Shishou
Shishou is a county-level city under the administration of the prefectural-level city Jingzhou, in the south of Hubei province, near its border with Hunan province, and is located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River.- Type: City with 154,000 residents
- Description: county-level city in Jingzhou, Hubei province, China
- Also known as: “Shih-shou”, “Shih-shou-hsien”, “Shih-show-hsien”, “Xiulin”, “石首県”, and “石首縣”
- Historically known as: “Shi-shau” and “Shishow”
Shishou
- Categories: county-level city of China and locality
- Location: Jingzhou, Hubei, South-central China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
29.7208° or 29° 43′ 15″ north
Longitude
112.4067° or 112° 24′ 24″ east
Population
154,000
Elevation
36 metres (118 feet)
UN/LOCODE
CN XUL
Open location code
7PXJPCC4+8M
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Shishou” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شيشو”
- Bengali: “শিশৌ”
- Bulgarian: “Шишоу”
- Catalan: “Shishou”
- Cebuano: “Shishou Shi”
- Chinese: “Shíshǒu Shì”
- Chinese: “石首市”
- Danish: “Shishou”
- Dutch: “Shishou”
- Finnish: “Shishou”
- French: “Shishou”
- Gan Chinese: “石首市”
- German: “Shishou”
- Greek: “Σίσου”
- Gujarati: “શિશુ”
- Hindi: “शिशाउ”
- Indonesian: “Shishou”
- Italian: “Shishou”
- Japanese: “石首市”
- Kannada: “ಶಿಶೌ”
- Kikuyu: “Shishou”
- Korean: “스서우시”
- Kurdish: “Shishou”
- Latvian: “Šišou”
- Lithuanian: “Šišou”
- Malagasy: “Shishou”
- Malay: “Shishou”
- Marathi: “शिशुउ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chio̍h-siú-chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Shishou”
- Norwegian: “Shishou”
- Pampanga: “Shishou”
- Persian: “شیشوا”
- Polish: “Shishou”
- Portuguese: “Shishou”
- Russian: “Сиулин”
- Russian: “Шишоу”
- Sinhala: “ශිසොහු”
- Spanish: “Shishou”
- Swedish: “Shishou”
- Tamil: “ஷிஷோவு”
- Telugu: “శిశౌ”
- Thai: “ซือซัว”
- Turkish: “Shishou”
- Ukrainian: “Шишоу”
- Urdu: “شیشو”
- Vietnamese: “Thạch Thủ”
- Waray (Philippines): “Shishou”
- Welsh: “Shishou”
- Wu Chinese: “石首市”
- Yue Chinese: “石首”
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