Jincheng
Jincheng Township is an urban township on the southwestern corner of the island of Kinmen. It is the county seat of Kinmen County, Fuchien Province. Jincheng was the seat of the ROC's Fukien Province from 1949–1956 and 1996–2018.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 42,700 residents
- Description: Urban township in Kinmen County, Fukien Province, Republic of China
- Also known as: “Chin-ch’eng”, “Chin-men”, “Chin-men-hsien”, “Chin-men-hsien-ch’eng”, “Chincheng”, “Hou-p’u”, “Jincheng Township”, “Jincheng, Kinmen”, “Kinmen”, “Quemoy”, and “Quemoyhsien”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kinmen Military Headquarters of the Qing Dynasty and Kinmen.
Kinmen Military Headquarters of the Qing Dynasty
Photo: Vmenkov, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Kinmen Military Headquarters of the Qing Dynasty is a museum in Jincheng Township, Kinmen County, Fujian Province, Republic of China.
Houpu Lingji Temple
Place of worship
Photo: S8321414, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Houpu Lingji Temple is a place of worship.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jinning and Zhushan Village.
Jinning
Town
Jinning Township is a rural township in Kinmen, Republic of China. It is in the Taiwan Strait, on the coast of mainland China. It has a population of 34,569 and an area of 29.8540 km2. Jinning is situated 2½ km northeast of Jincheng.
Zhushan Village
Hamlet
Photo: 潘同正, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Zhushan is a village in Zhusha urban village of Jincheng Township, Kinmen County, Fujian Province, Republic of China. It is also the home of the Xue clan in Kinmen. Zhushan Village is situated 3½ km south of Jincheng.
Lieyu
Town
Lieyu Township is a rural township in Kinmen County, Republic of China. It consists mainly of three islands located to the west of Greater Kinmen and immediately to the east of Xiamen of the People's Republic of China: Lesser Kinmen, Dadan, and Erdan. Lieyu is situated 8 km west of Jincheng.
Jincheng
- Categories: urban township of Taiwan and locality
- Location: Jincheng Township, Kinmen, 福建省, Taiwan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
24.4328° or 24° 25′ 58″ northLongitude
118.32057° or 118° 19′ 14″ eastPopulation
42,700Elevation
21 metres (69 feet)IATA airport code
KNHOpen location code
7PPWC8MC+46OpenStreetMap ID
node 60655741OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Yue Chinese—“Jincheng” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Jincheng”
- Cebuano: “Jincheng”
- Chinese: “Jīnchéng Zhèn”
- Chinese: “Kim-siâⁿ-tìn”
- Chinese: “後浦”
- Chinese: “金城”
- Chinese: “金城鎮”
- Chinese: “金城镇”
- Czech: “Ťin-čcheng”
- Danish: “Jincheng”
- Dutch: “Jincheng”
- French: “Jincheng”
- German: “Jincheng”
- Greek: “Τζιντσένγκ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Kîm-sàng-tsṳ́n”
- Hebrew: “ג’ינצ’נג”
- Italian: “Jincheng”
- Japanese: “金城鎮”
- Korean: “진청진”
- Ladin: “Jincheng”
- Lithuanian: “Dzinčengas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kim-siâⁿ-tìn”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kim-siânn-tìn”
- Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Jincheng, Kinmen”
- Persian: “جینچنگ”
- Russian: “Цзиньмынь”
- Spanish: “Jincheng”
- Swedish: “Jincheng, Kinmen”
- Swedish: “Jincheng”
- Thai: “จินเฉิง”
- Vietnamese: “Kim Thành, Kim Môn”
- Vietnamese: “Kim Thành”
- Yue Chinese: “金城鎮”
- “金城鎮”
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