South China
Guangdong
Chaoshan

Shantou

Shantou City, referred to as "Shan", also known as 鮀城（tuócheng）and 鮀岛（tuódao）, 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 City and Jieyang City in the north, and the South China Sea in the south.
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  • Type: City with 5,390,000 residents
  • Description: prefecture-level city in Guangdong, China
  • Also known as: “Laiwu”, “Shan-t’ou-shih”, “Shantou Shi”, “Shantow”, “Souatoou”, and “Swatow”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Catholic Church of Shantou and Queshi Scenic Area.

Church
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St. Joseph's Cathedral is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Shantou, located at 133 Waima Road, Shantou, , .

Park
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is a park.

Bridge
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The Queshi Bridge, in Shantou, , is among the world's longest bridges. Its long span of 518 metres ranks it among the largest cable-stayed bridges in the world.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jinsha and Jindong.

Suburb
is a subdistrict of the Jinping District, Shantou City, Guangdong Province, China.

Suburb
Subdistrict is a subdistrict in Jinping District, Shantou, , . As of 2020, it administers the following 19 residential neighborhoods:…

Shantou

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
United Nations Location Code
CN STG
Open location code
7PMR9M4H+H2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 8399236300
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1795940
Wiki­data ID
Q59100
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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: “শানটু”
  • Bengali: “শানতু”
  • Bengali: “শানতোউ”
  • Bengali: “শানথৌ”
  • Bengali: “শ্যানটু”
  • Bengali: “শ্যানটোউ”
  • Bengali: “শ্যানটৌ”
  • Bengali: “সানটোউ”
  • Bengali: “সানতু”
  • Bengali: “সানতোউ”
  • Breton: “Shantou”
  • Bulgarian: “Шантоу”
  • Catalan: “Shantou”
  • Cebuano: “Shantou Shi”
  • Chinese: “Shàntóu Shì”
  • Chinese: “Sòaⁿ-thâu-chhī”
  • Chinese: “汕头”
  • Chinese: “汕头市”
  • Chinese: “汕頭”
  • Chinese: “汕頭市”
  • Chinese: “潮汕”
  • Croatian: “Shantou”
  • Czech: “Šan-tchou”
  • Danish: “Shantou”
  • Dutch: “Shantou”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝantou”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝantoŭo”
  • Estonian: “Shantou Shi”
  • Finnish: “Shantou”
  • French: “Shantou”
  • French: “Soua-tou”
  • French: “Souatoou”
  • 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”
  • Russian: “Шаньтоу”
  • Scots: “Shantou”
  • Serbian: “Шантоу”
  • Silesian: “Shantou”
  • Sinhala: “ෂැන්ටොඋ”
  • Slovenian: “Šantou”
  • Slovenian: “Šantov”
  • Spanish: “Shantou”
  • Swahili: “Shantou”
  • Swedish: “Shantou Shi”
  • Swedish: “Shantou”
  • Tagalog: “Shantou”
  • Tamil: “ஷான்டோவு”
  • Telugu: “శాంటౌ”
  • Thai: “ชั่นโถว”
  • 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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