Siming

Siming District is an urban district of the city of , province, China. It includes the territory of the old town of Xiamen and the government offices of the modern sub-provincial city.
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  • Type: City with 930,000 residents
  • Description: district of Xiamen, Fujian Province, China
  • Also known as: “Siming District” and “Siming, Xiamen”

Places of Interest

Highlights include South Putuo Temple and Xiamen.

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South Putuo or Nanputuo is a famous Buddhist temple founded in the Tang dynasty in the Chinese city of . It is so named because it is south of the Buddhist holy site in Zhejiang Province.

Railway station
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railway station is a railway station located in , , , on the Yingxia Railway which is operated by Nanchang Railway Bureau, China Railway Corporation.

Garden
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founded in 1960, is located in the Siming District of , covering an area of 493 hectares. Over 9,000 species of plants are preserved in its living collections.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gulangyu and Haicang.

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is an island in , a few minutes by ferry from downtown. It has a population around 17,000 and an area of about 2 km². It was a foreign enclave from the 1840s until the 1930s, and is now a residential suburb, a major tourist area, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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is one of the six county-level districts of , People's Republic of China, and one of the four located on the mainland proper, as opposed to on .

Suburb
Subdistrict is a subdistrict of Siming District, , Province, People's Republic of China. It covers an area of 5.7 square kilometres and has a registered population of 63,362.

Siming

Latitude
24.4483° or 24° 26′ 54″ north
Longitude
118.0778° or 118° 4′ 40″ east
Population
930,000
Elevation
14 metres (46 feet)
Open location code
7PPWC3XH+84
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244085110
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
6607664
Wiki­data ID
Q1374907
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Yue Chinese—“Siming” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Siming barrutia”
  • Cebuano: “Siming Qu”
  • Chinese: “Sīmíng Qū”
  • Chinese: “Su-bêng-khu”
  • Chinese: “思明”
  • Chinese: “思明区”
  • Chinese: “思明區”
  • Czech: “Siming”
  • Dutch: “Siming”
  • French: “district de Siming”
  • French: “District de Siming”
  • French: “Siming”
  • Gan Chinese: “思明区”
  • German: “Siming”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Sṳ-mìn-khî”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Sṳ̂-mìn-khî”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Siming”
  • Italian: “Siming”
  • Japanese: “思明区”
  • Korean: “쓰밍 구”
  • Korean: “쓰밍구”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Sṳ̆-mìng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Su-bêng-khu”
  • Mirandese: “Siming”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Siming”
  • Norwegian: “Siming”
  • Ossetian: “Сымин”
  • Persian: “سیمینگ”
  • Russian: “Сымин”
  • Spanish: “Siming”
  • Swedish: “Siming”
  • Urdu: “سیمنگ، شیامین”
  • Vietnamese: “Tư Minh”
  • Welsh: “Ardal Siming”
  • Wu Chinese: “思明区”
  • Yue Chinese: “思明”

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