Mile City
Mile is a county-level city located in Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan province, China. It is named after the Maitreya Buddha, for which there was a temple located on a nearby mountain, making it the only city in China named after a Buddha.- Type: City with 168,000 residents
- Description: county-level city
- Also known as: “Mi-le Hsien”, “Mi-lo Hsien”, and “Mile”
Mile City
- Categories: county-level city of China and locality
- Location: Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
24.4139° or 24° 24′ 50″ north
Longitude
103.4127° or 103° 24′ 46″ east
Population
168,000
Elevation
1,421 metres (4,662 feet)
Open location code
7PP5CC77+H3
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
Discover Mile City from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Mile City” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مدينة ميلو”
- Arabic: “ميلو”
- Bengali: “মিলে”
- Cebuano: “Mile Xian”
- Chinese: “Mí-le̍k-chhī”
- Chinese: “Mílè Shì”
- Chinese: “弥勒”
- Chinese: “弥勒县”
- Chinese: “弥勒市”
- Chinese: “彌勒市”
- Danish: “Mile City”
- Dutch: “Mile”
- Finnish: “Mile City”
- French: “Comte de Mile”
- French: “Comté de Mile”
- French: “Mile”
- French: “Xian de Mile”
- Gan Chinese: “弥勒市”
- German: “Mile”
- Greek: “Μίλε”
- Gujarati: “માઇલ શહેર”
- Hakka Chinese: “Mì-le̍t-sṳ”
- Hindi: “माइल सिटी”
- Indonesian: “Mile City”
- Italian: “Mile”
- Japanese: “弥勒市”
- Kannada: “ಮೈಲ್ ನಗರ”
- Kikuyu: “Mile City”
- Korean: “미러시”
- Latvian: “Mile”
- Lithuanian: “Milė”
- Malay: “Mile City”
- Marathi: “माईल शहर”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Mí-le̍k-chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mile”
- Norwegian: “Mile”
- Polish: “Mile”
- Russian: “Милэ”
- Russian: “Миян”
- Sinhala: “මිලේ නගරය”
- Swedish: “Mile, Honghe”
- Swedish: “Mile”
- Tamil: “மைல் நகரம்”
- Telugu: “మైల్ నగరం”
- Thai: “เมืองไมลส์”
- Turkish: “Mile City”
- Turkish: “Mile”
- Ukrainian: “Міле”
- Urdu: “میلی شہر”
- Vietnamese: “Di Lặc, Hồng Hà”
- Vietnamese: “Di Lặc”
- Vietnamese: “Thành phố Di Lặc”
- Wu Chinese: “弥勒市”
- Yue Chinese: “彌勒市”
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