Shangqiu
Shangqiu is a city in eastern Henan province, China. Shangqiu has a history of over 4,000 years. It was the first capital of the Shang Dynasty, and later served as the capital of some states including Song in the Zhou Dynasty and Liang in the Han Dynasty.
- Type: City with 1,540,000 residents
- Description: prefecture-level city in Henan, China
- Also known as: “Kuei-te”, “Kweiteh”, “Shang-ch’in”, “Shang-ch’iu”, “Shang-ch’iu Chuan-ch’u”, “Shang-ch’iu Ti-ch’u”, “Shang-ch’iu-hsien”, “Shangkiu”, and “Shangkiuhsien”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Shangqiu.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pingtai Subdistrict and Gucheng.
Shangqiu
- Categories: prefecture-level city of China, big city, and locality
- Location: East Henan, Henan, North China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.4168° or 34° 25′ 1″ north
Longitude
115.6507° or 115° 39′ 3″ east
Population
1,540,000
Elevation
52 metres (171 feet)
Open location code
8P6QCM82+P7
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Shangqiu” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Shangqiu”
- Afrikaans: “Sjangqiu”
- Amharic: “ሻንግጭዩ”
- Arabic: “شانغكيو”
- Armenian: “Շանցյու”
- Asturian: “Shangqiu”
- Basque: “Shangqiu”
- Bengali: “শাংছিউ”
- Catalan: “Shangqiu”
- Cebuano: “Shangqiu”
- Central Kurdish: “شانگچیو”
- Chinese: “Shāngqiū Shì”
- Chinese: “商丘”
- Chinese: “商丘市”
- Czech: “Šang-čchiou”
- Danish: “Shangqiu”
- Dutch: “Shangqiu”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شانجكيو”
- Esperanto: “Shangqiu”
- Finnish: “Shangqiu”
- French: “Shangqiu”
- Gan Chinese: “商丘市”
- German: “Shangqiu”
- Greek: “Σάνγκιου”
- Gujarati: “શાંગકી”
- Hebrew: “שאנגצ’יו”
- Hindi: “शांग्की”
- Hungarian: “Sangcsiu”
- Indonesian: “Shangqiu”
- Irish: “Shangqiu”
- Italian: “Shangqiu”
- Japanese: “商丘市”
- Kannada: “ಶಂಗ್ಕಿಯು”
- Kikuyu: “Shangqiu”
- Korean: “상추시”
- Kurdish: “Shangqiu”
- Latvian: “Šangčiu”
- Lithuanian: “Šangčiu”
- Macedonian: “Шангќу”
- Malagasy: “Shangqiu”
- Malay: “Shangqiu”
- Marathi: “शांगकी”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Siŏng-kiŭ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Siong-khiu-chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Shangqiu”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Shangqiu”
- Norwegian: “Shangqiu”
- Pampanga: “Shangqiu”
- Persian: “شانگکیو”
- Polish: “Shangqiu”
- Portuguese: “Shangqiu”
- Russian: “Шанциу”
- Russian: “Шанцю”
- Sinhala: “ශැන්ග්කියු”
- Slovenian: “Šangčju”
- Spanish: “Shangqiu”
- Swedish: “Shangqiu”
- Tamil: “ஷாங்க்கியு”
- Telugu: “షాంగ్కీయు”
- Thai: “ซางฉิว”
- Turkish: “Shangqiu”
- Ukrainian: “Шанцю”
- Urdu: “شانگچیو”
- Venetian: “Shangqiu”
- Vietnamese: “Thương Khâu”
- Waray (Philippines): “Shangqiu”
- Welsh: “Shangqiu”
- Wu Chinese: “商丘市”
- Yue Chinese: “商丘”
- Yue Chinese: “商邱”
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