Fuling
Fuling District is a district in central Chongqing, China. It is the second-largest district in Chongqing. Former U.S. Peace Corps teacher Peter Hessler worked in the district for two years and later wrote the memoir River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze.
- Type: City with 470,000 residents
- Description: district of Chongqing, China
- Also known as: “Bồi Lăng”, “Fou-ling Chuan-ch’ü”, “Fou-ling Hsien”, “Fu-ling Hsien”, “Fu-ling Ti-ch’ü”, “Fuling Diqu”, “Fuling District”, “Fuling Shi”, “Fuling Xian”, and “Fuling, Chongqing”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Baiheliang Underwater Museum and Fuling Stadium.
Baiheliang Underwater Museum
Museum
The Baiheliang Underwater Museum or White Crane Ridge Underwater Museum is an underwater museum built around the White Crane Ridge of Fuling District, Chongqing.
Fuling Stadium
Stadium
The Fuling Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Chongqing, China. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 22,000 spectators.
Fuling
- Categories: district of China and locality
- Location: Chongqing, Chongqing Municipality, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
29.7065° or 29° 42′ 24″ north
Longitude
107.3911° or 107° 23′ 28″ east
Population
470,000
Elevation
377 metres (1,237 feet)
Open location code
7PX9P94R+JC
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Yue Chinese—“Fuling” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Ֆուլին”
- Basque: “Fuling Barrutia”
- Cebuano: “Fuling Qu”
- Chinese: “Fúlíng Qū”
- Chinese: “涪陵”
- Chinese: “涪陵区”
- Chinese: “涪陵區”
- Dutch: “Fuling District”
- Dutch: “Fuling”
- Esperanto: “Fulin”
- French: “district de Fuling”
- French: “District de Fuling”
- French: “Fuling”
- Gan Chinese: “涪陵区”
- German: “Fuling”
- Indonesian: “Fuling”
- Italian: “Fuling”
- Japanese: “フ陵区”
- Japanese: “涪陵区”
- Korean: “푸링구”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Hù-lìng-kṳ̆”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hô͘-lêng-khu”
- Mirandese: “Fuling”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fuling”
- Norwegian: “Fuling”
- Persian: “فیولینگ”
- Persian: “منطقه فولینگ”
- Russian: “Фулин”
- Spanish: “Fuling”
- Swedish: “Fuling”
- Turkish: “Fuling”
- Ukrainian: “Фулін”
- Urdu: “فولینگ ضلع”
- Vietnamese: “Phù Lăng”
- Waray (Philippines): “Fuling”
- Welsh: “Ardal Fuling”
- Wu Chinese: “涪陵区”
- Yue Chinese: “涪陵”
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