SW China
Guizhou
Guiyang Shi

Guiyang

Guiyang is the capital of province, . While not the most spectacular of Chinese cities, it has much to offer as an introduction to the history, culture and natural splendor of Guizhou and China's southwest.
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  • Type: City with 4,320,000 residents
  • Description: capital of Guizhou province, China
  • Also known as: “Guiyang Shi”, “Kuei-chu”, “Kuei-yang”, “Kuei-yang-shih”, “Kweichu”, “Kweiyang”, “Kweiyangfu”, “Lincheng”, and “林城”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Jiaxiu Pavilion and St. Joseph’s Cathedral.

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Church
St. Joseph's Cathedral also known as Guiyang North Church is a Catholic cathedral located in Guiyang, , China, and it serves as the cathedral church for the Archdiocese of Guiyang.

Place of worship
Photo: Augustohai, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a place of worship.

Guiyang

Latitude
26.5878° or 26° 35′ 16″ north
Longitude
106.7087° or 106° 42′ 31″ east
Population
4,320,000
Elevation
1,087 metres (3,566 feet)
IATA airport code
KWE
United Nations Location Code
CN GYA
Open location code
7PR8HPQ5+4F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244080395
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1809461
Wiki­data ID
Q192271
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Satellite Map

Discover Guiyang from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zhuang—“Guiyang” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Guiyang”
  • Afrikaans: “Guiyang”
  • Arabic: “غوييانغ”
  • Armenian: “Գույան”
  • Asturian: “Guiyang”
  • Balinese: “Guiyang”
  • Basque: “Guiyang”
  • Belarusian: “Гуян”
  • Bengali: “কুইয়াং”
  • Bengali: “কুয়েই-ইয়াং”
  • Bengali: “গুইয়াং”
  • Breton: “Guiyang”
  • Bulgarian: “Гуейян”
  • Bulgarian: “Гуйян”
  • Burmese: “ကွေ့ယန်”
  • Burmese: “ကွေ့ယန်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Guiyang”
  • Cebuano: “Guiyang (kapital sa lalawigan sa Republikang Popular sa Tsina)”
  • Cebuano: “Guiyang”
  • Chechen: “Гуйян”
  • Chinese: “Kùi-iông-chhī”
  • Chinese: “临城”
  • Chinese: “筑”
  • Chinese: “貴陽”
  • Chinese: “貴陽市”
  • Chinese: “贵阳”
  • Chinese: “贵阳市”
  • Croatian: “Guiyang”
  • Czech: “Kuej-jang”
  • Danish: “Guiyang”
  • Dutch: “Guiyang”
  • Dutch: “Kwei-jang”
  • Dutch: “Kwéi-jang”
  • Esperanto: “Guijang”
  • Esperanto: “Gŭijango”
  • Esperanto: “Gvijango”
  • Estonian: “Guiyang”
  • Finnish: “Guiyang”
  • French: “Guiyang”
  • French: “Kouy-Yang”
  • Galician: “Guiyang”
  • Gan Chinese: “貴陽”
  • Gan Chinese: “贵阳市”
  • German: “Guiyang”
  • Greek: “Κουεϊγιάνγκ”
  • Gujarati: “ગુયાંગ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kui-yòng-sṳ”
  • Hebrew: “גווי-יאנג”
  • Hebrew: “גווייאנג”
  • Hindi: “गुइयांग”
  • Hindi: “गुईयांग”
  • Hungarian: “Guiyang”
  • Hungarian: “Kujjang”
  • Icelandic: “Guiyang”
  • Indonesian: “Guiyang”
  • Irish: “Guiyang”
  • Italian: “Guiyang”
  • Japanese: “貴陽”
  • Japanese: “貴陽市”
  • Japanese: “贵阳市”
  • Kannada: “ಗುಯಾಂಗ್”
  • Kazakh: “Гуйян”
  • Kikuyu: “Guiyang”
  • Korean: “구이양 시”
  • Korean: “구이양”
  • Korean: “구이양시”
  • Korean: “귀양 시”
  • Korean: “귀양”
  • Korean: “귀양시”
  • Kurdish: “Guiyang”
  • Latin: “Queiyanga”
  • Latvian: “Guijana”
  • Latvian: “Guijanga”
  • Literary Chinese: “貴陽市”
  • Lithuanian: “Guijangas”
  • Lithuanian: “Guiyang”
  • Lithuanian: “Gujangas”
  • Macedonian: “Гуејјанг”
  • Malagasy: “Guiyang”
  • Malay: “Guiyang”
  • Marathi: “क्वीयांग”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Gói-iòng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kùi-iâng-chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kùi-iâng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kùi-iông-chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kùi-iông”
  • Mingrelian: “გუიანი”
  • Nepali: “गुइयाङ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Guiyang”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Guiyang”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kweiyang”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kweyang”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Guiyang”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kweiyang”
  • Norwegian: “Guiyang”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Guiyang”
  • Ossetian: “Гуйян”
  • Pampanga: “Guiyang”
  • Panjabi: “ਗੁਈਯਾਂਗ”
  • Persian: “گوئی یانگ”
  • Persian: “گوئیانگ”
  • Polish: “Guiyang”
  • Polish: “Kuejjang”
  • Portuguese: “Guiyang”
  • Portuguese: “Kweiyang”
  • Quechua: “Guiyang”
  • Romanian: “Guiyang”
  • Russia Buriat: “Гуйян”
  • Russian: “Гуйян”
  • Scots: “Guiyang”
  • Serbian: “Гуејанг”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Guiyang”
  • Sinhala: “ගුයියැන්ග්”
  • Slovak: “Kuej-jang”
  • Slovenian: “Guijang”
  • Spanish: “Guiyang”
  • Swahili: “Guiyang”
  • Swedish: “Guiyang”
  • Swedish: “Kweiyang”
  • Tagalog: “Guiyang”
  • Tamil: “குயியாங்”
  • Tamil: “குய்யாங்”
  • Telugu: “గుయియాంగ్”
  • Thai: “กุ้ยหยาง”
  • Turkish: “Guiyang”
  • Uighur: “Guyyang shehiri”
  • Uighur: “گۇيياڭ شەھىرى”
  • Ukrainian: “Гуйян”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґуйян”
  • Urdu: “گوئیانگ”
  • Uzbek: “Guyyan”
  • Venetian: “Guiyang”
  • Vietnamese: “Quý Dương”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Guiyang”
  • Welsh: “Guiyang”
  • Western Panjabi: “گوئیانگ”
  • Wu Chinese: “贵阳市”
  • Yue Chinese: “貴陽”
  • Zhuang: “Gveiyangz”
  • “贵阳”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Guiyang”. Photo: ToGa Wanderings, CC BY 2.0.