Jingzhou
Jingzhou is a city in Hubei 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Popolon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Popolon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- 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 Statue of Guan Yu and Wanshoubao pagoda.
Statue of Guan Yu
Work of art
Photo: SifaV6, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Guan Yu Statue was a large monument to deified Chinese military general Guan Yu that formerly stood in Jingzhou, China. The statue was completed in 2016 but was dismantled in 2022, pending reconstruction in another location.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yingcheng.
Yingcheng
Town
Yingcheng is a town in Jingzhou District, Jingzhou, Hubei province, China. As of 2020, it administers the following four residential communities and six villages:…
Jingzhou
- Categories: prefecture-level city, big city, and locality
- Location: Hubei, South-central China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
30.3376° or 30° 20′ 15″ northLongitude
112.2337° or 112° 14′ 1″ eastPopulation
1,150,000Elevation
39 metres (128 feet)Open location code
8P2J86QM+2FOpenStreetMap ID
node 244080788OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1805540Wikidata 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: “Dzinĝou”
- 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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