Shantou
Shantou, referred to as "Shan", also known as 鮀城 and 鮀岛, is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province, a sub-central city of Guangdong, a special economic zone, located in the east of Guangdong Province, adjacent to Chaozhou and Jieyang in the north, and the South China Sea in the south.
- Type: City with 5,390,000 residents
- Description: prefecture-level city in Guangdong, China
- Also known as: “Laiwu”, “Shan-t’ou-shih”, “Shantow”, “Soua-tou”, “Souatoou”, “Swatow”, “শানটু”, “শানতু”, “শানতোউ”, “শ্যানটু”, “শ্যানটোউ”, “শ্যানটৌ”, “সানটোউ”, “সানতু”, “সানতোউ”, and “ชั่นโถว”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Catholic Church of Shantou and Queshi Scenic Area.
Shantou Queshi Bridge
Bridge
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jinsha and Jindong.
Jinsha
Suburb
Jinsha is a subdistrict of the Jinping District, Shantou City, Guangdong Province, China.
Shantou
- Categories: prefecture-level city of China, big city, and locality
- Location: Chaoshan, Guangdong, South China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
23.3564° or 23° 21′ 23″ north
Longitude
116.6776° or 116° 40′ 39″ east
Population
5,390,000
Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)
IATA airport code
SWA
UN/LOCODE
CN STG
Open location code
7PMR9M4H+H2
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zhuang—“Shantou” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Shantou”
- Afrikaans: “Sjantou”
- Arabic: “شانتو”
- Armenian: “Շանտոու”
- Asturian: “Shantou”
- Basque: “Shantou”
- Belarusian: “Шаньтоу”
- Bengali: “শানথৌ”
- Breton: “Shantou”
- Bulgarian: “Шантоу”
- Catalan: “Shantou”
- Cebuano: “Shantou Shi”
- Chinese: “Shàntóu Shì”
- Chinese: “汕头”
- Chinese: “汕头市”
- Chinese: “汕頭市”
- Chinese: “潮汕”
- Croatian: “Shantou”
- Czech: “Šan-tchou”
- Danish: “Shantou”
- Dutch: “Shantou”
- Esperanto: “Ŝantoŭo”
- Esperanto: “Shantou”
- Estonian: “Shantou Shi”
- Finnish: “Shantou”
- French: “Shantou”
- Galician: “Shantou”
- Gan Chinese: “汕头市”
- Georgian: “შანტოუ”
- German: “Shantou”
- Greek: “Σαντόου”
- Gujarati: “શાન્તૌ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Sân-thèu-sṳ”
- Hebrew: “שאנטואו”
- Hebrew: “שנטאו”
- Hindi: “शांतोऊ”
- Hindi: “शांतौ”
- Hungarian: “Santou”
- Icelandic: “Shantou”
- Indonesian: “Shantou”
- Irish: “Shantou”
- Italian: “Shantou”
- Japanese: “汕頭”
- Japanese: “汕頭市”
- Kannada: “ಶಾಂಟೋ”
- Kannada: “ಶಾಂತೌ”
- Kikuyu: “Shantou”
- Korean: “산터우 시”
- Korean: “산터우시”
- Kurdish: “Shantou”
- Lao: “ຊານໂຖ”
- Latvian: “Šantou”
- Latvian: “Šaņtou”
- Literary Chinese: “汕頭市”
- Lithuanian: “Šantou”
- Malagasy: “Shantou”
- Malay: “Shantou”
- Marathi: “षांतौ”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Sáng-tàu”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Soaⁿ-thâu-chhī”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sòaⁿ-thâu-chhī”
- Mongolian: “Шантоу”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Shantou”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Shantou”
- Norwegian: “Shantou”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Shantou”
- Ossetian: “Шаньтоу”
- Pampanga: “Shantou”
- Persian: “شانتو”
- Polish: “Shantou”
- Portuguese: “Shantou”
- Romanian: “Shantou”
- Russian: “Шаньтоу”
- Scots: “Shantou”
- Serbian: “Шантоу”
- Silesian: “Shantou”
- Sinhala: “ෂැන්ටොඋ”
- Slovenian: “Šantou”
- Slovenian: “Šantov”
- Spanish: “Shantou”
- Swahili: “Shantou”
- Swedish: “Shantou”
- Tagalog: “Shantou”
- Tamil: “ஷான்டோவு”
- Telugu: “శాంటౌ”
- Thai: “ซัวเถา”
- Turkish: “Shantou”
- Uighur: “شەنتۇ شەھىرى”
- Ukrainian: “Шаньтоу”
- Urdu: “شانتو”
- Venetian: “Shantou”
- Vietnamese: “Sán Đầu”
- Waray (Philippines): “Shantou”
- Welsh: “Shantou”
- Western Panjabi: “شانتوؤ”
- Wu Chinese: “汕头”
- Yue Chinese: “Ciu San”
- Yue Chinese: “San Tau”
- Yue Chinese: “Santau”
- Yue Chinese: “汕頭”
- Zhuang: “Sandouz”
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