Dunhuang
Dunhuang is a city on the old Silk Road. It is in Gansu Province in northwest China. It is best known for a large group of Buddhist cave temples nearby, with much historic artwork.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 78,400 residents
- Description: county-level city in Jiuquan, Gansu, China
- Also known as: “Dunhuang City”, “Dunhuang County”, “Dunhuang Shi”, “Dunhuang Xian”, “Dunhuangshi”, “Dunhuangxian”, “Sha-chou”, “Shazhou”, “Tun-huang”, “Tun-huang City”, “Tun-huang Shih”, “Tun-huang-hsien”, “Tun-huang-shih”, “Tunghwang”, “Tunhuang”, and “Tunhwang”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dunhuang Mosque.
Dunhuang Mosque
Mosque
Photo: Popolon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Dunhuang Mosque is a mosque in Dunhuang City, Gansu Province, China.
Dunhuang
- Categories: county-level city and locality
- Location: Jiuquan, Gansu, Northwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.1411° or 40° 8′ 28″ northLongitude
94.6608° or 94° 39′ 39″ eastPopulation
78,400Elevation
1,131 metres (3,711 feet)IATA airport code
DNHOpen location code
8MGP4MR6+C8OpenStreetMap ID
node 306088791OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Dunhuang” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “دونهوانغ”
- Basque: “Dunhuang”
- Belarusian: “Дуньхуан”
- Bengali: “তুনহোয়াং”
- Bengali: “দুনহুয়াং”
- Breton: “Dunhuang”
- Bulgarian: “Дунхуан”
- Catalan: “Dunhuang”
- Cebuano: “Dunhuang”
- Chinese: “Dūnhuáng Shì”
- Chinese: “Dūnhuáng”
- Chinese: “Tun-hông-chhī”
- Chinese: “敦煌”
- Chinese: “敦煌县”
- Chinese: “敦煌市”
- Chinese: “敦煌縣”
- Chinese: “沙州”
- Chinese: “燉煌”
- Croatian: “Dunhuang”
- Czech: “Tun-chuang”
- Czech: “Tunchuang”
- Danish: “Dunhuang”
- Dutch: “Dunhuang”
- Dutch: “Toen-hwang”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دونهوانج”
- Esperanto: “Dunhuang”
- Esperanto: “Dunhŭango”
- Finnish: “Dunhuang”
- French: “Dunhuang”
- French: “T’ouen-houang”
- Gan Chinese: “敦煌市”
- Georgian: “დუნჰუანგი”
- German: “Dunhuang”
- German: “Tun Huang”
- German: “Tun-Huang”
- German: “Tunhuang”
- Greek: “Ντουνχουάνγκ”
- Gujarati: “ડુનહુઆંગ”
- Hebrew: “דונחואנג”
- Hebrew: “נווה המדבר של דוןחואן”
- Hindi: “दुनहुआंग”
- Hindi: “दूनहुआंग”
- Hungarian: “Dunhuang”
- Hungarian: “Tunhuang”
- Indonesian: “Dunhuang”
- Italian: “Dunhuang”
- Japanese: “敦煌”
- Japanese: “敦煌市”
- Kannada: “ಡನ್ಹುವಾಂಗ್”
- Kazakh: “Дунхуан”
- Kikuyu: “Dunhuang”
- Korean: “돈황”
- Korean: “둔황 시”
- Korean: “둔황”
- Korean: “둔황시”
- Kurdish: “Dunhuang”
- Latvian: “Dunčuanga”
- Lithuanian: “Dunchuangas”
- Lithuanian: “Dunhuangas”
- Luxembourgish: “Dunhuang”
- Macedonian: “Дуенхуанг”
- Malagasy: “Dunhuang”
- Malay: “Dunhuang”
- Marathi: “डुनहुंग”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Dŭng-huòng”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tun-hông-chhī”
- Mirandese: “Dunhuang”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dunhuang”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Shazhou”
- Norwegian: “Dunhuang”
- Pampanga: “Dunhuang”
- Persian: “دونهوانگ”
- Polish: “Dunhuang”
- Polish: “Tunhuang”
- Portuguese: “Dunhuang”
- Russian: “Дуньхуан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dunhuang”
- Sicilian: “Dunhuang”
- Sinhala: “ඩන්හුආන්ග්”
- Slovenian: “Dunhuang”
- Spanish: “Dunhuang”
- Swedish: “Dunhuang”
- Swiss German: “Dunhuang”
- Tamil: “டூன்ஹுவாங்”
- Telugu: “దుహ్వాన్గ్”
- Thai: “ตุนหวง”
- Tibetan: “ཏུན་ཧོང་”
- Tibetan: “ཏུན་ཧོང་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།”
- Tosk Albanian: “Dunhuang”
- Turkish: “Dunhuang”
- Uighur: “Dünxuang Shehiri”
- Ukrainian: “Дуньхуан”
- Urdu: “دونہوانگ”
- Uzbek: “Dunxuan”
- Vietnamese: “Đôn Hoàng”
- Waray (Philippines): “Dunhuang”
- Welsh: “Dunhuang”
- Western Panjabi: “ڈؤنہوآنگ”
- Wu Chinese: “敦煌市”
- Yue Chinese: “敦煌”
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