Haikou

Haikou is the capital and largest city of Province in southern and is at the north end of the Hainan Island. Haikou is a tropical coastal city that, as one of the least developed provincial capitals, has a somewhat laid-back atmosphere.
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Photo: Anna Frodesiak, Public domain.
Photo: Anna Frodesiak, Public domain.
  • Type: City with 2,140,000 residents
  • Description: capital of Hainan province, China
  • Also known as: Ha k’uo-shih”, “Hai Kou”, “Hai-k’ou-shih”, “Hai-k’ou-so-ch’eng”, “Haik-how”, “Haikou City”, “Haikou Shi”, “Haikow”, “Heihow”, “Hoi Hao”, “Hoi Haou”, “Hoihaou”, “Hoihau”, “Hoihow”, and “琼山县
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Wuyuan River Stadium.

Stadium
The is a stadium in Haikou's west coast area, Hainan, China. It is Hainan's largest stadium.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Changliu.

Town
is a town in Xiuying District of Haikou City, , . is located in the far western suburbs of Haikou. The Hainan terminal of the Guangdong–Hainan Railway, and the adjacent Haikou Railway Station are administratively within .

Haikou

Latitude
20.0462° or 20° 2′ 46″ north
Longitude
110.1957° or 110° 11′ 44″ east
Population
2,140,000
Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)
IATA airport code
HAK
United Nations Location Code
CN HKO
Open location code
7PGG25WW+F7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244080519
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1809078
Wiki­data ID
Q189823
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zhuang—“Haikou” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: Haikou
  • Afrikaans: Haikou
  • Albanian: Haikou
  • Arabic: هايكو
  • Armenian: Հայկոու
  • Asturian: Haikou
  • Azerbaijani: Haykou
  • Balinese: Haikou
  • Basque: Haikou
  • Belarusian: Хайкоу
  • Bengali: হাইকু
  • Bengali: হাইকৌ
  • Bengali: হাইখৌ
  • Bosnian: Haikou
  • Breton: Haikou
  • Bulgarian: Хайкоу
  • Burmese: ဟိုင်းခို
  • Burmese: ဟိုင်းခိုမြို့
  • Catalan: Hǎikǒu shì
  • Catalan: Haikou
  • Catalan: 海口市
  • Cebuano: Haikou
  • Chinese: Hái-kháu-chhī
  • Chinese: Hǎikǒu Shì
  • Chinese: 椰城
  • Chinese: 海口
  • Chinese: 海口市
  • Chinese: 琼A
  • Chinese: 琼北
  • Chinese: 瓊A
  • Chuvash: Хайкоу
  • Croatian: Haikou
  • Czech: Chaj-kchou
  • Danish: Haikou
  • Dutch: Haikou
  • Esperanto: Haikou
  • Esperanto: Hajkoŭo
  • Estonian: Haikou
  • Finnish: Haikou
  • French: Haikou
  • French: Hoi Hao
  • Galician: Haikou
  • Gan Chinese: 海口
  • Gan Chinese: 海口市
  • Georgian: ჰაიკოუ
  • German: Haikou
  • Greek: Χαϊκού
  • Gujarati: હાઈકૌ
  • Hakka Chinese: Hói-khiéu-sṳ
  • Hebrew: האיקואו
  • Hindi: हाइकोऊ
  • Hungarian: Hajkou
  • Icelandic: Haikou
  • Indonesian: Haikou
  • Interlingue: Haikou
  • Irish: Haikou
  • Italian: Haikou
  • Japanese: 海口
  • Japanese: 海口市
  • Kannada: ಹೈಕೌ
  • Kazakh: Хайкоу
  • Kikuyu: Haikou
  • Korean: 하이커우 시
  • Korean: 하이커우
  • Korean: 하이커우시
  • Kurdish: Haikou
  • Latin: Haikou
  • Latvian: Haikou
  • Literary Chinese: 海口
  • Literary Chinese: 海口市
  • Lithuanian: Haikou
  • Macedonian: Хајкоу
  • Malagasy: Haikou
  • Malay: Haikou
  • Marathi: हाइखौ
  • Min Dong Chinese: Hāi-kāu
  • Min Nan Chinese: Hái-kháu-chhī
  • Mingrelian: ჰაიკოუ
  • Mingrelian: ჰაიჰოუ
  • Mongolian: Хайкоу
  • Nepali: हाइकोउ
  • Northern Frisian: Haikou
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Haikou
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Haikou
  • Norwegian: Haikou
  • Occitan (post 1500): Haikou
  • Ossetian: Хайкоу
  • Pampanga: Haikou
  • Persian: هایکو
  • Polish: Haikou
  • Polish: Hajkou
  • Portuguese: Haikou
  • Quechua: Haikou
  • Russian: Хайкоу
  • Scots: Haikou
  • Serbian: Хајкоу
  • Serbo-Croatian: Haikou
  • Sinhala: හයිකෝ
  • Slovak: Chaj-kchou
  • Slovenian: Haikou
  • Spanish: Haikou
  • Swahili: Haikou
  • Swedish: Haikou
  • Swedish: Hoihow
  • Tagalog: Haikou
  • Tajik: Ҳайкоу
  • Tamil: ஆய்-காவு
  • Tamil: ஹைகோ
  • Telugu: హైకోవ్
  • Thai: ไหโข่ว
  • Tibetan: ཧའེ་ཁོའུ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
  • Turkish: Haikou
  • Turkmen: Haýiku
  • Uighur: Xeyko shehir
  • Uighur: خەيكو شەھىر
  • Uighur: خەيكۇ شەھىرى
  • Ukrainian: Хайкоу
  • Urdu: ہائکو
  • Uzbek: Xaykou
  • Venetian: Haikou
  • Vietnamese: Hải Khẩu
  • Vietnamese: Haikou
  • Waray (Philippines): Haikou
  • Welsh: Haikou
  • Western Panjabi: ہائیکؤ
  • Wu Chinese: 海口
  • Wu Chinese: 海口市
  • Yakut: Хайкоу
  • Yue Chinese: Hoihow
  • Yue Chinese: 海口
  • Yue Chinese: 海口市
  • Zhuang: Haijgouj
  • Zhuang: 海口
  • Zhuang: 海口市
  • 海口
  • 海口市

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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 “Haikou”. Photo: Anna Frodesiak, Public domain.