Wenshui County
Wenshui County is a county in the west-central part of Shanxi Province, China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Lüliang. This county was the ancestral home of Wu Zetian, the only empress in Chinese history.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: City with 147,000 residents
- Description: county
- Also known as: “Wen-shui Hsien” and “Wenshui”
Wenshui County
- Categories: county of China and locality
- Location: Luliang, Shanxi, North China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.4322° or 37° 25′ 56″ northLongitude
112.0305° or 112° 1′ 50″ eastPopulation
147,000Elevation
837 metres (2,746 feet)Open location code
8P9JC2JJ+V6OpenStreetMap ID
node 244081907OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1791419Wikidata ID
Q1197430
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Yue Chinese—“Wenshui County” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Wenshui Xian”
- Chinese: “Bûn-súi-koān”
- Chinese: “文水”
- Chinese: “文水县”
- Chinese: “文水縣”
- Dutch: “Wenshui”
- French: “Comte de Wenshui”
- French: “Comté de Wenshui”
- French: “Wenshui”
- French: “xian de Wenshui”
- French: “Xian de Wenshui”
- Gan Chinese: “文水县”
- German: “Wenshui”
- Italian: “Contea di Wenshui”
- Japanese: “文水県”
- Korean: “원수이현”
- Literary Chinese: “文水”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bûn-súi-koān”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wenshui”
- Norwegian: “Wenshui”
- Persian: “شهرستان ونشوی”
- Russian: “Вэньшуй”
- Swedish: “Wenshui”
- Urdu: “وینشوی کاؤنٹی”
- Vietnamese: “Văn Thủy”
- Wu Chinese: “文水县”
- Yue Chinese: “文水”
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