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Jilin

Jilin Province forms the central part of northeast and is part of what was once known as Manchuria. Jilin borders Province to the northeast, to the east, to the southeast, to the southwest and to the northwest.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Changchun and Jilin.

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is the capital of Jilin Province. With a population of more than 6 million, it is one of the major cities in Northeast China, and is the largest center for China's automotive industry.

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is one of the most beautiful cities in Manchuria. 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.

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, formerly Sipingjie, is a prefecture-level city in the west of Jilin province, . It has a total population of 1,814,733 inhabitants, as of the 2020 census.

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is an autonomous prefecture in Jilin province of , next to the border with and . It is home to the largest ethnic Korean community outside Korea.

is a prefecture-level city in Jilin province, People's Republic of China. It is bounded on the west and south by of province, west and north by , and east by and .

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is a prefecture-level city in the northwestern part of Jilin province, , bordering to the north and west and to the east and northeast.

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is a prefecture-level city in the south of Jilin province, People's Republic of China. It borders 's to the south and southeast, to the east, to the north, to the northwest, and province to the west and southwest.

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, is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Jilin province, in the part of . "白山" literally means "White Mountain", and is named after Changbai Mountain.

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is a city in Jilin Province in .

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Ji'an is in Jilin province in north east . It is on the banks of the Yalu River which forms the border; the Korean city of Manpo is across the river.

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is in Jilin province.
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Jilin

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
node 244080890
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
2036500
Wiki­data ID
Q45208
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zhuang—“Jilin” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Jilin”
  • Afrikaans: “Jilin”
  • Arabic: “جيلين”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة جيلين”
  • Armenian: “Գիրին”
  • Asturian: “Jilin”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qirin”
  • Balinese: “Jilin”
  • Basque: “Jilin”
  • Belarusian: “Гірын”
  • Belarusian: “Правінцыя Гірын”
  • Belarusian: “Цзілінь”
  • Bengali: “চিলিন”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • Khmer: “ជីលីន”
  • Kirghiz: “Гирин”
  • 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”
  • Ossetian: “Цзилинь”
  • Pampanga: “Jilin”
  • Panjabi: “ਜੀਲਿਨ”
  • Persian: “جی لین”
  • Persian: “جی‌لین”
  • Persian: “جیلین”
  • Polish: “Cilin”
  • Polish: “Jilin”
  • Portuguese: “Jilin”
  • 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”
  • Spanish: “Jilin”
  • Swahili: “Jilin”
  • Swedish: “Jilin”
  • Tagalog: “Jilin”
  • Tajik: “Ҷилин”
  • Tamil: “சிலின் மாகாணம்”
  • Tamil: “ஜீலின்”
  • 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: “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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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 “Jilin”. Photo: Hshook, CC BY-SA 4.0.