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Sanmenxia

Sanmenxia is a city in with 2.2 million inhabitants. Situated along the upper reaches of the Yellow River, Sanmenxia is known for its breathtaking natural scenery and historical significance.
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  • Type: City with 2,230,000 residents
  • Description: prefecture-level city in Henan, China
  • Also known as: “Hui-hsing”, “San-men-hsia”, “San-men-hsia-shih”, “San’myn’sya”, “Sanmenhsia”, and “Shan-hsien”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Guo Tombs and Sanmenxianan.

Cemetery
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is a cemetery.

Railway station
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The Sanmenxia South railway station is a railway station located in Sanmenxia, , . It was opened on 6 February 2010, along with the Zhengzhou–Xi'an high-speed railway.

Sanmenxia

Latitude
34.7679° or 34° 46′ 4″ north
Longitude
111.1908° or 111° 11′ 27″ east
Population
2,230,000
Elevation
385 metres (1,263 feet)
Open location code
8P6HQ59R+58
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244081698
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1796669
Wiki­data ID
Q404636
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Sanmenxia” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سانمنشيا”
  • Asturian: “Sanmenxia”
  • Basque: “Sanmenxia”
  • Bavarian: “Sanmenxia”
  • Bengali: “সানমেনশিয়া”
  • Catalan: “Sanmenxia”
  • Cebuano: “Sanmenxia”
  • Chinese: “Sam-bûn-kiap-chhī”
  • Chinese: “Sānménxiá Shì”
  • Chinese: “三門峽”
  • Chinese: “三門峽市”
  • Chinese: “三门峡”
  • Chinese: “三门峡市”
  • Czech: “San-men-sia”
  • Danish: “Sanmenxia”
  • Dutch: “Sanmenxia”
  • Esperanto: “Sanmensja”
  • Esperanto: “Sanmenxia”
  • Finnish: “Sanmenxia”
  • French: “Sanmenxia”
  • Gan Chinese: “三门峡市”
  • German: “Sanmenxia”
  • Greek: “Σανμένκσια”
  • Gujarati: “સેનમેન્ક્સિયા”
  • Hebrew: “סאנמנשיה”
  • Hindi: “सांमेंक्सिआ”
  • Hungarian: “Szanmenhszia”
  • Indonesian: “Sanmenxia”
  • Irish: “Sanmenxia”
  • Italian: “Sanmenxia”
  • Japanese: “三門峡市”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಯಾನೆಮೆಕ್ಸಿಯಾ”
  • Kikuyu: “Sanmenxia”
  • Korean: “싼먼샤 시”
  • Korean: “싼먼샤시”
  • Kurdish: “Sanmenxia”
  • Latvian: “Sanmensija”
  • Literary Chinese: “三門峽市”
  • Lithuanian: “Sanmensia”
  • Malagasy: “Sanmenxia”
  • Malay: “Sanmenxia”
  • Marathi: “सॅनमेनक्सिआ”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Săng-muòng-hiĕk”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sam-bûn-kiap-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sanmenxia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sanmenxia”
  • Norwegian: “Sanmenxia”
  • Pampanga: “Sanmenxia”
  • Persian: “سانمنشیا”
  • Polish: “Sanmenxia”
  • Portuguese: “Sanmenxia”
  • Romanian: “Sanmenxia”
  • Russian: “Саньмынься”
  • Russian: “Саньмэнься”
  • Serbian: “Санменсја”
  • Sinhala: “සැන්මෙන්ක්සියා”
  • Spanish: “Sanmenxia”
  • Swedish: “Sanmenxia”
  • Tamil: “சான்மென்சியா”
  • Telugu: “సాంమెంక్సియా”
  • Thai: “ซานเหมินเซียะ”
  • Turkish: “Sanmenxia”
  • Ukrainian: “Саньменься”
  • Urdu: “سامینشیا”
  • Venetian: “Sanmenxia”
  • Vietnamese: “Tam Môn Hiệp”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sanmenxia”
  • Welsh: “Sanmenxia”
  • Wu Chinese: “三门峡市”
  • Yue Chinese: “三門峽”

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