Jishou
Jishou is in Hunan, and is the capital of the Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture. Jishou has little to offer the tourist, but it is the jumping off point for scenic spots like Dehang and Fenghuang.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 409,000 residents
- Description: county-level city
- Also known as: “Ch’ien-ch’eng”, “Chi-shou”, “Chi-shou-hsien”, “Jishou City”, “Kishow”, “Qianzhou”, and “So-li”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Qianzhou.
Qianzhou
Suburb
Qianzhou is a subdistrict and the seat of Jishou City in Hunan, China. The subdistrict is located in the south of the city, it is bordered by Fenghuang County to the west and southwest, Luxi County to the southeast and east, Donghe, Zhenxi and Majing'ao subdistricts to the north.
Jishou
- Categories: county-level city and locality
- Location: Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Hunan, South-central China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
28.2653° or 28° 15′ 55″ northLongitude
109.6939° or 109° 41′ 38″ eastPopulation
409,000Elevation
201 metres (659 feet)United Nations Location Code
CN JSOOpen location code
7PWF7M8V+4GOpenStreetMap ID
node 244080939OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Jishou” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جيشو”
- Basque: “Jishou”
- Bengali: “জিসুউ”
- Cebuano: “Jishou Shi (gatos sa Republikang Popular sa Tsina)”
- Cebuano: “Jishou Shi”
- Chinese: “Jíshǒu Shì”
- Chinese: “Kiat-siú-chhī”
- Chinese: “乾城”
- Chinese: “乾城县”
- Chinese: “乾城縣”
- Chinese: “乾州”
- Chinese: “吉首”
- Chinese: “吉首县”
- Chinese: “吉首市”
- Czech: “Ťi-šou”
- Danish: “Jishou”
- Dutch: “Jishou”
- Finnish: “Jishou”
- French: “Jishou”
- Gan Chinese: “吉首市”
- German: “Jishou”
- Greek: “Τζίσου”
- Gujarati: “જિશૌ”
- Hebrew: “ג’ישואו”
- Hindi: “जिशोउ”
- Igbo: “Jishou”
- Indonesian: “Jishou”
- Italian: “Jishou”
- Japanese: “乾城県”
- Japanese: “吉首市”
- Japanese: “吉首県”
- Kannada: “ಜಿಶೌ”
- Kikuyu: “Jishou”
- Korean: “지서우시”
- Kurdish: “Jishou”
- Latvian: “Dzišou”
- Lithuanian: “Dzišou”
- Malagasy: “Jishou”
- Malay: “Jishou”
- Marathi: “जीशोऊ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kiat-siú-chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jishou”
- Norwegian: “Jishou”
- Pampanga: “Jishou”
- Polish: “Jishou”
- Portuguese: “Jishou”
- Russian: “Цзишоу”
- Scots: “Jishou”
- Sinhala: “ජිෂෝ”
- Spanish: “Jishou”
- Swedish: “Jishou”
- Tamil: “ஜீஷாவு”
- Telugu: “జిషౌ”
- Thai: “ไกเชาส์”
- Turkish: “Jishou”
- Ukrainian: “Цзішоу”
- Urdu: “جیسہؤ”
- Uzbek: “Jieshou”
- Vietnamese: “Cát Thủ”
- Waray (Philippines): “Jishou”
- Welsh: “Jishou”
- Wu Chinese: “吉首市”
- Yue Chinese: “吉首”
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