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Datong City

Datong is a prefecture-level city in northern Shanxi Province in the People's Republic of China. It is located in the Datong Basin at an elevation of 1,040 metres and borders to the north and west and to the east.
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  • Type: City with 3,320,000 residents
  • Description: prefecture-level city in Shanxi, China
  • Also known as: “Dagu”, “Datong”, “Datong (Shanxi Sheng, China)”, “Datong Shi”, “Datun”, “Ta-jen”, “Ta-jen-hsien”, “Ta-ku”, “Ta-t’ung”, “Ta-t’ung-hsien”, “Ta-t’ung-shih”, and “平城”
  • Neighbors: , , , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Shanhua Monastry and Nine Dragon Wall, Datong.

Buddhist temple
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Shanhua Temple is a Buddhist temple located in Datong, Shanxi Province, . The temple was first founded during the early 8th century of the Tang dynasty, but its earliest surviving building dates from the 11th century.

Photo: Zhangzhugang, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Buddhist temple
Photo: Zhangzhugang, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Huayan Temple or is a located in Datong, , China. Huayan Temple has been burned down and rebuilt several times. The Mahavira Hall and Buddhist Texts Library still preserve the architectural style of the Liao and Jin dynasties.

Datong City

Latitude
40.092° or 40° 5′ 31″ north
Longitude
113.2951° or 113° 17′ 42″ east
Population
3,320,000
Elevation
1,054 metres (3,458 feet)
IATA airport code
DAT
United Nations Location Code
CN DAT
Open location code
8PGM37RW+Q2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244077962
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2037799
Wiki­data ID
Q72877
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Datong City” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Datong”
  • Arabic: “داتونغ”
  • Armenian: “Դատուն”
  • Asturian: “Datong”
  • Basque: “Datong”
  • Belarusian: “Датун”
  • Bengali: “ডাটং”
  • Bengali: “তাটং”
  • Bengali: “তাথুং”
  • Bengali: “দাটং”
  • Breton: “Datong”
  • Bulgarian: “Датун”
  • Catalan: “Datong”
  • Cebuano: “Datong Shi”
  • Cebuano: “Datong”
  • Chinese: “Dàtóng shì”
  • Chinese: “Tāi-tông-chhī”
  • Chinese: “大同”
  • Chinese: “大同市”
  • Czech: “Ta-tchung”
  • Danish: “Datong”
  • Dutch: “Datong”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “داتونج”
  • Esperanto: “Datongo”
  • Finnish: “Datong”
  • French: “Datong”
  • Gan Chinese: “大同市”
  • Georgian: “ტათუნგი”
  • German: “Datong”
  • Greek: “Ντάτονγκ”
  • Gujarati: “ડાટોંગ”
  • Hebrew: “דאטונג”
  • Hindi: “दातुंग”
  • Hindi: “दातोंग”
  • Hungarian: “Tatung”
  • Indonesian: “Datong”
  • Interlingua: “Daido”
  • Interlingua: “Datong”
  • Irish: “Datong”
  • Italian: “Datong”
  • Japanese: “大同市”
  • Kannada: “ಡಾಟೊಂಗ್”
  • Kazakh: “Датун”
  • Kikuyu: “Datong”
  • Korean: “다퉁 시”
  • Korean: “다퉁시”
  • Latvian: “Datonga”
  • Latvian: “Datuna”
  • Lithuanian: “Datongas”
  • Macedonian: “Датонг”
  • Malagasy: “Datong”
  • Malay: “Datong”
  • Marathi: “डाटोंग”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Dâi-dùng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tāi-tông-chhī”
  • Mongolian: “Датун”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Datong”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Datong”
  • Norwegian: “Datong”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Datong”
  • Persian: “داتونگ”
  • Polish: “Datong”
  • Portuguese: “Datong”
  • Russian: “Датун”
  • Serbian: “Датунг”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Datong”
  • Sinhala: “ඩේටොන්ග්”
  • Slovenian: “Datong”
  • Spanish: “Datong”
  • Swedish: “Datong Shi”
  • Swedish: “Datong”
  • Tagalog: “Datong”
  • Tamil: “டாடாங்”
  • Tatar: “Датуң”
  • Telugu: “డాటోంగ్”
  • Thai: “ต้าทง”
  • Turkish: “Datong”
  • Uighur: “داتۇڭ شەھىر”
  • Ukrainian: “Датун”
  • Urdu: “داتونگ”
  • Venetian: “Datong”
  • Vietnamese: “Đại Đồng, Sơn Tây”
  • Vietnamese: “Đại Đồng”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Datong”
  • Welsh: “Datong”
  • Wu Chinese: “大同市”
  • Yue Chinese: “大同”

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