Whois & Analysis for peninsula.com

The Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotels, Limited, which operates The Peninsula Hotels, is a hotel chain operator based in Hong Kong.

It operates ten hotels across Asia, Europe and the United States, with two under development.

Its flagship hotel is the Peninsula Hong Kong which opened in 1928.

Bangkok is the capital and most populous city of Thailand.

It is known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon (pronounced) or simply Krung Thep.

The city occupies in the Chao Phraya River delta in Central Thailand, and has a population of over 8 million, or 12.6 percent of the country's population.

Over 14 million people (22.2 percent) live within the surrounding Bangkok Metropolitan Region, making Bangkok an extreme primate city, significantly dwarfing Thailand's other urban centres in terms of importance.

There are 581 high-rise buildings in the city, ranking number 5 in the world.

Beijing (formerly romanised as Peking) is the capital of the People's Republic of China and the world's third most populous city proper.

It is also one of the world's most populous capital cities.

The city, located in northern China, is governed as a direct-controlled municipality under the national government with 16 urban, suburban, and rural districts.

Beijing Municipality is surrounded by Hebei Province with the exception of neighbouring Tianjin Municipality to the southeast; together the three divisions form the Jingjinji metropolitan region and the national capital region of China.

Shanghai is the most populous city proper in the world, with a population of more than 24 million.

As one of the four direct-controlled municipalities of the People's Republic of China, it is a global financial centre and transport hub, with the world's busiest container port.

Located in the Yangtze River Delta in East China, Shanghai sits on the south edge of the mouth of the Yangtze in the middle portion of the eastern Chinese coast.

The municipality borders the provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the north, south and west, and is bounded to the east by the East China Sea.

Manila (or), officially City of Manila, is the capital of the Philippines.

Founded on June 24, 1571, by Spanish conquistador Miguel López de Legazpi, it is one of the oldest cities in the Philippines and was the seat of power for most of the country's colonial rulers.

It is situated on the eastern shore of Manila Bay and is home to many landmarks, some of which date back to the 16th century.

It was the first chartered City by virtue of the Philippine Commission Act 183 on July 31, 1901 and gained autonomy with the passage of Republic Act No. 409 or the "Revised Charter of the City of Manila" on June 18, 1949.

In 2012, the Globalization and World Cities Research Network listed Manila as a global city.