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My Tho, is the capital of the Tien Giang province in Southern Vietnam. It is the first city in the Mekong Delta travellers from Ho Chi Minh City will arrive and hence a popular spot for dropping tourists on one of the many Mekong boat tours. For its closeness to Ho Chi Minh City everything is more expensive here than further inside the delta such as Vinh Long and Can Tho.
There are no scheduled boat services anymore.
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Guildford is a large town in Surrey in the South East of England. It has still retained much of its historical charm. A short walk up the cobbled high street shows many buildings which are hundreds of years old. The medieval castle was used by the King of England in the 1400s and because of this Guildford is the only royal town in Surrey.
Guildford grew up into a large town because of its location at roughly the half way point between England's main naval port at Portsmouth and the admiralty in
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Mymensingh, city in northern Bangladesh, in Dhaka Division. Mymensingh is located on the Brahmaputra River, 115 km north of Dhaka, the national capital. The city's industries include cotton textile production and sugar processing. It is connected by road and rail to Dhaka and Brahmanbaria. Mymensingh, formerly known as Nasirabad, was part of the Mughal Empire from the 16th century to the 18th century.
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Marmara Island (Turkish: Marmara Adası) is the largest one of Marmara Islands, Turkey.
Although quite small by world standards, this island is second largest island of island-poor Turkey. Its name comes from marmara in Greek (mermer in Turkish), which means “marble”, referring to the fact that island’s quarries have been used for marble extraction since ancient times. The island also gave its name to the Sea of Marmara by which it is surrounded.
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Gemlik is a city in Bursa province in Turkey. It is located at the tip of the Gulf of Gemlik, the southeast branch of the Sea of Marmara.
There is no railway nearby.
The town is located on the main Istanbul – Bursa highway (numbered D575).
There are buses or minibuses from Istanbul, Yalova and Bursa. These buses either head for Gemlik itself, or head for one of the aforementioned cities and pass through Gemlik. In any case, you can buy a ticket for Gemlik and get off there.
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