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Xanadu is the name of Charles Foster Kane's stately mansion in the 1941 film Citizen Kane. "Xanadu" is the name of a track off of the Rush album A Farewell to Kings, that references the poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Xanadu is the name of a 1980 film starring Olivia Newton-John.
Country View Population Mayor or governor or president Beijing: China: 21,542,000 (2018, municipality) ... List of national capitals in East, South, and Southeast Asia.
Xanadu / Shangdu (上都; Shàngdū; 'Upper Capital'), located northwest of present-day Dolon Nor in Inner Mongolia, China, was the summer capital of the Yuan dynasty. After the fall of the Yuan dynasty, it briefly became the capital of the Northern Yuan dynasty between 1368 and 1369. It was destroyed in 1369.
Xanadu may refer to: Shangdu , the summer capital of Yuan dynasty ruled by Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan. a metaphor for opulence or an idyllic place, based upon Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's description of Shangdu in his poem Kubla Khan
This is a list of national capitals, including capitals of territories and dependencies, non-sovereign states including associated states and entities whose sovereignty is disputed. The capitals included on this list are those associated with states or territories listed by the international standard ISO 3166-1 , or that are included in the ...
These varying definitions are not generally reflected in the map of Asia as a whole; for example, Egypt is typically included in the Middle East, but not in Asia, even though the bulk of the Middle East is in Asia. The demarcation between Asia and Africa is the Suez Canal, the Gulf of Suez, the Red Sea, and the Bab-el-Mandeb.
This is a list of sovereign states and dependent territories in Asia. It includes fully recognized states, states with limited but substantial international recognition, de facto states with little or no international recognition, and dependencies of both Asian and non-Asian states. In particular, it lists (i) 49 generally recognized sovereign states, all of which are members of the United ...
Shangdu (Xanadu) was an "Upper Capital" during Kublai Khan's reign in the 13th century. [1]In the Qing dynasty, Chengde Mountain Resort in Chengde was often being used by emperor to perform their official function during the summer months.