Asia Facts

Nokia never released a phone in the 4xxx series because the number 4 sounds like the word for "death" in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese. They avoided it as a leading digit for decades until finally releasing the Nokia 4.2 in 2019.

The raccoon dog is a wild animal in East Asia which looks like a raccoon but is actually a dog.

Singapore has one of the world's highest concentrations of millionaires, with approximately one in six households holding at least $1 million USD in net wealth.