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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Nicor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 151,000 residents
- 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 Hsien”, “Pingyao Xian”, “古陶镇”, and “平遙”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Former Site of Rishengchang and Huiji Bridge.
Former Site of Rishengchang
Museum
Photo: Zhangzhugang, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Rishengchang Piaohao, was the first draft bank in China. It is located in Pingyao, Shanxi province, China. Rishengchang literally translates to 'Sunrise Prosperity', and piaohao means 'draft banks', the predecessors of modern banks in China.
Pingyao
- Categories: old town, Chinese AAAAA-rated tourist attraction, and locality
- Location: Jinzhong, Shanxi, North China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.2038° or 37° 12′ 14″ northLongitude
112.1771° or 112° 10′ 38″ eastPopulation
151,000Elevation
763 metres (2,503 feet)Open location code
8P9J653G+GROpenStreetMap ID
node 2483431928OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1798636Wikidata 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: “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: “פינגיאו”
- Indonesian: “Pingyao”
- Italian: “Ping Yao”
- Italian: “Pingyao”
- Japanese: “平遥”
- Japanese: “平遥古城”
- Japanese: “平遥県”
- 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”
- 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”
- “平遥”
- “平遥古城”
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