Maqu
Maqu is a county-level town in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the southern part of Gansu Province.
- Type: Locality with 57,100 residents
- Description: county in Gannan, Gansu, China
- Also known as: “Comte de Maqu”, “Comté de Maqu”, “Ma-ch’ü Hsien”, “Machu”, “Machu County”, “Maqu County”, “maqu xian”, “maquxian”, and “瑪曲県”
Maqu
- Category: county of China
- Location: Gannan, Gansu, Northwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
33.868° or 33° 52′ 5″ north
Longitude
101.7112° or 101° 42′ 40″ east
Population
57,100
Elevation
3,726 metres (12,224 feet)
Open location code
8P53VP96+5F
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Wu Chinese—“Maqu” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Maqu Xian”
- Chinese: “玛曲”
- Chinese: “玛曲县”
- Chinese: “瑪曲縣”
- Dutch: “Maqu”
- French: “xian de Maqu”
- French: “Xian de Maqu”
- Gan Chinese: “玛曲县”
- German: “Maqu”
- Italian: “Contea di Maqu”
- Japanese: “マチュ県”
- Korean: “마취현”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Maqu-koān”
- Mirandese: “Maqu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Maqu”
- Norwegian: “Maqu”
- Persian: “شهرستان ماچو”
- Russian: “Мачу”
- Spanish: “Măqŭ Xiàn”
- Spanish: “Maqu”
- Swedish: “Maqu”
- Tibetan: “རྨ་ཆུ་རྫོང་།”
- Ukrainian: “Мачу”
- Urdu: “ماچو کاؤنٹی”
- Vietnamese: “Mã Khúc”
- Wu Chinese: “玛曲县”
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