Feb 10 2007
Maps: you need them and they can be hard to find. So we've done the work for you. City by city we're building feature articles about your favorite destinations based on maps available for free online.
For example, our feature on Manila (now one of our most popular pages) includes 11 links that take you directly to maps available online. Maps of the city's 17 boroughs, street maps of the downtown area, and even a map of the city's transit system.
Others available include:
- Baghdad, Iraq - 10 surprisingly good maps of the city.
- Bali, Indonesia - with well over 100 maps, including everything from street maps of the various locations on the island (Nusa Dua, Kuta, Sanur, etc.), dive spots, temple locations, hotels, and maps of the nearby island of Lombok.
- Bangkok, Thailand - with 30 maps, including hotel locations, the airport, the skytrain and metro system, various neighborhoods and districts, and a searchable database of street addresses.
- Beijing, China - with almost 30 maps showing the ring roads that divide the city into layers, the various districts of the city, the city's metro system, Tiananmen Square, and more.
- Bombay (Mumbai), India - two dozen maps with tourist attractions, hospitals, hotels, government offices, transportation hubs, and much more.
- Calcutta and West Bengal, India.
- Cebu, Philippines - eleven maps. Cebu is a province, an island, and a city (properly "Cebu City") in the Central Philippines region called the Visayas. It is located between the islands of Negros and Lyete.
- Chiang Mai, Thailand - A dozen maps. Chiang Mai is both a city and a province in Northern Thailand.
- Chengdu, China - eight maps of one of China's more important cities.
- Delhi, India - a dozen maps. The city of Delhi, along with its surrounding districts, forms India's National Capital Territory, the NCT. With the exception of a period of about 50 years when the British ran India from Calcutta, Delhi has been the seat of Indian government since 1638.
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates - almost 20 maps. Everything from hotels and shopping malls to hospitals. The city is something of a "Hong Kong" for the Arab World - a free wheeling commercial port where buying, selling, and shipping has become more important than the Emirate's substantial oil wealth.
- Goa, India - with detailed maps of the state's beaches.
- Guangzhou, China - one of China's busiest commercial cities.
- Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam - 20 maps, including one with 125 key locations in the city marked.
- Hong Kong, China - almost three dozen maps of Hong Kong and Shenzhen. Kowloon, Wan Chai, Mong Kok, Stanley, Lantau Island, Aberdeen - we've probably found the map you're looking for.
- Istanbul, Turkey - 10 maps. Turkey's largest city is Istanbul - formerly Constantinople, and Byzantium before that. The city sits astride the Bosphorus Strait that divided Europe from Asia. Population estimates range from 11 million to 15 million people. The city dates back to 667 BC.
- Jakarta, Indonesia - over 20 maps. Maps of the five boroughs, or kota, the airport, major hotels, etc.
- Kolkata and West Bengal, India.
- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - over 20 maps of Malaysia's capital.
- Lhasa, Tibet - of the most fascinating places on earth.
- Luang Prabang, Laos - a standard stop on the backpacker trail for decades...
- Mumbai (Bombay), India - two dozen maps with tourist attractions, hospitals, hotels, government offices, transportation hubs, and much more.
- Pakse, Laos - in Southern Laos.
- Penang, Malaysia - 15 maps of the island and its attractions.
- Saigon, Vietnam - 20 maps, including one with 125 key locations in the city marked.
- Shanghai, China - over 30 maps. China's largest city is an economic powerhouse for the country. Maps include hotel guides, attractions, and some street maps.
- Shenzhen, China - the Special Economic Zone bordering Honk Kong.
- Singapore - with 20 maps including a detailed map of the Orchard Road shopping district; Arab Street; a database map searchable by street, building, landmark, and postal code; a map of the campus of the National University of Singapore; and even a map of the city's bus routes.
- Vientiane, Laos - A dozen-plus maps of the capital of Laos.
- Yerevan, Armenia - some 15 maps including some detailed pdf format maps of the downtown area of Armenia's capital city.
Enjoy the maps...