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”, “Kinfowhsien”, “Kiu-Feu”, and “Küfow”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Temple of Confucius and Kong Family Mansion.
Temple of Confucius
Place of worship
Kong Family Mansion
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lucheng.
Lucheng
Suburb
Lucheng Subdistrict is a subdistrict and the seat of Qufu, Shandong, People's Republic of China, located at the intersection of the Qing and Yangtze Rivers. As of 2011, it has 26 residential communities under its administration.
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)
United Nations Location Code
CN QUF
Open location code
8P7RHXWQ+72
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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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: “Khiok-hū-chhī”
- Chinese: “Qūfù Shì”
- Chinese: “曲阜”
- Chinese: “曲阜县”
- Chinese: “曲阜市”
- Chinese: “曲阜縣”
- Chinese: “鲁县”
- Chuvash: “Цюйфу”
- Croatian: “Qufu”
- Czech: “Čchü-fu”
- Danish: “Qufu”
- Dutch: “Qufu”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تشيوفو”
- Esperanto: “Cjujfu”
- Esperanto: “Qufu”
- Finnish: “Qufu”
- French: “Qufu”
- French: “Yan”
- Galician: “Qufu”
- Gan Chinese: “曲阜市”
- Georgian: “ციუიფუ”
- German: “Grabmal des Konfuzius”
- German: “Qufu”
- German: “Qūfù”
- Greek: “Τσιφού”
- Gujarati: “ક્યુફુ”
- Hebrew: “צ’ופו”
- Hebrew: “צופו”
- Hindi: “कुफू”
- Hindi: “चूफ़ू”
- Hungarian: “Csüfu”
- Indonesian: “Qufu”
- Irish: “Qufu”
- Italian: “Kiu-Feu”
- Italian: “Qufu”
- Japanese: “曲阜”
- Japanese: “曲阜市”
- Japanese: “曲阜県”
- Kannada: “ಕ್ವಿಫು”
- Kikuyu: “Qufu”
- Korean: “곡부”
- Korean: “취푸 시”
- Korean: “취푸”
- 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: “Цуйфу”
- Russian: “Цюйфу”
- Serbian: “Ћуфу”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Qufu”
- Sinhala: “කියුෆු”
- Slovak: “Čchü-fu”
- Slovenian: “Čufu”
- Spanish: “Qufu”
- Swedish: “Chufu”
- Swedish: “Qufu”
- Tagalog: “Qufu”
- Tajik: “Суйфу”
- 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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