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Putian

Putian Putian, located on the southeast coast of Fujian Province, China, is a city with a long history and rich cultural heritage, and is known as the hometown of Mazu, the "goddess of peace on the sea".
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  • Type: City with 1,950,000 residents
  • Description: prefecture-level city in Fujian, China
  • Also known as: “Henghua”, “Henghwa”, “Hing Hoa”, “Hing-hua̍”, “Hinghoa”, “Hinghua”, “Hinghwa”, “Hinghwafu”, “Hsing-hua”, “P’u-t’ien”, “P’u-t’ien-hsien”, “P’u-t’ien-hsien-ch’eng”, “P’u-tien”, “Pó-chéng”, “Pu-tien”, “Putian City”, and “Xinghua”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Xinghuafu City God Temple and Yuanmiao Temple.

Place of worship
Photo: Zhangzhugang, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a place of worship.

Buddhist temple
Photo: Zhangzhugang, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a former Taoist temple located in Chengxiang District of Putian, , China.

Putian

Latitude
25.4557° or 25° 27′ 21″ north
Longitude
119.0029° or 119° 0′ 11″ east
Population
1,950,000
Elevation
23 metres (75 feet)
United Nations Location Code
CN PUT
Open location code
7PQXF243+75
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244081601
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1798449
Wiki­data ID
Q68579
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Putian” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بوتيان”
  • Asturian: “Putian”
  • Basque: “Putian”
  • Bengali: “ফুতিয়েন”
  • Catalan: “Putian”
  • Cebuano: “Putian”
  • Chinese: “Phô͘-chhân-chhī”
  • Chinese: “Pútián Shì”
  • Chinese: “興化”
  • Chinese: “興安”
  • Chinese: “莆”
  • Chinese: “莆仙”
  • Chinese: “莆田”
  • Chinese: “莆田市”
  • Chinese: “莆陽”
  • Czech: “Pchu-tchien”
  • Danish: “Putian”
  • Dutch: “Putian”
  • Esperanto: “Putian”
  • Esperanto: “Putjen”
  • Estonian: “Putian Shi”
  • Finnish: “Putian”
  • French: “Putian”
  • Gan Chinese: “莆田市”
  • German: “Putian”
  • Greek: “Πουτιάν”
  • Gujarati: “પુતિયન”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Phù-thièn-sṳ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Phû-thièn-sṳ”
  • Hebrew: “פוטיין”
  • Hindi: “पुतियां”
  • Hungarian: “Putien”
  • Indonesian: “Putian”
  • Irish: “Putian”
  • Italian: “Putian”
  • Japanese: “ほでんし”
  • Japanese: “ホ田”
  • Japanese: “ホ田市”
  • Japanese: “莆田市”
  • Kannada: “ಪುಟಿಯನ್”
  • Kikuyu: “Putian”
  • Korean: “푸톈 시”
  • Korean: “푸톈시”
  • Kurdish: “Putian”
  • Latvian: “Putiana”
  • Latvian: “Putiaņa”
  • Literary Chinese: “莆田市”
  • Lithuanian: “Putianas”
  • Malagasy: “Putian”
  • Malay: “Putian”
  • Marathi: “पुतियन”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Buò-dièng”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Può-dièng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Heng-hoà”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Phô͘-chhân-chhī”
  • Moksha: “Путян”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Putian”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Putian”
  • Norwegian: “Putian”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Putian”
  • Pampanga: “Putian”
  • Persian: “پوتیان”
  • Polish: “Putian”
  • Portuguese: “Putian”
  • Pu-Xian Chinese: “Hing-hua̍”
  • Pu-Xian Chinese: “Pó-chéng chī”
  • Russian: “Путянь”
  • Serbian: “Путјен”
  • Sinhala: “පුටියැන්”
  • Slovenian: “Putjan”
  • Spanish: “Putian”
  • Swedish: “Putian”
  • Tagalog: “Putian”
  • Tamil: “புடியன்”
  • Telugu: “పుటియన్”
  • Thai: “ผูเถียน”
  • Turkish: “Putian”
  • Uighur: “Putyen shehiri”
  • Ukrainian: “Путянь”
  • Urdu: “پوتیان”
  • Venetian: “Putian”
  • Vietnamese: “Phủ Điền”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Putian”
  • Welsh: “Putian”
  • Western Panjabi: “پوتیان”
  • Wu Chinese: “莆田市”
  • Yue Chinese: “莆田”

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