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* South African TV news, when broadcasting from Johannesburg, includes an opening shot of the Hillbrow Tower, even though it's just a radio antenna and the newsroom isn't in there, to establish the location (justified in that it's the tallest building in Africa). Foreign news stories tend to include shots of Table Mountain if an event happened anywhere in South Africa generally. This is sometimes quite funny, as if you were reporting on an event happening in Maine while showing a picture of the Statue of Liberty. Close, but no cigar.
* As mentioned before, the Great Pyramid of Giza and/or the Sphinx is generally the establishing shot for Cairo, or anywhere else in Egypt for that matter. Egyptian and other Middle Eastern productions tend to use the [[wikipedia:Cairo Tower|Cairo Tower]] or [[wikipedia:Tahrir Square|Tahrir Square]] for Cairo.
=== Asia ===▼
* The Oriental Pearl shows up in nearly every establishing shot of Shanghai.▼
* Tian'anmen gate is often used as a establishing shot for Beijing, but as a bit of a subversion, the structure is only visible if you stand next to it. Classical Chinese architecture is rather disdainful of the vertical dimension. Chinese television and movies tend to use the CCTV tower instead. ▼
* In Seoul, [[South Korea]], Namsam Tower (or N Seoul Tower), is 777 feet tall on top of Namsam Mountain. From the restaurant on the 4th Observation Deck, you can see the entire city. Oh, and the main access is by cable car with a 13-degree gradient.▼
* In [[Taiwanese Series]], the Taipei 101 building in the country's capitol, is the tallest building on the island and tends to show up in the background of at least one episode.▼
* Thousands of Armenian paintings and photographs would suggest that Mt. Ararat is visible all over the country, when in fact it has to be a really clear day to be able to see it from its capital, Yerevan. And partly due to a long, sad history of horrible luck, Armenia's most iconic landmark isn't even in Armenia anymore but in Turkey.▼
* Tokyo is large enough that ''each ward'' has its own iconic landmarks. These include Shibuya's scramble crossing and 109 department store (both of which can be fit in the same shot), the Akihabara strip and the gates to the Senso temple in Asakusa.▼
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* Mexico's main cities are not exempt from this. Mexico City has this with the Zócalo, a huge slab of concrete bearing a huge monumental flag, as well as with the Angel of Independence and the Reform Avenue, whereas Guadalajara has this with the cathedral, the Minerva Roundabout, and more recently, the small patch of skyscrapers near Puerta de Hierro in the northwest. Monterrey, however, is best represented by the prominent Saddle Hill (Cerro de la Silla).
* A supposedly rare example for lesser known state capitals would be Albany's [http://img.online-station.net/_news/2009/0303/23964_39TheEggEmpireStatePlazaAlbanyNewYo.jpg Empire State Plaza], which typically consists of a unique flying saucer-shaped venue called The Egg, and the Erastus Corning Tower, which is quite justified, considering that it happens to be the tallest building in Upstate New York.
▲=== Asia ===
▲* The Oriental Pearl shows up in nearly every establishing shot of Shanghai.
▲* Tian'anmen gate is often used as a establishing shot for Beijing, but as a bit of a subversion, the structure is only visible if you stand next to it. Classical Chinese architecture is rather disdainful of the vertical dimension. Chinese television and movies tend to use the CCTV tower instead.
▲* In Seoul, [[South Korea]], Namsam Tower (or N Seoul Tower), is 777 feet tall on top of Namsam Mountain. From the restaurant on the 4th Observation Deck, you can see the entire city. Oh, and the main access is by cable car with a 13-degree gradient.
▲* In [[Taiwanese Series]], the Taipei 101 building in the country's capitol, is the tallest building on the island and tends to show up in the background of at least one episode.
▲* Thousands of Armenian paintings and photographs would suggest that Mt. Ararat is visible all over the country, when in fact it has to be a really clear day to be able to see it from its capital, Yerevan. And partly due to a long, sad history of horrible luck, Armenia's most iconic landmark isn't even in Armenia anymore but in Turkey.
▲* Tokyo is large enough that ''each ward'' has its own iconic landmarks. These include Shibuya's scramble crossing and 109 department store (both of which can be fit in the same shot), the Akihabara strip and the gates to the Senso temple in Asakusa.
=== Europe ===
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