Jilin
Jilin Province forms the central part of northeast China and is part of what was once known as Manchuria. Jilin borders Heilongjiang Province to the northeast, Russia to the east, North Korea to the southeast, Liaoning to the southwest and Inner Mongolia to the northwest.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Changchun and Jilin.
Changchun
Jilin
Jilin is one of the most beautiful cities in Manchuria. Jilin is far more pleasant and manageable than most of the cities in Dongbei. Spend a day wandering around the hutongs, clustered between the river to the south, railway tracks to the north, Tianjin Jie to the east, and Bei Da Jie to the west.
Siping
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Yanbian and Liaoyuan.
Yanbian
Yanbian is an autonomous prefecture in Jilin province of China, next to the border with North Korea and Russia. It is home to the largest ethnic Korean community outside Korea.
Liaoyuan
Liaoyuan is a prefecture-level city in Jilin province, People's Republic of China. It is bounded on the west and south by Tieling of Liaoning province, west and north by Siping, and east by Tonghua and Jilin City.Baicheng
Tonghua
Tonghua is a prefecture-level city in the south of Jilin province, People's Republic of China. It borders North Korea's Chagang Province to the south and southeast, Baishan to the east, Jilin City to the north, Liaoyuan to the northwest, and Liaoning province to the west and southwest.
Baishan
Ji’an
Jilin
- Type: State with 24,100,000 residents
- Description: province of China
- Also known as: “Chi-lin” and “Jilin Province”
- Neighbors: Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, and Primorsky Krai
- Categories: province of China and locality
- Location: Northeast China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
43.729° or 43° 43′ 44″ north
Longitude of center
126.1997° or 126° 11′ 59″ east
Population
24,100,000
Elevation
274 metres (899 feet)
Abbreviation
“吉”
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Zhuang—“Jilin” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Jilin”
- Afrikaans: “Jilin”
- Amharic: “ጂሊን”
- Arabic: “جيلين”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة جيلين”
- Armenian: “Գիրին”
- Asturian: “Jilin”
- Azerbaijani: “Qirin”
- Balinese: “Jilin”
- Basque: “Jilin”
- Belarusian: “Гірын”
- Belarusian: “Правінцыя Гірын”
- Belarusian: “Цзілінь”
- Bengali: “চিলিন”
- Bengali: “জিলিন”
- Breton: “Jilin”
- Bulgarian: “Дзилин”
- Catalan: “Jilin”
- Cebuano: “Jilin Sheng”
- Central Kurdish: “جیلین”
- Chechen: “Гирин”
- Chinese: “Jilin Sheng”
- Chinese: “Kiat-lîm-séng”
- Chinese: “吉”
- Chinese: “吉林”
- Chinese: “吉林省”
- Crimean Tatar: “Cilin”
- Crimean Tatar: “Jilin”
- Croatian: “Jilin”
- Czech: “Ťi-lin”
- Danish: “Jilin”
- Dutch: “Jilin (provincie)”
- Dutch: “Jilin”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جيلين”
- Esperanto: “Ĝilinio”
- Esperanto: “Ĝjilino”
- Esperanto: “Jilin Provinco”
- Esperanto: “Jilin-provinco”
- Esperanto: “Jilin”
- Estonian: “Jilini provints”
- Finnish: “Jilin”
- Finnish: “Kirin”
- French: “Jilin”
- French: “Jílín”
- French: “Province de Jilin”
- Galician: “Jilin”
- Gan Chinese: “吉林”
- Gan Chinese: “吉林省”
- Georgian: “გირინი”
- Georgian: “ძილინი”
- German: “CN-22”
- German: “Jilin”
- German: “Jílín”
- Greek: “Τσιλίν”
- Gujarati: “જિલિન”
- Hakka Chinese: “Kit-lìm-sén”
- Hakka Chinese: “Kit-lìm”
- Hausa: “Jilin”
- Hebrew: “ג’ילין”
- Hindi: “जिलिन”
- Hindi: “जीलिन प्रांत”
- Hindi: “जीलिन प्रान्त”
- Hindi: “जीलिन”
- Hungarian: “Csilin”
- Hungarian: “Jilin”
- Icelandic: “Jilin”
- Ido: “Provinco Jilin”
- Indonesian: “Jilin”
- Interlingua: “Jilin”
- Irish: “Jilin”
- Italian: “Jilin”
- Italian: “Provincia di Jilin”
- Japanese: “吉林”
- Japanese: “吉林省 (中華人民共和国)”
- Japanese: “吉林省”
- Javanese: “Jilin”
- Kannada: “ಜಿಲಿನ್”
- Kashmiri: “جیٖلِن”
- Kazakh: “Джилін”
- Khmer: “ជីលីន”
- Kirghiz: “Гирин”
- Kirghiz: “Жилин”
- Kongo: “Jilin”
- Korean: “길림 성”
- Korean: “길림”
- Korean: “길림성”
- Korean: “지린 성”
- Korean: “지린성”
- Kurdish: “Jilin”
- Latin: “Jilin”
- Latin: “Jilinensis”
- Latvian: “Dzjiliņa”
- Latvian: “Jilin”
- Literary Chinese: “吉”
- Literary Chinese: “吉林”
- Literary Chinese: “吉林省”
- Literary Chinese: “吉省”
- Lithuanian: “Dzilinas”
- Lombard: “Jilin (provincia)”
- Lombard: “Jilin”
- Macedonian: “Ѓилин”
- Malagasy: “Jilin”
- Malay: “Jilin”
- Malay: “Wilayah Jilin”
- Manchu: “ᡤᡳᡵᡳᠨ ᡤᠣᠯᠣ”
- Manipuri: “ꯖꯤꯂꯤꯟ”
- Manx: “Jilin”
- Marathi: “चीलिन”
- Marathi: “जीलिन”
- Mazanderani: “جیلین”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Gék-lìng”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kiat-lîm-séng”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kiat-lîm”
- Mingrelian: “გირინი (ჩინეთი)”
- Mingrelian: “გირინი”
- Mongolian: “Гирин муж”
- Mongolian: “Гирин”
- Mongolian: “Жилинь”
- Mongolian: “ᠭᠢᠷᠢᠨ ᠮᠣᠵᠢ”
- Mongolian: “ᠭᠢᠷᠢᠨ”
- Nepali: “जिलिन”
- Northern Frisian: “Jilin”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jilin”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Provinsen Jilin”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jilin-provinsen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jilin”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Provinsen Jilin”
- Norwegian: “Jilin”
- Novial: “Jilin”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Jilin”
- Oromo: “Jilin”
- Ossetian: “Цзилинь”
- Pampanga: “Jilin”
- Panjabi: “ਜਿਲਿਨ”
- Panjabi: “ਜੀਲਿਨ”
- Persian: “جی لین”
- Persian: “جیلین”
- Persian: “جیلین”
- Polish: “Cilin”
- Polish: “Jilin”
- Portuguese: “Jilin”
- Pushto: “جيلين”
- Quechua: “Jilin pruwinsya”
- Romanian: “Jilin”
- Russian: “Jilin”
- Russian: “Гирин”
- Russian: “провинция Гирин”
- Russian: “Цзилинь”
- Scots: “Jilin”
- Serbian: “Ђилин”
- Serbian: “Јилин”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Jilin”
- Sindhi: “جيلن صوبو”
- Sinhala: “ජිලින්”
- Slovak: “Ťi-lin”
- Slovenian: “CN-22”
- Slovenian: “Džilin”
- Slovenian: “Jilin”
- Somali: “Jilin”
- Spanish: “Jilin”
- Swahili: “Jilin”
- Swedish: “Jilin”
- Tagalog: “Jilin”
- Tajik: “Жилин”
- Tajik: “Ҷилин”
- Tamil: “சிலின் மாகாணம்”
- Tamil: “ஜீலின்”
- Tatar: “Җилин”
- Telugu: “జిలిన్”
- Thai: “จี๋หลิน”
- Thai: “มณฑลจี๋หลิน”
- Tibetan: “ཅི་ལིན་”
- Tibetan: “ཅི་ལིན་ཞིང་ཆེན་”
- Tibetan: “ཅི་ལིན་ཞིང་ཆེན།”
- Tibetan: “ཅི་ལིན།”
- Turkish: “Cilin”
- Turkish: “Jilin”
- Uighur: “جىلىن ئۆلكىسى”
- Ukrainian: “Гирин”
- Ukrainian: “Гірин”
- Ukrainian: “Провінція Цзілінь”
- Ukrainian: “Цзилінь”
- Ukrainian: “Цзілінь”
- Urdu: “جیلن”
- Uzbek: “Girin”
- Uzbek: “Jilin”
- Uzbek: “Szilin”
- Venetian: “Jilin”
- Vietnamese: “Cát Lâm, Phù Cát”
- Vietnamese: “Cát Lâm”
- Vietnamese: “tỉnh Cát Lâm”
- Waray (Philippines): “Jilin”
- Welsh: “Jilin”
- Western Armenian: “Ճիլին”
- Western Panjabi: “جیلن”
- Wu Chinese: “吉”
- Wu Chinese: “吉林”
- Wu Chinese: “吉林省”
- Wu Chinese: “吉省”
- Yakut: “Гирин”
- Yakut: “Цзилинь”
- Yue Chinese: “吉”
- Yue Chinese: “吉林”
- Yue Chinese: “吉林烏拉”
- Yue Chinese: “吉林省”
- Yue Chinese: “吉省”
- Zhuang: “Gizlinz”
- “吉林省”
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