Hequ County
Hequ is a county in the northwest of Shanxi province, China, bordering Shaanxi province to the west and Inner Mongolia to the northwest. It is under the administration of Xinzhou city.Photo: 黄河山曲, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 68,400 residents
- Description: county
- Also known as: “Chiu-ho-ch’u”, “Hequ”, “Ho-ch’u”, “Ho-ch’ü Hsien”, “Ho-ch’u-ch’eng”, “Ho-ch’u-hsien”, “Hoku”, “Hokuhsien”, and “文笔”
Hequ County
- Categories: county of China and locality
- Location: Xinzhou, Shanxi, North China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.3793° or 39° 22′ 45″ northLongitude
111.1461° or 111° 8′ 46″ eastPopulation
68,400Elevation
1,331 metres (4,367 feet)Open location code
8PFH94HW+PCOpenStreetMap ID
node 1696380140OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1808321Wikidata ID
Q1197337
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Hequ County” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مقاطعة هيكو”
- Bengali: “হেকু কাউন্টি”
- Cebuano: “Hequ Xian”
- Chinese: “Héqū Xiàn”
- Chinese: “Hô-khiok-koān”
- Chinese: “河曲”
- Chinese: “河曲县”
- Chinese: “河曲縣”
- Danish: “Hequ County”
- Dutch: “Hequ”
- Finnish: “Hequn kunta”
- French: “Comte de Hequ”
- French: “Comté de Hequ”
- French: “Hequ”
- French: “xian de Hequ”
- French: “Xian de Hequ”
- Gan Chinese: “河曲县”
- German: “Hequ”
- Greek: “Χεκού”
- Gujarati: “હેક કાઉન્ટી”
- Hindi: “हेकु काउंटी”
- Indonesian: “Hequ County”
- Italian: “Contea di Hequ”
- Japanese: “河曲県”
- Japanese: “火山県”
- Kannada: “ಹೆಕ್ ಕೌಂಟಿ”
- Korean: “허취현”
- Latvian: “Heku apgabals”
- Lithuanian: “Heku sritis”
- Malay: “Hequ County”
- Marathi: “हेक काउंटी”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hô-khiok-koān”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hequ”
- Norwegian: “Hequ”
- Persian: “شهرستان هچو”
- Polish: “Powiat Hequ”
- Portuguese: “Hequ”
- Russian: “Хэцюй”
- Sinhala: “හෙකු පළාත”
- Spanish: “Hequ”
- Swedish: “Hequ”
- Tamil: “ஹெக்க்கு கவுண்டி”
- Telugu: “హెకు కౌంటీ”
- Thai: “ฮีคู คันทรี่”
- Turkish: “Hequ County”
- Ukrainian: “Хецюй”
- Urdu: “حیقو کاؤنٹی”
- Urdu: “ہیچو کاؤنٹی”
- Vietnamese: “Hà Khúc huyện”
- Vietnamese: “Hà Khúc”
- Vietnamese: “Văn Bút”
- Wu Chinese: “河曲县”
- Yue Chinese: “河曲”
- Yue Chinese: “河曲縣”
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