National Geographic (Asian TV channel)

National Geographic

Broadcast area	Southeast Asia Hong Kong Taiwan Japan South Korea
Headquarters	Hong Kong
Programming
Language(s)	English Chinese (Mandarin/Cantonese; dubbing/subtitles) Japanese (dubbing/subtitles) Korean (dubbing/subtitles) Indonesian (dubbing/subtitles) Malay (dubbing/subtitles) Filipino (dubbing/subtitles) Thai (dubbing/subtitles) Vietnamese (subtitles)
Picture format	1080i HDTV
Ownership
Owner	NGC Network Asia, LLC (The Walt Disney Company)
Sister channels	Nat Geo Wild
History
Launched	January 1, 1994; 30 years ago (January 1, 1994)
Closed	January 1, 2022; 2 years ago (2022-01-01) (SD feed, Vietnam) September 30, 2023; 11 months ago (2023-09-30) (Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, South Korea and CHT MOD in Taiwan feed) December 31, 2023; 8 months ago (2023-12-31) (Cable feed, Taiwan)
Replaced by	Techstorm (Unifi TV) Global Trekker (Astro) BBC Lifestyle (Cignal) BBC Earth (Taiwan)
Former names	NBC Asia (1994–1998) National Geographic Channel (1998–2016)
Links
Website	natgeotv.com/asia

National Geographic (Nat Geo Asia, formerly NBC Asia and National Geographic Channel and also commercially abbreviated and trademarked as Nat Geo or Nat Geo TV) is a pan-Asian subscription television channel owned by Disney Networks Group Asia Pacific (through NGC Network Asia, LLC). The channel featured non-fiction, factual programming involving nature, science, culture and history, produced by the National Geographic Society, just like History and Discovery Channel.

It was launched on January 1, 1994, as NBC Asia. As of 2008, the Asian version of the original US version was available in over 56 million homes. NGC Asia has had six different channels of feeds. The channel closed in 2023–2024 as National Geographic libraries moved to the streaming platform Disney+.