Qingdao

Qingdao, is regarded by some Chinese as one of the most beautiful and cleanest cities in China. With a population of around 7.2 million, it is one of the largest cities in Province. The name Qingdao means The Blue/Green Island.
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  • Type: City with 10,100,000 residents
  • Description: prefecture-level city in Shandong, China
  • Also known as: Ch’ing-tao-shih”, “Çingtao”, “Tsing-tau”, and “Tsingtao

Places of Interest

Highlights include Qingdao International Sailing Centre and Zhanshan Temple.

The is a sailing marina located on the former site of the Beihai Shipyard by Qingdao's Fushan Bay at Shandong Province in China.

Buddhist temple
is a in Shinan District of Qingdao, , . It is located on the southern side of Zhanshan, facing the sea. In 2004 a major renovation was initiated.

Stadium
The , former name Qingdao First Stadium, is a multi-use stadium in Qingdao, Shandong, China. It is used mostly for football matches, but also for athletics and rugby sevens.

Qingdao

Latitude
36.0663° or 36° 3′ 59″ north
Longitude
120.3778° or 120° 22′ 40″ east
Population
10,100,000
Elevation
16 metres (52 feet)
IATA airport code
TAO
United Nations Location Code
CN QIN
Open location code
8Q82398H+G4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244081506
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1797929
Wiki­data ID
Q170322
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zhuang—“Qingdao” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: Qingdao
  • Albanian: Qingdao
  • Arabic: تسينغتاو
  • Arabic: تشينجداو
  • Arabic: تشينغداو
  • Arabic: جينقداو
  • Armenian: Ցինդաո
  • Asturian: Qingdao
  • Azerbaijani: Sindao
  • Balinese: Qingdao
  • Basque: Qingdao
  • Belarusian: Ціндаа
  • Belarusian: Ціндао
  • Bengali: কিংতাও
  • Bengali: কিংদাও
  • Bengali: ছিংতাও
  • Bengali: ছিংদাও
  • Betawi: Cèngto
  • Bosnian: Qingdao
  • Breton: Qingdao
  • Bulgarian: Кингдао
  • Bulgarian: Циндао
  • Burmese: ချင်းတောင်မြို့
  • Catalan: Ch’ing-tao
  • Catalan: Port de Qingdao
  • Catalan: Qingdao
  • Catalan: Qīngdǎo
  • Catalan: Tsingtao
  • Catalan: Tsingtau
  • Cebuano: Qingdao (kapital sa prepektura sa Republikang Popular sa Tsina)
  • Cebuano: Qingdao
  • Chechen: Циндао
  • Chinese: Chheng-tó-chhī
  • Chinese: Qīngdǎo Shì
  • Chinese: 岛城
  • Chinese: 島城
  • Chinese: 琴岛
  • Chinese: 琴島
  • Chinese: 青岛
  • Chinese: 青岛市
  • Chinese: 青島
  • Chinese: 青島市
  • Chuvash: Циндао
  • Croatian: Ch’ing-tao
  • Croatian: Qingdao
  • Croatian: Tsingtao
  • Czech: Čching-tao
  • Czech: Tsingtau
  • Danish: Qingdao
  • Danish: Tsingtao
  • Dutch: Qingdao
  • Dutch: Tj’ing-tau
  • Egyptian Arabic: تشينجداو
  • Esperanto: Cindao
  • Esperanto: Ĉingdao
  • Esperanto: Ĉingdaŭo
  • Esperanto: Qingdao
  • Esperanto: Tsingtao
  • Estonian: Qingdao Shi
  • Finnish: Qingdao
  • Finnish: Tsingtao
  • French: Qindao
  • French: Qingdao
  • French: Tsing-tao
  • French: Tsingtao
  • Galician: Qingdao
  • Gan Chinese: 青岛市
  • Gan Chinese: 青島
  • Georgian: ცინდაო
  • German: Qingdao
  • German: Tsing-tau
  • German: Tsingtao
  • German: Tsingtau” (historical)
  • Greek: Κιντάο
  • Greek: Τσινγκτάο
  • Gujarati: ચિંગદાઑ
  • Hebrew: צ’ינגדאו
  • Hebrew: צינגדאו
  • Hebrew: צינגטאו
  • Hindi: चिंगदाओ
  • Hungarian: Csingtao
  • Icelandic: Qingdao
  • Iloko: Qingdao
  • Indonesian: Qingdao
  • Irish: Qingdao
  • Italian: Qingdao
  • Italian: Tsing-tao
  • Italian: Tsingtao
  • Japanese: せいとうし
  • Japanese: チンタオし
  • Japanese: 青島市
  • Kalaallisut: Qingdao
  • Kannada: ಕ್ವಿಂಗ್ಡಾವೋ
  • Kazakh: Циндао қаласы
  • Kazakh: Циндао
  • Kikuyu: Qingdao
  • Kirghiz: Циндао
  • Korean: 청도시
  • Korean: 칭다오 시
  • Korean: 칭다오
  • Korean: 칭다오시
  • Kurdish: Qingdao
  • Latvian: Cjindao
  • Literary Chinese: 青島
  • Literary Chinese: 青島市
  • Lithuanian: Cingdao
  • Lithuanian: Čingdao
  • Lithuanian: Qingdao
  • Luxembourgish: Qingdao
  • Macedonian: Ќингдао
  • Malagasy: Qingdao
  • Malay: Qingdao
  • Maltese: Qingdao
  • Marathi: छिंगदाओ
  • Mazanderani: چینگ‌تائو
  • Min Dong Chinese: Chĭng-dō̤
  • Min Nan Chinese: Chheng-tó-chhī
  • Min Nan Chinese: Chheng-tó
  • Mongolian: Чиндао
  • Northern Frisian: Qingdao
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Jiao’ao
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Qingdao
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Tsingtao
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Tsingtau
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Qingdao
  • Norwegian: Qingdao
  • Occitan (post 1500): Qingdao
  • Ossetian: Циндао
  • Panjabi: ਕਿੰਗਦਾਓ
  • Persian: چینگ‌دائو
  • Persian: کینگدائو
  • Polish: Cingtao
  • Polish: Qingdao
  • Polish: Tsingtau
  • Portuguese: Qingdao
  • Romanian: Qingdao
  • Russia Buriat: Циндао
  • Russian: Циндао
  • Scots: Qingdao
  • Serbian: Ćingdao
  • Serbian: Qingdao
  • Serbian: Ћингдао
  • Serbian: Цингтао
  • Serbian: 青岛
  • Serbo-Croatian: Qingdao
  • Sinhala: කින්ග්ඩාවෝ
  • Sinhala: චින්ඩෝ
  • Slovak: Čching-tao
  • Slovenian: Čingdao
  • Slovenian: Qingdao
  • Slovenian: Tsingtao
  • Spanish: Jiaozhou
  • Spanish: Qingdao
  • Spanish: Tsingtao
  • Spanish: Tsingtau
  • Swedish: Ch’ing-tao
  • Swedish: Ching-tao
  • Swedish: Chingtao
  • Swedish: Jiao’ao
  • Swedish: Jiaoao
  • Swedish: Qindao
  • Swedish: Qingdao
  • Swedish: Qīngdǎo
  • Swedish: Ts’ing-Tao
  • Swedish: Ts’ing-Tau
  • Swedish: Tsing-Tao
  • Swedish: Tsing-Tau
  • Swedish: Tsingdao
  • Swedish: Tsingtao
  • Swedish: Tsingtau
  • Tagalog: Qingdao
  • Tajik: Чиндао
  • Tamil: குயிங்தவோ
  • Tamil: சிங்டௌ
  • Tatar: Чиңдау
  • Telugu: చింగ్దావ్
  • Thai: ชิงเต่า
  • Tibetan: ཆིང་ཏའོ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
  • Turkish: Çingdao
  • Turkish: Çingtao
  • Turkish: Qingdao
  • Turkish: Tsing-tao
  • Turkish: Tsing-tau
  • Turkish: Tsingtao
  • Turkish: Tsingtau
  • Turkmen: Kingdao
  • Uighur: Chingdaw shehiri
  • Uighur: چىڭداۋ شەھىرى
  • Ukrainian: Циндао
  • Ukrainian: Ціндао
  • Urdu: چنگڈاؤ
  • Uzbek: Sindao
  • Venetian: Tsingtao
  • Veps: Cindao
  • Vietnamese: Giao Áo
  • Vietnamese: Qingdao
  • Vietnamese: Thanh Đảo
  • Waray (Philippines): Qingdao
  • Welsh: Qingdao
  • Western Panjabi: چینگداؤ
  • Wolof: Qingdao
  • Wu Chinese: 青岛市
  • Yakut: Циндао
  • Yue Chinese: Qingdao
  • Yue Chinese: Tsingtao
  • Yue Chinese: 青島
  • Yue Chinese: 青島市
  • Zhuang: Cinghdauj
  • Qingdao

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