Yanta
Yanta District is one of 11 urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi Province, Northwest China. The district borders the districts of Weiyang to the north, Lianhu, Beilin and Xincheng to the northeast, and Chang'an to the south.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 2,050,000 residents
- Description: district in Shaanxi Province, China
- Also known as: “Yanta District”, “Yanta Qu”, and “Yanta, Xi’an”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Big Wild Goose Pagoda and Small Wild Goose Pagoda.
Big Wild Goose Pagoda
Photo: Citycat, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Giant Wild Goose Pagoda or Big Wild Goose Pagoda is a monumental Buddhist pagoda located in southern Xi'an, Shaanxi, China. It was built c. AD 652 during the Tang dynasty, when Xi'an was the imperial capital.
Small Wild Goose Pagoda
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Small or Little Wild Goose Pagoda is one of two significant Buddhist pagodas in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China, the site of the old Han and Tang capital Chang'an.
Shaanxi History Museum
Park
Photo: Liuxingy, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Shaanxi History Museum, which is located to the northwest of the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda in the ancient city Xi'an, in the Shaanxi province of China, is one of the first huge state museums with modern facilities in China and one of the largest.
Yanta
- Categories: district of China and locality
- Location: Xi’an, Shaanxi, Northwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.2241° or 34° 13′ 27″ northLongitude
108.9441° or 108° 56′ 39″ eastPopulation
2,050,000Elevation
430 metres (1,411 feet)Open location code
8P6C6WFV+JJOpenStreetMap ID
node 6416739999OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2001381Wikidata ID
Q1358596
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Yue Chinese—“Yanta” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Yanta Barrutia”
- Belarusian: “Яньта”
- Chinese: “Gān-thah-khu”
- Chinese: “雁塔”
- Chinese: “雁塔区”
- Chinese: “雁塔區”
- Czech: “Jen-tcha”
- Dutch: “Yanta District”
- Estonian: “Yanta linnarajoon”
- French: “district de Yanta”
- French: “District de Yanta”
- French: “Yanta”
- Gan Chinese: “雁塔区”
- German: “Yanta”
- Italian: “Yanta”
- Japanese: “雁塔区”
- Korean: “옌타구”
- Literary Chinese: “雁塔區”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gān-thah-khu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yanta”
- Norwegian: “Yanta”
- Russian: “Яньта”
- Sinhala: “යැන්ටා දිස්ත්රික්කය”
- Spanish: “Yanta District”
- Spanish: “Yanta”
- Swedish: “Yanta”
- Ukrainian: “Округ Яньта”
- Vietnamese: “Nhạn Tháp”
- Welsh: “Ardal Yanta”
- Wu Chinese: “雁塔区”
- Yue Chinese: “雁塔區”
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