Nanjing
Nanjing, historically also Nanking, is the capital city of Jiangsu Province in China. At more than 8 million inhabitants, it is one of China's largest cities. It is in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and is the central city of the lower Yangtze Basin.Notable Places in the Area
Presidential Palace
Park
The Presidential Palace in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, housed the Office of the President of the Republic of China since 1927 until the capital was relocated to Taipei in 1949. Photo: Ken Marshall, CC BY 2.0.
Deji Plaza
Shopping center
Deji Plaza is an upscale office and shopping mall complex in Xinjiekou, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. Photo: Celtics2020, CC BY-SA 4.0.
NanJing Museum
Museum
The Nanjing Museum is located in Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu Province in East China. Photo: Tevatron, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Jiming Temple
Buddhist temple
The Jiming Temple is a renowned Buddhist temple in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. Photo: Inhorw, CC BY-SA 2.5.
- Type: City
- Description: capital of Jiangsu province in Eastern China
- Categories: capital, big city, million city, direct-controlled municipality, sub-province-level division, prefecture-level city and locality
- Location: Jiangsu, East China, China, East Asia, Asia
- Neighbors: Changzhou, Ma'anshan, Yangzhou and Zhenjiang
Nanjing
Latitude
32.0616° or 32° 3' 42" northLongitude
118.7915° or 118° 47' 29" eastPopulation
9,310,000Elevation
22 metres (72 feet)IATA airport code
NKGUnited Nations Location Code
CN NJIOpen Location Code
8P4W3Q6R+JJOpenStreetMap ID
node 244081381GeoNames ID
1799962Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Nanjing
- Achinese: Nanjing
- Afar: Nankin
- Afrikaans: Nanjing
- Albanian: Nanxhing
- Amharic: ናንጂንግ
- Arabic: Nanjing
- Arabic: نانجينغ
- Armenian: Նանկին
- Asturian; Bable: Nanjing
- Asturian; Bable: Nankín
- Azerbaijani: Nankin
- 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
- Chichewa; Nyanja: Nanjing
- Chinese: Lâm-kiaⁿ-chhī
- Chinese: Nánjīng Shì
- Chinese: 南京
- Chinese: 南京市
- Chinese: 宁
- Chinese: 寧
- Chinese: 金陵
- Chuvash: Нанкин
- Cornish: Nanjing
- Croatian: Nanjing
- Czech: Nanking
- Danish: Nanjing
- Dutch: Nanjing
- Dutch: Nankijn
- Dutch: Nanking
- Egyptian Spoken Arabic: نانجينج
- English: Nan Jing
- English: Nankin
- English: Nanking
- Esperanto: Nankingo
- Esperanto: Nankino
- Estonian: Nanjing Shi
- Extremaduran: Nankín
- Finnish: Nanjing
- French: Nanjing
- French: Nankin
- Gallegan: Nanjing
- Gan Chinese: 南京
- Gan Chinese: 南京市
- Georgian: ნანკინი
- Georgian: ნანცინი
- German: Nanjing
- German: Nanking
- German: Nánjīng
- Greek: Ναντσίνγκ
- Gujarati: નાનજિંગ
- Hakka Chinese: Nàm-kîn-sṳ
- Hausa: Nàm-kîn-sṳ
- Hebrew: נאנג'ינג
- Hebrew: נאנגינג
- Hindi: नानजिंग
- Hungarian: Nanking
- Icelandic: Nanjing
- Ido: Nanjing
- Indonesian: Nanjing
- Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association): Nanjing
- Irish: Nanjing
- Italian: Nan-ching
- Italian: Nanchino
- Italian: Nanjing
- Italian: Nánjīng
- Japanese: 南京市
- Kabyle: Nanjing
- Kalaallisut: Nanjing
- Kannada: ನಾನ್ ಜಿಂಗ್
- Kannada: ನಾನ್ಜಿಂಗ್
- Kara-Kalpak: Nankin
- Kazakh: Нанкин
- Kazakh: Наньцзин
- Kikuyu: Nanjing
- Kirghiz: Нанкин
- Kongo: Nanjing
- Korean: 南京市
- Korean: 난징
- Korean: 난징 시
- Korean: 난징시
- Korean: 남경
- Korean: 남경시
- Kurdish: Nanjing
- Latin: Nanchinum
- Latvian: Nankina
- Latvian: Naņdzjina
- Lithuanian: Nankinas
- Macedonian: Нанџјинг
- Malagasy: Nanjing
- Malay (generic): Nanjing
- Malayalam: നാൻജിങ്
- Maori: Nanjing
- Marathi: नांजिंग
- Min Dong Chinese: Nàng-gĭng
- Min Nan Chinese: Lâm-kiaⁿ-chhī
- Mingrelian: ნანკინი
- Mingrelian: ნანძინი
- Mongolian: Нанжин
- Mongolian: Наньжин
- Nepali: नान्जिङ
- Newari: नान्जिङ
- Northern Frisian: Nanjing
- Norwegian: Nanjing
- Norwegian Bokmål: Nanjing
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Nanjing
- Occitan (post 1500); Provençal: Nanquin
- Ossetian; Ossetic: Нанкин
- Panjabi: ਨਾਨਜਿੰਗ
- Persian: نانجینگ
- Polish: Nankin
- Portuguese: Nanjing
- Portuguese: Nanquim
- Quechua: Namkin
- Romanian: Nanjing
- Russia Buriat: Нанжин
- Russian: Нанкин
- Russian: Наньцзин
- Russian: Цзинши
- Russian: Цзянькан
- Scots: Nanjing
- Serbian: Нанкинг
- Serbo-Croatian: Nanjing
- Sinhalese: නැන්ජින්
- Sinhalese: නැන්ජින්ග්
- Slovak: Nanking
- Slovenian: Nandžing
- Somali: Nanjing
- 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 (generic): Nanjing
- Swedish: Nanjing
- Tagalog: Nanjing
- Tajik: Нанкин
- Tamil: நாஞ்சிங்
- Tatar: Нәнҗиң
- Telugu: నాన్జింగ్
- 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
- Nan-ching-shih
Other Places Named Nanjing
- Nanjing CountyCity in Fujian, China
- NanjingJiangsu, China
- NanjingTown in Guangdong, China
- ShanchengTown in Fujian, China
- NanjingTown in Jiangxi, China
- NanjingcunLocality in Fujian, China
- NanjingcunLocality in Fujian, China
- NanjingVillage in Chiayi County, Taiwan
In the Area
Localities
Landmarks
- Nanjing City HallTown hall
- Nanjing Paleontological MuseumMuseum
- 和平公园Park
- 解放门Scenic viewpoint
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