WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - Asia Records Institute (ASRI) – College Street: World's largest secondhand book market
20-01-2021
(Worldkings.org) KOLKATA’S HISTORIC COLLEGE STREET IS INDIA’S largest book market, lending it the endearing nickname Boi Para–”Book Town.”
WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - Asia Records Institute (ASRI) – Kolukkumalai Tea Estate: World's highest tea estate
19-01-2021
(Worldkings.org) It’s remote - it takes about 90 minutes to reach Kolukkumalai from Munnar - but on clear nights, you can see Kodaikanal from the estate because of its height.
WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - Asia Records Institute (ASRI) – Tianmen Mountain Cableway: World's longest passenger cableway of high mountains
19-01-2021
(Worldkings.org) Tianmen Mountain Cableway is claimed in tourist publications as the "longest passenger cableway of high mountains in the world", with 98 cars and a total length of 7,455 meters and ascent of 1,279 metres. The highest gradient is an unusual 37 degrees.
WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - Asia Records Institute (ASRI) – Kolkata Young Reader’s Tram: World's first tramcar for young readers
19-01-2021
(Worldkings.org) The tram car was launched virtually by Rajanvir Singh Kapur, MD, WBTC and Priti Paul, Director, Apeejay Surrendra Group. Kapur said, “The idea behind the Kolkata Young Reader’s Tramcar is that all children should get access to read good books and what better than the Kolkata trams!”
WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - Asia Records Institute (ASRI) – Tree Top Walk Sungai Sedim: World’s longest rainforest canopy walk
17-01-2021
(Worldkings.org) It took 14 months to build and was completed in March 2005. It is a substantial structure made from steel pylons and trusses which together weigh a massive 422,214 kg.
WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - Asia Records Institute (ASRI) – Kalisindh Thermal Power Station: House world's two tallest cooling towers
13-01-2021
(Worldkings.org) The chimney at Kalisindh Thermal Power Station has a height of 275 metres. The two cooling towers of the facility are 202 metres tall and the tallest in the world.
WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - Asia Records Institute (ASRI) – Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park: House world's tallest solar tower
13-01-2021
(Worldkings.org) The fourth phase will provide clean energy for 320,000 residences, will reduce 1.6 million tonnes of carbon emissions a year and covers 44 square kilometres. The projects recently completed fourth phase solar power tower is the tallest in the world.
WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - Asia Records Institute (ASRI) – Sihwa Lake Tidal Power Station: World's largest tidal power installation
13-01-2021
(Worldkings.org) The tidal barrage makes use of a seawall constructed in 1994 for flood mitigation and agricultural purposes. Ten 25.4 MW submerged bulb turbines are driven in an unpumped flood generation scheme; power is generated on tidal inflows only, and the outflow is sluiced away, i.e. as one-way power generation.
WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - Asia Records Institute (ASRI) – Almaty Tower: World's tallest free-standing tubular steel structure
12-01-2021
(Worldkings.org) The tower is 371.5 m (1,219 ft) tall; its 114 m metal aerial reaches 1000 meters above sea level. It has two observation decks at the height of 146 m and 252 m, which are accessible by two high-speed elevators.
WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - Asia Records Institute (ASRI) – Tuoketuo Power Station: World's largest coal-fired power station
11-01-2021
(Worldkings.org) The plant was commissioned in November 1995 by the Tuoketuo Power Company, which currently owns and operates the power station.