Linfen

Linfen is a city of . Linfen prefecture is home to several notable tourist attractions including the Hukou Waterfall which is the largest waterfall on the Yellow River and the second largest in China.
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  • Type: City with 3,860,000 residents
  • Description: prefecture-level city in Shanxi Province, China
  • Also known as: “city of Lin-fen”, “city of Linfen”, “Lin-fen City”, “Lin-fen Prefecture”, “Lin-fen Shih”, “Lin-fen Ti-ch’u”, “Lin-fen-hsien”, “Lin-fen-shih”, “Linfen City”, “Linfen Prefecture”, “Linfenshi”, “Pingyang”, “Pingyangfu”, “Saratsi”, “Yaodu Qu”, “りんふんし”, and “临汾地区”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Tiefo Temple.

Buddhist temple
Photo: Brookqi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a Buddhist temple.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jiefanglu and Liucun.

Suburb
Jiefang Road Subdistrict is a subdistrict in , Linfen, , China.

Town
is a town in , Linfen, province, China.

Linfen

Latitude
36.0833° or 36° 4′ 60″ north
Longitude
111.5083° or 111° 30′ 30″ east
Population
3,860,000
Elevation
451 metres (1,480 feet)
Named after
旧称“平阳”，隋开皇年间为避杨坚讳而改名“临汾”，取滨临汾河之意
IATA airport code
LFQ
Open location code
8P8H3GM5+88
Open­Street­Map ID
node 6160828809
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1803567
Wiki­data ID
Q73156
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Linfen” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “لينفن”
  • Asturian: “Linfen”
  • Basque: “Linfen”
  • Bengali: “লিনফেন”
  • Catalan: “Linfen”
  • Chinese: “Línfén Shì”
  • Chinese: “临汾”
  • Chinese: “临汾市”
  • Chinese: “尧都区”
  • Chinese: “平阳”
  • Chinese: “平阳府”
  • Chinese: “臨汾市”
  • Czech: “Lin-fen”
  • Danish: “Linfen”
  • Dutch: “Linfen”
  • Esperanto: “Linfen”
  • Estonian: “Linfen Shi”
  • Estonian: “Linfen”
  • Finnish: “Linfen”
  • French: “Linfen”
  • Gan Chinese: “临汾市”
  • Georgian: “ლინფენი”
  • German: “Linfen”
  • Greek: “Λινφέν”
  • Gujarati: “લિનફેન”
  • Hebrew: “לינפן”
  • Hindi: “लिनफेन”
  • Hindi: “लिन्फ़ेन”
  • Hungarian: “Linfen”
  • Indonesian: “Linfen”
  • Irish: “Linfen”
  • Italian: “Linfen”
  • Japanese: “臨汾市”
  • Kannada: “ಲಿನ್ಫೆನ್”
  • Kikuyu: “Linfen”
  • Korean: “린펀 시”
  • Korean: “린펀시”
  • Latvian: “Linfen”
  • Lithuanian: “Linfenas”
  • Malagasy: “Linfen”
  • Malay: “Linfen”
  • Marathi: “लिंफेन”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Lìng-hŭng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lîm-hun-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Linfen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Linfen”
  • Norwegian: “Linfen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Linfen”
  • Persian: “لینفن”
  • Polish: “Linfen”
  • Portuguese: “Linfen”
  • Russian: “Линьфынь”
  • Russian: “Линьфэнь”
  • Serbian: “Линфен”
  • Sinhala: “ලින්ෆෙන්”
  • Spanish: “Linfen”
  • Swedish: “Linfen”
  • Tamil: “லின்பெண்”
  • Telugu: “లిన్ ఫెన్”
  • Thai: “หลินเฟิน”
  • Turkish: “Linfen”
  • Ukrainian: “Ліньфень”
  • Ukrainian: “Ліньфинь”
  • Urdu: “لینفین”
  • Venetian: “Linfen”
  • Vietnamese: “Lâm Phần”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Linfen”
  • Welsh: “Linfen”
  • Wu Chinese: “临汾市”
  • Yue Chinese: “臨汾”

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