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Chongqing Municipality

Chongqing

Chongqing is fast becoming the most economically important city in the interior West , with an urban population of around 8.8 million. In addition to the central urban area, also includes some 80,000 km² of the neighboring countryside and smaller towns, with approximately 30 million people altogether.
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  • Type: City with 10,300,000 residents
  • Description: administrative center of Chongqing municipality
  • Also known as: “Ch’ung-ch’ing”, “Ch’ung-ch’ing-shih”, “Chongqing Shi”, “Chungking”, “Chunking”, “Pa”, “Pa-hsien”, “Yü-chou”, and “Yuzhou”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Three Gorges Museum and Chongqing Railway Station.

Museum
Photo: Zhangzhugang, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a museum in the Yuzhong District of , about the Three Gorges and Chongqing. It is one of the largest museums in the country.

Railway station
Photo: Zhangzhugang, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a railway station of Chengyu Railway, Xiangyu Railway, Chuanqian Railway, Chengyu Passenger Railway, that located in People's Republic of China.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.
Hongya Cave, also known as Hongya Dong is an 11-story stilt-building complex in the main commercial district of Jiefangbei in the city of , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jiangbei and Guanyinqiao.

Suburb
Photo: Nyx Ning, CC BY-SA 3.0.
District is a former district of municipality. Its population is about 925,000 in 2020.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Town
is a town under the administration of Nan'an District, , . As of 2023, it administers Lianhua Village and the following ten residential communities.

Chongqing

Latitude
29.5657° or 29° 33′ 56″ north
Longitude
106.5479° or 106° 32′ 53″ east
Population
10,300,000
Elevation
289 metres (948 feet)
IATA airport code
CKG
United Nations Location Code
CN CQI
Open location code
7PX8HG8X+75
Open­Street­Map ID
node 734098547
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1814906
Wiki­data ID
Q15897817
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Chongqing” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تشونغتشينغ”
  • Armenian: “Չունցին”
  • Basque: “Chongqing”
  • Belarusian: “Чунцын”
  • Bulgarian: “Чунцин”
  • Burmese: “ချုံချင့်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Chongqing”
  • Catalan: “Txungking”
  • Cebuano: “Chongqing Shi”
  • Cebuano: “Chongqing”
  • Chinese: “Chóngqìng shì”
  • Chinese: “主城”
  • Chinese: “母城”
  • Chinese: “西部”
  • Chinese: “重庆”
  • Chinese: “重庆主城区”
  • Chinese: “重庆城”
  • Chinese: “重庆市”
  • Chinese: “重慶主城區”
  • Croatian: “Chongqing”
  • Czech: “Čchung-čching”
  • Danish: “Chongqing”
  • Dutch: “Chongqing”
  • Dutch: “Tsjoengking”
  • Eastern Mari: “Чунцин”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉongĉingo”
  • Estonian: “Chongqing”
  • Finnish: “Chongqing”
  • French: “Chongqing”
  • Galician: “Chongqing”
  • Gan Chinese: “重慶”
  • Georgian: “ჩუნცინი”
  • German: “Chongqing (Chongqing Shi)”
  • German: “Chongqing”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Tshùng-khin”
  • Hebrew: “צ’ונגצ’ינג”
  • Hindi: “चॊंग्किंग”
  • Hindi: “चोंग्किंग”
  • Hungarian: “Chongqing”
  • Hungarian: “Csungking”
  • Indonesian: “Chongqing”
  • Italian: “Chongqing”
  • Japanese: “重慶市”
  • Kannada: “ಚೊಂಗ್ಕಿಂಗ್”
  • Korean: “충칭 시”
  • Korean: “충칭시”
  • Latvian: “Čuncjina”
  • Lithuanian: “Čongčingas”
  • Malayalam: “ചോങ്ചിങ്”
  • Marathi: “चोंगछिंग”
  • Norwegian: “Chongqing”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Chongqing”
  • Panjabi: “ਚੌਂਗਕਿੰਗ”
  • Persian: “چونگ‌کینگ”
  • Polish: “Chongqing”
  • Portuguese: “Chongqing”
  • Romanian: “Chongqing”
  • Russian: “Чунцин”
  • Serbian: “Чунгкинг”
  • Slovenian: “Čongčing”
  • Spanish: “Chongqing”
  • Swedish: “Chongqing”
  • Tamil: “சோங்கிங்”
  • Tatar: “Чуңчиң”
  • Thai: “ฉงชิ่ง”
  • Tibetan: “ཁྲུང་ཆིན་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།”
  • Turkish: “Çongçing”
  • Uighur: “چۇڭچىڭ شەھىرى”
  • Ukrainian: “Чунцін”
  • Urdu: “چونگ کینگ”
  • Vietnamese: “Trùng Khánh”
  • Western Panjabi: “چونگچنگ”
  • Yue Chinese: “重慶主城區”

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