Chongqing
Chongqing is fast becoming the most economically important city in the interior West China, with an urban population of around 8.8 million. In addition to the central urban area, Chongqing Municipality also includes some 80,000 km² of the neighboring countryside and smaller towns, with approximately 30 million people altogether.Photo: Juukeihc, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Locality with 7,460,000 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 Hong Ya Dong.
Three Gorges Museum
Museum
Photo: Zhangzhugang, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Three Gorges Museum is a museum in the Yuzhong District of Chongqing, about the Three Gorges and Chongqing. It is one of the largest museums in the country.
Hong Ya Dong
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 Chongqing, China.
Chongqing Railway Station
Railway station
Photo: Zhangzhugang, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Chongqing railway station is a railway station of Chengyu Railway, Xiangyu Railway, Chuanqian Railway, Chengyu Passenger Railway, that located in People's Republic of China.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jiangbei and Jiefangbei.
Jiangbei
Suburb
Photo: Nyx Ning, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Jiangbei District was a former district of Chongqing municipality. Its population is about 925,000 in 2020.
Jiefangbei
Quarter
Photo: Baycrest, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Jiefangbei Central Business District, also known as Jiefangbei Business Walking Street, is the ultra-dense, urbanized downtown core and one of several central business districts of Chongqing, China.
Tushan
Town
Tushan is a town under the administration of Nan'an District, Chongqing, China. As of 2023, it administers Lianhua Village and the following ten residential communities.
Chongqing
- Categories: physical location, locality, urban settlement, urban agglomeration, city, and megacity
- Location: Chongqing Municipality, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Chongqing” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ቾንግቺንግ”
- Arabic: “تشونغتشينغ”
- Azerbaijani: “Çunkinq”
- Basque: “Chongqing”
- Bengali: “চংকিং”
- Bulgarian: “Чунцин”
- Catalan: “Chongqing”
- Cebuano: “Chongqing Shi”
- Cebuano: “Chongqing”
- 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: “Tsjoengking”
- Eastern Mari: “Чунцин”
- Esperanto: “Ĉongĉingo”
- Estonian: “Chongqing”
- Finnish: “Chongqing”
- French: “Chongqing”
- Galician: “Chongqing”
- Gan Chinese: “重慶”
- German: “Chongqing (Chongqing Shi)”
- German: “Chongqing”
- Hakka Chinese: “Tshùng-khin”
- Hausa: “Chongqing”
- Hebrew: “צ’ונגצ’ינג”
- Hindi: “चोंग्किंग”
- Hungarian: “Chongqing”
- Hungarian: “Csungking”
- Indonesian: “Chongqing”
- Italian: “Chongqing”
- Japanese: “重慶市”
- Javanese: “Chongqing”
- Kazakh: “Чунцин”
- Kirghiz: “Чунцин”
- Korean: “충칭 시”
- Latvian: “Čuncjina”
- Lithuanian: “Čongčingas”
- Malay: “Chongqing”
- Malayalam: “ചോങ്ചിങ്”
- Marathi: “चोंगछिंग”
- Norwegian: “Chongqing”
- Oromo: “Chongqing”
- Panjabi: “ਚੌਂਗਕਿੰਗ”
- Persian: “چونگکینگ”
- Polish: “Chongqing”
- Portuguese: “Chongqing”
- Pushto: “چونگ کنگ”
- Romanian: “Chongqing”
- Russian: “Чунцин”
- Serbian: “Чунгкинг”
- Slovenian: “Čongčing”
- Somali: “Chongqing”
- Spanish: “Chongqing”
- Swahili: “Chongqing”
- Swedish: “Chongqing”
- Tajik: “Чунцин”
- Tamil: “சோங்கிங்”
- Tatar: “Чунцин”
- Tatar: “Чуңчиң”
- Thai: “ฉงชิ่ง”
- Tibetan: “ཁྲུང་ཆིན་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།”
- Turkish: “Çongçing”
- Uighur: “چۇڭچىڭ شەھىرى”
- Ukrainian: “Чунцін”
- Urdu: “چونگ کینگ”
- Uzbek: “Chongking”
- Vietnamese: “Trùng Khánh”
- Western Panjabi: “چونگچنگ”
- Yue Chinese: “重慶主城區”
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