Kuangqu
Kuangqu is a now defunct former district of Datong, Shanxi province, China. As of 2002, it had a population of 430,000 residing in an area of 62 km2. The district was made up of 28 subdistricts.Photo: lienyuan lee, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: Locality with 714,000 residents
- Description: former district in Shanxi Province, China
- Also known as: “Datong Kuangqu”, “Datong Mining District”, “Kuangqu, Datong”, and “大同矿区”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mass Grave of the Datong Coal Miners.
Mass Grave of the Datong Coal Miners
Heritage site
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Datong Mass Grave Memorial is a mass grave from the time of the Second Sino-Japanese War. It is located in a former coal mine in the city of Datong in the province of Shanxi.
Kuangqu
- Categories: district of China and former administrative territorial entity
- Location: Datong Shi, Shanxi, North China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Yue Chinese—“Kuangqu” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Kuang Qu (gatos sa Republikang Popular sa Tsina, lat 40,03, long 113,16)”
- Cebuano: “Kuang Qu”
- Chinese: “Khòng-khu”
- Chinese: “云冈区”
- Chinese: “矿区”
- Chinese: “礦區”
- Dutch: “Kuang”
- French: “district minier de Datong”
- French: “District minier de Datong”
- Gan Chinese: “云冈区”
- German: “Kuang”
- Japanese: “砿区 (大同市)”
- Japanese: “砿区”
- Japanese: “礦区 (大同市)”
- Japanese: “礦区”
- Japanese: “雲岡区”
- Korean: “광 구”
- Korean: “광구”
- Korean: “쾅구”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Khòng-khu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kuang”
- Norwegian: “Kuang”
- Russian: “Юньган”
- Swedish: “Kuangqu, Datong”
- Swedish: “Kuangqu”
- Vietnamese: “Khoáng”
- Vietnamese: “Quáng, Đại Đồng”
- Vietnamese: “Quáng”
- Vietnamese: “Vân Cương”
- Welsh: “Ardal Yungang”
- Wu Chinese: “云冈区”
- Yue Chinese: “礦區”
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