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East Sichuan

Chengdu

Chengdu is the provincial capital and largest city of Sichuan Province in southwest . The megacity is home to over 21 million people. Its main draw for most foreign tourists is perhaps the giant pandas, with the world's foremost giant panda research institute just outside the city.
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  • Type: City with 20,900,000 residents
  • Description: capital of Sichuan Province, China
  • Also known as: “Baghshūr”, “Ch’eng-tu”, “Ch’eng-tu-hsien”, “Ch’eng-tu-shih”, “Cheng-tu”, “Cheng-tu Shih”, “Chengdou”, “Chengdu Shi”, “Chengtu”, “Chingtu-fu”, “Hua-yang”, “Sin-din-fu”, “Sindafu”, “Tchengtou”, and “Tchingtou”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Wuhou Temple and West Pearl Tower.

Museum
Photo: 螺钉, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a museum.

Photo: Erwyn van der Meer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a 339-metre-high tower built of reinforced concrete located in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China. started construction in 1992 but construction was halted later in the year due to budgeting problems.

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The Mao Zedong Statue is a marble sculpture located in Tianfu Square, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. The monument stands 30 m tall and depicts Mao Zedong with an outstretched arm.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Yulin Subdistrict.

Suburb
is a subdistrict in Wuhou District, Chengdu, , . As of 2018, it has eight residential communities under its administration.

Chengdu

Latitude
30.6599° or 30° 39′ 36″ north
Longitude
104.0633° or 104° 3′ 48″ east
Population
20,900,000
Elevation
499 metres (1,637 feet)
IATA airport code
CTU
United Nations Location Code
CN CDU
Open location code
8P26M357+W8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244077729
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1815286
Wiki­data ID
Q30002
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zhuang—“Chengdu” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Chengdu”
  • Afrikaans: “Chengdu”
  • Albanian: “Çengdu”
  • Albanian: “Chengdu”
  • Arabic: “تشنغدو”
  • Armenian: “Չենդու”
  • Asturian: “Chengdu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Çendu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Çenqdu”
  • Balinese: “Chengdu”
  • Bambara: “Chengdu”
  • Bashkir: “Чэнду”
  • Basque: “Chengdu”
  • Belarusian: “Чэнду”
  • Bengali: “চেংডু”
  • Bengali: “চেংদু”
  • Bengali: “ছেংতু”
  • Betawi: “Cengtu”
  • Bosnian: “Chengdu”
  • Breton: “Chengdu”
  • Bulgarian: “Чънду”
  • Burmese: “ချင်းဒူမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Chengdu”
  • Catalan: “Chéngdū”
  • Catalan: “Txengdu”
  • Cebuano: “Chengdu (kapital sa lalawigan sa Republikang Popular sa Tsina)”
  • Cebuano: “Chengdu”
  • Chechen: “Чэнду”
  • Cheyenne: “Chengdu”
  • Chinese: “Chéngdū Shì”
  • Chinese: “Chéngdū”
  • Chinese: “Sêng-to͘-chhī”
  • Chinese: “天府”
  • Chinese: “成都”
  • Chinese: “成都市”
  • Chinese: “蓉城”
  • Chinese: “錦官城”
  • Chinese: “锦官城”
  • Croatian: “Čengdu”
  • Croatian: “Chengdu”
  • Czech: “Čcheng-tu”
  • Danish: “Chengdu”
  • Dutch: “Chengdu”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تشنجدو”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉengduo”
  • Estonian: “Chengdu Shi”
  • Finnish: “Chengdu”
  • French: “Chengdou”
  • French: “Chengdu”
  • French: “Chengtou”
  • French: “Chengtu”
  • French: “Tchen dou”
  • French: “Tchen-dou”
  • French: “Tchen-tou-fou”
  • French: “Tchen-tou”
  • French: “Tcheng-tou”
  • French: “Tchengtou”
  • French: “Tchingtou”
  • Galician: “Chengdu”
  • Gan Chinese: “成都”
  • Gan Chinese: “成都市”
  • Georgian: “ჩენდუ”
  • German: “Chengdu”
  • German: “Chengtu”
  • Greek: “Τσενγκντού”
  • Greek: “Τσενγκτού”
  • Gujarati: “ચેંગ્ડૂ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Sàng-tû-sṳ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Sṳ̀n-tû-sṳ”
  • Hausa: “Chengdu”
  • Hebrew: “צ’נגדו”
  • Hebrew: “צנגדו”
  • Hindi: “चॆंग्डु”
  • Hindi: “चेंगदू”
  • Hungarian: “Csengdu”
  • Hungarian: “Csengtu”
  • Icelandic: “Chengdu”
  • Indonesian: “Chengdu”
  • Interlingue: “Chengdu”
  • Irish: “Chengdu”
  • Italian: “Chengdu”
  • Japanese: “天府の国”
  • Japanese: “成都市”
  • Japanese: “芙蓉城”
  • Japanese: “蓉”
  • Japanese: “蓉城”
  • Japanese: “錦城”
  • Japanese: “錦官城”
  • Kalaallisut: “Chengdu”
  • Kannada: “ಚೆಂಗು‍ದು”
  • Kannada: “ಚೆಂಗ್ಡು”
  • Kazakh: “Чэнду”
  • Kikuyu: “Chengdu”
  • Korean: “청두 시”
  • Korean: “청두시”
  • Kurdish: “Chengdu”
  • Lao: “ເສີງຕູ”
  • Latin: “Chengdu”
  • Latvian: “Čendu”
  • Latvian: “Čengdu”
  • Literary Chinese: “成都市”
  • Lithuanian: “Čengdu”
  • Luxembourgish: “Chengdu”
  • Macedonian: “Ченгду”
  • Malagasy: “Chengdu”
  • Malay: “Chengdu”
  • Malayalam: “ചെങ്ഡു”
  • Maltese: “Chengdu”
  • Maori: “Chengdu”
  • Marathi: “चेंग्दू”
  • Marathi: “छंतू”
  • Mazanderani: “چانگدو”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Sìng-dŭ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sêng-to͘-chhī”
  • Mingrelian: “ჩენდუ”
  • Moksha: “Чэнду”
  • Mongolian: “Чөндү”
  • Mongolian: “Чэндү”
  • Nepali: “चङ्गदु”
  • Nepali: “चेङ्दु”
  • Nepali: “चेन्दु”
  • Northern Frisian: “Chengdu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chengdu”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chengdu”
  • Norwegian: “Chengdu”
  • Nyanja: “Chengdu”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Chengdu”
  • Ossetian: “Чэнду”
  • Panjabi: “ਚੇਂਗਦੂ”
  • Persian: “چنگدو”
  • Polish: “Chengdu”
  • Portuguese: “Chengdu”
  • Quechua: “Chengdu”
  • Romanian: “Chengdu”
  • Russia Buriat: “Чэнду”
  • Russian: “Чэнду”
  • Scots: “Chengdu”
  • Serbian: “Chéngdū”
  • Serbian: “Ченгду”
  • Serbian: “成都”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Chengdu”
  • Silesian: “Chengdu”
  • Sindhi: “چينگدو”
  • Sinhala: “චෙන්ග්ඩු”
  • Slovak: “Čcheng-tu”
  • Slovenian: “Čengdu”
  • Slovenian: “Čengtu”
  • Slovenian: “Chengdu”
  • Spanish: “Baghshūr”
  • Spanish: “Cheng-tú”
  • Spanish: “Chengdu”
  • Spanish: “Chengdú”
  • Spanish: “Chengtu”
  • Spanish: “Chengtú”
  • Spanish: “ciudad de los brocados”
  • Spanish: “ciudad de los hibiscus”
  • Spanish: “ciudad tortuga”
  • Spanish: “Sin-din-fu”
  • Spanish: “Sindafu”
  • Swahili: “Chengdu”
  • Swedish: “Chengdu”
  • Tagalog: “Chengdu”
  • Tajik: “Чэнду”
  • Tamil: “செங்டூ”
  • Tatar: “Чыңду”
  • Telugu: “చెంగ్డూ”
  • Thai: “เฉิงตู”
  • Tibetan: “ཁྲེང་ཏུ།”
  • Tswana: “Chengdu”
  • Turkish: “Çengdu”
  • Turkish: “Chengdu”
  • Turkmen: “Çendu”
  • Uighur: “چېڭدۇ شەھىر”
  • Ukrainian: “Ченду”
  • Urdu: “چینگدو”
  • Uzbek: “Chendu”
  • Uzbek: “Chengdu”
  • Veps: “Čendu”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành Đô”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Chengdu”
  • Welsh: “Chengdu”
  • Western Panjabi: “چینگدو”
  • Wu Chinese: “成都市”
  • Yakut: “Чэнду”
  • Yiddish: “טשענגדו”
  • Yue Chinese: “Tin fu”
  • Yue Chinese: “成都”
  • Yue Chinese: “成都市”
  • Zhuang: “Cwngzduh”

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