Category: Asia
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Jaipur, India
Jaipur, also known as ‘the Pink City,’ is the capital of Rajasthan in India. Jaipur is the largest city in Rajasthan and was built in the eighteenth century by Sawai Jai Singh as India’s first planned city. It belongs to the tourist Golden Triangle of Delhi, Jaipur and Agra. It hosts several attractions like the…
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Tokyo, Japan
Tōkyō (東京) is the capital of Japan. At over 12 million people in the official metropolitan area alone, Tokyo is the core of the most populated urban area in the world, Greater Tokyo (which has a population of 35 million people). This huge, wealthy and fascinating metropolis brings high-tech visions of the future side by…
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Nagoya, Japan
The hub of the Aichi region, Nagoya is Japan’s fourth-largest city after Tokyo, Yokohama and Osaka and one of the nation’s major economic centers. In terms of manufacturing, as home to automaking giants Toyota, Honda, Mitsubishi Motors, Nagoya is to Japan what Detroit is to the United States — which, along with being completely flattened…
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Malacca, Malaysia
Before the arrival of the first Sultan, Malacca was a simple fishing village inhabited by local Malays. Malacca was founded by Parameswara, also called Iskandar Shah or Sri Majara, the last Raja of Singapura (now known as Singapore) following a Majapahit attack in 1377. Parameswara found his way to Malacca in 1400 where he found…
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Rajasthan, India
Rajasthan, the largest state of India was formed on 30 March 1949 with Jaipur as the state capital. Once known as the ‘Land of the Kings’, the state still retains the glory and richness of those times with its marvellous monuments, colorful traditions and customs. It covers most of the area of the Great Indian…
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Fatehpur, India
hehpur Sikri is a city and a municipal board in Agra district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India.
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Hue, Vietnam
After the region was part of the Nam Viet Empire before Christ and under the kingdom of Champa for seventeen centuries, in the 1300’s the king of Champa gave the region to the Vietnamese. Hue was the capital of the Nguyen dynasty in the 19th century. The region was under French protectorate since 1883. In…
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Bangkok, Thailand
The town of Bangkok began as a small trading center and port community on the west bank of the Chao Phraya River before the establishment of the Ayutthaya Kingdom, the precursor of modern Thailand, which existed from 1350 to 1767.
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