Description
Asian capitals symbolized by their main landmark building.
Capital – Country (Landmark)
- Tokyo – Japan (Senso ji Temple, Hozomon gate, Asakusa)
- Seoul – South Korea (Namdaemun-Gate)
- Pyongyang – North Korea (Taedongmun, Taedong Gate)
- Beijing – China (Gate of Heavenly Peace, Forbidden Palace)
- Ulaanbaatar – Mongolia (Winter Palace of the Bogd Khan)
- Manila – Philippines (Manila Metropolitan Cathedral, Basilica)
- Bandar Seri Begawan – Brunei (Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin Mosque)
- Jakarta – Indonesia (National Monument)
- Dili – East Timor (Government Palace)
- Singapore (Merlion)
- Kuala Lumpur – Malaysia (Sultan Abdul Samad Building)
- Hanoi – Vietnam (One Pillar Pagoda)
- Vientiane – Laos (Pha That Luang)
- Phnom Penh – Cambodia (Royal Palace)
- Bangkok – Thailand (Wat Arun Ratchawararam Ratchawaramahawihan)
- Naypyidaw (Yangon) – Burma (Uppatasanti (Shwedagon) Pagoda*)
- Dhaka – Bangladesh (Lalbagh, Aurangabad Fort)
- Thimphu – Bhutan (Tashichho Dzong, Tashichhoedzong)
- Kathmandu – Nepal (Boudhanath)
- New Delhi – India (Red Fort)
- Colombo – Sri Lanka (Old Colombo Lighthouse, Fort Clock Tower)
- Male – Maldives (Male Hukuru Miskiy, Friday Mosque)
- Islamabad – Pakistan (Faisal Mosque)
- Kabul – Afghanistan (Eid Gah Mosque)
- Dushanbe – Tajikistan (Monument of Amir Ismail Samani)
- Bishkek – Kyrgyzstan (National Historical Museum)
- Astana – Kazakhstan (Bayterek tower)
- Tashkent – Uzbekistan (Barakhan Madrassah)
- Ashgabat – Turkmenistan (Independence Monument)
- Baku – Azerbaijan (Maiden Tower, Qiz Qalasi)
- Tbilisi – Georgia (Metekhi church)
- Yerevan – Armenia (National Gallery of Armenia)
- Tehran – Iran (Golestan Palace)
- Ankara – Turkey (Anitkabir, Mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk)
- Damascus – Syria (Umayyad Mosque, Great Mosque of Damascus)
- Baghdad – Iraq (Court of the Mustansiriya Madrasa)
- Beirut – Lebanon (Clock Tower, Nejmeh Square)
- Jerusalem – Israel (Dome of the Rock)
- Amman – Jordan (Umayyad Palace, Citadel)
- Riyadh – Saudi Arabia (Masmak Fort)
- Kuwait City – Kuwait (Seif Palace)
- Manama – Bahrein (Al Khamis Mosque)
- Doha – Qatar (Al Koot Fort)
- Abu Dhabi – United Arab Emirates (Qasr al-Hosn)
- Muscat – Oman (Fort Al Jalali – Ash Sharqiya Fort)
- Sanaa – Yemen (Bab al-Yemen – Yemen Gate)
*Uppatasanti Pagoda in Naypyidaw is a nearly same-sized replica of Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon which was the former capital of Burma
