Meixian
Meixian District is a district of Meizhou Prefecture, Guangdong, China, bordering Fujian Province to the east. The district is an important Hakka settlement and is the ancestral home of many Hakka descendants living in Taiwan and other countries worldwide.
- Type: City with 557,000 residents
- Description: District of Meizhou, Guangdong, China
- Also known as: “Chengxiang”, “Comte de Mei”, “Comté de mei”, “District de Mei”, “meišianski dialekt”, “Meixian District”, “Meixian, Meizhou”, “Moi-yen”, “Mɔi11 - jɛn53”, “嘉应县”, and “程乡县”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Meixian Airport and Meizhouxi.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sanjiao and Xijiao Subdistrict.
Sanjiao
Town
Sanjiao is a town in the Meijiang District of Meizhou City, Guangdong Province, southern China.
Meixian
- Categories: district of China and locality
- Location: Meizhou, Northern Guangdong, Guangdong, South China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
24.26945° or 24° 16′ 10″ north
Longitude
116.07611° or 116° 4′ 34″ east
Population
557,000
Elevation
85 metres (279 feet)
Open location code
7PPR739G+QC
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Yue Chinese—“Meixian” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Meixian barrutia”
- Catalan: “Meixian”
- Chinese: “Méixiàn Qū”
- Chinese: “梅县”
- Chinese: “梅县区”
- Chinese: “梅縣區”
- Chinese: “程乡”
- Dutch: “Meixian”
- French: “Meixian”
- French: “Xian de Mei”
- Gan Chinese: “梅县”
- German: “Mei”
- German: “Meixian”
- Hakka Chinese: “Mòi-yen”
- Indonesian: “Meixian”
- Italian: “Distretto di Meixian”
- Italian: “Meixian”
- Japanese: “梅県区”
- Korean: “메이셴구”
- Malay: “Meixian”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Mûi-koān-khu”
- Mirandese: “Meixian”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mei”
- Norwegian: “Mei”
- Norwegian: “Meixian”
- Persian: “میشیان”
- Russian: “Мэйсянь”
- Slovenian: “meišiansko narečje”
- Spanish: “Meixian”
- Swedish: “Meixian”
- Urdu: “میزیان، میژو”
- Vietnamese: “Mai Huyện”
- Vietnamese: “Mai”
- Wu Chinese: “梅县”
- Yue Chinese: “梅縣”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: 大新城社区 and 所里村.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Meixian District Government and 梅县区法院.
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