Google Street View in Asia

In Asia, Google Street View is available in Bangladesh, Bhutan, British Indian Ocean Territory, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Israel, India, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Macau, Malaysia, Mongolia, the Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Vietnam.

This includes disputed territories in both Israel (Golan Heights and West Bank) and India (Arunachal Pradesh).

[3] On May 26, 2011, Google announced that, in India, capturing of Street View images in Bangalore, the capital of the state of Karnataka, had started.

[4] On September 2, 2011, Google has revealed that its Street View feature will be introduced to the country in association with the Tourism Authority of Thailand.

[15][16] In 2022, after a change in government policy, Google was permitted to launch in India; its Street View project in the country is a partnership with Genesys and Tech Mahindra.

[17] At launch in July 2022, Street View covered 150,000 kms of roads in India; it also formed partnerships with traffic authorities in Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chandigarh, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Gurgaon, and Agra.

Google Street View covers most regencies and cities in Sumatra (except most of Aceh), Java, Nusa Tenggara Islands, Borneo, Sulawesi, and North Maluku (includes Ternate, Tidore, and parts of Halmahera).

[18] The Banda Aceh City Government considered suing Google about why the inappropriate image can be easily passed and shown to public.

Hamad International Airport Ishim, Magadan, Vladivostok, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Gorno-Altaysk, Korsakov, Kyshtym, Kyzyl, Langepas, Nakhodka, Nazarovo, Partizansk, Severouralsk, Tobolsk, Ussuriysk, Zarinsk For European Russia, see Google Street View in Europe Full Coverage As in other places, there has been controversy surrounding plans to bring Street View to various Asian countries.

Security establishments became wary of allowing such image capturing given that planning for the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai is believed to have involved photographic reconnaissance of targets by Pakistani American David Coleman Headley.

[26] Police in South Korea raided Google offices in that country in order to determine if Street View was legal.

The city government discovered this and considered suing Google, as well as asking it why the inappropriate images could be so easily shown to the public.