In front of the send off of the QS College Rankings: Asia 2015 (out tomorrow!), we're taking a visit through a portion of the locale's more uncommon random data. Look at these 10 astounding realities about Asia - and make sure to visit the positioning tables tomorrow to see what further shocks are available…
1. Singapore has a building inspired by a Star Wars robot
Indeed, you read that right. It wasn't simply a geeky planner triumphing ultimately, all things considered. 'The Sandcrawler', which was named after its on-screen partner, looks also prepared to shiver across the sands of Tatooine looking for droids for scrap.
First opened in 2013, the structure presently houses Lucasfilm Ltd's. Asia workplaces, and is a 'cutting edge complex lodging movement workplaces and ILM Singapore.' In the event that you're a Star Wars fan, this could be one more smart justification for you to concentrate on abroad in Singapore - your opportunity to see the powerful Sandcrawler face to face!
2. There are over 1,600 temples in Kyoto, Japan
Is it true that you are expecting to concentrate on in Japan? Make certain to look at old Kyoto, which was the country's magnificent capital for in excess of 1,000 years. Kyoto is home to 1.5 million individuals, who live close by the city's numerous legacy locales and verifiable structures.
The 'Memorable Landmarks of Old Kyoto' are an UNESCO World Legacy Site, with the Kennin-ji sanctuary frequently viewed as the most seasoned sanctuary. It was implicit 1202 CE, and is home to the last resting spot of Eisai, the priest who is remembered to have carried Harmony Buddhism to Japan.
3. Hong Kong means ‘fragrant harbor’
This may be significantly to a greater extent an astounding reality for any individual who's visited the cutting edge city! Hong Kong's change from a provincial station to a bustling port, lastly the worldwide monetary focus it is today, may have supplanted its beforehand lovely fragrance with more modern, present day city smells… yet it by and by stays a famous report abroad objective among those hoping to concentrate on in Asia.
With its exceptional history and culture, 'Asia's reality city' is positioned as the world's number five city for understudies in the QS Smartest Understudy Urban communities 2015 - it is Asia's most noteworthy positioning section.
4. China produces 45 billion pairs of chopsticks each year
Alright, so there are a many individuals in China - however that is as yet a huge number! Notwithstanding the country's own chopstick creation industry, a few Chinese eateries currently import chopsticks made by US makers, who frequently utilize a lighter wood that needn't bother with to be faded.
While going to Asia, make certain to look for a way to improve on your chopstick manners. Know that it is viewed as terrible habits to tap your chopsticks on your bowl, and pointing your refreshed chopsticks at individual cafes is tremendously discourteous!
5. South Korea has a separate Valentine’s Day for single people
In numerous Western societies, Valentine's Day (14 February) will in general be overwhelmed by adored up couples who get each other gifts. Yet, in South Korea, the festival is marginally unique. February fourteenth is only one of 12 'love days', which are commended on the fourteenth of every month.
In South Korea, February's Valentine's Day sees ladies offer chocolates to men as a hint of friendship. After a month, on 14 Walk, White Day is commended, when men generally respond with another gift.
On the off chance that you got no gifts by any means, then, at that point, dread not: there's daily for you as well! April fourteenth is an informal occasion known as Dark Day, and is a day for unfastened singles to get together and protest over a bowl of jajangmyeon, the dark noodle dish that gives the day its name.
6. There are more than 150 volcanoes in Indonesia
Indonesia is situated on the limit of the pacific plate - a region known as the 'Ring of Fire'. With 127 of the country's volcanoes as of now dynamic, it's not difficult to perceive how it got this name!
Indonesia's most dynamic fountain of liquid magma is Mount Merapi (presented above), on the island of Java. It regularly emits each a few years, with bigger emissions consistently. An especially huge emission in 1006 is said to have left the whole island covered in debris.
7. Japan has produced 22 Nobel Laureates
That is more per capita than some other Asian country! Japan has long partaken in a glad standing as a mechanical, social and creative force to be reckoned with, what began some time before the country's most memorable Nobel Prize was won by Hideki Yukawa in 1949.
Yukawa worked at Kyoto Royal College as a hypothetical physicist. He won the Nobel Prize for his work on subatomic particles, and proceeded to win endless honors in Japan and then some, including the lofty Lomonosov Gold Award in 1964.
8. South East Asia is home to the world’s largest flower…
What number of blossom based realities about Asia do you be aware? Not so many? Indeed, here's memorable's one… The Rafflesia, tracked down developing on the woods floors of Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia, produces immense blossoms of up to a meter across. Their particular shape and size have acquired them a significant status, and the Rafflesia has been taken on as Indonesia's true state blossom.
On the off chance that you experience one on a concentrate abroad experience, in any case, don't get excessively close! The Rafflesia is referred to informally as the 'body bloom' or the 'smelling lily', because of its actual appearance, and the foul scent it utilizations to draw in pollinating bugs.
9. …and the world’s smallest mammal!
Western Thailand is home to the Kitti's hoard nosed bat, otherwise called the honey bee bat, which is viewed by some as the world's littlest warm blooded animal. These small bats bring forth one posterity yearly, and regularly live as a feature of a settlement of a 100 or thereabouts, generally in caves. Regardless of their 'compromised' status, the species was found in Burma in 2001, igniting expects more provinces beyond the bat's local Thailand.
10. Indonesia is the world’s fourth most populous country
Lastly on our rundown of amazing realities about Asia - did you had at least some idea that Indonesia follows China, India and the US, to guarantee the world's fourth-biggest populace? The region of the nation's complete body of land is multiple times the size of Texas, and is comprised of thousands of islands of changing size, which range an area of more than 5,000 kilometers from east to west. This colossal scale has created a country of exceptionally different societies, with various traditions and customs from one island to another.
