Changzhou
Changzhou is a city of 3.6 million people in Jiangsu. Most travellers will breeze through Changzhou on their way to Suzhou or Nanjing but those with a bit of time can spend a pleasant day exploring the city's somewhat agrestic charms.
- Type: City with 5,280,000 residents
- Description: prefecture-level city in Jiangsu, China
- Also known as: “Ch’ang-chou”, “Ch’ang-chou-shih”, “Chang-chow-fu”, “Changchow”, “Chángzhōu”, “Wu-chin”, “Wu-chin-hsien”, “Wujin”, “Wutsin”, “Чанчжоў”, “চাংজু”, “চাংঝু”, “চ্যাংজু”, “চ্যাংঝু”, “江苏常州”, “江蘇常州”, “龍城”, and “龙城”
- Neighbors: Nanjing, Taizhou, Wuxi, and Zhenjiang
Places of Interest
Highlights: China Dinosaur Park and Changzhou Culture Plaza.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hongmei and Hehuachi.
Changzhou
- Categories: prefecture-level city of China, big city, and locality
- Location: Jiangsu, East China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.8123° or 31° 48′ 44″ north
Longitude
119.9692° or 119° 58′ 9″ east
Population
5,280,000
Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)
IATA airport code
CZX
Open location code
8P3XRX69+WM
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Changzhou” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Changtsjou”
- Afrikaans: “Changzhou”
- Albanian: “Çangzhou”
- Albanian: “Changzhou”
- Arabic: “تشانغتشو”
- Armenian: “Չանգժոու”
- Asturian: “Changzhou”
- Balinese: “Changzhou”
- Bashkir: “Чанчжоу”
- Basque: “Changzhou”
- Belarusian: “Чанчжоу”
- Bengali: “ছাংচৌ”
- Bulgarian: “Чанджоу”
- Catalan: “Changzhou”
- Cebuano: “Changzhou”
- Central Kurdish: “چانگژۆ”
- Chinese: “Chángzhōu Shì”
- Chinese: “常州”
- Chinese: “常州市”
- Croatian: “Changzhou”
- Czech: “Čchang-čou”
- Danish: “Changzhou”
- Dutch: “Changzhou”
- Esperanto: “Ĉangĝoŭo”
- Estonian: “Changzhou”
- Finnish: “Changzhou”
- French: “Changzhou”
- Gan Chinese: “常州市”
- Georgian: “ჩანგჭოუ”
- German: “Changzhou”
- Greek: “Τσανγκτσόου”
- Gujarati: “ચાંગઝૌ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Sòng-chû-sṳ”
- Hebrew: “צ’אנגג’ואו”
- Hindi: “चंग्ज़्हौ”
- Hindi: “चांगझौ”
- Hungarian: “Csangcsou”
- Icelandic: “Changzhou”
- Indonesian: “Changzhou”
- Irish: “Changzhou”
- Italian: “Changzhou”
- Japanese: “常州市”
- Kannada: “ಚಾಂಗ್ಝೌ”
- Kikuyu: “Changzhou”
- Korean: “창저우 시”
- Korean: “창저우시”
- Kurdish: “Changzhou”
- Latvian: “Čandžou”
- Latvian: “Čangdžou”
- Literary Chinese: “常州市”
- Lithuanian: “Čangdžou”
- Macedonian: “Чангџоу”
- Malagasy: “Changzhou”
- Malay: “Changzhou”
- Maltese: “Changzhou”
- Marathi: “चँगझोउ”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Siòng-ciŭ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Siông-chiu-chhī”
- Mongolian: “Чанжоу хот”
- Mongolian: “Чанжоу”
- Nepali: “चाङझाउ”
- Nepali: “चाङ्होउ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Changzhou”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Changzhou”
- Norwegian: “Changzhou”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Changzhou”
- Pampanga: “Changzhou”
- Persian: “چانگژو”
- Polish: “Changzhou”
- Portuguese: “Changzhou”
- Russian: “Чанчжоу”
- Serbian: “Чангџоу”
- Silesian: “Changzhou”
- Sinhala: “චන්ග්සෝ”
- Slovenian: “Čangdžov”
- Slovenian: “Čangžu”
- Spanish: “Changzhou”
- Swedish: “Changzhou”
- Tagalog: “Changzhou”
- Tamil: “சாங்ஷோவு”
- Telugu: “చాంగ్జ్హౌ”
- Thai: “ฉางโจว”
- Turkish: “Changzhou”
- Uighur: “چاڭجو شەھىر”
- Ukrainian: “Чанчжоу”
- Urdu: “چانگژو”
- Venetian: “Changzhou”
- Vietnamese: “Thường Châu”
- Waray (Philippines): “Changzhou”
- Welsh: “Changzhou”
- Wu Chinese: “常州市”
- Yue Chinese: “常州”
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