Leshan
Leshan is a city in Sichuan Province. Sitting on the confluence of the Dadu, Mín and Qingyi rivers it is most famous for its huge riverside cliff-carving of Buddha and nearby Mount Emei; which together are a World Heritage Site.
- Type: City with 3,160,000 residents
- Description: prefecture-level city in Sichuan, China
- Also known as: “Chia-ting”, “Jiading”, “Kiating”, “Kiatingfu”, “Lạc Sơn, Tứ Xuyên”, “Lo-shan”, and “Lo-shan-hsien”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Leshan.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lüxin and Haitang Subdistrict.
Haitang Subdistrict
Suburb
Haitang Subdistrict is a subdistrict in Shizhong District of Leshan, Sichuan, China.
Leshan
- Categories: prefecture-level city of China, big city, and locality
- Location: East Sichuan, Sichuan, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
29.5851° or 29° 35′ 7″ north
Longitude
103.7478° or 103° 44′ 52″ east
Population
3,160,000
Elevation
375 metres (1,230 feet)
IATA airport code
LSG
UN/LOCODE
CN LES
Open location code
7PX5HPPX+34
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Leshan” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ليشان”
- Armenian: “Լեշան”
- Asturian: “Leshan”
- Basque: “Leshan”
- Bengali: “লিসান”
- Catalan: “Leshan”
- Chinese: “Lèshān Shì”
- Chinese: “乐山”
- Chinese: “乐山市”
- Chinese: “樂山市”
- Czech: “Le-šan”
- Danish: “Leshan”
- Dutch: “Leshan”
- Esperanto: “Leŝan”
- Esperanto: “Leshan”
- Finnish: “Leshan”
- French: “Leshan”
- Galician: “Leshan”
- Gan Chinese: “乐山市”
- German: “Leshan”
- Greek: “Λισάν”
- Gujarati: “લેશન”
- Hebrew: “לשאן”
- Hindi: “लेशान”
- Hungarian: “Lösan”
- Indonesian: “Leshan”
- Irish: “Leshan”
- Italian: “Leshan”
- Japanese: “楽山市”
- Kannada: “ಲೆಶನ್”
- Kikuyu: “Leshan”
- Korean: “러산 시”
- Korean: “러산시”
- Latin: “Leshan”
- Latvian: “Lešana”
- Lithuanian: “Lešanas”
- Malagasy: “Leshan”
- Malay: “Leshan”
- Marathi: “लेशान”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Lŏk-săng”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lo̍k-san-chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Leshan”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Leshan”
- Norwegian: “Leshan”
- Ossetian: “Лэшань”
- Persian: “لیشان”
- Polish: “Leshan”
- Portuguese: “Leshan”
- Russian: “Лэшань”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Leshan”
- Sichuan Yi: “ꇊꎭꏃ”
- Sinhala: “ලේෂන්”
- Spanish: “Leshan”
- Swedish: “Leshan”
- Tamil: “லோஷன்”
- Telugu: “లేషన్”
- Thai: “เล่อซาน”
- Turkish: “Leshan”
- Uighur: “لېشەن”
- Ukrainian: “Лешань”
- Urdu: “لیشان”
- Venetian: “Leshan”
- Vietnamese: “Lạc Sơn”
- Waray (Philippines): “Leshan”
- Welsh: “Leshan”
- Wu Chinese: “乐山市”
- Yakut: “Лэшань”
- Yue Chinese: “樂山”
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Places to explore: Baiyang and Zhanggongqiao.
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