diplomatic, business, or education missions overseas and have plans to repatriate to Japan (...) | |
| 44 | Li Po Chun United World College ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 26 Lat/Lng : 22.4314 / 114.2481 | Li Po Chun United World College of Hong Kong , established in 1992, is an International Baccalaureate school in Wu Kai Sha, Hong Kong. It is one of 17 schools and colleges around the world in the UWC (United World Colleges) movement (...) | |
| 45 | Saigon Children's Charity ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 10.7808 / 106.6888 | Saigon Children's Charity CIO (saigonchildren) - a non-profit organization based in Ho Chi Minh City that provides direct support to disadvantaged children in order to ensure wider access to education in Vietnam (...) | |
| 46 | Marine Operations Force ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 483 Lat/Lng : 5.4 / 100.2333 | The Marine Operations Force (Abbreviation: MOF; ; PGM) is the Marine Police division of the Royal Malaysia Police tasked with maintaining law and order and co-ordinating search and rescue operations in the Malaysian Maritime Zone and on the high seas (...) | |
| 47 | Loyola University Chicago Quinlan School of Business ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 194 Lat/Lng : 41.8979 / -87.6279 | Loyola University Chicago Quinlan School of Business encompasses the undergraduate, graduate, and executive-level business programs of Loyola University Chicago in downtown Chicago, Illinois, with campuses and partnerships in Rome, Italy; Beijing, China; and Saigon-Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (...) | |
| 48 | Southwest Penang Island District ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 21 Lat/Lng : 5.3519 / 100.2359 | The Southwest Penang Island District is a district within the Malaysian state of Penang. The district covers the southwestern half of Penang Island and borders the Northeast Penang Island District to the east. It has an area of and a population of 197,131 (...) | |
| 49 | Timeline of the 2010 Pacific typhoon season ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 17.7 / 132.1 | This timeline documents all of the events of the 2010 Pacific typhoon season. Most of the tropical cyclones forming between May and November. The scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean, north of the equator between 100°E and the International Date Line (...) | |
| 50 | ODDO BHF ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 108 Lat/Lng : 50.1163 / 8.6685 | ODDO BHF is an independent Franco-German financial services group, with a history stretching back over 150 years. It was created from the alliance of a French family-owned business built up by five generations of stockbrokers and a German bank specialising in Mittelstand companies (...) | |