China
East China
Jiangsu

Nanjing

Nanjing, historically also Nanking, is the capital of province in . At more than 8 million inhabitants, it is one of China's largest cities.
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  • Type: City with 9,310,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Jiangsu Province, China, former capital of the Republic of China and China’s Ming dynasty
  • Also known as: “Jiangning”, “Kiang-ning”, “Kiangning”, “Nan Jing”, “Nan-ching-shih”, “Nan-king”, “Nankin”, and “Nanking”
  • Neighbors: , , , and
Photo: 董辰兴, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Presidential Palace and DeJi Plaza.

Museum
Photo: Ken Marshall, CC BY 2.0.
The in Nanjing, , , housed the Office of the President of the Republic of China from 1927 until the capital was relocated to in 1949.

Shopping center
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is an upscale office and shopping mall complex in Xinjiekou, Nanjing, Province. The shopping mall is one of the largest in Nanjing and features flagship stores of numerous luxurious brands, including Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, Louis Vuitton, Bvlgari, Cartier, Dior, Hermes, Chanel, prada, Tiffany & Co., among others.

Library
Photo: 吴 骋孜, CC BY 2.0.
is the third-largest library in China with over 10 million items. It houses important scientific, cultural and arts literature relating to Jiangsu province and other national historical records such as ancient Chinese and foreign publications.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Honghua and Shangxinhe.

Suburb
Photo: 东京村子, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a suburb.

Neighborhood
is a former town in the Jianye District of Nanjing, located on the Jia River, a tributary of the River. The former Wang Hanzhou residence, Jianghan Hall, Ancient Sun Palace, and other ancient cultural sites are located in the area.

Nanjing

Latitude
32.0438° or 32° 2′ 38″ north
Longitude
118.7789° or 118° 46′ 44″ east
Population
9,310,000
Elevation
22 metres (72 feet)
IATA airport code
NKG
United Nations Location Code
CN NJI
Open location code
8P4W2QVH+GG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244081381
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1799962
Wiki­data ID
Q16666
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zhuang—“Nanjing” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Nanjing”
  • Afrikaans: “Nanjing”
  • Albanian: “Nanxhing”
  • Amharic: “ናንጂንግ”
  • Arabic: “نانجينغ”
  • Armenian: “Նանկին”
  • Asturian: “Nanjing”
  • Asturian: “Nankín”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nankin”
  • Balinese: “Nanjing”
  • Bambara: “Nanjing”
  • Bashkir: “Нанкин”
  • Basque: “Nanjing”
  • Belarusian: “Нанкін”
  • Bengali: “নানচিং”
  • Bosnian: “Nanjing”
  • Breton: “Nanjing”
  • Bulgarian: “Нандзин”
  • Bulgarian: “Нанкин”
  • Burmese: “နန်ကျင်းမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Nanquín”
  • Cebuano: “Nanjing (kapital sa lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Nanjing”
  • Central Kurdish: “نانجینگ”
  • Chechen: “Нанкин”
  • Cheyenne: “Nanjing”
  • Chinese: “Lâm-kiaⁿ-chhī”
  • Chinese: “Nánjīng Shì”
  • Chinese: “南京”
  • Chinese: “南京市”
  • Chinese: “宁”
  • Chinese: “寧”
  • Chinese: “苏A”
  • Chinese: “蘇A”
  • Chinese: “金陵”
  • Chuvash: “Нанкин”
  • Cornish: “Nanjing”
  • Croatian: “Nanjing”
  • Czech: “Nan-ťing”
  • Czech: “Nanking”
  • Danish: “Nanjing”
  • Dutch: “Nanjing”
  • Dutch: “Nankijn” (historical)
  • Dutch: “Nanking”
  • Eastern Mari: “Нанкин”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نانجينج”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نانچينج”
  • Esperanto: “Nankingo”
  • Esperanto: “Nankino”
  • Estonian: “Nanjing Shi”
  • Extremaduran: “Nankín”
  • Finnish: “Nanjing”
  • French: “Nanjing”
  • French: “Nankin”
  • Galician: “Nanjing”
  • Gan Chinese: “南京”
  • Gan Chinese: “南京市”
  • Georgian: “ნანკინი”
  • Georgian: “ნანცინი”
  • German: “Nanjing”
  • German: “Nánjīng”
  • German: “Nanking”
  • Greek: “Ναντσίνγκ”
  • Gujarati: “નાનજિંગ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Nàm-kîn-sṳ”
  • Hebrew: “נאנג’ינג”
  • Hebrew: “נאנגינג”
  • Hindi: “नानजिंग”
  • Hungarian: “Nanking”
  • Icelandic: “Nanjing”
  • Ido: “Nanjing”
  • Indonesian: “Nanjing”
  • Interlingua: “Nanjing”
  • Irish: “Nanjing”
  • Italian: “Nan-ching”
  • Italian: “Nanchino”
  • Italian: “Nanjing”
  • Italian: “Nánjīng”
  • Japanese: “ナンジン”
  • Japanese: “京”
  • Japanese: “南京市”
  • Japanese: “寧”
  • Japanese: “建康”
  • Japanese: “建業”
  • Japanese: “建鄴”
  • Japanese: “應天”
  • Japanese: “昇州”
  • Japanese: “江寧”
  • Japanese: “白下”
  • Japanese: “秣陵”
  • Japanese: “蒋州”
  • Japanese: “金陵”
  • Japanese: “集慶”
  • Kabyle: “Nanjing”
  • Kalaallisut: “Nanjing”
  • Kannada: “ನಾನ್ ಜಿಂಗ್”
  • Kannada: “ನಾನ್‌ಜಿಂಗ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Nankin”
  • Kazakh: “Нанкин”
  • Kazakh: “Наньцзин”
  • Kikuyu: “Nanjing”
  • Kirghiz: “Нанкин”
  • Kongo: “Nanjing”
  • Korean: “난징 시”
  • Korean: “난징”
  • Korean: “난징시”
  • Korean: “남경”
  • Korean: “남경시”
  • Korean: “南京市”
  • Kurdish: “Nankîn”
  • Latin: “Kiang-ning”
  • Latin: “Kiangning”
  • Latin: “Nan-king”
  • Latin: “Nanchinum”
  • Latin: “Nanjing”
  • Latin: “Nanking”
  • Latvian: “Naņdzjina”
  • Latvian: “Nankina”
  • Literary Chinese: “南京市”
  • Lithuanian: “Nankinas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Nanjing”
  • Macedonian: “Нанџјинг”
  • Malagasy: “Nanjing”
  • Malay: “Nanjing”
  • Malayalam: “നാൻജിങ്”
  • Maltese: “Nanjing”
  • Maltese: “Nankeen”
  • Manx: “Nanjing”
  • Maori: “Nanjing”
  • Marathi: “नांजिंग”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Nàng-gĭng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lâm-kiaⁿ-chhī”
  • Mingrelian: “ნანკინი”
  • Mingrelian: “ნანძინი”
  • Mongolian: “Нанжин”
  • Mongolian: “Наньжин”
  • Nepali: “नानजिंग”
  • Nepali: “नान्जिङ”
  • Newari: “नान्जिङ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Nanjing”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nanjing”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nanjing”
  • Norwegian: “Nanjing”
  • Nyanja: “Nanjing”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nanquin”
  • Ossetian: “Нанкин”
  • Panjabi: “ਨਾਨਜਿੰਗ”
  • Persian: “نانجینگ”
  • Polish: “Nankin”
  • Portuguese: “Jiangnin”
  • Portuguese: “Kiang-ning”
  • Portuguese: “Kiangnin”
  • Portuguese: “Nan jin”
  • Portuguese: “Nan Jing”
  • Portuguese: “Nan kin”
  • Portuguese: “Nan-jing”
  • Portuguese: “Nan-king”
  • Portuguese: “Nanjin”
  • Portuguese: “Nanjing”
  • Portuguese: “Nankin”
  • Portuguese: “Nanking”
  • Portuguese: “Nanquim”
  • Quechua: “Namkin”
  • Romanian: “Nanjing”
  • Russia Buriat: “Нанжин”
  • Russian: “Нанкин”
  • Russian: “Наньцзин”
  • Russian: “Цзинши”
  • Russian: “Цзянькан”
  • Scots: “Nanjing”
  • Serbian: “Нанкинг”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nanjing”
  • Silesian: “Nankin”
  • Sinhala: “නැන්ජින්”
  • Sinhala: “නැන්ජින්ග්”
  • Slovak: “Nanking”
  • Slovenian: “Nandžing”
  • Slovenian: “Nanjing”
  • Slovenian: “Nanking”
  • Somali: “Nanjing”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نانجینق”
  • Spanish: “Capital de la Educación, la Ciencia, la Cultura, el Arte y el Turismo”
  • Spanish: “La capital del cielo”
  • Spanish: “Nanjing”
  • Spanish: “Nankin”
  • Spanish: “Nankín”
  • Swahili: “Nanjing”
  • Swedish: “Nanjing”
  • Tagalog: “Nanjing”
  • Tajik: “Нанкин”
  • Tajik: “Нонҷинг”
  • Tamil: “நாஞ்சிங்”
  • Tatar: “Нанҗиң”
  • Tatar: “Нәнҗиң”
  • Telugu: “నాన్జింగ్”
  • Thai: “นานกิง”
  • Thai: “หนานจิง”
  • Tswana: “Nanjing”
  • Turkish: “Nankin”
  • Turkmen: “Nanjing”
  • Uighur: “نەنجىڭ شەھىرى”
  • Ukrainian: “Нанкін”
  • Urdu: “نانجنگ”
  • Uzbek: “Nankin”
  • Venetian: “Nanchino”
  • Veps: “Nankin”
  • Vietnamese: “Nam Kinh”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nanjing”
  • Welsh: “Nanjing”
  • Western Panjabi: “نانجنگ”
  • Wolof: “Nanjing”
  • Wu Chinese: “南京市”
  • Yakut: “Нанкин”
  • Yue Chinese: “南京”
  • Yue Chinese: “南京市”
  • Zhuang: “Nanzging”
  • “ma tomo Lansin”
  • “Nanquin”

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