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Capital cities in Asia
- KabulKabul sits at an altitude of 1,791 meters above sea level, one of the highest capital cities in the world. It is wedged into a narrow valley in the Hindu…
- BangkokBangkok carries a ceremonial name so long it holds a Guinness World Records entry as the world's longest place name, at 168 letters.
- SanaaSanaa sits at an elevation of 2300 metres, making it the seventh highest capital city in the world. To the west rises Jabal An-Nabi Shu'ayb, Yemen's tallest…
- Abu DhabiAbu Dhabi means "Father of Gazelle," from the Arabic "Abu" for father and "Dhabi" for gazelle. The name traces to a hunting party in 1761, led by Sheikh…
- SeoulSeoul is the only city in South Korea allowed to carry the title special metropolitan city. That status was not inherited. It was declared in a charter the U.
- JerusalemThe name Jerusalem first appears in Egyptian Execration texts from the 19th century BCE as Rušalimum. Archaeological evidence points to a settlement near the…
- JakartaGreater Jakarta holds more than 40 million people, making it the most populous urban area in the world. Yet the ground beneath it is dropping.
- SingaporeSingapore sits about one degree of latitude north of the equator, roughly 137 kilometres of sea between it and the line that divides the globe.
- BeijingBeijing, once romanized as Peking, holds more than 22 million residents, making it the world's most populous national capital.
- TokyoTokyo holds more than 14 million people inside its city proper, and when you widen the lens to its Greater Area, the number swells to 33 million.
- DelhiDelhi loses control of nothing more often than its own name. One legend traces it to Dhillu, a king who built a city here in 50 BCE and called it after…