Gejiu
Gejiu is a county-level city in Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China, with 202,000 urban inhabitants. It is the site of China's largest tin deposits and its main industry is mining.
- Type: City with 162,000 residents
- Description: county-level city in Honghe, Yunnan, China
- Also known as: “Ko-chiu-hsien”, “Ko-chiu-shih”, “Kokiu”, “Kokiu-hsien”, “Kokiuchang”, “Ku-chiu”, “Tin Capital of China”, and “锡城”
Places of Interest
Highlights include 个旧市第一高级中学 and Trading Company ‘Baoxinglong’.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Xicheng and Jinhu Subdistrict.
Gejiu
- Categories: county-level city of China and locality
- Location: Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Southeastern Yunnan, Yunnan, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
23.3619° or 23° 21′ 43″ north
Longitude
103.1577° or 103° 9′ 28″ east
Population
162,000
Elevation
1,708 metres (5,604 feet)
Open location code
7PM59565+P3
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Gejiu” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “غيجيو”
- Bengali: “কেচিউ”
- Cebuano: “Gejiu”
- Chinese: “Gèjìu Shì”
- Chinese: “Kò-kū-chhī”
- Chinese: “个旧”
- Chinese: “个旧市”
- Chinese: “個舊市”
- Chinese: “箇舊”
- Chinese: “箇舊市”
- Chinese: “箇舊縣”
- Chinese: “锡都”
- Czech: “Ke-ťiou”
- Danish: “Gejiu”
- Dutch: “Gejiu”
- Finnish: “Gejiu”
- French: “Gejiu”
- Gan Chinese: “个旧市”
- German: “Gejiu”
- Greek: “Γκέτζιου”
- Gujarati: “ગેજિયુ”
- Hindi: “जीजेयू”
- Indonesian: “Gejiu”
- Italian: “Gejiu”
- Japanese: “箇旧”
- Japanese: “箇旧市”
- Kannada: “ಗೀಜು”
- Kikuyu: “Gejiu”
- Korean: “거주시”
- Latvian: “Gedziu”
- Lithuanian: “Gedziu”
- Malagasy: “Gejiu”
- Malay: “Gejiu”
- Marathi: “जेजू”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kò-kū-chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gejiu”
- Norwegian: “Gejiu”
- Polish: “Gejiu”
- Polish: “Kociu”
- Portuguese: “Gejiu”
- Russian: “Гэцзю”
- Sinhala: “ගේජු”
- Spanish: “Gejiu”
- Spanish: “Kotchiu”
- Swedish: “Gejiu”
- Swedish: “Ko-chiu”
- Swedish: “Kotchiu”
- Tamil: “ஜேஜிவு”
- Telugu: “జీజెయు”
- Thai: “เก๋อจิว”
- Turkish: “Geiju”
- Turkish: “Gejiu”
- Ukrainian: “Гецзю”
- Urdu: “گیجیو”
- Vietnamese: “Cá Cựu”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gejiu”
- Welsh: “Gejiu”
- Wu Chinese: “个旧市”
- Yue Chinese: “箇舊”
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