Ruzhou
Ruzhou is a county-level city in West Henan, managed by Pingdingshan City. It is named after the North Ruhe River, which runs through it. As a colorful pottery jar with storks, fish, stone axes, and painted pottery, it possesses the "Three Treasures of Ruzhou", and Ru porcelain is the top of the five famous porcelains of the Song Dynasty.
- Type: City with 346,000 residents
- Description: county-level city
- Also known as: “Ju-chou”, “Lin-ju”, “Lin-ju-hsien”, “Meishan”, and “Yüchow”
Ruzhou
- Categories: county-level city of China, big city, and locality
- Location: Pingdingshan Shi, West Henan, Henan, North China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.1686° or 34° 10′ 7″ north
Longitude
112.8384° or 112° 50′ 18″ east
Population
346,000
Elevation
210 metres (689 feet)
Open location code
8P6J5R9Q+F9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Ruzhou” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “روزهو”
- Bengali: “রুচৌ”
- Chinese: “Jú-chiu-chhī”
- Chinese: “Rǔzhōu Shì”
- Chinese: “临汝”
- Chinese: “临汝县”
- Chinese: “梁县”
- Chinese: “汝州”
- Chinese: “汝州市”
- Chinese: “煤山”
- Danish: “Ruzhou”
- Dutch: “Ruzhou”
- Finnish: “Ruzhou”
- French: “Ruzhou”
- Gan Chinese: “汝州市”
- German: “Linru”
- German: “Ruzhou”
- Greek: “Ρούζου”
- Gujarati: “રઝોઉ”
- Hindi: “रूज़्हौ”
- Hungarian: “Rucsou”
- Indonesian: “Ruzhou”
- Italian: “Ruzhou”
- Japanese: “汝州市”
- Kannada: “ರುಝೌ”
- Kikuyu: “Ruzhou”
- Korean: “루저우시”
- Korean: “여주시”
- Kurdish: “Ruzhou”
- Latvian: “Rudžou”
- Literary Chinese: “汝州”
- Lithuanian: “Rudžou”
- Malagasy: “Ruzhou”
- Malay: “Ruzhou”
- Marathi: “रझहौ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Jú-chiu-chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ruzhou”
- Norwegian: “Ruzhou”
- Pampanga: “Ruzhou”
- Polish: “Ruzhou”
- Russian: “Жучжоу”
- Sinhala: “රූසෝ”
- Spanish: “Ruzhou”
- Swedish: “Ruzhou”
- Tamil: “ரூஷோவு”
- Telugu: “రుజౌ”
- Thai: “หลูเซ่า”
- Turkish: “Ruzhou”
- Ukrainian: “Жучжоу”
- Urdu: “روژؤ”
- Vietnamese: “Nhữ Châu”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ruzhou”
- Welsh: “Ruzhou”
- Wu Chinese: “汝州市”
- Yue Chinese: “汝州”
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