Tongchuan

Tongchuan is a city in the central part of Province, at the junction of the Guanzhong Plain and the Northern Shaanxi Plateau. It lies to the north of Xi'an and is a key stop on the way to the birthplace of Chinese civilization, the Mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor, and the revolutionary holy land of Yan'an.
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  • Type: City with 834,000 residents
  • Description: prefecture-level city in Shaanxi, China
  • Also known as: “Shih-li-p’u”, “Shilipu”, “T’ung-ch’uan”, “T’ung-ch’uan-shih”, and “Tongchuanshi”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Yaozhou.

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

Tongchuan

Latitude
34.8973° or 34° 53′ 50″ north
Longitude
108.9404° or 108° 56′ 25″ east
Population
834,000
Elevation
834 metres (2,736 feet)
Open location code
8P6CVWWR+W5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244082054
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1795196
Wiki­data ID
Q514608
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zhuang—“Tongchuan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تونغتشوان”
  • Asturian: “Tongchuan”
  • Basque: “Tongchuan”
  • Bengali: “তংচুয়ান”
  • Catalan: “Tongchuan”
  • Cebuano: “Tongchuan Shi”
  • Chinese: “Tâng-chhoan-chhī”
  • Chinese: “Tóngchuān Shì”
  • Chinese: “銅川”
  • Chinese: “銅川市”
  • Chinese: “铜川”
  • Chinese: “铜川市”
  • Czech: “Tchung-čchuan”
  • Danish: “Tongchuan”
  • Dutch: “Tongchuan”
  • Esperanto: “Tongchuan”
  • Esperanto: “Tunĉuan”
  • Finnish: “Tongchuan”
  • French: “Tongchuan”
  • Gan Chinese: “铜川市”
  • German: “Tongchuan”
  • Greek: “Τόνγκτσουαν”
  • Gujarati: “ટોન્ગચુઆન”
  • Hebrew: “טונגצ’וואן”
  • Hindi: “टोन्गचुआन”
  • Hungarian: “Tungcsuan”
  • Indonesian: “Tongchuan, Shaanxi”
  • Indonesian: “Tongchuan”
  • Irish: “Tongchuan”
  • Italian: “Tongchuan”
  • Japanese: “銅川市”
  • Kannada: “ಟಾಂಗ್ಚುವಾನ್”
  • Kikuyu: “Tongchuan”
  • Korean: “퉁촨 시”
  • Korean: “퉁촨시”
  • Kurdish: “Tongchuan”
  • Latvian: “Tongčuana”
  • Lithuanian: “Tongchuanas”
  • Malagasy: “Tongchuan”
  • Malay: “Tongchuan”
  • Marathi: “टोंगचुआन”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Dè̤ng-chiŏng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tâng-chhoan-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tongchuan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tongchuan”
  • Norwegian: “Tongchuan”
  • Persian: “تونگچوان”
  • Polish: “Tongchuan”
  • Portuguese: “Tongchuan”
  • Russian: “Тунчуань”
  • Serbian: “Тунгчуан”
  • Sinhala: “ටොන්ග්චුආන්”
  • Slovenian: “Tongčuan”
  • Spanish: “Tongchuan”
  • Swedish: “Tongchuan”
  • Tamil: “டாங்சுவான்”
  • Telugu: “టోంగ్ చుయాన్”
  • Thai: “ถงหัว”
  • Turkish: “Tongchuan”
  • Ukrainian: “Тунчуань”
  • Urdu: “تونگچوان”
  • Venetian: “Tongchuan”
  • Vietnamese: “Đồng Xuyên”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tongchuan, Shaanxi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tongchuan”
  • Welsh: “Tongchuan”
  • Wu Chinese: “铜川市”
  • Yue Chinese: “銅川”
  • Zhuang: “Dungzconh”

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