Wikimapia Community Documents One Million Places

Wikimapia is a fantastic site that I have blogged about before. It overlays a Google Map of the world with a wiki that anyone can read or write to. Interest in the site has been steadily growing. I know this because I receive a lot of in-bound on Wikimapia Google searches.

Today via digg comes word that Wikimapia hit a big milestone. They have indexed more than one million places. Here's a list of the most annotated cities. What's particularly interesting is how popular Wikimapia is in India and Southeast Asia. Also notable is just how fast Wikimapia reached a million places. It did so in under three months!

Bombay, India - 55577
Calcutta, India - 52099
Manila, Philippines - 42665
Madras, India - 29690
Ponnani, India - 24384
Bangalore, India - 22206
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam - 20723
Hanoi, Vietnam - 20387
Mangaluru, India - 19022
Hyderabad, India - 18820
Ahmadabad, India - 16945
Delhi, India - 13254
Thiruvananthapuram, India - 12400
Moscow, Russia - 8792
Mormugao, India - 8724
Bhubaneswar, India - 8659
Dubai, United Arab Emirates - 8643
Dammam, Saudi Arabia - 8296
Visakhapatnam, India - 8163
Indore, India - 6980