Kaiping

Kaiping is a pastoral area in , , full of rice fields and old-fashioned villages, that is known for its hundreds of diāolóu. These watchtower dwellings, scattered around the countryside, were built in the early 20th century by overseas Chinese in a mixture of western and eastern styles.
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  • Type: City with 301,000 residents
  • Description: county-level city in Jiangmen, Guangdong Province
  • Also known as: Hoiping”, “Hoy Ping”, “K’ai-p’ing Hsien”, “Kāipíng”, “Kaiping City”, and “Kaiping Xian

Places of Interest

Highlights include Pantower International Hotel.

Hotel

Kaiping

Latitude
22.38° or 22° 22′ 48″ north
Longitude
112.6932° or 112° 41′ 36″ east
Population
301,000
Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)
Open location code
7PJJ9MHV+X7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 528558670
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1804862
Wiki­data ID
Q599514
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Kaiping” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: كيانبينغ
  • Bengali: কাইপিং
  • Bengali: খাইফিং
  • Cebuano: Kaiping Shi
  • Chinese: Kāipíng Shì
  • Chinese: Khai-pêng-chhī
  • Chinese: 开平
  • Chinese: 开平市
  • Chinese: 開平
  • Chinese: 開平市
  • Croatian: Kaiping
  • Czech: Kchaj-pching
  • Danish: Kaiping
  • Dutch: Kaiping
  • Finnish: Kaiping
  • French: Kaiping
  • Gan Chinese: 开平市
  • German: Kaiping
  • Greek: Καϊπίνγκ
  • Gujarati: કેપિંગ
  • Hakka Chinese: Khôi-phìn-sṳ
  • Hebrew: קאיפינג
  • Hebrew: קָאיְפִּינְג
  • Hindi: कायपिंग
  • Hungarian: Kajping
  • Indonesian: Kaiping
  • Italian: Kaiping
  • Japanese: 開平市
  • Kannada: ಕೈಪಿಂಗ್
  • Kikuyu: Kaiping
  • Korean: 카이핑시
  • Kurdish: Kaiping
  • Latvian: Kaipinga
  • Lithuanian: Kaipimgas
  • Malay: Kaiping
  • Marathi: कॅपिंग
  • Min Nan Chinese: Khai-pêng-chhī
  • Mirandese: Kaiping
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Kaiping
  • Norwegian: Kaiping
  • Pampanga: Kaiping
  • Persian: کایپینگ
  • Polish: Kaiping
  • Portuguese: Kaiping
  • Russian: Кайпин
  • Russian: Саньбу
  • Serbian: Каипинг
  • Serbo-Croatian: Kaiping
  • Sinhala: කයිපින්ග්
  • Slovenian: Kalping
  • Spanish: Kaiping
  • Swedish: Kaiping
  • Tamil: காய்ப்பிங்
  • Telugu: కాయ్పిన్గ్
  • Thai: ไคผิง
  • Turkish: Kaiping
  • Ukrainian: Кайпін
  • Ukrainian: Кайпінг
  • Urdu: کائپنگ
  • Vietnamese: Khai Bình, Giang Môn
  • Vietnamese: Khai Bình
  • Welsh: Kaiping
  • Western Panjabi: کائیپینگ
  • Wu Chinese: 开平市
  • Yue Chinese: Hoipen
  • Yue Chinese: 開平

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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 “Kaiping”. Photo: xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0.