Baiyin

Baiyin is a prefecture-level city in northeastern province, People's Republic of China. Established in the 1950s as a base for mining non-ferrous metals, its mines are becoming exhausted in recent decades, requiring the city to reinvent its economy.
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  • Type: City with 434,000 residents
  • Description: prefecture-level city in Gansu, China
  • Also known as: “Aho Chia Chuan”, “Baiyin Shi”, “Hao-chia-ch’uan”, “Ho-chia-ch’uan”, “Pai-yin”, “Pai-yin-ch’ang”, “Pai-yin-shih”, “白银区”, and “郝家川”

Baiyin

Latitude
36.5459° or 36° 32′ 45″ north
Longitude
104.1686° or 104° 10′ 7″ east
Population
434,000
Elevation
1,723 metres (5,653 feet)
IATA airport code
BKV
United Nations Location Code
CN BSX
Open location code
8P86G5W9+9F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244076327
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1817240
Wiki­data ID
Q532981
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Baiyin” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بايين”
  • Armenian: “Բային”
  • Asturian: “Baiyin”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bayin”
  • Basque: “Baiyin”
  • Belarusian: “Баінь”
  • Bengali: “পাই-ইন”
  • Catalan: “Baiyin”
  • Cebuano: “Baiyin”
  • Chinese: “Báiyín Shì”
  • Chinese: “Pe̍h-gîn-chhī”
  • Chinese: “白銀”
  • Chinese: “白銀市”
  • Chinese: “白银”
  • Chinese: “白银市”
  • Czech: “Paj-jin”
  • Danish: “Baiyin”
  • Dutch: “Baiyin”
  • Esperanto: “Baiyin”
  • Esperanto: “Bajin”
  • Estonian: “Baiyin”
  • Finnish: “Baiyin”
  • French: “Baiyin”
  • Galician: “Baiyin”
  • Gan Chinese: “白银市”
  • German: “Baiyin”
  • Greek: “Μπαιγίν”
  • Gujarati: “બેયિન”
  • Hebrew: “באי-יין”
  • Hindi: “बैयिन”
  • Hungarian: “Pajjin”
  • Indonesian: “Baiyin”
  • Irish: “Baiyin”
  • Italian: “Baiyin”
  • Japanese: “白銀”
  • Japanese: “白銀市”
  • Kannada: “ಬೈಯಿನ್”
  • Kikuyu: “Baiyin”
  • Korean: “바이인 시”
  • Korean: “바이인시”
  • Kurdish: “Baiyin”
  • Latvian: “Baijina”
  • Lithuanian: “Baijinas”
  • Malagasy: “Baiyin”
  • Malay: “Baiyin”
  • Marathi: “बाईयिन”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Băh-ngṳ̀ng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pe̍h-gîn-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Baiyin”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Baiyin”
  • Norwegian: “Baiyin”
  • Pampanga: “Baiyin”
  • Persian: “بایین”
  • Polish: “Baiyin”
  • Portuguese: “Baiyin”
  • Russian: “Байинь”
  • Scots: “Baiyin”
  • Serbian: “Бајјин”
  • Sinhala: “බායින්”
  • Spanish: “Baiyin”
  • Swedish: “Baiyin”
  • Tagalog: “Baiyin”
  • Tamil: “பையின்”
  • Telugu: “బైయిన్”
  • Thai: “ไป่หยิน”
  • Turkish: “Baiyin”
  • Ukrainian: “Байїнь”
  • Urdu: “بائیین”
  • Venetian: “Baiyin”
  • Vietnamese: “Bạch Ngân”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Baiyin”
  • Welsh: “Baiyin”
  • Western Panjabi: “بائی ین”
  • Wu Chinese: “白银市”
  • Yue Chinese: “白銀市”

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