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.
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Jilin
- Type: State with 24,100,000 residents
- Description: province of China
- Also known as: “Cát Lâm, Phù Cát”, “Chi-lin”, “CN-22”, “Ĝjilino”, “Jilin (provincie)”, “Jilin Province”, “Jilin Provinco”, “Jilin-provinco”, “Jilin-provinsen”, “Kiat-lîm”, “Kirin”, “Kit-lìm-sén”, “Provincia di Jilin”, “Provinsen Jilin”, “Szilin”, “tỉnh Cát Lâm”, “Wilayah Jilin”, “Гірин”, “Жилинь”, “Јилин”, “провинция Гирин”, “Провінція Цзілінь”, “Цзилінь”, “ძილინი”, “جی لین”, “مقاطعة جيلين”, “जीलिन प्रांत”, “जीलिन प्रान्त”, “ஜீலின்”, “จี๋หลิน”, “ཅི་ལིན་”, “ཅི་ལིན་ཞིང་ཆེན་”, “ཅི་ལིན།”, “ᠭᠢᠷᠢᠨ”, “ᠭᠢᠷᠢᠨ ᠮᠣᠵᠢ”, “길림 성”, “지린 성”, “吉”, “吉林烏拉”, “吉林省 (中華人民共和国)”, and “吉省”
- 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”
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Zhuang—“Jilin” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Jilin”
- Afrikaans: “Jilin”
- Amharic: “ጂሊን”
- Arabic: “جيلين”
- Armenian: “Գիրին”
- Asturian: “Jilin”
- Azerbaijani: “Qirin”
- Balinese: “Jilin”
- Basque: “Jilin”
- Belarusian: “Гірын”
- Belarusian: “Правінцыя Гірын”
- Bengali: “চিলিন”
- Bengali: “জিলিন”
- Breton: “Jilin”
- Bulgarian: “Дзилин”
- Catalan: “Jilin”
- Cebuano: “Jilin Sheng”
- Central Kurdish: “جیلین”
- Chechen: “Гирин”
- Chinese: “Jilin Sheng”
- Chinese: “吉林”
- Chinese: “吉林省”
- Crimean Tatar: “Cilin”
- Crimean Tatar: “Jilin”
- Croatian: “Jilin”
- Czech: “Ťi-lin”
- Danish: “Jilin”
- Dutch: “Jilin”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جيلين”
- Esperanto: “Ĝilinio”
- Estonian: “Jilini provints”
- Finnish: “Jilin”
- French: “Jilin”
- French: “Jílín”
- French: “Province de Jilin”
- Galician: “Jilin”
- Gan Chinese: “吉林”
- Gan Chinese: “吉林省”
- Georgian: “გირინი”
- German: “Jilin”
- German: “Jílín”
- Greek: “Τσιλίν”
- Gujarati: “જિલિન”
- Hakka Chinese: “Kit-lìm”
- Hausa: “Jilin”
- Hebrew: “ג’ילין”
- Hindi: “जीलिन”
- Hungarian: “Csilin”
- Icelandic: “Jilin”
- Ido: “Provinco Jilin”
- Indonesian: “Jilin”
- Interlingua: “Jilin”
- Irish: “Jilin”
- Italian: “Jilin”
- Japanese: “吉林省”
- Javanese: “Jilin”
- Kannada: “ಜಿಲಿನ್”
- Kashmiri: “جیٖلِن”
- Kazakh: “Джилін”
- Khmer: “ជីលីន”
- Kirghiz: “Гирин”
- Kirghiz: “Жилин”
- Kongo: “Jilin”
- Korean: “길림”
- Korean: “길림성”
- Korean: “지린성”
- Kurdish: “Jilin”
- Latin: “Jilin”
- Latin: “Jilinensis”
- Latvian: “Dzjiliņa”
- Literary Chinese: “吉林省”
- Lithuanian: “Dzilinas”
- Lombard: “Jilin (provincia)”
- Lombard: “Jilin”
- Macedonian: “Ѓилин”
- Malagasy: “Jilin”
- Malay: “Jilin”
- Manchu: “ᡤᡳᡵᡳᠨ ᡤᠣᠯᠣ”
- Manipuri: “ꯖꯤꯂꯤꯟ”
- Manx: “Jilin”
- Marathi: “चीलिन”
- Mazanderani: “جیلین”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Gék-lìng”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kiat-lîm-séng”
- Mingrelian: “გირინი (ჩინეთი)”
- Mingrelian: “გირინი”
- Mongolian: “Гирин муж”
- Mongolian: “Гирин”
- Nepali: “जिलिन”
- Northern Frisian: “Jilin”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jilin”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jilin”
- Norwegian: “Jilin”
- Novial: “Jilin”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Jilin”
- Oromo: “Jilin”
- Ossetian: “Цзилинь”
- Pampanga: “Jilin”
- Panjabi: “ਜਿਲਿਨ”
- Panjabi: “ਜੀਲਿਨ”
- Persian: “جیلین”
- Persian: “جیلین”
- Polish: “Jilin”
- Portuguese: “Jilin”
- Pushto: “جيلين”
- Quechua: “Jilin pruwinsya”
- Romanian: “Jilin”
- Russian: “Гирин”
- Russian: “Цзилинь”
- Scots: “Jilin”
- Serbian: “Ђилин”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Jilin”
- Sindhi: “جيلن صوبو”
- Sinhala: “ජිලින්”
- Slovak: “Ťi-lin”
- Slovenian: “Džilin”
- Somali: “Jilin”
- Spanish: “Jilin”
- Swahili: “Jilin”
- Swedish: “Jilin”
- Tagalog: “Jilin”
- Tajik: “Жилин”
- Tajik: “Ҷилин”
- Tamil: “சிலின் மாகாணம்”
- Tatar: “Җилин”
- Telugu: “జిలిన్”
- Thai: “มณฑลจี๋หลิน”
- Tibetan: “ཅི་ལིན་ཞིང་ཆེན།”
- Turkish: “Jilin”
- Uighur: “جىلىن ئۆلكىسى”
- Ukrainian: “Цзілінь”
- Urdu: “جیلن”
- Uzbek: “Girin”
- Uzbek: “Jilin”
- Venetian: “Jilin”
- Vietnamese: “Cát Lâm”
- Waray (Philippines): “Jilin”
- Welsh: “Jilin”
- Western Armenian: “Ճիլին”
- Western Panjabi: “جیلن”
- Wu Chinese: “吉林省”
- Yakut: “Цзилинь”
- Yue Chinese: “吉林”
- Zhuang: “Gizlinz”
- “吉林省”
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