Embassy Row (disambiguation)
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Embassy Row is an informal name for an area of a capital city with a number of foreign embassies or other diplomatic institutions, such as
- most commonly, the Embassy Row section of Massachusetts Avenue in Washington, D.C., USA
- Wireless Road in Bangkok, Thailand
- Xiushui Jie in Beijing, People's Republic of China
- Wilhelmstraße and neighboring streets in Berlin, Germany
- Garden City in Cairo, Egypt
- Yarralumla in Canberra, Australia
- Ailesbury Road in Ballsbridge, Dublin, Ireland
- Jalan Ampang in downtown Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Walter Carrington Crescent in Lagos, Nigeria, until massive closures in June 2005 over concerns over vulnerability to terrorism
- Chanakyapuri in New Delhi, India
- Embassy Row in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, the eastern part of the Sandy Hill neighbourhood
- Faubourg Saint-Germain in the VIIe arrondissement of Paris, France
- Arcadia, Pretoria, South Africa
- Dag Hammerskjölds Gade and surrounding streets in Copenhagen, Denmark
- Avenue Franlin Roosevelt in Brussels, Belgium
- Kneza Miloša in Belgrade, Serbia
- Povarskaya Street and nearby Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street in Moscow, Russia
The term is frequently borrowed by marketers to evoke internationalism or cosmopolitanism.
It is also
- in fiction, a novel by Mycroft Holmes, elder brother of Sherlock Holmes
- a column in the Washington Times covering the diplomatic community of Washington, D.C.
- a song from the album Brighten the Corners by the band Pavement
- Michael Davies' production company.
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