This is a list of Asian cities and towns that have, or once had, town tram

Tram

A tram is a passenger rail vehicle which runs on tracks along public urban streets and also sometimes on separate rights of way. It may also run between cities and/or towns , and/or partially grade separated even in the cities...

way (urban tramway, or streetcar) systems as part of their public transport

Public transport

Public transport is a shared passenger transportation service which is available for use by the general public, as distinct from modes such as taxicab, car pooling or hired buses which are not shared by strangers without private arrangement.Public transport modes include buses, trolleybuses, trams...

 system. A separate list has been created for Japan to increase user-friendliness and reduce article size. Other geographic regions:

• Africa
• Europe
• Central America
• North America
• South America
• Oceania

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See also: List of light-rail transit systems, List of rapid transit systems, List of trolleybus systems.

Armenia

Armenia

Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...

Name of system	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Yerevan Երեւան Yerevan Yerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously-inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country...	Horse	29 Sep 1906	Aug 1918 (?)
		Electric	12 Jan 1933	21 Jan 2004

Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan is the largest country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to...

Name of system	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Bakı Baku Baku , sometimes spelled as Baki or Bakou, is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. It is located on the southern shore of the Absheron Peninsula, which projects into the Caspian Sea. The city consists of two principal...  /Baku	Horse	19 Apr 1889	by 1 Oct 1923
		Steam	6 Oct 1889	ca. 1894
		Electric	8 Feb 1924	Jan 2004
	Gəncə Ganja, Azerbaijan Ganja is Azerbaijan's second-largest city with a population of around 313,300. It was named Yelizavetpol in the Russian Empire period. The city regained its original name—Ganja—from 1920–1935 during the first part of its incorporation into the Soviet Union. However, its name was changed again and...  /Ganja	Electric	1 May 1933	16 Oct 1976
	Sumqayıt Sumqayit Sumgayit is one of the largest cities in Azerbaijan, located near the Caspian Sea, about 31 kilometres away from the capital, Baku. The city has a population of 308,700 , making it the third-largest city in Azerbaijan after the capital Baku and Ganja. The city has a territory of 83 km². It...  /Sumqayit	Electric	11 Mar 1959	Jul 2003

China

People's Republic of China

China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...

Name of system	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Ānshān 鞍山 /Anshan	Electric	15 Jan 1956	26 Feb 2004	http://www.tramz.com/tva/mj.html. Reconstruction as light rail transit (LRT) planned.
	Běijīng 北京 Beijing Beijing , also known as Peking , is the capital of the People's Republic of China and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of 19,612,368 as of 2010. The city is the country's political, cultural, and educational center, and home to the headquarters for most of China's...  /Beijing	Electric	24 Jun 1899 17 Dec 1924	1900 6 May 1966	http://www.tramz.com/tva/cn.html. First system closed during the Boxer Rebellion Boxer Rebellion The Boxer Rebellion, also called the Boxer Uprising by some historians or the Righteous Harmony Society Movement in northern China, was a proto-nationalist movement by the "Righteous Harmony Society" , or "Righteous Fists of Harmony" or "Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists" , in China between... .
	Chángchūn 长春 Changchun Changchun is the capital and largest city of Jilin province, located in the northeast of the People's Republic of China, in the center of the Songliao Plain. It is administered as a sub-provincial city with a population of 7,677,089 at the 2010 census under its jurisdiction, including counties and... /Changchun	Electric	1937 (?) (or 1942)		http://www.tramz.com/tva/mj.html.
	Dàlián 大连 Dalian Dalian is a major city and seaport in the south of Liaoning province, Northeast China. It faces Shandong to the south, the Yellow Sea to the east and the Bohai Sea to the west and south. Holding sub-provincial administrative status, Dalian is the southernmost city of Northeast China and China's... /Dalian	Electric	Sep 1909		http://www.tramz.com/tva/mj.html.
	Guǎngzhōu 广州 Guangzhou Guangzhou , known historically as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of the Guangdong province in the People's Republic of China. Located in southern China on the Pearl River, about north-northwest of Hong Kong, Guangzhou is a key national transportation hub and trading port...  /Guangzhou	(Electric)			Construction started ca. 1934, not completed.
	Harbin (Hā'ěrbīn) 哈尔滨 Harbin Harbin ; Manchu language: , Harbin; Russian: Харби́н Kharbin ), is the capital and largest city of Heilongjiang Province in Northeast China, lying on the southern bank of the Songhua River...	Electric	10 Oct 1927	17 Jun 1987	http://www.tramz.com/tva/mj.html.
	Nánjīng 南京 Nanjing ' is the capital of Jiangsu province in China and has a prominent place in Chinese history and culture, having been the capital of China on several occasions...  /Nanjing	Steam	?	?
		Electric	?	?
Hong Kong Tramways Limited Hong Kong Tramways Hong Kong Tramways is a tram system in Hong Kong and one of the earliest forms of public transport in Hong Kong. Owned and operated by Veolia Transport, the tramway runs on Hong Kong Island between Shau Kei Wan and Kennedy Town, with a branch circulating Happy Valley...	Hong Kong Island Hong Kong Island Hong Kong Island is an island in the southern part of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. It has a population of 1,289,500 and its population density is 16,390/km², as of 2008...	Electric	30 Jul 1904		http://www.tramz.com/tva/hk.html
MTR Light Rail	Tin Shui Wai Tin Shui Wai New Town Tin Shui Wai New Town is located in northwestern New Territories of Hong Kong. It is a part of the Yuen Long District, and is the second new town in Yuen Long and the eighth in Hong Kong. It is situated 25 kilometres due north-west of Central, Hong Kong on land reclaimed from low lying areas south... , Tuen Mun Tuen Mun New Town Tuen Mun New Town is a new town developed by Hong Kong Government in Tuen Mun of the New Territories, Hong Kong in 1970s. At the time of planning in 1965, the satellite town, as new town was then known as, was named Castle Peak.... , Yuen Long Yuen Long New Town Yuen Long New Town is a new town in the northwest New Territories, Hong Kong. It was developed from the traditional market town of Yuen Long Town from the late 1970s....	Electric	18 Sep 1988
	Shànghǎi 上海 Shanghai Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...  /Shanghai	Electric	15 Mar 1908	197_	http://www.tramz.com/tva/cn.html. A Chinese source states that the last tramway line was closed in 963], reintroduction planned].
	Shěnyáng 沈阳 Shenyang Shenyang , or Mukden , is the capital and largest city of Liaoning Province in Northeast China. Currently holding sub-provincial administrative status, the city was once known as Shengjing or Fengtianfu...  /Shenyang	Electric	Oct 1925	1973	http://www.tramz.com/tva/mj.html.
	Tiānjīn 天津 Tianjin ' is a metropolis in northern China and one of the five national central cities of the People's Republic of China. It is governed as a direct-controlled municipality, one of four such designations, and is, thus, under direct administration of the central government...  /Tianjin	Electric	16 Feb 1906	ca. 1972	http://www.tramz.com/tva/cn.html,reintroduced in 2007.

Georgia

Georgia (country)

Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

Name of system	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Gagra გაგრა Gagra Gagra is a town in Abkhazia, Georgia’s breakaway republic, sprawling for 5 km on the northeast coast of the Black Sea, at the foot of the Caucasus Mountains...	Horse	?	?
	Poti ფოთი Poti Poti is a port city in Georgia, located on the eastern Black Sea coast in the region of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti in the west of the country. Built near the site of the ancient Greek colony of Phasis, the city has become a major port city and industrial center since the early 20th century. It is also...	Horse	1904	1932
	Tbilisi თბილისი Tbilisi Tbilisi is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Mt'k'vari River. The name is derived from an early Georgian form T'pilisi and it was officially known as Tiflis until 1936...	Horse	3 Apr 1883	1910
		Electric	25 Dec 1904	4 Dec 2006

India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

Name of system	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Chennai சென்னை Chennai Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...	Electric	7 May 1895	12 Apr 1953	http://www.tramz.com/tva/in.html (formerly Madras)
	Delhi दिल्ली Delhi Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...	Electric	6 Mar 1908	ca. 1963	http://www.tramz.com/tva/in.html, reintroduction planned.
	Kanpur कानपुर	Electric	Jun 1907	16 May 1933	http://www.tramz.com/tva/in.html (formerly Cawnpore)
Calcutta Tramways Company Limited Calcutta Tramways Company The Calcutta Tramways Company Limited is a West Bengal, India government-run company which runs trams in Kolkata and buses in and around Kolkata...	Kolkata কলকাতা Kolkata Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...	Horse	Jan 1881	?	(formerly Calcutta)
		Electric	27 Mar 1902		http://www.tramz.com/tva/in.html.
	Mumbai मुंबई Mumbai Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...	Horse	9 May 1874	15 May 1908
		Electric	7 May 1907	31 Mar 1964	http://www.tramz.com/tva/in.html (formerly Bombay)

Indonesia

Indonesia

Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

Name of system	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Jakarta Jakarta Jakarta is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Officially known as the Special Capital Territory of Jakarta, it is located on the northwest coast of Java, has an area of , and a population of 9,580,000. Jakarta is the country's economic, cultural and political centre...	Horse	1869	?
		Steam	1881	?
		Electric	10 Apr 1899	1962	http://www.tramz.com/tva/id.html.
	Surabaya Surabaya Surabaya is Indonesia's second-largest city with a population of over 2.7 million , and the capital of the province of East Java...	Steam	189_	?
		Electric	27 Apr 1923	Jan 1968	http://www.tramz.com/tva/id.html.

Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

Name of system	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Tehran Tehran Tehran , sometimes spelled Teheran, is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With an estimated population of 8,429,807; it is also Iran's largest urban area and city, one of the largest cities in Western Asia, and is the world's 19th largest city.In the 20th century, Tehran was subject to...	Horse	18__	19__

Iraq

Iraq

Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

Name of system	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Baghdād بغداد Baghdad Baghdad is the capital of Iraq, as well as the coterminous Baghdad Governorate. The population of Baghdad in 2011 is approximately 7,216,040...	Horse	1871	194_	http://www.tramz.com/tva/iq.html.
	Najaf / Kufa	Horse	1871	194_	http://www.tramz.com/tva/iq.html.
	Basrah	Steam/narrow gauge	1900	194_	http://fuchs-online.com/iraq/.

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...

Name of system	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Almaty Almaty Almaty , also known by its former names Verny and Alma-Ata , is the former capital of Kazakhstan and the nation's largest city, with a population of 1,348,500...	Electric	1 Dec 1937
	Oskemen Oskemen Oskemen and Ust-Kamennaya , is the capital of the East Kazakhstan Province. It is served by the Ust-Kamenogorsk Airport.-History:...	Electric	6 Nov 1959
	Pavlodar Pavlodar Pavlodar is a city in northeastern Kazakhstan and the capital of Pavlodar Province. It is located 350 km northeast of the national capital Astana, and 400 km southeast of the Russian city of Omsk along the Irtysh River. , the city has a population of 331710...	Electric	18 Oct 1965
	Karagandy	Electric	25 Aug 1950	1997
	Temirtau Temirtau Temirtau is a city in the Karaganda region of Kazakhstan. Pop 180,000.-History:*1905, June, 15 - the first groups of settlers settled down on the left bank of the Nura River. There were 40 families, that had arrived from Samara...	Electric	5 Sep 1959

Lebanon

Lebanon

Lebanon , officially the Republic of LebanonRepublic of Lebanon is the most common term used by Lebanese government agencies. The term Lebanese Republic, a literal translation of the official Arabic and French names that is not used in today's world. Arabic is the most common language spoken among...

Name of system	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Bayrūt بيروت Beirut Beirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon, with a population ranging from 1 million to more than 2 million . Located on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon's Mediterranean coastline, it serves as the country's largest and main seaport, and also forms the Beirut Metropolitan...  /Beirut	Electric	19 Apr 1908	Sep 1965	http://www.tramz.com/tva/lb.html.
	Ṭarābulus طرابلس Tripoli Tripoli is the capital and largest city in Libya. It is also known as Western Tripoli , to distinguish it from Tripoli, Lebanon. It is affectionately called The Mermaid of the Mediterranean , describing its turquoise waters and its whitewashed buildings. Tripoli is a Greek name that means "Three...  /Tripoli	Horse	?	?	http://www.tramz.com/tva/lb.html.

Malaysia

Name of system	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	George Town George Town, Penang George Town was voted as one of the best cities in Asia by Asiaweek, ranked 6th in 1998 and 9th in 2000. More recently, George Town has improved a notch to rank as the 9th most liveable city in Asia in a survey of 254 cities worldwide according to an international location ratings survey by , an...	Steam	1880	?
		Horse	1898	?
		Electric	1 Jan 1906	1936	http://www.tramz.com/tva/my.html.

Myanmar

Myanmar

Burma , officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar , is a country in Southeast Asia. Burma is bordered by China on the northeast, Laos on the east, Thailand on the southeast, Bangladesh on the west, India on the northwest, the Bay of Bengal to the southwest, and the Andaman Sea on the south....

Name of system	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Mandalay မန္တလေးမ္ရို့ Mandalay Mandalay is the second-largest city and the last royal capital of Burma. Located north of Yangon on the east bank of the Irrawaddy River, the city has a population of one million, and is the capital of Mandalay Region ....	Electric	17 Jun 1904	by 1945	http://www.tramz.com/tva/mm.html.
	Yangon ရန္‌ကုန္‌မ္ရို့ Yangon Yangon is a former capital of Burma and the capital of Yangon Region . Although the military government has officially relocated the capital to Naypyidaw since March 2006, Yangon, with a population of over four million, continues to be the country's largest city and the most important commercial...	Steam	1884	?
		Electric	15 Dec 1906	by 1945	http://www.tramz.com/tva/mm.html.

North Korea

North Korea

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea , , is a country in East Asia, occupying the northern half of the Korean Peninsula. Its capital and largest city is Pyongyang. The Korean Demilitarized Zone serves as the buffer zone between North Korea and South Korea...

Name of system	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Ch'ŏngjin 청진 (淸津) Chongjin Ch'ŏngjin is the capital of North Korea's North Hamgyŏng Province and the country's third largest city. From 1960 to 1967 and again from 1977 to 1985, Ch'ŏngjin was administered separately from North Hamgyŏng as a Directly Governed City...	Electric	20 Aug (or 21 Aug) 1999
	P'yŏngyang 평양 (平壤) Pyongyang Pyongyang is the capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, commonly known as North Korea, and the largest city in the country. Pyongyang is located on the Taedong River and, according to preliminary results from the 2008 population census, has a population of 3,255,388. The city was...	Human	1905	1916
		Electric	20 May 1923 15 Apr 1991	Aug 1950 -	http://www.tramz.com/tva/ko.html. First system closed because of war damage. See Pyongyang Tram Pyongyang Tram Pyongyang Tram is a tram system in Pyongyang, North Korea.In the pre-war era, there were three tramways in Korea, in Seoul, Busan, and Pyongyang. However, the system in Pyongyang was discontinued after the Korean War of 1950 to 1953... .

Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

Name of system	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Karachi كراچى Karachi Karachi is the largest city, main seaport and the main financial centre of Pakistan, as well as the capital of the province of Sindh. The city has an estimated population of 13 to 15 million, while the total metropolitan area has a population of over 18 million...	Steam	20 Apr 1885	?
		Horse	1886	?
		Petrol (gasoline)	1909	?	http://www.tramz.com/tva/pk.html.
		Diesel	?	30 Apr 1975

Philippines

Philippines

The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

Name of system	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Manila Manila Manila is the capital of the Philippines. It is one of the sixteen cities forming Metro Manila.Manila is located on the eastern shores of Manila Bay and is bordered by Navotas and Caloocan to the north, Quezon City to the northeast, San Juan and Mandaluyong to the east, Makati on the southeast,...	Horse	188_	?
		Steam	?	?
		Electric	10 Apr 1905	1944	http://www.tramz.com/tva/ph.html.

Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

Name of system	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Singapore Singapore Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...	Steam	1885	1894
		Electric	25 Jul 1905	9 Apr 1927	http://www.tramz.com/tva/sg.html. Experimental electric operations in Sep 1891 and Sep 1892.

South Korea

South Korea

The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...

Name of system	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Busan 부산 (釜山) Busan Busan , formerly spelled Pusan is South Korea's second largest metropolis after Seoul, with a population of around 3.6 million. The Metropolitan area population is 4,399,515 as of 2010. It is the largest port city in South Korea and the fifth largest port in the world...	Steam	?	?
		Electric	31 Oct 1915	20 May 1968	http://www.tramz.com/tva/ko.html.
	Seoul 서울 Seoul Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...	Electric	1 May 1899	29 Nov 1968	http://www.tramz.com/tva/ko.html.

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...

Name of system	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Colombo Colombo Colombo is the largest city of Sri Lanka. It is located on the west coast of the island and adjacent to Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte, the capital of Sri Lanka. Colombo is often referred to as the capital of the country, since Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte is a satellite city of Colombo...	Electric	Sep 1898	1960	http://www.tramz.com/tva/lk.html.

Syria

Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....

Name of system	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Halab حلب Aleppo Aleppo is the largest city in Syria and the capital of Aleppo Governorate, the most populous Syrian governorate. With an official population of 2,301,570 , expanding to over 2.5 million in the metropolitan area, it is also one of the largest cities in the Levant...  /Aleppo	Electric	1929	1967	http://www.tramz.com/tva/sy.html.
	Dimashq دمشق Damascus Damascus , commonly known in Syria as Al Sham , and as the City of Jasmine , is the capital and the second largest city of Syria after Aleppo, both are part of the country's 14 governorates. In addition to being one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, Damascus is a major...  /Damascus	Electric	7 Feb 1907	1967	http://www.tramz.com/tva/sy.html.

Thailand

Thailand

Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...

Name of system	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Krung Thep Maha Nakhon กรุงเทพมหานคร Bangkok Bangkok is the capital and largest urban area city in Thailand. It is known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon or simply Krung Thep , meaning "city of angels." The full name of Bangkok is Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom...  /Bangkok	Horse	22 Sep 1887	?
		Electric	1 Jan 1893	1 Oct 1968	http://www.tramz.com/tva/th.html.
	Lopburi ลพบุรี Lopburi Lopburi ) is the capital city of Lopburi Province in Thailand. It is located about 150 km north-east of Bangkok. As of 2006 it has a population of 26,500...	Electric	31 Jan 1955	1962	http://www.tramz.com/tva/th.html.

Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

Name of system	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Samsun Samsun Samsun is a city of about half a million people on the north coast of Turkey. It is the provincial capital of Samsun Province and a major Black Sea port.-Name:...	Electric	2010 (under construction)
	Antalya Antalya Antalya is a city on the Mediterranean coast of southwestern Turkey. With a population 1,001,318 as of 2010. It is the eighth most populous city in Turkey and country's biggest international sea resort.- History :...	Electric	27 Mar 1999
	Gazi Antep	Electric	2009
	Konya Konya Konya is a city in the Central Anatolia Region of Turkey. The metropolitan area in the entire Konya Province had a population of 1,036,027 as of 2010, making the city seventh most populous in Turkey.-Etymology:...	Electric
Kayseray Kayseray Kayseray is the new light rail street-tram system being built for the city of Kayseri in Turkey. The tracks and station structures are currently under construction, and should be completed fully before 2009.-History:...	Kayseri Kayseri Kayseri is a large and industrialized city in Central Anatolia, Turkey. It is the seat of Kayseri Province. The city of Kayseri, as defined by the boundaries of Kayseri Metropolitan Municipality, is structurally composed of five metropolitan districts, the two core districts of Kocasinan and...	Electric	2 Jan 2009
	Eskişehir Eskisehir Eskişehir is a city in northwestern Turkey and the capital of the Eskişehir Province. According to the 2009 census, the population of the city is 631,905. The city is located on the banks of the Porsuk River, 792 m above sea level, where it overlooks the fertile Phrygian Valley. In the nearby...	Electric	24 Dec 2004
	İstanbul Istanbul Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and... - Europe	Horse	30 Aug 1869	?
		Electric	16 Aug 1913 1 Aug (?) 1992	12 Aug 1961 -	http://www.tramz.com/tva/tr.html. Heritage tramway opened 29 Dec 1990. New street tramway opened 1 Aug (?) 1992. See Istanbul nostalgic tram Istanbul nostalgic tram Nostalgic tram of Istanbul is the heritage tramway systems of Istanbul, Turkey. The city has two completely separate heritage tram systems, one on the European side, the another on the Asian side....  & Istanbul modern tram Istanbul modern tram The modern tram of Istanbul is a modern tramway system of the European side of Istanbul, opened in 1990. Currently, it has two lines, one by low floor trams in the old center and the other a more outer area of Istanbul.-History:...
	♦ İstanbul - Asia	Electric	8 Jun 1928	11 Nov 1966	Heritage tramway opened 1 Nov 2003.
	İzmir Izmir Izmir is a large metropolis in the western extremity of Anatolia. The metropolitan area in the entire Izmir Province had a population of 3.35 million as of 2010, making the city third most populous in Turkey...	Horse	?	?
		Electric	18 Oct 1928	1954	http://www.tramz.com/tva/tr.html.
	Konya Konya Konya is a city in the Central Anatolia Region of Turkey. The metropolitan area in the entire Konya Province had a population of 1,036,027 as of 2010, making the city seventh most populous in Turkey.-Etymology:...	Electric	28 Sep 1992

Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan , officially the Republic of Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia and one of the six independent Turkic states. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south....

Name of system	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Samarqand Samarkand Although a Persian-speaking region, it was not united politically with Iran most of the times between the disintegration of the Seleucid Empire and the Arab conquest . In the 6th century it was within the domain of the Turkic kingdom of the Göktürks.At the start of the 8th century Samarkand came...	Electric	1 May 1947	30 Aug 1973
	Toshkent	Horse	13 Apr 1901	1913
		Electric	10 Jan 1913		Operation suspended 1918 - 1921 because of war (see Russian Civil War Russian Civil War The Russian Civil War was a multi-party war that occurred within the former Russian Empire after the Russian provisional government collapsed to the Soviets, under the domination of the Bolshevik party. Soviet forces first assumed power in Petrograd The Russian Civil War (1917–1923) was a... ).

Vietnam

Vietnam

Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

Name of system	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Hanoi Hanoi Hanoi , is the capital of Vietnam and the country's second largest city. Its population in 2009 was estimated at 2.6 million for urban districts, 6.5 million for the metropolitan jurisdiction. From 1010 until 1802, it was the most important political centre of Vietnam...	Electric	10 Nov 1901	1990	reintroduction planned
	Ho Chi Minh City Ho Chi Minh City Ho Chi Minh City , formerly named Saigon is the largest city in Vietnam...	Steam	27 Dec 1881	?
		Electric	4 Aug 1923	ca. 1953	Connected Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) with Hóc Môn and Thủ Dầu Một Thu Dau Mot Thủ Dầu Một is the capital town of Binh Duong province, Vietnam. It is located at around .The town has an area of 88 km², population is 158,000, and is located 20 km north of downtown Ho Chi Minh City, on the left bank of the Saigon River, upstream from Ho Chi Minh City...