North China
Shandong
Jining

Qufu

Qufu is a town in Shandong Province, located about 2 hours by bus from the provincial capital . Famous as the birthplace and the hometown of Confucius, its Confucius-related sites have been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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  • 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”, and “Küfow”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Temple of Confucius and Kong Family Mansion.

Place of worship
Photo: Yumeto, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The in Qufu, Shandong Province, is the largest and most renowned in East Asia. Since 1994, the has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Temple and Cemetery of Confucius and the Kong Family Mansion in Qufu".

Photo: xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0.
The was the historical residence of the direct descendants of Confucius in the City of Qufu, the hometown of Confucius in Shandong Province, China.

Mosque
Photo: Vmenkov, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a in Qufu City, in the province of .

Qufu

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
node 244081716
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1797333
Wiki­data ID
Q210287
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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: “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”
  • 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”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Qufu”. Photo: Vmenkov, CC BY-SA 3.0.