Shanxi
Shanxi is a province in North China. Its capital and largest city of the province is Taiyuan, while its next most populated prefecture-level cities are Changzhi and Datong.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Taiyuan and Datong City.
Taiyuan
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Taiyuan is the capital of Shanxi Province It is an important central city in the central region of the province and a common stopover between Wu Tai Shan and Pingyao.
Datong City
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Datong is a prefecture-level city in northern Shanxi Province in the People's Republic of China. It is located in the Datong Basin at an elevation of 1,040 metres and borders Inner Mongolia to the north and west and Hebei to the east.
Wutaishan National Park
Mount Wǔtái, is one of the four Sacred Buddhist mountains of China, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Shanxi Province in China.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Pingyao and Linfen.
Pingyao
Pingyao, officially Pingyao Ancient City, is a walled city in central Shanxi, China, famed for its importance in Chinese economic history and for its well-preserved Ming and Qing urban planning and architecture.
Linfen
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Linfen is a city of almost 1 million people in Shanxi. Linfen is a main industrial center for coal mining, which has significantly damaged the city's environment, air quality, farming, health and its previous status as a green village.
Changzhi
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Changzhi is a prefecture-level city in the southeast of Shanxi Province, China, bordering the provinces of Hebei and Henan to the northeast and east, respectively.
Yuncheng
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Yuncheng is located in the southwestern part of Shanxi Province, China, and is one of the cradles of Chinese civilization, boasting a long history and rich cultural heritage, such as the Guandi Temple and Salt Lake.
Xinzhou
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Xinzhou, ancient name Xiurong, is a prefecture-level city occupying the north-central section of Shanxi Province in the People's Republic of China, bordering Hebei to the east, Shaanxi to the west, and Inner Mongolia to the northwest.
Jincheng
Jincheng is a small city in Shanxi Province in China. It is not a common tourist destination, but there are a few noteworthy destinations within Jincheng prefecture, outside the city.
Yangquan
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Yangquan is a prefecture-level city in the east of Shanxi province, People's Republic of China, bordering Hebei province to the east. Known as "Rippling Spring" in ancient times, it lies on the eastern edge of the Loess Plateau and the western side of the Taihang Mountains.
Jinzhong
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Jinzhong is a prefecture-level city in Shanxi Province in China. It is a national-level cultural and ecological protection experimental area, which has formed a number of provincial tourism masterpieces, such as the World Cultural Heritage Pingyao ancient city, the Shanxi merchants folk culture tourism area, and so on, and is the cradle of Shanxi merchants' culture.
Luliang
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Luliang City is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Shanxi Province, the People's Republic of China, located in the western part of Shanxi Province.
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Shanxi
- Type: province of China with 34,900,000 residents
- Description: province of central China with its capital at Taoyuan, the supposed original home of the prehistoric Huaxia
- Also known as: “Chan-si”, “Chañ-si”, “Chansi”, “Chañsi”, “Jin”, “Province of Shanxi”, “Shan Hsi”, “Shan-hsi”, “Shan-si”, “Shanxi Province”, and “Shanxi Sheng”
- Historically known as: “Shansi”
- Neighbors: Anyang, Baoding, Handan, Hebei, Henan, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, Luoyang, Sanmenxia, Shaanxi, Shijiazhuang, Xinxiang, Yan’an, and Zhangjiakou
- Location: North China, China, East Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Zhuang—“Shanxi” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Propinsi Shanxi”
- Achinese: “Shanxi”
- Afrikaans: “Shanxi”
- Arabic: “شانشي”
- Armenian: “Շանսի”
- Asturian: “Shanxi”
- Azerbaijani: “Şansi”
- Balinese: “Shanxi”
- Basque: “Shanxi”
- Belarusian: “Шаньсі”
- Bengali: “শানশি”
- Bengali: “শানসি প্রদেশ”
- Breton: “Shanxi”
- Bulgarian: “Шанси”
- Catalan: “Shansi”
- Catalan: “Shanxi”
- Cebuano: “Shanxi Sheng”
- Central Kurdish: “شانسی”
- Chechen: “Шаньси”
- Chinese: “Jìn”
- Chinese: “Shānxī shěng”
- Chinese: “Shānxī”
- Chinese: “Soaⁿ-sai-séng”
- Chinese: “山西”
- Chinese: “山西省”
- Chinese: “晉”
- Chinese: “晋”
- Crimean Tatar: “Şansi”
- Crimean Tatar: “Şanşi”
- Croatian: “Shanxi”
- Czech: “Šan-hsi”
- Czech: “Šan-si”
- Danish: “Shanxi”
- Dutch: “Shanxi”
- Dutch: “Sjan-si”
- Esperanto: “Ŝanŝio”
- Esperanto: “Ŝanŝjio”
- Esperanto: “Shanxi-provinco”
- Esperanto: “Shanxi”
- Estonian: “Shanxi”
- Finnish: “Šansi”
- Finnish: “Shanxi”
- French: “Chan-si”
- French: “Chañ-si”
- French: “Chansi”
- French: “Chañsi”
- French: “Province de Shanxi”
- French: “Shansi”
- French: “Shanxi”
- Galician: “Shanxi”
- Gan Chinese: “山西”
- Gan Chinese: “山西省”
- Georgian: “შანსი”
- German: “CN-14”
- German: “Schansi”
- German: “Shansi”
- German: “Shanxi”
- Greek: “Σανσί”
- Gujarati: “શાન્ક્સી”
- Hakka Chinese: “Sân-sî-sén”
- Hakka Chinese: “Sân-sî”
- Hebrew: “שאן שי”
- Hebrew: “שאן-שי”
- Hebrew: “שאנסי”
- Hebrew: “שאנשי”
- Hindi: “शन्शी प्रांत”
- Hindi: “शन्शी”
- Hindi: “शन्श़ी”
- Hindi: “शांक्सी”
- Hungarian: “Sanhszi”
- Icelandic: “Shansi”
- Ido: “Provinco Shanxi”
- Indonesian: “Propinsi Shanxi”
- Indonesian: “Propinsi Shānxī”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Shanxi”
- Indonesian: “Shanxi”
- Interlingua: “Shanxi”
- Irish: “Shanxi”
- Italian: “Sciansi”
- Italian: “Shanxi”
- Japanese: “山西省 (中華人民共和国)”
- Japanese: “山西省”
- Kannada: “ಶಾಂಕ್ಸಿ”
- Khmer: “ខេត្តសានស៊ី”
- Kongo: “Shanxi”
- Korean: “산서”
- Korean: “산서성”
- Korean: “산시 성”
- Korean: “산시성 (산서성)”
- Korean: “산시성”
- Kurdish: “Shanxi”
- Latin: “Xansia”
- Latvian: “Šaņsji”
- Latvian: “Shanxi”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Shanxi”
- Literary Chinese: “山西”
- Lithuanian: “Šansi”
- Lithuanian: “Shanxi”
- Lombard: “Shanxi”
- Macedonian: “Шанси”
- Malagasy: “Shanxi”
- Malay: “Shanxi”
- Malay: “Wilayah Shanxi”
- Maltese: “Shanxi”
- Manipuri: “ꯁꯟꯁꯤ”
- Manx: “Shanxi”
- Marathi: “शंक्सी”
- Marathi: “शान्-सी”
- Marathi: “शांशी”
- Marathi: “षान्शी”
- Mazanderani: “شانشی”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Săng-să̤”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Siám-se”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Soaⁿ-sai-séng”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Soaⁿ-sai”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Soaⁿ-se”
- Mingrelian: “შანსი (ჩინეთი)”
- Mingrelian: “შანსი”
- Mongolian: “Шаньси муж”
- Nepali: “सान्सी”
- Northern Frisian: “Shanxi”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Shansi”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Shanxi-provinsen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Shanxi”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Shanxi”
- Norwegian: “Shanxi”
- Novial: “Shanxi”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Shanxi”
- Ossetian: “Шаньси”
- Pampanga: “Shanxi”
- Panjabi: “ਸ਼ਾਨਸ਼ੀ”
- Persian: “استان شانچی”
- Persian: “شان شی”
- Persian: “شانچی”
- Persian: “شانشی”
- Persian: “شانشی”
- Persian: “شانکسی”
- Polish: “Shanxi”
- Polish: “Szansi”
- Portuguese: “província de Shanxi”
- Portuguese: “Sancim”
- Portuguese: “Shanxi”
- Portuguese: “Xanxim”
- Pushto: “شانشي”
- Quechua: “Shanxi pruwinsya”
- Romanian: “Shanxi”
- Russian: “Шаньси”
- Scots: “Shanxi”
- Serbian: “Шанси”
- Serbian: “山西”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Šansi”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Shanxi”
- Sinhala: “ශන්ක්සි”
- Slovak: “Šan-si”
- Slovenian: “Šanši”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Shanxi”
- Spanish: “Shanxi”
- Swahili: “Shanxi”
- Swedish: “Shan-hsi”
- Swedish: “Shansi”
- Swedish: “Shanxi”
- Swedish: “Shānxī”
- Tagalog: “Shanxi Province”
- Tagalog: “Shanxi”
- Tajik: “Шанси”
- Tamil: “சான்சி”
- Tamil: “ஷன்க்ஸி”
- Telugu: “షాంక్సి”
- Thai: “ชานซี”
- Thai: “ซานซี”
- Thai: “มณฑลชานซี”
- Thai: “มณฑลซันซี”
- Thai: “มณฑลซานซี”
- Tibetan: “ཧྲན་ཞི་ཞིང་ཆེན་”
- Tibetan: “ཧྲན་ཞི་ཞིང་ཆེན།”
- Tibetan: “ཧྲན་ཤི་”
- Tibetan: “ཧྲན་ཤི་ཞིང་ཆེན།”
- Tibetan: “ཧྲན་ཤི།”
- Turkish: “Şansi”
- Turkish: “Şanşi”
- Turkish: “Shanxi”
- Uighur: “Shenshi Ölkisi”
- Uighur: “شەنشى ئۆلكىسى”
- Ukrainian: “Провінція Шаньсі”
- Ukrainian: “Шаньсі”
- Urdu: “شنسی”
- Uzbek: “Shansi”
- Venetian: “Shanxi”
- Vietnamese: “Sơn Tây, Trung Quốc”
- Vietnamese: “Sơn Tây”
- Waray (Philippines): “Shanxi”
- Welsh: “Shanxi”
- Western Armenian: “Շանքսի”
- Western Panjabi: “شانشی”
- Western Panjabi: “شنگزی”
- Wu Chinese: “山西省”
- Yakut: “Шанси”
- Yue Chinese: “Shan Hsi”
- Yue Chinese: “Shan-hsi”
- Yue Chinese: “Shanhsi”
- Yue Chinese: “Shanxi”
- Yue Chinese: “山右”
- Yue Chinese: “山西”
- Yue Chinese: “山西省”
- Zhuang: “Sanhsih”
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