Shaanxi
Shaanxi, pronounced roughly Shahn-see, is a north-central province of China, and includes portions of the Loess Plateau on the middle reaches of the Yellow River as well as the Qinling Mountains across the southern part of the province.
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Shaanxi
- Type: State with 39,500,000 residents
- Description: province of central China with its capital Xi’an, the ancient homeland of the Zhou and center of several major dynasty
- Also known as: “Chen-si”, “Chensi”, “CN-61”, “Propinsi Shaanxi”, “Propinsi Shǎnxī”, “Province of Shaanxi”, “Provincia de Shaanxi”, “província de Shaanxi”, “Província de Shaanxi”, “Provinsi Shaanxi”, “Qín”, “Şaanşi”, “Šaaņsji province”, “Schensi”, “Šen-hsi”, “Šensi”, “Ŝenŝji”, “Shaan Xi”, “Shaankshi”, “Shaanxi Province”, “Shaanxi provints”, “Shaanxi-provinco”, “Shǎn”, “Shan Hsi”, “Shan Xi”, “Shan-hsi”, “Shankshi”, “Shǎnxī shěng”, “Shanzi”, “Shen-si”, “Shenxi”, “Siám-sai”, “Sjen-si”, “Sjensi”, “Szensi”, “Wilayah Shaanxi”, “Провінція Шеньсі”, “שאאנסי”, “شاآنچی”, “شاآنشی”, “شاآنکسی”, “شاانشی”, “شەئەنخى ئۆلكىسى”, “शा’आन्-सी”, “शाआंशी”, “शांक्सी”, “शांझी”, “शान्श़ी”, “शान्शी प्रांत”, “शान्शी प्रान्त”, “शांशी”, “शांसि”, “शेंसी”, “ஷங்க்சி”, “ฉ่านซี”, “มณฑลสั่นซี”, “ส่านซี”, “ཧའན་ཞི་ཞིང་ཆེན་”, “ཧྲའན་ཞི་ཞིང་ཆེན་”, “ཧྲའན་ཤིའི་”, “ཧྲའན་ཤིའི་ཞིང་ཆེན་”, “ཧྲའན་ཤིའི་ཞིང་ཆེན།”, “ཧྲའན་ཤིའི།”, “산시성 (섬서성)”, “섬서”, “섬서 성”, “秦”, “陕”, “陜西”, “陝”, and “陝西省 (中華人民共和国)”
- Historically known as: “Shensi”
- Neighbors: Chongqing Municipality, Gansu, Henan, Hubei, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Shanxi, and Sichuan
- Categories: province of China and locality
- Location: Northwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
35.5896° or 35° 35′ 23″ north
Longitude of center
109.3013° or 109° 18′ 5″ east
Population
39,500,000
Elevation
1,075 metres (3,527 feet)
Abbreviation
“陕”
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Zhuang—“Shaanxi” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Shaanxi”
- Afrikaans: “Shaanxi”
- Afrikaans: “Sjaanxi”
- Amharic: “ሻአንሲ”
- Arabic: “شنشي”
- Armenian: “Շենսի”
- Asturian: “Shaanxi”
- Azerbaijani: “Şensi”
- Balinese: “Shaanxi”
- Basque: “Shaanxi”
- Belarusian: “Правінцыя Шэньсі”
- Belarusian: “Шэньсі”
- Bengali: “শাআনক্সি”
- Bengali: “শাআনশি”
- Bosnian: “Shaanxi”
- Breton: “Shaanxi”
- Bulgarian: “Шънси”
- Catalan: “Shaanxi”
- Cebuano: “Shaanxi”
- Central Kurdish: “شێنسی”
- Chinese: “Shaanxi Sheng”
- Chinese: “陕西”
- Chinese: “陕西省”
- Chinese: “陝西省”
- Crimean Tatar: “Şensi”
- Crimean Tatar: “Şenşi”
- Croatian: “Shaanxi”
- Czech: “Šen-si”
- Danish: “Shaanxi”
- Dutch: “Shaanxi”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شانشى”
- Esperanto: “Ŝenŝio”
- Esperanto: “Ŝenŝjio”
- Estonian: “Shaanxi”
- Finnish: “Shaanxi”
- French: “Province de Shaanxi”
- French: “Shaanxi”
- French: “Shǎnxī”
- Galician: “Shaanxi”
- Gan Chinese: “陕西省”
- Gan Chinese: “陝西”
- Georgian: “შაანსი”
- Georgian: “შენსი”
- German: “Shaanxi”
- Greek: “Σαανσί”
- Gujarati: “શાંક્ષી”
- Hakka Chinese: “Sám-sî”
- Hakka Chinese: “Shám-sî-sén”
- Hausa: “Shaanxi”
- Hebrew: “שאאנשי”
- Hindi: “शान्शी”
- Hungarian: “Senhszi”
- Icelandic: “Shaanxi”
- Ido: “Provinco Shaanxi”
- Ido: “Shaanxi”
- Indonesian: “Shaanxi”
- Interlingua: “Shaanxi”
- Irish: “Shaanxi”
- Italian: “Shaanxi”
- Japanese: “陝西省”
- Javanese: “Shaanxi”
- Kannada: “ಶಾಂಕ್ಸಿ”
- Kashmiri: “شانشی”
- Kazakh: “Шэньси”
- Kirghiz: “Шаанси”
- Kirghiz: “Шаанши”
- Kongo: “Shaanxi”
- Korean: “산시 성”
- Korean: “산시성”
- Korean: “섬서성”
- Kurdish: “Shaanxi”
- Latin: “Xensia”
- Latvian: “Šaaņsji”
- Literary Chinese: “陜西省”
- Literary Chinese: “陝西省”
- Lithuanian: “Šaansi”
- Lombard: “Shaanxi”
- Macedonian: “Шенси”
- Malagasy: “Shaanxi”
- Malay: “Shaanxi”
- Malayalam: “ഷാങ്സി”
- Manipuri: “ꯁꯥꯟꯁꯤ”
- Manx: “Shaanxi”
- Marathi: “षा‘न्शी”
- Marathi: “षा’न्शी”
- Marathi: “षान्शी”
- Mazanderani: “شنشی”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Siēng-să̤”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Siám-sai-séng”
- Mingrelian: “შენსი”
- Mongolian: “Шэньси муж”
- Nepali: “साङ्सी”
- Northern Frisian: “Shaanxi”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Shaanxi”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Shaanxi”
- Norwegian: “Shaanxi”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Shaanxi”
- Oromo: “Shaanxi”
- Ossetian: “Шэньси”
- Pampanga: “Shaanxi”
- Panjabi: “ਸ਼ੈਨਸ਼ੀ”
- Persian: “شاآنشی”
- Persian: “شنشی”
- Polish: “Shaanxi”
- Portuguese: “Shaanxi”
- Portuguese: “Xianxim”
- Pushto: “شاانسي”
- Quechua: “Shaanxi pruwinsya”
- Romanian: “Shaanxi”
- Russian: “Шэньси”
- Scots: “Shaanxi”
- Serbian: “Шенси”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Shaanxi”
- Sindhi: “شانڪسي صوبو”
- Sinhala: “ශාන්ක්සි”
- Slovak: “Šen-si”
- Slovenian: “Šaanši”
- Slovenian: “Šanši”
- Somali: “Shaanxi”
- Spanish: “Shaanxi”
- Swahili: “Shaanxi”
- Swedish: “Shaanxi”
- Tagalog: “Shaanxi”
- Tajik: “Шаанси”
- Tamil: “சென்சி மாகாணம்”
- Tamil: “ஷாங்ஷி மாகாணம்”
- Tatar: “Шаанси”
- Tatar: “Шэньси провинциясе”
- Telugu: “షాంక్సి”
- Thai: “มณฑลฉ่านซี”
- Thai: “มณฑลส่านซี”
- Tibetan: “ཧྲའན་ཞི་ཞིང་ཆེན།”
- Turkish: “Şensi”
- Uighur: “شېنشى ئۆلكىسى”
- Ukrainian: “Шеньсі”
- Urdu: “شانسی”
- Uzbek: “Shensi”
- Venetian: “Shaanxi”
- Vietnamese: “Thiểm Tây”
- Walloon: “Chånxi”
- Waray (Philippines): “Shaanxi”
- Welsh: “Shaanxi”
- Western Armenian: “Շաանքսի”
- Western Panjabi: “شانسی”
- Wu Chinese: “陕西省”
- Yakut: “Шэньси”
- Yue Chinese: “陝西”
- Zhuang: “Sanjsih”
- “Shaanxi”
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