1992 Asian Basketball Club Championship

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1992 FIBA Asia Champions Cup
5th Asia Champions Cup
Tournament details
Host nationFlag of Thailand.svg  Thailand
Dates 26 April–1 May
Teams 7
Venues 1 (in 1 host city)
ChampionsFlag of South Korea.svg  South Korea (1st title)
<  1990
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The Asian Basketball Club Championship 1992 was the 5th staging of the Asian Basketball Club Championship, the basketball club tournament of Asian Basketball Confederation. The tournament was held in Bangkok, Thailand from April 26 to May 1, 1992.

The FIBA Asia Champions Cup, previously known as the Asian Basketball Confederation (ABC) Champions Cup until 2002, is the Asian club championship for professional basketball. It is organised by FIBA Asia, and takes place once a year.

Bangkok Special administrative area in Thailand

Bangkok is the capital and most populous city of Thailand. It is known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon or simply Krung Thep. The city occupies 1,568.7 square kilometres (605.7 sq mi) in the Chao Phraya River delta in central Thailand, and has a population of over eight million, or 12.6 percent of the country's population. Over fourteen million people lived within the surrounding Bangkok Metropolitan Region at the 2010 census, making Bangkok the nation's primate city, significantly dwarfing Thailand's other urban centres in terms of importance.

Thailand Constitutional monarchy in Southeast Asia

Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and formerly known as Siam, is a country at the center of the Southeast Asian Indochinese peninsula composed of 76 provinces. At 513,120 km2 (198,120 sq mi) and over 68 million people, Thailand is the world's 50th largest country by total area and the 21st-most-populous country. The capital and largest city is Bangkok, a special administrative area. Thailand is bordered to the north by Myanmar and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the west by the Andaman Sea and the southern extremity of Myanmar. Its maritime boundaries include Vietnam in the Gulf of Thailand to the southeast, and Indonesia and India on the Andaman Sea to the southwest. Although nominally a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy, the most recent coup in 2014 established a de facto military dictatorship.

Final standing

RankTeam
Flag of South Korea.svg Kia Motors
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Liaoning Hunters
Flag of Kuwait.svg Kazma
4 Flag of Thailand.svg Thai Ruamsin
5 Flag of Hong Kong 1959.svg Seasonal
6 Flag of Singapore.svg Asia Electric
7 Flag of Malaysia.svg Johor Tigers

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