South China
Guangdong
Pearl River Delta

Foshan

Foshan is an industrial city in . Though it has about seven million people, it is relatively little known and feels almost like an extension of ; hence the saying "Guangzhou and Foshan are the same city".
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  • Type: City with 9,500,000 residents
  • Description: prefecture-level city in Guangdong, China
  • Also known as: “Fachan”, “Fo-shan-chen”, “Fo-shan-shih”, “Foshan City”, “Fu-shan-chen”, “Namhoi”, “Nan-hai”, “Nanhai-hsien”, “Nanhoi”, and “Nom Hoy”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Foshan Ancestral Temple and Guicheng.

Museum
Photo: Zhangzhugang, CC BY-SA 3.0.
aka. Foshan Zumiao is a Daoist temple in Foshan, , . It is a national AAAA tourist attraction approved by the China National Tourism Administration, covering an area of 25,000 square metres.

Railway station
Photo: Lindley, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Station is an interchange station between the Guangfo line and Line 3 of the Foshan Metro. It is located at the underground of the junction of Nanhai Avenue North and Nangui Road in Subdistrict, Nanhai District, Foshan, China.

Railway station
Photo: Nissangeniss, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Station, is a metro station on Guangfo Line, which will be the future interchange station between Guangfo Line and FMetro Line 5. It is located under Jianxin Road east of its junction with Road in the Chancheng District of Foshan, near the .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Shiwanzhen Subdistrict.

Suburb
Photo: Uuongkinghe, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a subdistrict of Chancheng District, located in the southwest of the city of Foshan, province, People's Republic of China. It has a land area of 0.38 square kilometres and a population of 42,700.

Foshan

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
United Nations Location Code
CN FOS
Open location code
7PMM24F8+H9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244079402
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1811103
Wiki­data ID
Q34412
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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: “Hu̍t-san-chhī”
  • Chinese: “佛山”
  • Chinese: “佛山市”
  • Croatian: “Foshan”
  • Czech: “Fo-šan”
  • Danish: “Foshan”
  • Dutch: “Foshan”
  • Dutch: “Prefectuur Foshan”
  • Esperanto: “Foŝan”
  • Estonian: “Foshan Shi”
  • Finnish: “Foshan”
  • French: “Foshan”
  • French: “佛山”
  • Galician: “Foshan”
  • Galician: “佛山”
  • 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: “仏山市”
  • Japanese: “佛山”
  • Japanese: “佛山市”
  • Kannada: “ಫೋಶನ್”
  • Kikuyu: “Foshan”
  • Korean: “포산 시”
  • Korean: “포산”
  • Korean: “포산시”
  • Korean: “포샨 시”
  • Korean: “포샨”
  • Korean: “포샨시”
  • 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”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hu̍t-san”
  • Mongolian: “Фошан”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Fatshan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Foshan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Foshan”
  • Norwegian: “Foshan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Foshan”
  • Ossetian: “Фошань”
  • Pampanga: “Foshan”
  • Persian: “فتشان”
  • Persian: “فوشان”
  • Polish: “Foshan”
  • Polish: “Foszan”
  • Portuguese: “Foshan”
  • Romanian: “Foshan”
  • Russian: “Фошань”
  • Scots: “Foshan”
  • Serbian: “Фошан”
  • Sinhala: “ෆෝශාන්”
  • Slovak: “Fo-šan”
  • Slovenian: “Fošan”
  • Slovenian: “Foshan”
  • Spanish: “Foshan”
  • Spanish: “Foshán”
  • Swahili: “Foshan”
  • Swedish: “Fatshan”
  • Swedish: “Foshan”
  • Tagalog: “Foshan”
  • Tamil: “பொசன்”
  • Telugu: “ఫోశాన్”
  • Thai: “ฝอซาน”
  • Thai: “ฝัวชาน”
  • Turkish: “Foshan”
  • Uighur: “Fushen shehir”
  • Uighur: “فۇشەن شەھىر”
  • Ukrainian: “Фошань”
  • Urdu: “فوشان”
  • Venetian: “Foshan”
  • Vietnamese: “Foshan”
  • Vietnamese: “Phật San”
  • Vietnamese: “Phật Sơn”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Foshan”
  • Welsh: “Foshan”
  • Western Panjabi: “فوشان”
  • Wu Chinese: “佛山市”
  • Yue Chinese: “佛山”
  • Yue Chinese: “佛山寨”
  • Yue Chinese: “佛山市”
  • Yue Chinese: “佛山鎮”
  • Zhuang: “Fuzsanh”
  • “佛山市”

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