Linfen
Linfen is a city of Shanxi. 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 617,000 residents
- Description: prefecture-level city in Shanxi Province, China
- Also known as: “city of Lin-fen”, “city of Linfen”, “Lin-fen”, “Lin-fen City”, “Lin-fen Prefecture”, “Lin-fen Shih”, “Lin-fen Ti-ch’u”, “Lin-fen-hsien”, “Lin-fen-shih”, “Linfen City”, “Linfen Prefecture”, “Linfen Shi”, “Linfenshi”, “Pingyang”, “Pingyangfu”, “Saratsi”, “Yaodu Qu”, and “临汾地区”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tiefo Temple.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jiefanglu and Liucun.
Jiefanglu
Suburb
Jiefang Road Subdistrict is a subdistrict in Yaodu District, Linfen, Shanxi, China. As of the 2010 Chinese Census, the subdistrict's population is 60,070.
Liucun
Town
Liucun is a town in Yaodu District, Linfen, Shanxi province, China. As of 2020, it has four residential neighborhoods and 31 villages under its administration:…
Linfen
- Categories: prefecture-level city, big city, and locality
- Location: Shanxi, North China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.0833° or 36° 4′ 60″ northLongitude
111.5083° or 111° 30′ 30″ eastPopulation
617,000Elevation
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
LFQOpen location code
8P8H3GM5+88OpenStreetMap ID
node 6160828809OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1803567Wikidata ID
Q73156
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Satellite Map
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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: “Lîm-hun-chhī”
- Chinese: “临汾”
- Chinese: “临汾市”
- Chinese: “尧都区”
- Chinese: “平阳”
- Chinese: “平阳府”
- Chinese: “臨汾”
- 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: “りんふんし”
- 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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