Weiyang
Weiyang District is one of 11 urban districts and the seat of the prefecture-level city of Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi Province, Northwest China. It is located at northwest Xi'an, functioning as the new administrative centre of the city.- Type: City with 807,000 residents
- Description: district of Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, China
- Also known as: “Wei-yang”, “Wei-yang Ch’u”, “Wei-yang-ch’u”, “Weiyang District”, “Weiyang Qu”, “Weiyang, Xi’an”, and “Weiyangqu”
Places of Interest
Highlights include The Great Mosque of Xi’an and Daming Palace National Heritage Park.
The Great Mosque of Xi’an
Mosque
The Great Mosque of Xi'an, also known as the Huajue Xiang Mosque due to its location on 30 Huajue Lane, and is sometimes called the Great Eastern Mosque, is a mosque located in the eastern segments of the Xi'an Muslim Quarter, Xi'an, in the Shaanxi province of China.
Daming Palace National Heritage Park
Park
The Daming Palace was the imperial palace complex of the Tang dynasty, located in its capital Chang'an. It served as the imperial residence of the Tang emperors for more than 220 years.
Bell Tower
Historic building
The Bell Tower of Xi'an, built in 1384 during the early Ming dynasty, is a symbol of the city of Xi'an and one of the grandest of its kind in China and lays on the axis of the Imperial Way.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zhangjiacun and Taiyilu.
Weiyang
- Categories: district of China and locality
- Location: Xi’an, Shaanxi, Northwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.2946° or 34° 17′ 41″ north
Longitude
108.9416° or 108° 56′ 30″ east
Population
807,000
Elevation
399 metres (1,309 feet)
Open location code
8P6C7WVR+VJ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Yue Chinese—“Weiyang” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Weiyang Barrutia”
- Cebuano: “Weiyang Qu”
- Chinese: “Bī-iong-khu”
- Chinese: “Wèiyāng Qū”
- Chinese: “未央”
- Chinese: “未央区”
- Chinese: “未央區”
- Dutch: “Weiyang District”
- French: “district de Weiyang”
- French: “District de Weiyang”
- French: “Weiyang”
- Gan Chinese: “未央区”
- German: “Weiyang”
- Indonesian: “Distrik Weiyang, Xian”
- Italian: “Weiyang”
- Japanese: “未央区”
- Korean: “웨이양구”
- Literary Chinese: “未央區”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bī-iong-khu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Weiyang”
- Norwegian: “Weiyang”
- Russian: “Вэйян”
- Spanish: “Weiyang”
- Swedish: “Weiyang, Xi’an”
- Swedish: “Weiyang”
- Vietnamese: “Vị Ương”
- Welsh: “Ardal Weiyang”
- Wu Chinese: “未央区”
- Yue Chinese: “未央區”
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