China
South China
Hainan

Sanya

Sanya is on the southernmost point of , at the tip of island. Billed as "China's Hawaii", Sanya has 20-km stretches of beach. As the only tropical city across the coastline, it is definitely booming and packed with a lot of water sports such as snorkeling and jet-skiing, rainforest hiking, and innumerable hotels ranging from zero to five stars.
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  • Type: City with 685,000 residents
  • Description: prefecture-level city in Hainan, China
  • Also known as: “Sama”, “Samah”, “San-ah”, “San-ya-chen”, “San-ya-chiang”, “San-ya-chiang-shih”, “Sanya City”, “Sanya, Hainan”, “Ya Xian”, “Ya-hsien”, “Yai-hsien”, and “Yehsien”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Phoenix Island and Luhuitou Park.

Island
Photo: Anna Frodesiak, CC0.
, dubbed the Oriental Dubai, is an artificial island resort in Sanya, , .

Park
Photo: lienyuan lee, CC BY 3.0.

Sanya

Latitude
18.2535° or 18° 15′ 13″ north
Longitude
109.5034° or 109° 30′ 12″ east
Population
685,000
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
IATA airport code
SYX
Open location code
7PCF7G33+99
Open­Street­Map ID
node 847859864
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1796556
Wiki­data ID
Q319804
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zhuang—“Sanya” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Sanya”
  • Arabic: “سانيا”
  • Armenian: “Սանյա”
  • Basque: “Sanya”
  • Belarusian: “Санья”
  • Bengali: “সান-ইয়া”
  • Catalan: “Sanya, Hainan”
  • Catalan: “Sanya, Xina”
  • Catalan: “Sanya”
  • Cebuano: “Sanya (kapital sa prepektura)”
  • Cebuano: “Sanya”
  • Chinese: “Sam-a-chhī”
  • Chinese: “sānyà shì”
  • Chinese: “三亚”
  • Chinese: “三亚市”
  • Chinese: “三亞”
  • Chinese: “三亞市”
  • Czech: “San-ja”
  • Czech: “Sanya”
  • Danish: “Sanya”
  • Dutch: “Sanya”
  • Finnish: “Sanya”
  • French: “Sanya”
  • Galician: “Sanya”
  • Gan Chinese: “三亚”
  • Gan Chinese: “三亚市”
  • Gan Chinese: “三亞市”
  • German: “Sanya”
  • Greek: “Σανιά”
  • Gujarati: “સંયા”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Sâm-â-sṳ”
  • Hebrew: “סאן-יה”
  • Hindi: “सान्या”
  • Hungarian: “Szanja”
  • Icelandic: “Sanya”
  • Indonesian: “Sanya”
  • Italian: “Sanya”
  • Japanese: “三亜”
  • Japanese: “三亜市”
  • Kannada: “ಸನ್ಯಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Санья қаласы”
  • Kikuyu: “Sanya”
  • Korean: “산야”
  • Korean: “삼아”
  • Korean: “싼야 시”
  • Korean: “싼야”
  • Korean: “싼야시”
  • Kurdish: “Sanya”
  • Latvian: “Sanja”
  • Lithuanian: “Sanja”
  • Macedonian: “Санја”
  • Malagasy: “Sanya”
  • Malay: “Sanya”
  • Marathi: “संया”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Săng-ā”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sam-a-chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sam-a”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sanya”
  • Norwegian: “Sanya”
  • Ossetian: “Санья”
  • Pampanga: “Sanya”
  • Persian: “سانیا”
  • Persian: “ساینا”
  • Polish: “Sanya”
  • Portuguese: “Sanya”
  • Romanian: “Sanya”
  • Russian: “Сания, Китай”
  • Russian: “Санья”
  • Sinhala: “සන්යා”
  • Spanish: “Sanya”
  • Spanish: “Yaxian”
  • Spanish: “Yazhou”
  • Swedish: “Sanya”
  • Tagalog: “Sanya”
  • Tamil: “சன்யா”
  • Telugu: “సాన్య”
  • Thai: “ซานย่า”
  • Tibetan: “སན་ཡ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།”
  • Turkish: “Sanya”
  • Uighur: “Senya shehiri”
  • Uighur: “سەنيا شەھىرى”
  • Ukrainian: “Санья”
  • Urdu: “سانیا”
  • Veps: “Sanj”
  • Vietnamese: “Sanya”
  • Vietnamese: “Tam Á”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sanya”
  • Welsh: “Sanya”
  • Wu Chinese: “三亚市”
  • Yakut: “Санья”
  • Yue Chinese: “三亞”
  • Zhuang: “Sanhya”

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