Qufu
Qufu is a town in Shandong Province, located about 2 hours by bus from the provincial capital Jinan. Famous as the birthplace and the hometown of Confucius, its Confucius-related sites have been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- Type: City with 220,000 residents
- Description: county-level city
- Also known as: “Ch’ü-fou”, “Ch’ü-fou-hsien”, “Ch’ü-fou-hsien-ch’eng”, “Ch’u-fu-hsien”, “Chu-foo”, “Chü-fu”, “Chufu”, “Grabmal des Konfuzius”, “Kinfowhsien”, “Kiu-Feu”, “Küfow”, “Qūfù”, “Yan”, “Суйфу”, “Цуйфу”, “곡부”, “취푸”, “曲阜县”, “曲阜県”, “曲阜縣”, and “鲁县”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Temple of Confucius and Kong Family Mansion.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lucheng.
Qufu
- Categories: county-level city of China and locality
- Location: Jining, Shandong, North China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.5957° or 35° 35′ 45″ north
Longitude
116.9875° or 116° 59′ 15″ east
Population
220,000
Elevation
69 metres (226 feet)
UN/LOCODE
CN QUF
Open location code
8P7RHXWQ+72
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Qufu” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ጩፉ”
- Arabic: “تشيوفو”
- Armenian: “Ցյուֆու”
- Asturian: “Qufu”
- Bashkir: “Цюйфу”
- Basque: “Qufu”
- Belarusian: “Цюйфу”
- Bengali: “কুফু”
- Bulgarian: “Цюфу”
- Catalan: “Qufu”
- Cebuano: “Qufu”
- Chinese: “Qūfù Shì”
- Chinese: “曲阜”
- Chinese: “曲阜市”
- Chuvash: “Цюйфу”
- Croatian: “Qufu”
- Czech: “Čchü-fu”
- Danish: “Qufu”
- Dutch: “Qufu”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تشيوفو”
- Esperanto: “Cjujfu”
- Finnish: “Qufu”
- French: “Qufu”
- Galician: “Qufu”
- Gan Chinese: “曲阜市”
- Georgian: “ციუიფუ”
- German: “Qufu”
- Greek: “Τσιφού”
- Gujarati: “ક્યુફુ”
- Hebrew: “צ’ו’פו”
- Hebrew: “צ’ופו”
- Hebrew: “צופו”
- Hindi: “कुफू”
- Hindi: “चूफ़ू”
- Hungarian: “Csüfu”
- Indonesian: “Qufu”
- Irish: “Qufu”
- Italian: “Qufu”
- Japanese: “曲阜市”
- Kannada: “ಕ್ವಿಫು”
- Kikuyu: “Qufu”
- Korean: “취푸 시”
- Korean: “취푸시”
- Kurdish: “Qufu”
- Latvian: “Čufu”
- Literary Chinese: “曲阜市”
- Lithuanian: “Čufu”
- Macedonian: “Ќуфу”
- Malagasy: “Qufu”
- Malay: “Qufu”
- Malayalam: “ചൂഫു”
- Maltese: “Qufu”
- Marathi: “कफू”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Khiok-hū-chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Qufu”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Qufu”
- Norwegian: “Qufu”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Qufu”
- Ossetian: “Цюйфу”
- Persian: “تایفو”
- Polish: “Qufu”
- Portuguese: “Qufu”
- Romanian: “Qufu”
- Russian: “Цюйфу”
- Serbian: “Ћуфу”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Qufu”
- Sinhala: “කියුෆු”
- Slovak: “Čchü-fu”
- Slovenian: “Čufu”
- Spanish: “Qufu”
- Swedish: “Qufu”
- Tagalog: “Qufu”
- Tajik: “Сюйфу”
- Tamil: “குபு”
- Telugu: “క్యూఫూ”
- Telugu: “ఖుఫు”
- Thai: “กูฟู”
- Thai: “ชฺวีฟู่”
- Turkish: “Qufu”
- Ukrainian: “Цюйфу”
- Urdu: “قوفو”
- Vietnamese: “Khúc Phụ”
- Waray (Philippines): “Qufu”
- Welsh: “Qufu”
- Wu Chinese: “曲阜”
- Wu Chinese: “曲阜市”
- Yue Chinese: “曲阜”
- “ma tomo Kipu”
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