Pingyao

Pingyao is a small city whose old town is on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Pingyao's old town is typically considered the best ancient walled city in China, and is on many lists of the best walled cities in the world.
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  • City with 151,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 763 metres (2,503 feet)
  • Description: town in central Shanxi, China, preserving Ming and Qing era architecture
  • Also known as
    “Ancient City of Ping Yao”
    “Gutao”
    “Gutao Town”
    “Gutao Zhen”
    “P’ing-yao-hsien”
    “Pin’yao”
    “Pingyao Ancient City”
    “Pingyao County”
    “Pingyao Xian”
    “古陶镇”
    “平遙”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Former Site of Rishengchang and Huiji Bridge.
Zhangzhugang, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Rishengchang Piaohao, was the first draft bank in China.
Zhangzhugang, CC BY-SA 3.0.
xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0.
is a museum.

Pingyao

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Latitude
37.2038° or 37° 12′ 14″ north
Longitude
112.1771° or 112° 10′ 38″ east
Open location code
8P9J653G+GR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2483431928
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1798636
Wiki­data ID
Q500061

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Pingyao” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Pingyao”
  • Arabic: “بينغياو”
  • Asturian: “Pingyao”
  • Basque: “Antzinako Ping Yao hiria”
  • Basque: “Pingyao konderria”
  • Bengali: “পিংইয়াও”
  • Bulgarian: “Пиняо”
  • Catalan: “Pingyao”
  • Cebuano: “Pingyao Xian”
  • Chinese: “Píngyáo Xiàn”
  • Chinese: “古陶”
  • Chinese: “平遙古城”
  • Chinese: “平遥”
  • Chinese: “平遥县”
  • Chinese: “平遥古城”
  • Croatian: “Pingyao”
  • Czech: “Pching-jao”
  • Danish: “Pingyao”
  • Dutch: “Ping Yao”
  • Dutch: “Pingyao”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بينجياو”
  • Esperanto: “Pingyao”
  • Finnish: “Pingyao”
  • French: “Comté de Pingyao”
  • French: “Ping Yao”
  • French: “Pingyao”
  • French: “Xian de Pingyao”
  • Gan Chinese: “平遥古城”
  • Georgian: “პინიაო”
  • German: “Ping Yao”
  • German: “Pingyao”
  • German: “Píngyáo”
  • Hebrew: “פינג-יאו”
  • Hebrew: “פינגיאו”
  • Indonesian: “Pingyao”
  • Italian: “Ping Yao”
  • Italian: “Pingyao”
  • Japanese: “平遥古城”
  • Japanese: “平遥県”
  • Kannada: “ಪಿಂಗ್‌ಯಾವೊ ಪ್ರಾಚೀನ ನಗರ”
  • Korean: “평요 고대도시”
  • Korean: “평요고성”
  • Korean: “핑야오 고대도시”
  • Korean: “핑야오 고성”
  • Korean: “핑야오고성”
  • Korean: “핑야오현”
  • Lithuanian: “Pingjao”
  • Maltese: “Ping Yao”
  • Maltese: “Pingyao”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ping Yao”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pingyao”
  • Norwegian: “Pingyao”
  • Persian: “پینگ یائو”
  • Polish: “Pingyao”
  • Portuguese: “Antiga cidade de Pingyao”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade Antiga de Ping Yao”
  • Portuguese: “Pingyao”
  • Russian: “Пинъяо”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pingyao”
  • Slovak: “Pching-jao”
  • Slovenian: “Pingjao”
  • Spanish: “Pingyao”
  • Swedish: “Pingyao”
  • Thai: “ผิงเหยา”
  • Thai: “เมืองเก่าผิงเหยา”
  • Thai: “เมืองโบราณผิงเหยา”
  • Turkish: “Pingyao”
  • Ukrainian: “Пін’яо”
  • Ukrainian: “Стародавнє місто Пін’яо”
  • Urdu: “پنگیاو”
  • Vietnamese: “Bình Dao Huyện”
  • Vietnamese: “Bình Dao”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành cổ Bình Dao”
  • Welsh: “Pingyao”
  • Wu Chinese: “平遥古城”
  • Yue Chinese: “平遙古城”

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