These are all great suggestions; I’d be curious to hear more about your use case and experience from anyone looking for these regions in particular. What are you doing that Washington DC and Atlanta, in one case, or Sydney, in the other, are insufficient?
(I don’t mean to imply that you shouldn’t want servers in Charlotte or Melbourne, just that I think anyone looking for these regions probably has a great story about why fast VMs close to your users is important, and I’d like to hear it)
Definitely on the mind of several on the team here. Based on the particulars of the providers we’re using, it will probably be easier to open in Accra first and then when we have a sense of our demand in West Africa open up in Lagos later.
I’ve got a user in Perth, so I confidently spun up a machine in SYD. Much to my surprise, their traffic was routed to SJC. There has to be a location closer (in internet routing terms) to Perth.
South korea! 
Cape Town, South Africa 
I am curious to know if a region in China is possible. I have vaguely heard but not sure what are the nuances about the great Chinese firewall. Does the ‘hkg’ region serve as a good proxy for China?
Mainland China (= inside the Great Firewall) is very different from Hong Kong and probably hard for Fly to have a region there.
Fly customers who want to use that region must have a ICP license (free, issued by CN gov) and they can only get that if they have a local business entity in China.
This is just one thing that makes China special and Fly would need to put in a big effort to have a reliable region in China (compliance, connectivity, etc)
The Middle East is up-and-coming, with countries like Saudi Arabia and UAE being considered growth markets, in the world of gaming and OTT.
CDNs are investing in these regions.
I’d welcome a Fly region in one of those countries.
Yes, the regulatory environment would make anywhere in mainland China a difficult place to set up shop and so that’s not happening in the near future.
It will be interesting to watch the Chinese market in the coming years. Speaking strictly with my own personal analysis and not at all for Fly.io as a company, while political forces are trying to pull China and western businesses apart, economic forces are still overwhelmingly drawing them closer together. We’ll see what wins out in the next couple years.
We do already have edges in Dubai, but no workers. Perhaps it’s time to change that; I can investigate.
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