Lijiang
Lijiang is a small city in Yunnan Province, China; it was once the capital of a small kingdom. Today it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a busy tourist town.
- City with about 1,250,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 2,400 metres (7,870 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code LJG
- Description: prefecture-level city in Yunnan, China
- Also known as“Jang Sadam”“Li-chiang”“Lijiang City”“Likiang”“Likiang-hsien”“Ta-yen-chen”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mu’s Mansion and Wangu Tower.
Wangu Tower
Wangu Pavilion is located on Lion Hill, within the Old Town of Lijiang district, Yunnan, China.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yulong and Lijiang Old City.
Lijiang Old City
Dayan, commonly called the Old Town of Lijiang is the…
Lijiang
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Latitude
26.8596° or 26° 51′ 35″ north
Longitude
100.225° or 100° 13′ 30″ east
Open location code
7PR2V65F+RX
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OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Lijiang” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Lijiang”
- Arabic: “ليجيانج”
- Armenian: “Լիծյան”
- Armenian: “Լիցզյան”
- Asturian: “Lijiang”
- Azerbaijani: “Lijiang”
- Azerbaijani: “Liszyan”
- Basque: “Lijiang”
- Bavarian: “Lijiang”
- Bengali: “লিচিয়াং”
- Catalan: “Lijiang”
- Cebuano: “Lijiang”
- Chinese: “丽江”
- Chinese: “丽江市”
- Chinese: “麗江”
- Chinese: “麗江市”
- Croatian: “Lijiang”
- Czech: “Li-ťiang”
- Danish: “Lijiang”
- Dutch: “Lijiang”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ليجيانج”
- Esperanto: “Lijiang”
- Estonian: “Lijiang”
- Finnish: “Lijiang”
- French: “Li Jiang”
- French: “Likiang”
- Gan Chinese: “丽江市”
- Georgian: “ლიძიანი”
- German: “Lijiang”
- German: “丽江市”
- Hakka Chinese: “Li-kông-sṳ”
- Hebrew: “ליג’יאנג”
- Hindi: “लिजिआंग, युन्नान”
- Hindi: “लिजिआंग”
- Hungarian: “Licsiang”
- Indonesian: “Kota Lijiang”
- Indonesian: “Lijiang”
- Irish: “Lijiang”
- Italian: “Lijiang”
- Japanese: “麗江”
- Japanese: “麗江ナシ族自治県”
- Japanese: “麗江市”
- Kikuyu: “Lijiang”
- Kirghiz: “Лицзян шаары”
- Korean: “려강”
- Korean: “려강시”
- Korean: “리장 시”
- Korean: “리장”
- Korean: “여강”
- Literary Chinese: “麗江市”
- Lithuanian: “Lidziangas”
- Malagasy: “Lijiang”
- Malay: “Lijiang”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Lâ̤-gŏng”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lē-kang-chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lijiang”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lijiang”
- Norwegian: “Lijiang”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Lijiang”
- Persian: “لیجیانگ”
- Pinyin: “Lìjiāng”
- Polish: “Liciang”
- Polish: “Lijiang”
- Portuguese: “Cidade Antiga de Lijiang”
- Portuguese: “Lijiang”
- Russian: “Даянь”
- Russian: “Лицзян”
- Scots: “Lijiang”
- Serbian: “Лиђанг”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lijiang”
- Slovak: “Li-ťiang”
- Slovenian: “Lidžjang”
- Spanish: “Lijiang”
- Swedish: “Lijiang”
- Swedish: “Likiang”
- Tagalog: “Lijiang”
- Thai: “เมืองเก่าลี่เจียง”
- Thai: “เมืองลี่เจียง”
- Thai: “ลี่เจียง”
- Turkish: “Lijiang”
- Uighur: “Lijyang shehiri”
- Uighur: “لىجياڭ شەھىرى”
- Ukrainian: “Ліцзян”
- Urdu: “لیجیانگ”
- Venetian: “Lijiang”
- Vietnamese: “Lệ Giang”
- Vietnamese: “Thành cổ Lệ Giang”
- Welsh: “Lijiang”
- Wu Chinese: “丽江市”
- Yue Chinese: “麗江”
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