Zigui County
Zigui County is a county of western Hubei province, People's Republic of China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Yichang and encompasses the easternmost portion of the Yangtze River Gorges, including the Xiling Gorge.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 133,000 residents
- Description: county
- Also known as: “Guizhou”, “Kuei-chou”, “Kweichow”, “Kweichow-fu”, “Tzekwei”, “Tzekwei-hsien”, “Tzu-kuei”, “Tzu-kuei-hsien”, and “Zigui”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Three Gorges Dam.
Three Gorges Dam
Dam
Photo: Le Grand Portage, CC BY 2.0.
The Three Gorges Dam, officially known as Yangtze River Three Gorges Water Conservancy Project is a hydroelectric gravity dam that spans the Yangtze River near Sandouping in Yiling District, Yichang, Hubei province, central China, downstream of the Three Gorges.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Maoping and Taipingxi.
Maoping
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Maoping is a town in and the county seat of Zigui County, Yichang in the western part of Hubei province, China. It is the county seat of Zigui County, and as such is labeled simply as "Zigui" or "Zigui County" on most less-detailed maps.
Taipingxi
Town
Taipingxi Town is a town in Yiling District of Yichang Prefecture-level city of China's Hubei Province. It is located on the left side of the Yangtze River, near the northern end of the Three Gorges Dam.
Sandouping
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sandouping is a town in Yiling District of Yichang prefecture-level city in the Chinese province of Hubei. It is located on the right bank of the Yangtze River, next to Yiling District's border with Zigui County to the west. Sandouping is situated 9 km east of Zigui County.
Zigui County
- Categories: county of China and locality
- Location: Yichang, Hubei, South-central China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
30.82759° or 30° 49′ 39″ northLongitude
110.97253° or 110° 58′ 21″ eastPopulation
133,000Elevation
366 metres (1,201 feet)Open location code
8P2GRXHF+22OpenStreetMap ID
node 3049832568OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1809446Wikidata ID
Q202759
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Yue Chinese—“Zigui County” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “Chí-kui-koān”
- Chinese: “Zǐguī Xiàn”
- Chinese: “秭归县”
- Chinese: “秭歸”
- Chinese: “秭歸縣”
- Danish: “Zigui”
- Dutch: “Zigui”
- French: “xian de Zigui”
- French: “Xian de Zigui”
- French: “Zigui”
- Galician: “Zigui”
- Gan Chinese: “秭归县”
- German: “Zigui”
- Indonesian: “County Zigui”
- Italian: “Contea di Zigui”
- Italian: “Zigui”
- Japanese: “シ帰県”
- Japanese: “秭帰県”
- Korean: “쯔구이현”
- Malagasy: “Zigui County”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chí-kui-koān”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Zigui”
- Norwegian: “Zigui”
- Persian: “شهرستان زیگوی”
- Polish: “Zigui”
- Russian: “Гуижоу”
- Russian: “Цзыгуй”
- Spanish: “Zigui”
- Swedish: “Zigui”
- Ukrainian: “Цзигуй”
- Ukrainian: “Цзиґуй”
- Vietnamese: “Tỷ Quy”
- Wu Chinese: “秭归县”
- Yue Chinese: “秭歸”
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