NW China
Ningxia
Zhongwei

Shapotou

Shapotou District is a district of , , China, noted for the Tengger Desert, and bordering to the north and province to the west.
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  • Type: City with 400,000 residents
  • Description: district of China
  • Also known as: “Chung-wei Hsien”, “Shapotou District”, “Shapotou Qu”, “Shapotou, Zhongwei”, and “Zhongwei Xian”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Zhongwei.

Railway station
Photo: N509FZ, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a railway station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Zhongwei.

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is a prefecture-level city of , People's Republic of China. It has an area of 16,986.1 km2 and a population of 1,174,600 in 2019. By the end of 2024, the city's resident population will be 1,079,800, a decrease of 0.08 million from the end of the previous year, including 570,300 urban residents.The city is known for its wolfberry and Gobi watermelon cultivation.

Shapotou

Latitude
37.5157° or 37° 30′ 56″ north
Longitude
105.1685° or 105° 10′ 6″ east
Population
400,000
Elevation
1,684 metres (5,525 feet)
Open location code
8P97G589+79
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3189737120
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1784284
Wiki­data ID
Q1201728
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Yue Chinese—“Shapotou” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Shapotou barrutia”
  • Cebuano: “Shapotou Qu”
  • Chinese: “Sa-pho-thâu-khu”
  • Chinese: “Shāpōtóu Qū”
  • Chinese: “沙坡头”
  • Chinese: “沙坡头区”
  • Chinese: “沙坡頭區”
  • Dutch: “Shapotou”
  • French: “district de Shapotou”
  • French: “District de Shapotou”
  • French: “Shapotou”
  • Gan Chinese: “沙坡头区”
  • German: “Shapotou”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Shapotou”
  • Japanese: “中衛県”
  • Japanese: “沙坡頭区”
  • Korean: “사포터우구”
  • Malayalam: “ഷാപോടൗ ജില്ല”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sa-pho-thâu-khu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Shapotou”
  • Norwegian: “Shapotou”
  • Russian: “Шапотоу”
  • Swedish: “Shapotou”
  • Vietnamese: “Sa Pha Đầu”
  • Welsh: “Ardal Shapotou”
  • Wu Chinese: “沙坡头区”
  • Yue Chinese: “沙坡頭區”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Shapotou”. Photo: Fred Feng, Public domain.