Qin County
Qin County or Qinxian is a county in the southeast-central part of Shanxi province, China. It is under the administration of Changzhi city. It comprises the towns of Dingchang, Guocun, Guxian, Xindian, Zhangyuan, and Cecun and the townships of Duanliu, Songcun, Cicun, Niusi, Nanli, Nanquan, and Yang'an.- Type: City with 60,000 residents
- Description: county
- Also known as: “Ch’in”, “Ch’in Hsien”, “Ch’in-hsien”, “Comte de Qin”, “Comté de qin”, “Huyện Thấm”, “Qin Xian”, “Qinxian”, “Qinxian County”, “Thấm huyện”, “Tsin’syan‘”, “Tsin’syan’”, “Tsinchow”, “しんけん”, “沁”, “沁县县”, and “銅鞮県”
Qin County
- Categories: county of China and locality
- Location: Changzhi, Shanxi, North China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
36.7559° or 36° 45′ 21″ north
Longitude
112.6924° or 112° 41′ 33″ east
Population
60,000
Elevation
973 metres (3,192 feet)
Open location code
8P8JQM4R+9W
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Yue Chinese—“Qin County” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Qin Xian”
- Chinese: “Qìn Xiàn”
- Chinese: “沁县”
- Chinese: “沁縣”
- Dutch: “Qin”
- French: “Qin Xian”
- French: “xian de Qin”
- French: “Xian de Qin”
- Gan Chinese: “沁县”
- German: “Qin”
- Italian: “Contea di Qin”
- Japanese: “沁県”
- Korean: “친현”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sìm-koān”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Qin”
- Norwegian: “Qin”
- Persian: “شهرستان چین”
- Russian: “Циньсянь”
- Spanish: “Qin (Changzhi)”
- Spanish: “Qin”
- Swedish: “Qin, Changzhi”
- Swedish: “Qin”
- Urdu: “چن کاؤنٹی”
- Vietnamese: “Thấm, Trường Trị”
- Vietnamese: “Thấm”
- Wu Chinese: “沁县”
- Yue Chinese: “沁縣”
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