Jiaxing

Jiaxing is a historic city in province, with 1.5 million people in its urban area. The historic city center is less than an hour by train from its much larger neighbor to the north-east, , which makes Jiaxing a popular day trip destination from Shanghai.
  • City with about 5,400,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 10 metres (30 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code JXS
  • Description: prefecture-level city in Zhejiang, China
  • Also known as
    “Chia-hsing”
    “Chia-hsing-hsien”
    “Chia-hsing-hsien-ch’eng”
    “Chiahsing-Fu”
    “Ka-shing-fu”
    “Kashing”
    “Kashing-hsien”
    “Kia-hing”
    “Kia-hsing”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Jiaxing Sports Centre Stadium and Former residence of Shen Junru.
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Latitude
30.7474° or 30° 44′ 51″ north
Longitude
120.7511° or 120° 45′ 4″ east
UN/LOCODE
CN JAX
Open location code
8Q22PQW2+XC
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Jiaxing” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جياشينغ”
  • Armenian: “Ցզյասին”
  • Asturian: “Jiaxing”
  • Basque: “Jiaxing”
  • Bengali: “চিয়াশিং”
  • Bengali: “জিয়াজিং”
  • Bulgarian: “Дзясин”
  • Catalan: “Jiaxing”
  • Cebuano: “Jiaxing”
  • Chinese: “Jiāxīng Shì”
  • Chinese: “嘉兴”
  • Chinese: “嘉兴市”
  • Chinese: “嘉興”
  • Chinese: “嘉興市”
  • Czech: “Ťia-sing”
  • Danish: “Jiaxing”
  • Dutch: “Jiaxing”
  • Esperanto: “Kaŝing”
  • Estonian: “Jiaxing”
  • Finnish: “Jiaxing”
  • French: “Jiaxing”
  • Gan Chinese: “嘉兴市”
  • German: “Jiaxing”
  • Greek: “Τζίαξινγκ”
  • Gujarati: “જિયાક્ષિંગ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kâ-hîn-sṳ”
  • Hebrew: “ג’יאשינג”
  • Hindi: “जिआज़िंग”
  • Hindi: “जियाक्सिंग”
  • Hungarian: “Csiahszing”
  • Indonesian: “Jiaxing”
  • Irish: “Jiaxing”
  • Italian: “Jiaxing”
  • Japanese: “嘉興市”
  • Kannada: “ಜಿಯಾಕ್ಸಿಂಗ್”
  • Kikuyu: “Jiaxing”
  • Korean: “자싱 시”
  • Latin: “Kiahing”
  • Latvian: “Dziašinga”
  • Literary Chinese: “嘉興市”
  • Lithuanian: “Dziasingas”
  • Malagasy: “Jiaxing”
  • Malay: “Jiaxing”
  • Marathi: “जिक्‍सिंग”
  • Mazanderani: “جیاشینگ”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Gă-hĭng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ka-heng-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Jiaxing”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jiaxing”
  • Norwegian: “Jiaxing”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Jiaxing”
  • Ossetian: “Цзясин”
  • Persian: “جیشانگ”
  • Polish: “Jiaxing”
  • Portuguese: “Jiaxing”
  • Russian: “Цзясин”
  • Serbian: “Ђасинг”
  • Sinhala: “ජියාසින්ග්”
  • Slovenian: “Džiašing”
  • Spanish: “Jiaxing”
  • Swedish: “Jiaxing”
  • Tagalog: “Jiaxing”
  • Tamil: “ஜியாசிங்”
  • Telugu: “జియాక్సింగ్”
  • Thai: “เจียเซียง”
  • Turkish: “Jiaxing”
  • Uighur: “جياشىڭ شەھىرى”
  • Ukrainian: “Цзясін”
  • Urdu: “جیاشنگ”
  • Venetian: “Jiaxing”
  • Vietnamese: “Gia Hưng”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Jiaxing”
  • Welsh: “Jiaxing”
  • Wu Chinese: “嘉兴市”
  • Wu Chinese: “嘉興”
  • Yue Chinese: “嘉興”

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