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Mt. Everest
(highest point in the world,
8850 m)
Macau S.A.R.
Hong Kong S.A.R.
Murmansk
Arkhangelsk
Glasgow
Saint Petersburg
Voronezh
Nizhniy
Novgorod
Saratov
Rostov
Samara
Almaty
Mashhad
Es fahan
Bandar
Abbas
Karachi
Kandahar
Quetta
Jaipur
Ahmadabad
Surat
Mumbai
Pune
Kochi
Chittagong
Lhasa
Norilsk
Omsk
Novosibirsk
Krasnoyarsk
Yakutsk
Tiksi
Irkutsk
Magadan
Cherskiy
Anadyr
Provideniya
Petropavlovsk-
Kamchatskiy
Mandalay
Nay Pyi
Taw
Kashi
rmqi
Harbin
Changchun
Chita
Shenyang
Dalian
Baotou
Taiyuan
Tianjin
Xian
Zhengzhou
Qingdao
Jinan
Nanjing
Hangzhou
Nanchang
Changsha
Chongqing
Chengdu
Guiyang
Kunming
Nanning
Guangzhou
Wuhan
Shanghai
Lanzhou
Da Nang
Haiphong
Taipei
Fukuoka
Busan
Osaka
Yokohama
Nagoya
Khabarovsk
Vladivostok
Sapporo
Medan
Bandung
Semarang
Pontianak
Makassar
Ambon
Davao
Cebu
Quezon
City
Ho Chi Minh
City
Surabaya
Kanpur
Kolkata
Lucknow
Hyderabad
Bangalore
Jaffna
Chennai
Kazan
Ufa
Perm
Yekaterinburg
Chelyabinsk
Atrya
(Atryau)
Qaraghandy
(Karaganda)
Volgograd
Kharkiv
Donetsk
Tabriz
Shiraz
Ludhiana
Indore
Nagpur
Patna
Vishakhapatnam
Faisalabad
Lahore
Palembang
Ulaanbaatar
Beijing
Pyongyang
Seoul
Vientiane
Bangkok
Dhaka
New
Delhi
Male
Colombo
Kuala
Lumpur
Jakarta
Hanoi
Manila
Tokyo
Bandar Seri
Begawan
Muscat
Abu
Dhabi
Tehran
Astana
Ashgabat
Doha
Baku
Yerevan
Tbilisi
Kyiv
Moscow
Minsk
Copenhagen
Stockholm
Helsinki
Vilnius
Tallinn
Oslo
Warsaw
Dushanbe
Bishkek
Tashkent
Kabul
Islamabad
Kathmandu
Thimphu
Phnom
Penh
Rangoon
Dli
Singapore
Riga
Scale 1:48,000,000
Azimuthal Equal-Area Projection
0 800 Kilometers
0 800 Miles
Boundary representation is
not necessarily authoritative.
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