South China
Guangdong
Chaoshan

Chaozhou

Chaozhou is a city in Province in , and the main cultural center of the region.
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  • Type: City with 2,570,000 residents
  • Description: prefecture-level city in Guangdong, China
  • Also known as: “Ch’ao-an-hsien”, “Ch’ao-chou”, “Ch’ao-chou-chen”, “Ch’ao-chou-shih”, “Chao’an”, “Chaochow”, “Chaochowfu”, “Chaozhou City”, “Chau chu fu”, “Chauchow”, “Chiuchow”, “Diê-ziu”, “Teochew”, “Tiô-chiu”, “Tiô-tsiu”, and “海阳县”

Places of Interest

Highlights include West Lake and Kaiyuan Temple.

Lake
is an in Chao'an District of Chaozhou City, Province, .

Buddhist temple
Photo: Polar1, CC BY 3.0.
is a located in Xiangqiao District of Chaozhou, , . After ascending the throne in 713, Emperor Xuanzong issued the decree building "Kaiyuan Temples" which was named after his reign title "Kaiyuan" in each prefecture of the Tang Empire.

Photo: Haier7917, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fengtang Town.

Town
Fengtang is a town in south China, under the jurisdiction of Chao'an District, Chaozhou City, Guangdong Province. It has an area of 38.58 square kilometers and a population of 91,234 persons.

Chaozhou

Latitude
23.6566° or 23° 39′ 24″ north
Longitude
116.6204° or 116° 37′ 14″ east
Population
2,570,000
Elevation
23 metres (75 feet)
IATA airport code
SWA
United Nations Location Code
CN CON
Open location code
7PMRMJ4C+J5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244077344
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1815395
Wiki­data ID
Q59227
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zhuang—“Chaozhou” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Chaotsjou”
  • Afrikaans: “Chaozhou”
  • Arabic: “شاوزو”
  • Armenian: “Չաոչժոու”
  • Asturian: “Chaozhou”
  • Basque: “Chaozhou”
  • Belarusian: “Чаачжоу”
  • Bengali: “চাওঝৌ”
  • Bulgarian: “Чаоджоу”
  • Catalan: “Chaozhou”
  • Cebuano: “Chaozhou (kapital sa prepektura sa Republikang Popular sa Tsina)”
  • Cebuano: “Chaozhou”
  • Chinese: “Cháozhōu Shì”
  • Chinese: “Tiô-chiu-chhī”
  • Chinese: “潮州”
  • Chinese: “潮州市”
  • Czech: “Čchao-čou”
  • Danish: “Chaozhou”
  • Dutch: “Chaozhou”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉaoĝou”
  • Finnish: “Chaozhou”
  • French: “Chaozhou”
  • Gan Chinese: “潮州市”
  • Georgian: “ჩაოჭოუ”
  • German: “Chaozhou”
  • Greek: “Τσαοτζόου”
  • Gujarati: “ચાઓઝૂ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “cau2 zu1”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Chhèu-chiu-sṳ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Chhèu-chû-sṳ”
  • Hebrew: “צ’אוג’ואו”
  • Hindi: “चायोज़होउ”
  • Hungarian: “Csaocsou”
  • Indonesian: “Chaozhou”
  • Irish: “Chaozhou”
  • Italian: “Chaozhou”
  • Japanese: “潮州”
  • Japanese: “潮州市”
  • Kannada: “ಚಾವೊಝೌ”
  • Kikuyu: “Chaozhou”
  • Korean: “차오저우 시”
  • Korean: “차오저우시”
  • Kurdish: “Chaozhou”
  • Latin: “Chaozhou”
  • Latvian: “Čaodžou”
  • Latvian: “Čaudžou”
  • Literary Chinese: “潮州市”
  • Lithuanian: “Čaodžou”
  • Malagasy: “Chaozhou”
  • Malay: “Chaozhou”
  • Marathi: “चाओझू”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Dièu-ciŭ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Diê-ziu”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “diê5 ziu1”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “dio5 ziu1”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tiô-chiu-chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tiô-tsiu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chaozhou”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chaozhou”
  • Norwegian: “Chaozhou”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Chaozhou”
  • Pampanga: “Chaozhou”
  • Persian: “چاوژو”
  • Polish: “Chaozhou”
  • Portuguese: “Chaozhou”
  • Russian: “Чаочжоу”
  • Scots: “Chaozhou”
  • Serbian: “Чаоџоу”
  • Sinhala: “චාවෝසෝ”
  • Spanish: “Chaozhou”
  • Swahili: “Chaozhou”
  • Swedish: “Chaozhou”
  • Tagalog: “Chaozhou”
  • Tamil: “சாவோஷோவு”
  • Telugu: “చావోజ్హౌ”
  • Thai: “แต้จิ๋ว”
  • Turkish: “Chaozhou”
  • Ukrainian: “Чаочжоу”
  • Urdu: “چاوژوو”
  • Venetian: “Chaozhou”
  • Vietnamese: “Triều Châu”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Chaozhou”
  • Welsh: “Chaozhou”
  • Western Panjabi: “چاؤژوؤ”
  • Wu Chinese: “6zau-tseu”
  • Wu Chinese: “潮州市”
  • Yue Chinese: “ciau3 ziu1”
  • Yue Chinese: “ciu4 zau1”
  • Yue Chinese: “潮州”
  • Zhuang: “Cauzcouh”

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