Handan

Handan, located in southern Hebei Province, is one of the oldest cities in China, with a history of more than 3,000 years. It was the capital of Zhao State during the Warring States Period and is famous for its rich history and culture, and iron casting art.
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  • Type: City with 9,170,000 residents
  • Description: prefecture-level city in Hebei, China
  • Also known as: “Han-tan”, “Han-tan-hsien”, “Han-tan-shih”, and “Handan City”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sucao Township and Pengjiazhai Township.

Town
is a township in Congtai District, Handan, , .

Town
is a township-level division situated in Handan, , .

Suburb
Renmin Road Subdistrict is a subdistrict situated in Congtai District, Handan, , . As of 2020, it administers the following five residential neighborhoods:…

Handan

Latitude
36.6108° or 36° 36′ 39″ north
Longitude
114.4857° or 114° 29′ 9″ east
Population
9,170,000
Elevation
61 metres (200 feet)
IATA airport code
HDG
United Nations Location Code
CN HDS
Open location code
8P8PJF6P+87
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244080536
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1808963
Wiki­data ID
Q58570
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Handan” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Handan”
  • Arabic: “هاندان”
  • Armenian: “Հանդան”
  • Asturian: “Handan”
  • Basque: “Handan”
  • Belarusian: “Ханьдань”
  • Bengali: “হানডান”
  • Bengali: “হানতান”
  • Bengali: “হানদান”
  • Bulgarian: “Хандан”
  • Catalan: “Handan”
  • Cebuano: “Handan Shi”
  • Cebuano: “Handan”
  • Chinese: “Hân-tan-chhī”
  • Chinese: “Hándān shì”
  • Chinese: “邯郸”
  • Chinese: “邯郸市”
  • Chinese: “邯鄲”
  • Chinese: “邯鄲市”
  • Croatian: “Handan”
  • Czech: “Chan-tan”
  • Danish: “Handan”
  • Dutch: “Handan”
  • Esperanto: “Handan”
  • Esperanto: “Handano”
  • Estonian: “Handan Shi”
  • Estonian: “Handan”
  • Finnish: “Handan”
  • French: “Handan”
  • Galician: “Handan”
  • Gan Chinese: “邯郸市”
  • Georgian: “ხანტანი”
  • German: “Handan”
  • Greek: “Χαντάν”
  • Gujarati: “હેન્ડન”
  • Hebrew: “האנדאן”
  • Hindi: “हनदान”
  • Hindi: “हान्डान”
  • Hungarian: “Hantan”
  • Indonesian: “Handan”
  • Irish: “Handan”
  • Italian: “Handan”
  • Japanese: “邯鄲市”
  • Kannada: “ಹ್ಯಾಂಡನ್”
  • Kikuyu: “Handan”
  • Korean: “한단 시”
  • Korean: “한단시”
  • Kurdish: “Handan”
  • Latin: “Handan”
  • Latvian: “Handana”
  • Lithuanian: “Handanas”
  • Malagasy: “Handan”
  • Malay: “Handan”
  • Manipuri: “ꯍꯥꯟꯗꯥꯟ”
  • Marathi: “हांडण”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Hàng-dăng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hân-tan-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Handan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Handan”
  • Norwegian: “Handan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Handan”
  • Ossetian: “Ханьдань”
  • Pampanga: “Handan”
  • Persian: “هاندان”
  • Polish: “Handan”
  • Portuguese: “Handan”
  • Russian: “Ханьдань”
  • Scots: “Handan”
  • Serbian: “Хандан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Handan”
  • Sinhala: “හන්ඩන්”
  • Slovenian: “Handan”
  • Spanish: “Handan”
  • Swedish: “Handan”
  • Tamil: “ஹண்டன்”
  • Telugu: “హాండన్”
  • Thai: “หานตาน”
  • Turkish: “Handan”
  • Uighur: “خەندەن شەھىرى”
  • Ukrainian: “Ханьдань”
  • Urdu: “ہاندان”
  • Venetian: “Handan”
  • Vietnamese: “Hàm Đan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Handan”
  • Welsh: “Handan”
  • Wu Chinese: “邯郸市”
  • Yue Chinese: “邯鄲”

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