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Bangabandhu Convention Centre, Dhaka, Bangladesh

A convention center, in American English, is an exhibition hall, or other building, that is designed to hold a convention. In British English very large venues suitable for major trade shows are known as 'exhibition centres' while the term 'convention centre' is sometimes used for intermediate venues between exhibitions centres and 'conference centres', which are much smaller and contain lecture halls, meeting rooms, and conference rooms.

Convention centers are typically large buildings with enough open space to host public and private business and social events for their surrounding population areas that contain one or more conference halls. Convention centers typically offer enough floor area to accommodate several thousand attendees and rent space for meetings such as corporate conferences, industry trade shows, entertainments, and concert halls. Some large resort area hotels include a convention center.

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Exhibition Hall of the Makaryev Fair	Metro Toronto Convention Centre, late 2004	Inside Vietnam National Convention Center, Hanoi	Siglo XXI Convention Centre in Mérida, Mexico
The back entrance of the PBH convention center, the Netherlands	View of the west portion of the San Diego Convention Center from West Harbor Drive. The San Diego Convention Center is one of the largest in North America and is home to Comic-Con International	Hall #6 in Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, India	Pittsburgh's David L. Lawrence Convention Center, the first LEED-certified convention center in North America

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• Stadium
• List of convention and exhibition centers
• List of convention centers named after people