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Before the completion of the monument, the site was marked by a wooden pole stating "Geographic Centre of Asia" (亚洲地理中心). A village that happened to be located at the site where the monument was to be built was relocated, and the new village is now known as the "Heart of Asia" (亚心).
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Also on the projection used (radial projection on the plane vs. projection on a geoid), there is no objectively correct way of finding "the centre of Asia". Thus, several places claim to host this hypothetical centre.
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The first official declaration of the Centre of Asia was made in the 1890s by the British traveller, and calculated to be near the Manor house of Estate of Safyanov in
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area south of the city, located about 700 km (430 mi) to the north-to-northeast of the Ürümqi monument at
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The measurement on which it is based dates to 1992. It was based on calculating the geographical centre of 49
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This map shows in red points some of the locations of claimants to the title of Centre of Asia.
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as separate countries), placing the geographical centre of all these countries at
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The site has a tower labelled "Centre of Asia" which represents 48 countries of
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Geographical midpoint of Asia is located in Asia
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