NW China
Gansu
Jiuquan

Mogao Caves

The Mogao Caves, also known as the Thousand Buddha Grottoes or Caves of the Thousand Buddhas, form a system of 500 temples 25 km southeast of the center of , an oasis located at a religious and cultural crossroads on the Silk Road, in province, China.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: caves in Dunhuang City, Gansu, China
  • Also known as: “Dunhuang Caves” and “Mogao ku”

Mogao Caves

Latitude
40.03732° or 40° 2′ 14″ north
Longitude
94.80421° or 94° 48′ 15″ east
Open location code
8MGP2RP3+WM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 512563307
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Wiki­data ID
Q43286
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Mogao Caves” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كهوف موغاو”
  • Armenian: “Մոգաոյի քարանձավներ”
  • Asturian: “Cueves de Mogao”
  • Azerbaijani: “Moqao mağaraları”
  • Bashkir: “Могао мәмерйәһе”
  • Basque: “Dunhuang haitzuloak”
  • Basque: “Dunhuang leizeak”
  • Basque: “Mila Buden leizeak”
  • Basque: “Mogao haitzuloak”
  • Basque: “Mogao leizeak”
  • Belarusian: “Магао”
  • Belarusian: “Пячоры Магаа”
  • Bulgarian: “Пещери Могао”
  • Catalan: “coves de Mogao”
  • Catalan: “Coves de Mogao”
  • Catalan: “Mogao”
  • Chinese: “敦煌石窟”
  • Chinese: “敦煌莫高窟”
  • Chinese: “莫高窟”
  • Croatian: “Mogao špilje”
  • Czech: “Jeskyně Mo kao”
  • Czech: “Jeskyně Mo-kao”
  • Czech: “Jeskyně Mokao”
  • Czech: “Jeskyně Mu-kao”
  • Czech: “Jeskyně tisíce buddhů”
  • Czech: “Mo-kao”
  • Czech: “Mogao”
  • Czech: “Mu-kao”
  • Danish: “Dunhuanggrotterne”
  • Danish: “Mogaogrotterne”
  • Dutch: “Grotten van Mogao”
  • Dutch: “Mogao Cave”
  • Dutch: “Mogao Caves”
  • Dutch: “Mogao Grot”
  • Dutch: “Mogao Grotten”
  • Dutch: “Mogao-Grot”
  • Dutch: “Mogao-grotten”
  • Dutch: “Mogao”
  • Dutch: “Mogaogrot”
  • Dutch: “Mogaogrotten”
  • Esperanto: “Milbudha Kaverno”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝtonkavernaro de Mogao”
  • Finnish: “Mogao-luolat”
  • Finnish: “Tuhannen Buddhan luola”
  • Finnish: “Tuhannen Buddhan luolat”
  • French: “Fresques de Dunhuang”
  • French: “Grottes de Dunhuang”
  • French: “grottes de Mogao”
  • French: “Grottes de Mogao”
  • Galician: “Covas de Mogao”
  • Galician: “Grutas de Mogao”
  • Georgian: “მოგაოს მღვიმეები”
  • German: “Mogao ku”
  • German: “Mogao-Grotten”
  • German: “Mogao”
  • German: “Mogaoku”
  • Greek: “Σπήλαια Μογκάο”
  • Greek: “Σπήλαια των Χιλίων Βούδων”
  • Hausa: “Kogon Mogao”
  • Hebrew: “מערות מוגאו”
  • Hindi: “मोगाओ गुफ़ाएँ”
  • Hungarian: “Mokao-barlangok”
  • Indonesian: “Gua Mogao”
  • Italian: “grotte di Mogao”
  • Italian: “Grotte di Mogao”
  • Italian: “Grotte Mogao”
  • Japanese: “莫高窟”
  • Kazakh: “Могао”
  • Korean: “둔황 석굴”
  • Korean: “둔황 천불동”
  • Korean: “둔황석굴”
  • Korean: “막고굴”
  • Korean: “모가오쿠”
  • Latvian: “Mogao alas”
  • Lithuanian: “Mogao urvai”
  • Luxembourgish: “Mogao Grotten”
  • Macedonian: “Могао”
  • Macedonian: “Пештери Могао”
  • Malayalam: “മോഗൗ ഗുഹകൾ”
  • Maltese: “Għerien ta‘ Mogao”
  • Maltese: “Għerien ta’ Mogao”
  • Maltese: “Grotti ta‘ Mogao”
  • Nepali: “मोगो गुफाहरु”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dunhuanggrottene”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mogaogrottene”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mogaoku”
  • Norwegian: “Mogaogrottene”
  • Persian: “غار موگای”
  • Polish: “Groty Dunhuang”
  • Polish: “Groty Mogao”
  • Polish: “Groty Tysiąca Buddów”
  • Polish: “Jaskinie Dunhuang”
  • Polish: “Jaskinie Mogao”
  • Polish: “Jaskinie Tysiąca Buddów”
  • Polish: “Mogao Ku”
  • Polish: “Mogao”
  • Polish: “Qianfodong”
  • Portuguese: “Grutas de Mogao”
  • Romanian: “Grota Mogao”
  • Romanian: “Grotele Mogao”
  • Russian: “Могао”
  • Russian: “Пещеры Могао”
  • Russian: “Цяньфодун”
  • Serbian: “Pećine Mogao”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mogao pećine”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mogao spilje”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mogao špilje”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Spilje Mogao”
  • Slovak: “Mo-kao kchu”
  • Slovenian: “Jame Mogao”
  • Spanish: “Cuevas de Mogao”
  • Spanish: “Grutas de Mogao”
  • Spanish: “Las grutas de los diez mil budas”
  • Swedish: “Mogaogrottorna”
  • Tamil: “முகௌக் கற்குகை”
  • Tamil: “மொகாவோ கற்குகைகள்”
  • Tatar: “Могао мәгарәләре”
  • Telugu: “మొగావో గుహలు”
  • Thai: “Mogao Caves”
  • Thai: “ถ้ำมั่วเกา”
  • Thai: “ถ้ำโม่เกา”
  • Tibetan: “མོའོ་ཀའོ་བྲག་ཕུག”
  • Turkish: “Mogao Mağaraları”
  • Ukrainian: “Печери Могао”
  • Ukrainian: “Печери Моґао”
  • Uzbek: “‘Ming uy’”
  • Uzbek: “‘Ming Uy’”
  • Uzbek: “Ming uy”
  • Uzbek: “Ming Uy”
  • Uzbek: “Mogaoku”
  • Vietnamese: “Động Đôn Hoàng”
  • Vietnamese: “Hang đá Mạc Cao”
  • Vietnamese: “Hang Mạc Cao Đôn Hoàng”
  • Vietnamese: “Hang Mạc Cao”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mga Lungib Mogao”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mogao Caves”
  • Western Panjabi: “موغاؤ گفاواں”
  • Wu Chinese: “莫高窟”
  • Yue Chinese: “敦煌石窟”
  • Yue Chinese: “莫高窟”

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