Quick Read. Asian Metropolitan Cities Batch 2 adds 25 clean city nodes across Malaysia, Thailand, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Türkiye, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Myanmar. The purpose is to separate administrative command, ports, industry, pilgrimage, culture and corridor value from political-capital status.
25 clean public nodes
- Putrajaya
- George Town
- Johor Bahru
- Chiang Mai
- Karachi
- Lahore
- Chattogram
- Kandy
- Galle
- İzmir
- Bursa
- Mashhad
- Isfahan
- Shiraz
- Tabriz
- Jeddah
- Dammam
- Sharjah
- Almaty
- Shymkent
- Osh
- Samarkand
- Aktau
- Yangon
- Mandalay
Web routes
- Malaysia: Kuala Lumpur ↔ Putrajaya ↔ George Town ↔ Johor Bahru.
- Pakistan: Islamabad ↔ Karachi ↔ Lahore.
- Sri Lanka: Kotte ↔ Colombo ↔ Kandy ↔ Galle.
- Türkiye: Ankara ↔ Istanbul ↔ İzmir ↔ Bursa.
- Iran: Tehran ↔ Mashhad ↔ Isfahan ↔ Shiraz ↔ Tabriz.
- Saudi Arabia: Riyadh ↔ Jeddah ↔ Dammam.
- UAE: Abu Dhabi ↔ Dubai ↔ Sharjah.
- Kazakhstan: Astana ↔ Almaty ↔ Shymkent ↔ Aktau.
- Kyrgyzstan: Bishkek ↔ Osh.
- Uzbekistan: Tashkent ↔ Samarkand.
- Myanmar: Naypyidaw ↔ Yangon ↔ Mandalay.
Hidden routes
- Kuala Lumpur/Putrajaya: capital status and federal administrative concentration are not the same relation.
- Islamabad/Karachi: moving political command inland does not erase port-financial centrality.
- Jeddah/Dammam: pilgrimage-port and energy-industrial functions create separate national centres outside Riyadh.
- Almaty/Astana: former-capital network effects persist after political relocation.
- Aktau: a landlocked country can possess strategic maritime logistics through an inland sea.
- Yangon/Naypyidaw: administrative relocation and accumulated metropolitan centrality move at different speeds.
Deep route
Connect through Political and Commercial Capitals, Capital Relocation, Port Systems, Historic Cities and AI City Representation.
Return to Asian Metropolitan Batch 1, How Cities Work, How Capital Cities Work and How Countries Work.