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Why'd you nix the 'pedia link? Seems to make sense to have it on thise page...Majnoona

Check the upper-right-hand part of the screen. See Wikitravel:links to Wikipedia. --Evan 16:21, 2 Dec 2003 (PST)

Well ok then. Majnoona

[edit] Hong Kong

I reverted an edit putting Hong Kong in the Countries section. Just so people understand. Hong Kong is not a country. It is not independent. It is a (self?) governing part of China, a territory, with officials elected by a college of electors appointed by the Chinese Government in Beijing. It was previously a British protectorate built on land leased from China. -- Huttite 08:52, 31 Dec 2005 (EST)

[edit] Myanmar/ Burman

Why go for Myanmar as the primary name instead of Burma? Yzerfontein 09:24, 29 Jan 2006 (EST)

- see Talk:Burma

Thanks, interesting discussion. This also explains China vs Peopel's Republic of ChinaYzerfontein 12:00, 30 Jan 2006 (EST)

[edit] Intineraries

I took out the list of intineraries here, which was incomplete, and replaced it with links to the Asia and Intercontinental sections of Wikitravel:Itineraries. Why maintain the same list in two places? At least one is bound to be wrong. Pashley

[edit] Taiwan & China

See Talk:East Asia#Taiwan & China. -- Ryan 02:58, 19 December 2006 (EST)

[edit] Taiwan

Removed title renegade in reference to Taiwan. It is a subjective term (countries that recognize the ROC, for example, will not use it nor will the people of Taiwan) that provides little info that is of value to travelers (see Wikitravel:The traveller comes first), while at the same time is likely to incite edit wars (as is currently happening). WindHorse 01:46, 11 May 2007 (EDT)

[edit] Taipei and everywhere else in Asia

Archived from the Pub:

Can someone tell me if Taipei and everywhere else in Asia show display street names in the local language and English? I think I've found the address for Taipei 101, but I have a hard time believing the Republic of China's addresses are displayed in English. If not, how does one go about deciphering the addresses from the local language to English, especially since a lot of travel guides display the addresses in English? -- Sapphire 18:42, 9 February 2007 (EST)

Most Asian countries have street signs in their own language along with a romanized version (I say romanized as opposed to English because rather than translating the word say for, say, road, it might just be transliterated i.e. Instead of the sign saying Ginza Road (a famous thoroughfare in Tokyo), the sign might read Ginza Dori - dori being the Japanese word for road. However, Taipei does not use this system, with all it streets signs baring the English suffix road, street, lane or alley). In less developed countries the use of romanized versions of street signs may be limited to the capital and used only on major thoroughfares, but in places like Japan, Taiwan, Singapore and major Chinese cities etc, all streets signs have a romanized version. As for the world's tallest building, it is so famous in the region that a letter just addressed to Taipei 101 with no street, country or city would find its way with no trouble. Hope that answers your question. WindHorse 20:01, 9 February 2007 (EST)

Of course, in many Asian countries street addresses are next to useless, because street signage is woeful to nonexistent (eg. India, Indonesia) or because streets literally have no names (eg. Japan). For example, in India addresses tend to look like "Gurgaon, XYZ Colony, near IFFCO Chowk, behind MGF Plaza, opposite Maruti showroom", and in Japan they look like "Komaba 4-6-29-508" (my actual former address), where the numbers represent (in this case) district, block, building, apartment. Incidentally, there is no "Ginza-dori" in Tokyo, although there's a district called Ginza and it has a named street called Chuo-dori. Jpatokal 06:05, 10 February 2007 (EST)

Sorry for the bad example, I'd forgotten that the official name for that street in Tokyo is Chuo-dori. I appreciate the correction. WindHorse 12:26, 10 February 2007 (EST)

[edit] China as a "quickly awakening giant"?

Ummm ... I think the giant is fully awake now. 24.84.11.239 20:22, 22 August 2007 (EDT)

Then go say so in the article. Gorilla Jones 02:10, 23 August 2007 (EDT)

[edit] Mongolia

I'm moving it to Central Asia. Well, I'M not, it was already there. I don't know how to make the Mongolia page reflect this, but I've done pretty much everything else. I'm the process of fixing the map as well.

[edit] Russia/Communist

What is that suppost to mean? Russia is not a communist country anymore and even if it was this is not what you would call a region.Also there should be a different picture than that of St. Basil in Moscow, because Moscow is still in the European part of Russia.

It was vandalism which was easily fixed. Plunge forward and see Wikitravel:How to handle unwanted edits. -- Colin 14:08, 23 October 2008 (EDT)

[edit] Turkey on the Map

What's with Turkey in the map? Shouldn't it be in the Middle East? As far as I know the overwhelming majority of the country lies in Asia, and if you include the whole of Russia, not just Asian Russia, on the map... AHeneen 03:53, 15 March 2009 (EDT)

In travel terms Turkey is very much a European destination as far as I'm concerned, especially for Europeans. Politically, EU membership talks are progressing (albeit slowly), and historically Turkey takes up a surprisingly large space in the annals of European history[1][2]. And though it is overwhelmingly Muslim, It's extremely secular compared it southern neighbours. --Stefan (sertmann) ^Talk 05:44, 15 March 2009 (EDT)

It's been discussed quite a bit, one of the conversations is [Talk:Turkey#Who.27s_your_daddy.3F here]... As far as a hierarchy goes we only place it in one place officially.... meaning it's on one region map, and has one isin template. and then how it also ties in to other regions can be discussed on the Turkey and region pages as necessary – cacahuate ^talk 15:17, 17 March 2009 (EDT)