Foshan
Foshan is an industrial city in Guangdong. Though it has about seven million people, it is relatively little known and feels almost like an extension of Guangzhou; hence the saying "Guangzhou and Foshan are the same city".
- Type: City with 9,500,000 residents
- Description: prefecture-level city in Guangdong, China
- Also known as: “Fachan”, “Fatshan”, “Fo-shan-chen”, “Fo-shan-shih”, “Foshan City”, “Foszan”, “Fu-shan-chen”, “Fushen shehir”, “Hu̍t-san”, “Namhoi”, “Nan-hai”, “Nanhai-hsien”, “Nanhoi”, “Nom Hoy”, “Phật San”, “Prefectuur Foshan”, “فتشان”, “포산”, “포샨”, “포샨 시”, “포샨시”, “佛山寨”, “佛山鎮”, and “广东佛山”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Guicheng and Chao’an.
Guicheng
Railway station
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Guicheng Subdistrict and Shiwanzhen Subdistrict.
Foshan
- Categories: prefecture-level city of China, big city, and locality
- Location: Pearl River Delta, Guangdong, South China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
23.024° or 23° 1′ 26″ north
Longitude
113.116° or 113° 6′ 57″ east
Population
9,500,000
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
IATA airport code
FUO
UN/LOCODE
CN FOS
Open location code
7PMM24F8+H9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zhuang—“Foshan” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Foshan”
- Afrikaans: “Fosjan”
- Arabic: “فوشان”
- Armenian: “Ֆոշան”
- Asturian: “Foshan”
- Balinese: “Foshan”
- Basque: “Foshan”
- Belarusian: “Фашань”
- Bengali: “ফোশান”
- Bulgarian: “Фошан”
- Catalan: “Foshan”
- Cebuano: “Foshan (kapital sa prepektura sa Republikang Popular sa Tsina)”
- Cebuano: “Foshan”
- Central Kurdish: “فۆشان”
- Chechen: “Фошань”
- Chinese: “Fóshān Shì”
- Chinese: “佛山”
- Chinese: “佛山市”
- Croatian: “Foshan”
- Czech: “Fo-šan”
- Danish: “Foshan”
- Dutch: “Foshan”
- Dzongkha: “ཕོ་ཤཱན། རྒྱ་ནག། Foshan, China”
- Esperanto: “Foŝan”
- Esperanto: “Foshan”
- Estonian: “Foshan Shi”
- Finnish: “Foshan”
- French: “Foshan”
- Galician: “Foshan”
- Gan Chinese: “佛山市”
- Georgian: “ფოშანი”
- German: “Foshan”
- Greek: “Φοσάν”
- Gujarati: “ફૉશન”
- Hakka Chinese: “Fu̍t-sân-sṳ”
- Hebrew: “פושאן”
- Hindi: “फोशान”
- Hungarian: “Fosan”
- Icelandic: “Foshan”
- Indonesian: “Foshan”
- Irish: “Foshan”
- Italian: “Foshan”
- Japanese: “Hotokeyama”
- Japanese: “仏山市”
- Kannada: “ಫೋಶನ್”
- Kikuyu: “Foshan”
- Korean: “포산 시”
- Korean: “포산시”
- Kurdish: “Foshan”
- Latin: “Foshan”
- Latvian: “Fošana”
- Latvian: “Fošaņa”
- Literary Chinese: “佛山市”
- Lithuanian: “Fošanas”
- Macedonian: “Фошан”
- Malagasy: “Foshan”
- Malay: “Foshan”
- Maori: “Foshan”
- Marathi: “फोषान”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Hŭk-săng”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hu̍t-san-chhī”
- Mongolian: “Фошан”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Foshan”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Foshan”
- Norwegian: “Foshan”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Foshan”
- Ossetian: “Фошань”
- Pampanga: “Foshan”
- Persian: “فوشان”
- Polish: “Foshan”
- Portuguese: “Foshan”
- Romanian: “Foshan”
- Russian: “Фошань”
- Scots: “Foshan”
- Serbian: “Фошан”
- Sinhala: “ෆෝශාන්”
- Slovak: “Fo-šan”
- Slovenian: “Fošan”
- Spanish: “Foshan”
- Swahili: “Foshan”
- Swedish: “Foshan”
- Tagalog: “Foshan”
- Tamil: “பொசன்”
- Telugu: “ఫోశాన్”
- Thai: “ฝัวชาน”
- Turkish: “Foshan”
- Uighur: “فۇشەن شەھىر”
- Ukrainian: “Фошань”
- Urdu: “فوشان”
- Venetian: “Foshan”
- Vietnamese: “Phật Sơn”
- Waray (Philippines): “Foshan”
- Welsh: “Foshan”
- Western Panjabi: “فوشان”
- Wu Chinese: “佛山市”
- Yue Chinese: “Fak San”
- Yue Chinese: “Fuk Shan”
- Yue Chinese: “Fut Shan”
- Yue Chinese: “佛山”
- Zhuang: “Fuzsanh”
- “佛山市”
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