Benxi
Benxi is a city in eastern Liaoning, China, known for its steel and mining heritage and the forested mountains surrounding the urban area. Travellers mainly come for the Benxi Water Caves, autumn maple scenery, mountain parks and hot springs.
- Type: City with 810,000 residents
- Description: prefecture-level city in Liaoning, China
- Also known as: “Bensixu”, “Pen Shi”, “Pen-ch’i”, “Pen-ch’i-hsien”, “Pen-ch’i-hu”, “Pen-ch’i-shih”, “Pen-hsi”, “Pen-hsi-shih”, “Penki”, “Penkihu”, “বেনক্সি”, “বেনজি”, “বেনশি”, and “বেনসি”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Benxi Shuidong National Park and Hedong.
Benxi Shuidong National Park
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Benxi
- Categories: prefecture-level city of China, big city, and locality
- Location: Eastern Hills, Liaoning, Northeast China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
41.2922° or 41° 17′ 32″ north
Longitude
123.7594° or 123° 45′ 34″ east
Population
810,000
Elevation
212 metres (696 feet)
IATA airport code
BYE
UN/LOCODE
CN BXS
Open location code
8QH57QR5+VQ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Benxi” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Benxi”
- Arabic: “بنشي”
- Armenian: “Բենսի”
- Asturian: “Benxi”
- Basque: “Benxi”
- Belarusian: “Бэньсі”
- Bengali: “পেনশি”
- Bulgarian: “Бънси”
- Catalan: “Benxi”
- Cebuano: “Benxi”
- Chinese: “Běnxī Shì”
- Chinese: “本溪”
- Chinese: “本溪市”
- Czech: “Pen-si”
- Danish: “Benxi”
- Dutch: “Benxi”
- Esperanto: “Bensi”
- Finnish: “Benxi”
- French: “Benxi”
- Gan Chinese: “本溪市”
- German: “Benxi”
- Greek: “Μπενσί”
- Gujarati: “બેન્ક્સી”
- Hebrew: “בנשי”
- Hindi: “बैंक्सी”
- Hungarian: “Penhszi”
- Indonesian: “Benxi”
- Irish: “Benxi”
- Italian: “Benxi”
- Japanese: “本渓”
- Japanese: “本渓市”
- Kannada: “ಬೆನ್ಕ್ಸಿ”
- Kazakh: “Бэньси”
- Kikuyu: “Benxi”
- Korean: “번시 시”
- Korean: “번시시”
- Kurdish: “Benxi”
- Latvian: “Bensi”
- Latvian: “Beņsji”
- Lithuanian: “Bensi”
- Malagasy: “Benxi”
- Malay: “Benxi”
- Marathi: “बेंक्सी”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Buōng-kă̤”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Pún-khe-chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Benxi”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Benxi”
- Norwegian: “Benxi”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Benxi”
- Persian: “بنشی”
- Persian: “بنشی”
- Polish: “Benxi”
- Portuguese: “Benxi”
- Russian: “Бэньси”
- Scots: “Benxi”
- Serbian: “Бенси”
- Sinhala: “බෙන්ක්සි”
- Spanish: “Benxi”
- Swedish: “Benxi”
- Tamil: “பெண்சி”
- Telugu: “బెన్ క్సీ”
- Thai: “เปินซี”
- Turkish: “Benxi”
- Ukrainian: “Беньсі”
- Urdu: “بینشی”
- Uzbek: “Bensi”
- Venetian: “Benxi”
- Vietnamese: “Bản Khê”
- Waray (Philippines): “Benxi”
- Welsh: “Benxi”
- Wu Chinese: “本溪市”
- Yakut: “Бэньси”
- Yue Chinese: “本溪”
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