Many in South-east Asia would be familiar with Bangkok, a throbbing metropolis of over eight million people and the capital of Thailand.
Fewer would have heard of cities like Battambang in Cambodia, population 200,000, or Banyuwangi in Indonesia, population 160,000.
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