Dunhuang

Dunhuang is a city on the old Silk Road. It is in Province in northwest . It is best known for a large group of Buddhist cave temples nearby, with much historic artwork.
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  • City with about 185,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 1,140 metres (3,750 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code DNH
  • Description: county-level city in Jiuquan, Gansu, China
  • Also known as
    “Dunhuang City”
    “Dunhuang County”
    “Dunhuang Shi”
    “Dunhuang Xian”
    “Sha-chou”
    “Shazhou”
    “Tun-huang”
    “Tun-huang City”
    “Tun-huang Shih”
    “Tun-huang-hsien”
    “Tunghwang”
    “Tunhwang”

Places of Interest

Discover Dunhuang Mosque.
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Mosque
The is a in Dunhuang City, , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Shazhou.
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Suburb
is a suburb.

Dunhuang

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Latitude
40.141° or 40° 8′ 28″ north
Longitude
94.6638° or 94° 39′ 50″ east
Open location code
8MGP4MR7+9G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 306088791
Open­Street­Map feature
place = city
Geo­Names ID
1529531
Wiki­data ID
Q319114

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Dunhuang” goes by many names.
دونهوانغArabic
DunhuangBasque
ДуньхуанBelarusian
তুনহোয়াংBengali
দুনহুয়াংBengali
DunhuangBreton
ДунхуанBulgarian
DunhuangCatalan
DunhuangCebuano
DunhuangCentral Bikol
DūnhuángChinese
Dūnhuáng ShìChinese
敦煌Chinese
敦煌县Chinese
敦煌市Chinese
敦煌縣Chinese
沙州Chinese
燉煌Chinese
DunhuangCroatian
Tun-chuangCzech
DunhuangDanish
DunhuangDutch
Toen-hwangDutch
دونهوانجEgyptian Arabic
DunhuangEsperanto
DunhŭangoEsperanto
DunhuangFinnish
DunhuangFrench
T’ouen-houangFrench
敦煌市Gan Chinese
დუნჰუანგიGeorgian
DunhuangGerman
Tun-HuangGerman
ΝτουνχουάνγκGreek
ડુનહુઆંગGujarati
דונחואנגHebrew
נווה המדבר של דוןחואןHebrew
दूनहुआंगHindi
DunhuangHungarian
TunhuangHungarian
DunhuangIndonesian
DunhuangItalian
敦煌Japanese
敦煌市Japanese
ಡನ್ಹುವಾಂಗ್Kannada
ДунхуанKazakh
DunhuangKikuyu
돈황Korean
둔황Korean
둔황 시Korean
DunhuangKurdish
DunčuangaLatvian
DunchuangasLithuanian
DunhuangasLithuanian
DunhuangLuxembourgish
ДуенхуангMacedonian
DunhuangMadurese
DunhuangMalagasy
DunhuangMalay
डुनहुंगMarathi
Dŭng-huòngMin Dong Chinese
Tun-hông-chhīMin Nan Chinese
DunhuangMirandese
DunhuangNorwegian
DunhuangNorwegian Bokmål
ShazhouNorwegian Bokmål
DunhuangPampanga
دون‌هوانگPersian
DunhuangPolish
TunhuangPolish
DunhuangPortuguese
ДуньхуанRussian
DunhuangSerbo-Croatian
DunhuangSicilian
ඩන්හුආන්ග්Sinhala
DunhuangSlovenian
DunhuangSpanish
DunhuangSwedish
DunhuangSwiss German
டூன்ஹுவாங்Tamil
దుహ్వాన్గ్Telugu
ตุนหวงThai
ཏུན་ཧོང་Tibetan
ཏུན་ཧོང་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།Tibetan
DunhuangTurkish
Dünxuang ShehiriUighur
ДуньхуанUkrainian
دونہوانگUrdu
DunxuanUzbek
Đôn HoàngVietnamese
DunhuangWaray (Philippines)
DunhuangWelsh
ڈؤنہوآنگWestern Panjabi
敦煌市Wu Chinese
敦煌Yue Chinese

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