Hekou
Hekou is a town in Yunnan, China. It is the administrative center of Hekou Yao Autonomous County. It is located on the border with Vietnam, adjacent to Lao Cai.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 38,000 residents
- Description: autonomous county
- Also known as: “Hekou Yao Autonomous County”, “Hékǒu Yáozú Zìzhìxiàn”, and “河口汛”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hekou.
Hekou
- Categories: autonomous county and locality
- Location: Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Southeastern Yunnan, Yunnan, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
22.5326° or 22° 31′ 57″ northLongitude
103.9375° or 103° 56′ 15″ eastPopulation
38,000Elevation
764 metres (2,507 feet)Open location code
7PJ5GWMQ+22OpenStreetMap ID
node 469623114OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1808557Wikidata ID
Q1221725
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Hekou” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “محافظة هيكو”
- Cebuano: “Hekou Yaozu Zizhixian”
- Chinese: “Hékǒu yáozú zìzhì xiàn”
- Chinese: “Hô-kháu Iâu-cho̍k Chū-tī-koān”
- Chinese: “河口”
- Chinese: “河口县”
- Chinese: “河口瑶族自治县”
- Chinese: “河口縣”
- Dutch: “Hekou”
- French: “Hekou”
- French: “Xian autonome yao de Hekou”
- Gan Chinese: “河口瑶族自治县”
- German: “Hekou”
- Italian: “Contea autonoma yao di Hekou”
- Japanese: “河口ヤオ族自治県”
- Korean: “허커우 야오족 자치현”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hô-kháu Iâu-cho̍k Chū-tī-koān”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hekou Yao”
- Norwegian: “Hekou Yao”
- Russian: “Хэкоу-Яоский автономный уезд”
- Russian: “Хэкоу”
- Spanish: “Hekou”
- Swedish: “Hekou, Honghe”
- Swedish: “Hekou”
- Ukrainian: “Хекоу-Яоський автономний повіт”
- Ukrainian: “Хекоу”
- Urdu: “ہیکؤ یاو خود مختار کاؤنٹی”
- Venetian: “Contea autònoma yao de Hekou”
- Vietnamese: “Hà Khẩu, Hồng Hà”
- Vietnamese: “Hà Khẩu”
- Wu Chinese: “河口瑶族自治县”
- Yue Chinese: “河口縣”
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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 “Hekou”. Photo: Vmenkov, CC BY-SA 3.0.