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.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations: Yuzhong and Shapingba.
Destinations to Discover
Places to explore: Liangjiang New Area and Chongqing East.
Places of Interest
Highlights: Three Gorges Museum and Hong Ya Dong.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jiangbei and Jiefangbei.
Chongqing
- Type: Locality with 22,000,000 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”, “Yuzhou”, “主城”, “母城”, and “重庆城”
- Categories: physical location, locality, urban settlement, urban agglomeration, city, and megacity
- Location: Chongqing Municipality, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
29.5603° or 29° 33′ 37″ north
Longitude
106.5577° or 106° 33′ 28″ east
Population
22,000,000
Elevation
289 metres (948 feet)
IATA airport codes
CQL and CKG
UN/LOCODE
CN CQI
Open location code
7PX8HH65+43
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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: “西部”
- Chinese: “重庆”
- Chinese: “重庆主城区”
- Chinese: “重庆市”
- 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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