Weizhou
Weizhou is a town and the county seat of Wenchuan County, northwestern Sichuan province, Southwestern China. The town has an area of 128 square kilometers and a population of 31,409.- Type: Town
- Description: town in Sichuan, China
- Also known as: “Mao-wen”, “Mao-wen-ch’iang-tsu-tzu-chih-hsien”, “Uy Châu, Vấn Xuyên huyện”, “Veychzhou”, “Wei-chiu”, “Wei-chou”, “Wei-chou-chen”, “Weichow”, “Weikiu”, “Weizhou Town”, “Weizhou, Wenchuan County”, “Wenchuan”, and “Wenchuan Xian”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wenchuan.
Weizhou
- Categories: town of China and locality
- Location: Aba, Sichuan, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
31.47947° or 31° 28′ 46″ north
Longitude
103.58121° or 103° 34′ 52″ east
Elevation
1,619 metres (5,312 feet)
Open location code
8P35FHHJ+QF
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Weizhou” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ويتشو، مقاطعة ونتشوان”
- Asturian: “Weizhou”
- Bengali: “ওয়েইচৌ”
- Cebuano: “Weizhou”
- Chinese: “威州”
- Chinese: “威州鎮”
- Chinese: “威州镇”
- Chinese: “汶川县”
- Danish: “Weizhou, Wenchuan County”
- Dutch: “Weizhou”
- Finnish: “Weizhou, Wenchuanin kunta”
- French: “Weizhou”
- Gan Chinese: “威州镇”
- German: “Weizhou”
- Greek: “Γουέιζου”
- Gujarati: “વેઇઝોઉ, વેનચુઆન કાઉન્ટી”
- Hindi: “वेइज़होउ, वेंचुआन काउंटी”
- Indonesian: “Weizhou, Wenchuan County”
- Italian: “Weizhou, Contea di Wenchuan”
- Japanese: “威州鎮”
- Kannada: “ವೈಝೌ, ವೆನ್ಚುವಾನ್ ಕೌಂಟಿ”
- Korean: “웨이주”
- Latvian: “Veižou, Venčuanas apgabals”
- Lithuanian: “Veižou, Venčuano sritis”
- Malay: “Weizhou, Wenchuan County”
- Marathi: “वेइझोउ, वेंचुआन काउंटी”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Weizhou”
- Norwegian: “Weizhou”
- Persian: “ویژو، شهرستان ونچوان”
- Persian: “ویژو”
- Polish: “Weizhou, Hrabstwo Wenchuan”
- Portuguese: “Weizhou”
- Russian: “Вэйчжоу”
- Sinhala: “වෙයිසෞ, වෙන්චුආන් පළාත”
- Spanish: “Weizhou”
- Swedish: “Weizhou”
- Tamil: “வெயிலவு, வெஞ்சுங் கவுண்டி”
- Telugu: “వేజ్హౌ, వెంచువాన్ కౌంటీ”
- Thai: “เว่ยโจว, เหวินชวน คันทรี่”
- Tibetan: “ཝེ་ཀྲོའུ་གྲོང་རྡལ།”
- Turkish: “Weizhu, Wenchuan County”
- Ukrainian: “Вейчжоу”
- Urdu: “وییزحوو ، وینچوان کاؤنٹی”
- Vietnamese: “Uy Châu, Vấn Xuyên”
- Vietnamese: “Uy Châu”
- Welsh: “Weizhou”
- Wu Chinese: “威州镇”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: 桥头村 and 茨里沟.
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