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ISFDB tags

Afghanistan          


Armenia          


Azerbaijan               


Bahrain


Bangladesh          Dhaka


Bhutan               


Borneo               


Brunei


Burma / Myanmar     


Cambodia               


China                 Beijing  |  Shanghai  |  Yiwu


Cyprus


East Timor


Georgia


Hong Kong


India                    Bangalore / Bengaluru  |  Bombay / Mumbai  |  Calcutta / Kolkata  |  Delhi  |  Hyderabad  |  Indian Hills  |  

                    Karnataka  |  Lucknow  |  Maneswar  |  Shimla  |  Tamil Nadu  |  Varanasi


Indonesia               Java


Iran / Persia          Isfahan


Iraq                    Baghdad


Israel               Bethlehem  |  Jerusalem  |  Tel Aviv


Japan               Hiroshima  |  Tokyo


Jordan               


Kazakhstan


Kuwait


Kyrgyzstan          


Laos                    


Lebanon               Beirut


Macau


Malaysia               Kuala Lumpur


Maldives               


Mongolia               Ulaanbaatar  |  Karakorum


Nepal               Kathmandu


North Korea          Pyongyang


Oman               


Pakistan               Karachi  |  Lahore  |  Mohenjo-Daro


Palestine               Jericho  |  Jerusalem


Pashtunistan


Philippines          Manila


Qatar                    


Russia               Moscow  |  St. Petersburg


Saudi Arabia          


Siberia               


Singapore


South Korea          Seoul


Sri Lanka / Ceylon     


Syria                    Damascus  |  Homs


Taiwan


Tajikistan               


Tibet                    


Thailand               Bangkok  |  Cha Am  |  Chiang Mai  |  Lop Buri  |  Pattaya  |  Phuket


Turkey               Constantinople  |  Istanbul


Turkmenistan          


Ukraine               Crimea  |  Kiev


UAE                    Dubai


Uzbekistan               


Vietnam               Hanoi


Yemen               


The ISFDB contains around 17,000 tags for all kinds of subject categories, making it comprehensive yet inevitably incomplete. Below are listed all known ISFDB tags for Asian countries, regions and locations referenced in works of speculative fiction or essays. Also below are 'Essays on...' tags referring to authors, plus other Asia-related ISFDB tags.

Essays on Isaac Asimov

Essays on Ruskin Bond

Essays on Mikhail Bulgakov

Essays on Alexander Grin

Essays on Han Song

Essays on Kazuo Ishiguro


Essays on Kukrit Pramoj

Essays on Salman Rushdie

Essays on the Strugatsky brothers

Essays on Lavie Tidhar

Essays on Charles Yu

Other Asia-related ISFDB tags

Allegorical of the Vietnam War  |  Ancient Mesopotamia  |  Arab states  |  Asian dystopia  |  Asian-influenced fantasy  |  

Buddhism  |  Buddhism-inspired  |  Central Asia  |  China-inspired fantasy  |  fictional Asian countries  |  Hasidism  |  

Himalayas  |  Hinduism  |  Hinduism-inspired  |  India-inspired fantasy  |  Indian Ocean  |  Islam  |  Islamic fantasy  |  

Islamic future  |  Islam-inspired  |  Jewish fantasy  |  Judaism  |  Kabbala  |  Korea  |  Mesopotamian history  |  

Mesopotamian mythology  |  Ottoman Empire  |  oriental  |  Seleucid  |  Tibetan Book of the Dead  |  USSR  |  Vietnam War  |  

Wandering Jew  |  wuxia  |  Yellow Peril  |  Yom Kippur  |  Zen  |  Zoroastrianism


Essays on Etgar Keret

Essays on Cixin Liu

Essays on Ken Liu

Essays on Haruki Murakami

Essays on Fa Poonvoralak

Essays on... listed alphabetically by author’s surname