Names of countries and regions of Asia in local languages

English name	Short local name	Full local name	Translation
Afghanistan	افغانستان (Afġānistān - Pashto) افغانستان (Afġānestān - Dari)	د افغانستان اسلامی جمهوريت (də Afġānistān Islāmī Ǧumhūrīyat) جمهوری اسلامی افغانستان (Jomhūrī-e Eslāmī-e Afġānestān)	Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
Armenia	Հայաստան (Hayastan)	Հայաստանի Հանրապետություն (Hayastani Hanrapetouṭyoun)	Republic of Armenia
Azerbaijan	Azərbaycan, Азәрбајҹан / آذربايجان (Azərbaycan)	Azərbaycan Respublikası, Азәрбајҹан Республикаси (Azərbaycan Respublikası)	Azerbaijani Republic
Bahrain	البحرين (al-Baḥrayn)	مملكة البحرين (Mamlakât al-Baḥrayn)	The Kingdom of Bahrain
Bangladesh	বাংলাদেশ (Bāṅlādēś)	গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশ (Gaṇaprajātantri Bāṅlādēś)	People's Republic of Bangladesh
Bhutan	འབྲུག་ཡུལ། (druk-yul)		Kingdom of Bhutan
Brunei Darussalam	بروني دارالسلام Brunei Darussalam	نڬارا بروني دارالسلام Negara Brunei Darussalam	State of Brunei Darussalam
Burma, Myanmar	ုဴမန္မာ (Mẏanmā)	ဴပည္ေထာင္စုဴမန္မာနုိင္ငံေတာ္ (Pẏañthoṅču Mẏanmā Nōṅṅaṁto)	Union of Myanmar
Cambodia	កម្ពុជា Kambucā	ព្រះរាជាណាចក្រ កម្ពុជា Brah Rājā Ṇācakr Kambucā	Kingdom of Cambodia
China	中国 (Zhōngguó)	中华人民共和国 (Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gōnghéguó)	People's Republic of China
Hong Kong	香港 (Hèunggóng, Xiānggǎng)	香港特別行政區 (Hèunggóng Dahkbihit Hàhngjingkèui, Xiānggǎng Tèbié Xíngzhèngqū)	Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Macau	澳門 (Ngoumún, Àomén) / Macau	澳門特別行政區 (Ngoumún Dahkbihit Hàhngjingkèui, Àomén Tèbié Xíngzhèngqū) / Região Administrativa Especial de Macau	Macau Special Administrative Region
East Timor	Timór Lorosa'e / Timor-Leste	Repúblika Demokrátika Timór Lorosa'e República Democrática de Timor-Leste	Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste
Georgia	საქართველო (Sak'art'velo)	საქართველოს რესპუბლიკა (Sak'art'velos Respublika)	Republic of Georgia
India (Hindi)	भारत (Bhārat)	भारत गणराज्य (Bhārata Gaṇarājya)	Republic of India
India (Marathi)	भारत (Bhārat)	भारत प्रजासत्ताक (Bhārat Prajāsattāk)	Republic of India
India (Bengali)	ভারত (Bhārôt)
India (Gujarati)	ભારત (Bhārat)
India (Kannada)	ಭಾರತ (Bhārata)
India (Malayalam)	ഭാരതം (Bhārataṁ)
India (Punjabi)	ਭਾਰਤ (Bhārat)
India (Telugu)	భారత (Bhārat)
India (Oriya)	ଭାରତ (Bhārat)
India (Sindhi)	بهارت (Bhārat)
Indonesia	Indonesia	Republik Indonesia	Republic of Indonesia
Iran (Persia)	ايران (Īrān)	جمهورى اسلامى ايران (Jomhūrī-e Eslāmī-e Īrān)	Islamic Republic of Iran
Iraq	العراق (al-ʿIrāq)	جمهورية العراق (Ǧumhūrīyât al-ʿIrāq)	Republic of Iraq
Israel	(Yiśrā'ēl) ישׂראל (Isrā'īl) إسرائيل	(Məḏînaṯ Yiśrā'ēl) מדינת ישראל (Dawlât Isrā'īl) دولة إسرائيل	State of Israel
Japan	日本 (Nihon/Nippon)	日本国 (Nihon/Nippon Koku)
Jordan	الأردن (al-Urdun)	المملكة الأردنية الهاشمية (al-Mamlakâ al-Urdunnīyâ al-Hāšimīyâ)	Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
Kazakhstan	Қазақстан (Ķazaķstan)	Қазақстан Республикасы (Ķazaķstan Respublikasy)	Republic of Kazakhstan
Korea (North)	조선 (Joseon)	조선 민주주의 인민 공화국 (Joseon Minjujuui Inmin Gonghwaguk)	Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Korea (South)	한국 (韓國) (Hanguk)	대한민국 (大韓民國) (Daehan Minguk)	Republic of Korea
Kuwait	الكويت (al-Kuwayt)	دولة الكويت (Dawlât al-Kuwayt)	State of Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan	Кыргызстан (Kyrgyzstan)	Кыргызстан Республикасы (Kyrgyz Respublikasy)	Kyrgyz Republic
Laos	ລາວ (Lāw)	ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນ ລາວ (Sāthālanalat Pasāthipatai Pasāson Lāw)	Lao People's Democratic Republic
Lebannon	لبنان (Lubnān)	الجمهوريّة اللبنانية (al-Ǧumhūrīyâ al-Lubnānīyâ)	Lebanese Republic
Maldives	ދިވެހި (Dhivehi)	ދިވެހި ޖުމްހުރިޔަ (Dhivehi Jumhuriya)	Maldive Republic
Malaysia	Malaysia مليسيا	Persekutuan Tanah Malaysia, ڤرسكوتوان تانه مليسيا	Federation of Malaysia
Mongolia	Монгол Улс (Mongol Uls)
Nepal	नेपाल (Nēpāl)	नेपाल अधिराज्य (Nēpāl Adhirājya)	Kingdom of Nepal
Oman	عمان (ʿUmān)	سلطنة عمان (Salṭanât ʿUmān)	Sultanate of Oman
Pakistan	پاکستان (pākistān)	سلامی جمهرويت پاکستان (Islāmī Jumhūriyyat-e Pākistān)	Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Palestine	فلسطين (Filasṭīn)	دولة فلسطين (Dawlât Filasṭīn)	State of Palestine
Philippines	Pilipinas Philippines	Republika ng Pilipinas Republic of the Philippines	Republic of the Philippines
Qatar	قطر (Qaṭar)	دولة قطر (Dawlât Qaṭar)	State of Qatar
Republic of China, Taipei	臺灣 (T'ai2-wan1)	中華民國 (Chung1-hua2 Min2-kuo2)	Republic of China
Russia	Россия (Rossija)	Российская Федерация (Rossijskaja Federacija)	Russian Federation
Saudi Arabia	السعودية (as-Saʿūdīyâ)	المملكة العربية السعودية (al-Mamlakâ al-ʿArabīyâ as-Saʿūdīyâ)	Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Singapore (Chinese)	新加坡 (xīnjiāpō)	新加坡共和国 (xīnjiāpō gōnghéguó)	Republic of Singapore
Singapore (Malay)	Singapura	Republik Singapura	Republic of Singapore
Singapore (Tamil)	சிங்கப்பூர் (Čiṅkappūr)	சிங்கப்பூர் குடியரசு (Čiṅkappūr kūyarak)	Republic of Singapore
Sri Lanka (Sinhala)	ශ්රී ලංකා (Šrī Laṁkā)	ශ්රී ලංකා ප්රජාතාන්ත්රික සමාජවාදී ජනරජය (Šrī Laṁkā Prajātāntrika Samājavādī Janarajaya)	Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (Tamil)	இலங்கை (Ilaṅkai)	இலங்கை ஜனநாயக சோஷலிசக் குடியரசு (Ilaṅkai Jaṉanāyaka Čōšaličak Kuṭiyaraču)	Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
Syria	سورية (Sūrīyâ)	الجمهورية العربية السورية al-Ǧumhūrīyâ al-ʿArabīyâ as-Sūrīyâ	Syrian Arab Republic
Tajikistan	Тоҷикистон (Tojikiston)	Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон (Jumhurii Tojikiston)	Republic of Tajikistan
Thailand	ประเทศไทย (Prathēt tai)	ราชอาณาจักรไทย (Ratchaanachak tai)	Kingdom of Thailand
Timor-Leste (East Timor)	Timor-Leste Timor Lorosa'e	Repúblika Demokrátika Timor Lorosa'e República Democrática de Timor-Leste	Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste
Turkey	Türkiye	Türkiye Cumhuriyeti	Republic of Turkey
Turkmenistan	Туркменистан (Turkmenistan)
UAE	الامارات (al-Imārāt)	دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة (Dawlât al-Imārāt al-ʿArabīyâ al-Muttaḥidâ)	United Arab Emirates
Uzbekistan	Ўзбекистон O'zbekiston	Ўзбекистон Республикасй O'zbekiston Respublikasi	Republic of Uzbekistan
Vietnam	Việt Nam	Cộng hoà xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam	Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Yemen	اليمن (al-Yaman)	الجمهوريّة اليمنية (al-Ǧumhūrīyâ al-Yamanīyâ)	Republic of Yemen

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Top 10 Fastest Cars for 2010 – 2011

1. Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport

 

267 mph, 0-60 in 2.2 seconds – This is a lightweight super car powered by 8.0-liter W16 engine with 1200 horsepower. It sells at $2,400,000, easily the highest priced car in the top 10 list.  The car produced by Volkswagen Group subsidiary Bugatti Automobiles was introduced in 2005 as the fastest production car in the world.

2. SSC Ultimate Aero

 

257 mph, 0-60 in 2.7 seconds – This car was acknowledged by Guinness world records as the fastest car in March 2007. It is powered by a twin-turbo engine that packs an astounding 1183 horsepower. Only 24 cars were produced from 2006-2007 at a price of US $485,000.

3. Koenigsegg CCX

 

250 mph+, 0-60 in 3.2 seconds – This Sweden-made fast car packs 806 power from its 90 degree V8 engine. The CCX was first unveiled on February 28, 2006 at the 2006 Geneva Motor Show although its existence was announced earlier.  At a price of $1,820,000 and $2,050,000 for top of the line model, exclusivity is guaranteed.

4. Saleen S7 Twin-Turbo

 

248 mph, 0-60 in 3.2 seconds – This super fast car is powered by an 100% aluminum V8 engine packing with 750 horsepower. This twin-turbocharged monster went on sale for $585,296 USD in 2005 , replacing standard non turbo S7 production. Saleen offers an optional competition package with 33% increase in power.

5. McLaren F1

 

240 mph, 0-60 in 3.2 seconds – It is power driven by powerhouse V12 engine that packs 62y horsepower. It is popular with its trademark doors that resemble bat wings. Up until 1998, when McLaren produced and sold the standard F1 models, they had a price tag of around 970 000 USD. Today the cars can sell for up to nearly twice that of the original price.

6. Gumpert Apollo

 

220 mph, 0-60 in 2.7 seconds – This super car is produced by a German automaker in Altenburg. It is a mid-engined, rear wheel drive two-seater constructed on a tubular chromoly frame, with fiberglass or optional carbon fiber body panels. There are 3 engine types available with the race version rated at 789.06 bhp. The production of the Apollo started in October 2005 with a starting price of $400,000 USD.

7. Ascari A10

 

220 mph, 0-60 in 2.8 seconds – Although designed for racing A10 is intended to be a usable car or on the road. It is engineered and hand built in Banbury, England featuring a modified 5.0 L BMW V8 engine producing 625 bhp at a price of approximately $650,000 USD. Only 50 A10s lucky owners will have a chance to own one.

8. Ferrari Enzo

 

217 mph, 0-60 in 3.2 seconds – It is driven by a F140 V12 workhorse with 660 horsepower. It is currently one of the most powerful naturally aspirated  production cars in the world. There are only 399 of these cars worldwide and the price of a unit shoots up every time someone crashes one. This Ferrari typically trades above $1,000,000  at auction.

9. Jaguar XJ 220

 

217 mph, 0-60 in 4.0 seconds – This fast car is driven bya V6 engine that packs 542 horsepower. This is one of the oldest as being released in 1992 but still got what it takes to remain the round of ten of hot wheels. Total of 281 cars were made and by 1997, few of these remained available for sale new at £150,000.

10. Pagani Zonda F

 

215 mph, 0-60 in 3.5 seconds –  It’s no mistake that Pagani chose to use the “F” badging to represent the first step up in performance for the Zonda above the stock Zonda S. This fast car is driven by Mercedes Benz V12 engine packing 650 horsepower. Base price for this dream car is $694,000.

About Cru Houseboats

Luxurious canal Bed & Breakfast in historic Bath

Grand Cru and Premier Cru are a pair of canal boats moored just a 15 minute walk from the City of Bath. These “widebeam” canal boats are an additional 3 feet (1 meter) wider than traditional narrow boats, and are very comfortably furnished with full central heating, a cosy wood burner stove and a real brick fireplace.

Sleeping four to six people in two double bed cabins and two single sofa beds, they’re a fantastic alternative to families and small groups visiting Historic Bath for a minimum of 2 nights.

The price includes all the breakfast provisions and a cruise to a village pub. A car will collect/return you from Bath railway/coach station, or parking can be provided.

7 Amazing Circular Geological Oddities

1. Brandberg Massif — Namibia

 

Namibia’s highest point looks like a regular grouping of rocky hills from ground level. But from a bird’s eye view (see photo, above) these rocks form a stunning 15km (9 mile) wide circular splotch on the barren landscape of southern Africa. Technically, Brandberg is not a mountain but a  a granite intrusion formed by magma rising up through a single point in the earth’s crust. Most intrusions harden into a tall, relatively narrow cylindrical shape. What’s unusual—and amazing—about the Brandberg Massif is how very, well, massive it is.
Most travelers who make the long, dusty journey to Brandberg do so after hearing about an unusual quality about the place: The way the sun strikes the rocks at sunrise supposedly creates an incredible illusion that the entire mountain is on fire! (Indeed, in German and Afrikaans “Brandberg” translates to “Fire Mountain”). For what it’s worth, Spot Cool Stuff has personally woken up before dawn on a very cold morning, hiked up to a good view of Brandberg and then watched the dawning of the day. The closest thing to a fire effect we saw during our sunrise came from our little gas stove while making coffee.

2.  The Great Blue Hole — Belize

The Great Blue Hole, bracketed by the Lighthouse Reef 100 km (60 miles) from Belize City in the Caribbean Sea, is right up there with the Similan Islands as one of our all-time favorite scuba diving locations. This is not the world’s only “blue hole” (eg. a deep mass of water formed by a vertical coral cave) but, at 400 meters across and 145 meters (475 feet) deep, it is the largest. It also happens to be one of the most perfectly circular.
The rich abundance of sea life and spectacular underwater stalactites is what attracts most divers to the Great Blue Hole. But what personally amazed us most was the sheer blueness of it. It is one thing to see blue on a sunny cloudless day, for example. It is quite another to experience blue. To become blue. The pic below is the best we’ve seen at capturing the feeling of it photographically.
The Great Blue Hole has become one of the most popular dive spots in Belize, if not in the whole of the Caribbean, such that sometimes there’s a near boat traffic jam waiting to get in. We suggest you plan your dive for either first thing after sunrise or in the off-season.

 3.Diamond Mine — Mirny, Russia

Add this to our It’s So Bad It’s Good category: Eastern Siberia’s grotesquely enormous Mirny Diamond Mine.
Mirny’s diameter of 1.2km (.75 miles) means that, technically, it is only the second largest open mine in the world (after Bingham Canyon, below). But the mine’s depth of 525 meters, combined with its location at the edge of a 40,000 person town, makes it the world’s most ominous looking. As you can see in the photos it appears almost like the very planet is swallowing the town of Mirny. In fact, this is not far from the reality of it. Originally the mine was small and far from the town. Then the mine started producing many more diamonds than expected, which not only increased the size of the mine but also the size of the town (as workers moved in).
Today the mine employs over 3,000 people and is so large that helicopters and small aircraft can not fly near it without the very real fear of being sucked in! And if you think it’s big today, check it out a few years from now. The mine’s owner have plans to drill down as far as 1.3 kilometers over the next three decades. As that happens whole sections of the town of Mirny will have to be torn down and rebuilt further afield.

 4.Bingham Canyon Mine — Utah, USA

 

The Bingham Canyon mine is over .75 miles (1.2 km) deep and 2.5 miles (4 km) wide and so, for the moment at least, it beats out Mirny (above) for the title of the world’s largest man made hole.
Bingham Canyon is superior to Mirny in another important way too: It is much more travel friendly. Although still a working mine, Bingham Canyon was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1966 and has doubled as a tourist attraction since. Every year from April through October the visitor center there is open for curious travelers. Inside the center are interactive exhibits, mineral samples and a 16-minute video overview of the mine. But the center’s coolest feature is the superb viewing platform from which it is oddly compelling to watch the goings on below. Though the machinery that operates in the mine is massive in comparison to, say, your car, it appears tiny relative to the enormous mine. It is hard to look down at the scene and not imagine that God is a 4 year old boy playing around with his toy trucks.

 5.Sarisariñama — Venezuela

 The sinkholes of Sarisariñama are one of these geologic oddities, like the Chocolate Hills of the Philippines, that leave scientists puzzled about how they formed. In the case of Sarisariñama they haven’t been puzzled for long—these strange sinkholes were first “discovered” in 1974. Some of the holes are not only perfectly round but, curiously, have a depth that almost exactly matches the hole’s diameter. Sarisariñama is a very remote place, is home to several plant and animal species found nowhere else on earth, and at the time of writing was not officially open to tourism.

6.Richat Structure — Mauritania

This 40km (25 mile) wide spot in the earth was for several decades thought to be an impact crater from a meteor. The fact that the Richat Structure is more of a protrusion than a hole maybe should have been a rather large clue that there was something else going on. And, indeed, geologists today theorize that the Richat Structure was formed by folds in the rock called  anticlines. Whatever its geologic cause, the best view of this enormous circular rock formation in the middle of the Maur Adrar desert is from space. Assuming that is beyond your travel budget you can get a pretty good view using Google Maps (click on the first image, below). At ground level, Richat is a stark place that draws some hardy off-road motorcyclists but is otherwise not a superlative travel location.

 7.Barringer Meteorite Crater — Arizona, USA

Really massive meteors that strike Earth—such as the Chicxulub meteor that hit in the Yucatán, Mexico and is thought to have caused mass extinctions—create such devastation that they don’t leave a crater so much as they alter the geology and geography of an entire region. What made the Barringer meteor so tourist friendly (if that’s a term that can be used to describe meteors) is that it was polite enough to fall in a flat and featureless area of Arizona, big enough to create a nice looking crater yet small enough to, you know, not wipe out all of humanity.
Of course, gazing out over the Barringer Crater it is hard to consider the meteor that created it as “small.” The crater, 40 miles east of Flagstaff and 20 miles west of Winslow, is about a mile (1.2km) wide and 570 feet (175 m) deep. The visitor center at the crater’s edge is open year round. The center itself, with its chain food restaurant and obligatory gift shop hawking I Survived the Barringer Meteorite t-shirts, is rather tacky. But don’t let that put you off—the organized hikes along the western rim of the crater are very cool.

World's deepest underground hotel suite in Sweeden

 

It is located 155 metres underground in a disused silver mine in the Swedish city of Sala.

The Sala silver mine’s underground suite is a cavernous room for two which guests descend to through a maze of underground tunnels and caverns.

Right next to the suite is a large banquet hall which serves meals and can also be hired for functions.

And for guests who don’t want to miss any of Sweden’s picturesque scenery, the mine is also home to a series of stunning underground lakes.

The lakes are currently being explored and mapped by a team of professional cave divers in the hope that they will one day be open to the public for cave diving.

At 155 metres the mine is a chilly two degrees centigrade all year round, but the suite and banquet hall are both heated to a comfortable temperature for guests.

Mobile phones won’t work at this depth so once you’ve settled in your only contact with the world above is through an intercom system which is manned by staff 24 hours a day.

A night in the suite costs 1,875 Swedish Kronor (AUD$287) per person and includes breakfast plus a guided tour of the mine.

The Sala silver mine is believed to have begun operating in the middle ages.

The silver mining operation expanded through the 16th century and lasted until the early 1900s.

For a time it was the biggest silver-producing mine in Sweden.

The city of Sala is located 120 kilometres from Stockholm. 

Glass Beach in California

Glass Beach is a beach in MacKerricher State Park near Fort Bragg, California that is abundant in sea glass created from years of dumping garbage into an area of coastline near the northern part of the town.