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Guizhou

Guizhou is an inland province in with its capital and largest city as , located in the center of the province. Guizhou borders the Zhuang Autonomous Region to the south, to the west, to the northwest, the municipality of to the north, and to the east.
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is the capital of Guizhou 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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is a city in northern Guizhou province, . It is famous as a Chinese Communist Party history site as it was here that Mao Zedong became a full member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party.

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is a city in Guizhou Province, southwestern China. The city is rather small, but the huge waterfalls and caves in the surrounding area make this city a popular stop in most trips to Guizhou.

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is a city in western Guizhou province, People's Republic of China. The name combines the first character from the names of each of the city's three constituent counties: Liuzhi, Panzhou, Shuicheng.

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is a prefecture-level city in the northeast of Guizhou Province. is a multi-ethnic area. There are many famous scenic spots in , such as Fanjing Mountain, Shiqian Hot Spring, Daming Border Town, Miaowang City, Jiulong Cave and Zhou Yiqun's former residence.

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is an industrial city in Guizhou province and the capital of the Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture. At the edge of the city, there is a huge power station burning coal.

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in the southwest of Guizhou Province, is a city characterized by natural scenery and national culture. The mountains and rivers are beautiful, the climate is pleasant, and it has rich tourism resources.

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is a city in southeastern Guizhou. It is in the Qiandongnan Dong Miao Autonomous Region. It is a stopping point between small towns and villages in the region.

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is a county in Guizhou popular for clear streams, waterfalls, and an emerald lake. Due to lush vegetation the air quality is unbelievably clean considering the county is in the eastern half of .

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is a county in Guizhou Province. Tourism is a significant and growing portion of the economy. is an ancient Miao city. The county is largely agricultural, focused on rice farming and vegetable cultivation.

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is a city of over a million people in Guizhou. is on the tourist circuit solely because of its proximity to Cao Hai Lake. The city and nearby country side are also home to significant populations of several minority groups, including Miao, Hui and Yi.

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County is a county in , Guizhou, China. It is divided by the Duliu River, the upper reaches of the Liu River, and borders to the south.

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County is a county under the jurisdiction of Qiandongnan Prefecture in Guizhou Province, located in the southeast of Guizhou Province and the middle of Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture.

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is a town in , Guizhou, . It comprises eleven villages. Since the beginning of the 21st century the town is visited increasingly by tourists which has brought some prosperity to the region.

Guizhou

Latitude of center
27° north
Longitude of center
107° east
Population
38,600,000
Elevation
1,132 metres (3,714 feet)
Abbreviation
“黔”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244080393
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1809445
Wiki­data ID
Q47097
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zhuang—“Guizhou” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Guizhou”
  • Achinese: “Propinsi Guizhou”
  • Afrikaans: “Guizhou”
  • Arabic: “غويتشو”
  • Arabic: “قويتشو”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة قويتشو”
  • Arabic: “黔”
  • Armenian: “Գույչժոու”
  • Asturian: “Guizhou”
  • Balinese: “Guizhou”
  • Basque: “Guizhou”
  • Belarusian: “Гуйчжоу”
  • Belarusian: “Гуйчжоў”
  • Belarusian: “Правінцыя Гуйчжоу”
  • Bengali: “কুয়েইচৌ”
  • Bouyei: “Gvisxul”
  • Breton: “Guizhou”
  • Bulgarian: “Гуейджоу”
  • Bulgarian: “Гуейчжоу”
  • Bulgarian: “Гуйджоу”
  • Burmese: “ကွေ့ကျိုး”
  • Catalan: “Guizhou”
  • Cebuano: “Guizhou Sheng”
  • Chechen: “Гуйчжоу”
  • Chinese: “CN-52”
  • Chinese: “Guizhou Sheng”
  • Chinese: “Guìzhōu shěng”
  • Chinese: “Gùizhōu”
  • Chinese: “Kùi-chiu-séng”
  • Chinese: “貴”
  • Chinese: “貴州”
  • Chinese: “貴州省”
  • Chinese: “贵”
  • Chinese: “贵州”
  • Chinese: “贵州省”
  • Chinese: “黔”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Guizhou”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Guycou”
  • Croatian: “Guizhou”
  • Czech: “Guizhou”
  • Czech: “Kuej-čou”
  • Danish: “Guizhou”
  • Danish: “Kweichow”
  • Dutch: “Guizhou”
  • Dutch: “Kwei-tsjow”
  • Dutch: “Kwéi-tsjow”
  • Dutch: “Kweichow”
  • Esperanto: “Gŭiĝoŭo”
  • Esperanto: “Guizhou”
  • Esperanto: “Gujĝoŭo”
  • Esperanto: “Gviĝoŭo”
  • Estonian: “Guizhou”
  • Finnish: “Guizhou”
  • French: “Guizhou”
  • French: “Guìzhoū”
  • French: “Hoei-tcheou”
  • French: “Hoeitcheou”
  • French: “Koei-tcheou”
  • French: “Koeitcheou”
  • French: “Kouy-Tchéou”
  • French: “Province de Guizhou”
  • Galician: “Guizhou”
  • Gan Chinese: “貴州”
  • Gan Chinese: “贵州省”
  • Georgian: “გუიჯოუ”
  • Georgian: “კუიჭოუ”
  • German: “Guizhou”
  • German: “Kuetschou”
  • German: “Kweichou”
  • Greek: “Κουεϊτσόου”
  • Gujarati: “ગુઇઝોઉ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kui-chû-sén”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kui-chû”
  • Hebrew: “גוויג’ואו”
  • Hindi: “गुइझोउ”
  • Hindi: “गुइझोऊ प्रान्त”
  • Hindi: “गुइझोऊ”
  • Hindi: “गुईझोऊ”
  • Hindi: “गुएजो”
  • Hindi: “ग्वेझोउ”
  • Hungarian: “Guizhou”
  • Hungarian: “Kujcsou”
  • Icelandic: “Guizhou”
  • Ido: “Provinco Guizhou”
  • Indonesian: “Guizhou”
  • Interlingua: “Guizhou”
  • Irish: “Guizhou”
  • Italian: “Guizhou”
  • Italian: “Queiciou”
  • Japanese: “貴州省 (中華人民共和国)”
  • Japanese: “貴州省”
  • Japanese: “贵州省”
  • Kannada: “ಗುಯಿಝೌ”
  • Khmer: “គុយចូវ”
  • Kongo: “Guizhou”
  • Korean: “구이저우 성”
  • Korean: “구이저우”
  • Korean: “구이저우성”
  • Korean: “귀주”
  • Korean: “귀주성”
  • Kurdish: “Guizhou”
  • Lao: “ກຸ້ຍໂຈວ”
  • Latin: “Guizhou”
  • Latin: “Queichea”
  • Latvian: “Guidžou”
  • Latvian: “Guizhou”
  • Literary Chinese: “貴州”
  • Lithuanian: “Guidžou”
  • Lithuanian: “Guizhou”
  • Lombard: “Guizhou”
  • Macedonian: “Гуејџоу”
  • Malagasy: “Guizhou”
  • Malay: “Guizhou”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Guizhou”
  • Manipuri: “ꯒꯨꯢꯓꯧ”
  • Manx: “Guizhou”
  • Marathi: “क्वीचौ”
  • Marathi: “ग्वीचौ”
  • Mazanderani: “گوئیژو”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Gói-ciŭ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kùi-chiu-séng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kùi-chiu”
  • Mingrelian: “გუიჯოუ”
  • Mongolian: “Гуйжоу муж”
  • Nepali: “गुइझोउ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Guizhou”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Guizhou”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kweichow”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Guizhou”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kweichow”
  • Norwegian: “Guizhou”
  • Novial: “Guizhou”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Guizhou”
  • Ossetian: “Гуйчжоу”
  • Pampanga: “Guizhou”
  • Persian: “گوئیژو”
  • Persian: “گوی‌ژوو”
  • Polish: “Guizhou”
  • Polish: “Kuejczou”
  • Portuguese: “Guizhou”
  • Portuguese: “província de Guizhou”
  • Quechua: “Guizhou pruwinsya”
  • Romanian: “Guizhou”
  • Russian: “Guizhou”
  • Russian: “Гуйчжоу”
  • Scots: “Guizhou”
  • Serbian: “Гуејџоу”
  • Serbian: “Гуиџоу”
  • Serbian: “貴州”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Guizhou”
  • Sindhi: “گزھو صوبو”
  • Sinhala: “ගුයිෂු”
  • Slovak: “Kuej-čou”
  • Slovenian: “Guidžov”
  • Spanish: “Guizhou”
  • Swahili: “Guizhou”
  • Swedish: “Guizhou”
  • Swedish: “Kweichow”
  • Tagalog: “Guizhou”
  • Tajik: “Гуйчжоу”
  • Tamil: “குயிசூ”
  • Tamil: “குய்ஸ்வு”
  • Telugu: “గుయిజో”
  • Thai: “กุ้ยโจว”
  • Thai: “มณฑลกุ้ยโจว”
  • Tibetan: “ཀུད་ཀྲོའུ་”
  • Tibetan: “ཀུད་ཀྲོའུ་ཞིང་ཆེན།”
  • Tibetan: “ཀུད་ཀྲོའུ།”
  • Turkish: “Guizhou”
  • Uighur: “Guylin Ölkisi”
  • Uighur: “گۇيلىن ئۆلكىسى”
  • Ukrainian: “Гуйчжоу”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґуйчжоу”
  • Ukrainian: “Провінція Гуйчжоу”
  • Urdu: “گوئیژو”
  • Uzbek: “Guychjou”
  • Venetian: “Guizhou”
  • Vietnamese: “Quí Châu”
  • Vietnamese: “Quý Châu”
  • Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Quý Châu”
  • Walloon: “Gouizhou”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Guizhou”
  • Welsh: “Guizhou”
  • Western Armenian: “Կոյժհու”
  • Western Panjabi: “کوئیچو”
  • Western Panjabi: “گوئیژو”
  • Wu Chinese: “贵州省”
  • Yakut: “Гуйчжоу”
  • Yue Chinese: “貴州”
  • Yue Chinese: “貴州省”
  • Zhuang: “Gveicouh”

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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 Wikipedia page “Guizhou”. Photo: Glabb, CC BY-SA 3.0.