Jianshui
Jianshui County is a division of Honghe Prefecture in Southeastern Yunnan. Numerous temples, traditional residences, bridges and other historic sites survive in and around the old town, making Jianshui a useful stop on an overland journey between Kunming and Hekou, on the border with Vietnam.- City with about 534,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 1,310 metres (4,300 feet)
- Description: county
- Also known as“Chien-shui”“Chien-shui-hsien”“Jianshui County”“Kienshui”“Kienshui-hsien”“Lin’an”“Lin’an Zhen”“Linanfu”“临安”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lin’an and Chaoyang Gate.
Jianshui Confucius Temple
Place of worship
Jianshui Confucius Temple is a place of worship.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lin’an.
Jianshui
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Latitude
23.6361° or 23° 38′ 10″ north
Longitude
102.8264° or 102° 49′ 35″ east
Open location code
7PM4JRPG+CG
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Jianshui” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جيان شوي”
- Chinese: “Jiànshuǐxiàn”
- Chinese: “建水”
- Chinese: “建水县”
- Chinese: “建水縣”
- Dutch: “Jianshui”
- French: “Comté de Jianshui”
- French: “Jianshui”
- French: “Xian de Jianshui”
- Gan Chinese: “建水县”
- German: “Jianshui”
- Indonesian: “Wilayah Jianshui”
- Italian: “Contea di Jianshui”
- Japanese: “建水県”
- Korean: “젠수이현”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kiàn-súi-koān”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jianshui”
- Norwegian: “Jianshui”
- Persian: “شهرستان جیانشوی”
- Russian: “Цзяньшуй”
- Spanish: “Jianshui”
- Swedish: “Jianshui”
- Ukrainian: “Цзяньшуй”
- Urdu: “جیانشوی کاؤنٹی”
- Vietnamese: “Kiến Thủy, Hồng Hà”
- Vietnamese: “Kiến Thủy”
- Wu Chinese: “建水县”
- Yue Chinese: “建水”
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