That the roofs are color-coded?
― Stevie D(eux), Monday, 7 October 2013 13:27 (ten years ago) link
No, that it has a population of almost 1m. That it's the third largest city in the country in which it exists. That it was built-from-scratch as the new political capital a la Brasilia but (despite online reports) (according to my friend) there is an occupancy rate of 10% or something equally incredulous.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/Uppatasanti_Pagoda-02.jpg
― REDACTED got your back (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 7 October 2013 16:46 (ten years ago) link
Where is everyone!
― Stevie D(eux), Monday, 7 October 2013 17:34 (ten years ago) link
Maybe they're inside?
Xxxxxx is a unique city in the region. It is a fully constructed large city but with very few inhabitants compared to its size, so you can experience the amazing and unprecedented experience of never ever being stuck in traffic. It is between two mountain ranges so has little to offer in the way of day trips or activities. The city was constructed to be the capital by the military and lacks the dissarray and wonder found throughout the rest of Xxxxx.
Xxxxxx was constructed in secret by the Xxxxx Junta in the early 2000s. In November 2005 it was officially announced as the country's new capital. Government workers were given two months notice that they would have to move from Yangon, as all government offices and ministries were relocated. Embassies and international organisations like the UN have not yet relocated but are expected to at some point. The international retail chains found throughout all other capital cities are not present in Xxxxxx.
The city has wide boulevards/highways (still almost empty) and extravagant roundabouts. It has housing for government workers, but many still maintain residences for their families in Xxxxx as education and health infrastructure is not yet in place.
― Stevie D(eux), Monday, 7 October 2013 17:37 (ten years ago) link
Is it in Bhutan?
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 7 October 2013 18:07 (ten years ago) link
oh come now. I thought "junta" and this country were basically synonymous
― REDACTED got your back (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 7 October 2013 18:17 (ten years ago) link
or even "yangon"
― dylannn, Monday, 7 October 2013 18:17 (ten years ago) link
Haha yeah, and Yangon. I'm actually planning on going to this country after xmas.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 7 October 2013 18:18 (ten years ago) link
Xxxxxx was constructed in secret by the Xxxxx Junta in the early 2000s.
No government could do something like this in secret without having an iron grip on the media. I'll say it's in Myanmar. The gov there is self-aggrandizing enough and despotic enough, plus it fits the geographic profile for erecting a stupa-like monstrosity, but hell if I know the name of the city.
― Aimless, Monday, 7 October 2013 18:19 (ten years ago) link
Apparently it is actually quite beautiful! But crazily empty.
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.gadling.com/media/2008/10/naypyidaw.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_alPN3KAIcZs/TGNoLlL4EQI/AAAAAAAABio/2eQq59ijLRg/s400/senate_in_naypyidaw1ss.jpg
― REDACTED got your back (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 7 October 2013 18:26 (ten years ago) link
The name of the city shows up in the jpg names of those pics. Even while seeing the name I cannot pronounce it.
― Aimless, Monday, 7 October 2013 18:29 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/yaG6CUM.jpg
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Monday, 11 November 2013 12:47 (ten years ago) link
yerevan?
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Monday, 11 November 2013 12:48 (ten years ago) link
yesevan
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Monday, 11 November 2013 12:50 (ten years ago) link
the church in the middle looks like one of those old armenian monasteries
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Monday, 11 November 2013 12:52 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/yapJ8PS.jpg
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Monday, 11 November 2013 12:54 (ten years ago) link
You ppl are cray what w all yr knowledge of obscure cities
― Homo schaduwkabinet (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 11 November 2013 12:55 (ten years ago) link
i was going to post one but no one's got this yet !
http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1390/1132698255_43cc76b538_o.jpg
― ogmor, Monday, 11 November 2013 14:20 (ten years ago) link
amman?
― eretz afl (nakhchivan), Monday, 11 November 2013 14:28 (ten years ago) link
not far off. this is a bigger capital
― ogmor, Monday, 11 November 2013 14:50 (ten years ago) link
Damascus?
― I like to think I have learnt a thing or two about music (Neil S), Monday, 11 November 2013 14:51 (ten years ago) link
not as old as damascus
― ogmor, Monday, 11 November 2013 15:16 (ten years ago) link
shanghai
― moneyma$e, Monday, 11 November 2013 15:33 (ten years ago) link
Riyadh?
― I like to think I have learnt a thing or two about music (Neil S), Monday, 11 November 2013 15:34 (ten years ago) link
totally riyadh
― clouds, Monday, 11 November 2013 15:39 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, it's Riyadh, I'm pretty sure.
― ailsa, Monday, 11 November 2013 15:41 (ten years ago) link
100% riyadh
― ogmor, Monday, 11 November 2013 15:45 (ten years ago) link
We all agreed it's Riyadh then?
― ailsa, Monday, 11 November 2013 16:14 (ten years ago) link
The building with the eyelet is the Four Seasons
― The normative power of the factual (Michael White), Monday, 11 November 2013 16:34 (ten years ago) link
a harder one
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5341/10103040795_022e17d6e7_c.jpg
― ogmor, Monday, 11 November 2013 16:37 (ten years ago) link
Colombo?
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Monday, 11 November 2013 16:54 (ten years ago) link
suva
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Monday, 11 November 2013 16:57 (ten years ago) link
my first guess would have been india or sri lanka cos of the rickshaw but it doesn't feel right. somewhere in africa would be my guess, so i've only got like a million cities to go through.
― Jibe, Monday, 11 November 2013 17:04 (ten years ago) link
closer to colombo than suva but a long way from both
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3800/10802607453_4daf6b7186_z.jpg
― ogmor, Monday, 11 November 2013 17:05 (ten years ago) link
port louis
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Monday, 11 November 2013 17:07 (ten years ago) link
addis adeba
― Jibe, Monday, 11 November 2013 17:11 (ten years ago) link
fuck that is amharic script isn't it
glanced and thought it was dravidian based on first supposition (tropical with overseas indian population)
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Monday, 11 November 2013 17:14 (ten years ago) link
this is in africa & that is a tuk-tuk. the above photo was taken just over a month ago which is the start of the ethiopian new year but it's not addis.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7419/9374354793_434134b076_z.jpg
― ogmor, Monday, 11 November 2013 17:17 (ten years ago) link
bahir dar
― Jibe, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 06:06 (ten years ago) link
bahir dar it is
― ogmor, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 11:34 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/C1OIRNb.jpg
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 11:44 (ten years ago) link
i want to be there
― a strident purist when it comes to band-related shirts (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 12:03 (ten years ago) link
some remote city in kazakhstan or kyrgyzstan?
― Jibe, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 12:08 (ten years ago) link
not too far away
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 12:23 (ten years ago) link
somewhere like Bukhara
― a strident purist when it comes to band-related shirts (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 12:27 (ten years ago) link
not Uzbekistan tho, somewhere nearer mountains - Afghanistan, Pakistan?
― a strident purist when it comes to band-related shirts (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 12:28 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/9h7Zm6t.jpg
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 12:29 (ten years ago) link
architecture looks like it should be somewhere in the post-Soviet group of nations?
― I like to think I have learnt a thing or two about music (Neil S), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 12:31 (ten years ago) link
I gave up and GIS'd this, very obscure
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 12:31 (ten years ago) link