Jingzhou

Jingzhou is a city in Province on the banks of the Yangtze River. It has been an important historical city for 6,000 years, and is particularly famous for being the capital for the State of Chu during the Warring States Period, and for its importance during the Three Kingdoms Period.
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  • Type: City with 1,150,000 residents
  • Description: prefecture-level city in Hubei, China
  • Also known as: “Chiang-ling”, “Chiang-ling-hsien”, “Ching-chou”, “Chingchou-fu”, “Jiangling”, “Kiangling”, “Kiangling-hsien”, “Kingchow”, “Kingchowfu”, and “Kingling”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Wanshoubao pagoda and Jingzhou South Gate Catholic Church.

Building
Photo: Zhangzhugang, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a building.

Church
Photo: Zhangzhugang, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Yingcheng.

Town
is a town in Jingzhou District, Jingzhou, province, . As of 2020, it administers the following four residential communities and six villages:…

Jingzhou

Latitude
30.3376° or 30° 20′ 15″ north
Longitude
112.2337° or 112° 14′ 1″ east
Population
1,150,000
Elevation
39 metres (128 feet)
IATA airport code
SHS
United Nations Location Codes
CN JGU and CN JGZ
Open location code
8P2J86QM+2F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244080788
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1805540
Wiki­data ID
Q71247
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Jingzhou” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Jingtsjou”
  • Afrikaans: “Jingzhou”
  • Arabic: “جينغتشو”
  • Asturian: “Jingzhou”
  • Basque: “Jingzhou”
  • Bengali: “চিংচৌ”
  • Bulgarian: “Дзинджоу”
  • Catalan: “Jingzhou”
  • Chinese: “Jīngzhōu Shì”
  • Chinese: “Keng-chiu-chhī”
  • Chinese: “荆州”
  • Chinese: “荆州市”
  • Chinese: “荊州”
  • Chinese: “荊州市”
  • Croatian: “Jingzhou”
  • Czech: “Ťing-čou”
  • Danish: “Jingzhou”
  • Dutch: “Jingzhou”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جينج تشينج”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉinĝou”
  • Esperanto: “Jingzhou”
  • Finnish: “Jingzhou”
  • French: “Jingzhou”
  • French: “Yingdu”
  • Gan Chinese: “荆州市”
  • Georgian: “ძინგჭოუ”
  • German: “Jingzhou”
  • Greek: “Τζινγκζόου”
  • Gujarati: “જિંગઝોઉ”
  • Hebrew: “ג’ינגג’ואו”
  • Hindi: “जिंग्ज़्हौ”
  • Hungarian: “Csingcsou”
  • Indonesian: “Jingzhou”
  • Irish: “Jingzhou”
  • Italian: “Jingzhou”
  • Japanese: “荊州市”
  • Kannada: “ಜಿಂಗ್ಝೌ”
  • Kikuyu: “Jingzhou”
  • Korean: “징저우 시”
  • Korean: “징저우시”
  • Kurdish: “Jingzhou”
  • Latvian: “Dzindžou”
  • Lithuanian: “Dzingdžou”
  • Luxembourgish: “Jingzhou”
  • Malagasy: “Jingzhou”
  • Malay: “Jingzhou”
  • Marathi: “जिंगझोऊ”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Gĭng-ciŭ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Keng-chiu-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Jingzhou”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jingzhou”
  • Norwegian: “Jingzhou”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Jingzhou”
  • Pampanga: “Jingzhou”
  • Persian: “جیانگژو”
  • Persian: “جینگژو”
  • Polish: “Jingzhou”
  • Portuguese: “Jingzhou”
  • Russian: “Цзинчжоу”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Jingzhou”
  • Sinhala: “ජින්ග්සෝ”
  • Spanish: “Jingzhou”
  • Swedish: “Jingzhou”
  • Tagalog: “Jingzhou”
  • Tamil: “ஜிங்ஷோவு”
  • Telugu: “జింగజ్హౌ”
  • Thai: “จิงโจว”
  • Thai: “จิ่นโจว”
  • Turkish: “Jingzhou”
  • Ukrainian: “Цзінчжоу”
  • Urdu: “جنگژوو”
  • Venetian: “Jingzhou”
  • Vietnamese: “Kinh Châu”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Jingzhou”
  • Welsh: “Jingzhou”
  • Wu Chinese: “荆州市”
  • Yue Chinese: “荊州”

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