Shanxi
Shanxi is a province in North China. Its capital and largest city is Taiyuan, and its next most populated prefecture-level cities are Changzhi and Datong.
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- 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”, “CN-14”, “Jin”, “Jìn”, “Propinsi Shanxi”, “Propinsi Shānxī”, “Province of Shanxi”, “Provincia de Shanxi”, “província de Shanxi”, “Provinsi Shanxi”, “Šan-hsi”, “Sân-sî-sén”, “Sancim”, “Ŝanŝjio”, “Schansi”, “Sciansi”, “Shan Hsi”, “Shan-hsi”, “Shan-si”, “Shanhsi”, “Shānxī”, “Shanxi Province”, “Shānxī shěng”, “Shanxi-provinco”, “Shanxi-provinsen”, “Shenshi Ölkisi”, “Siám-se”, “Sjan-si”, “Soaⁿ-sai”, “Soaⁿ-se”, “Sơn Tây, Trung Quốc”, “Szansi”, “Wilayah Shanxi”, “Провінція Шаньсі”, “שאן שי”, “שאן-שי”, “שאנסי”, “استان شانچی”, “شان شی”, “شانچی”, “شانشی”, “شانکسی”, “शंक्सी”, “शन्श़ी”, “शन्शी प्रांत”, “शांक्सी”, “शान्-सी”, “शांशी”, “শানসি প্রদেশ”, “ஷன்க்ஸி”, “ชานซี”, “ซานซี”, “มณฑลซันซี”, “มณฑลซานซี”, “ཧྲན་ཞི་ཞིང་ཆེན་”, “ཧྲན་ཤི་”, “ཧྲན་ཤི་ཞིང་ཆེན།”, “ཧྲན་ཤི།”, “산서”, “산서성”, “산시 성”, “산시성 (산서성)”, “山右”, “山西省 (中華人民共和国)”, “晉”, and “晋”
- Historically known as: “Shansi”
- Neighbors: Anyang, Baoding, Handan, Hebei, Henan, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, Jiaozuo, Jiyuan, Luoyang, Sanmenxia, Shaanxi, Shijiazhuang, Xinxiang, Yan’an, and Zhangjiakou
- Location: North China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
37.6667° or 37° 40′ north
Longitude of center
112.25° or 112° 15′ east
Population
34,900,000
Elevation
1,152 metres (3,780 feet)
Abbreviation
“晋”
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Zhuang—“Shanxi” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Shanxi”
- Afrikaans: “Shanxi”
- Amharic: “ሻንሲ”
- Arabic: “شانشي”
- Armenian: “Շանսի”
- Asturian: “Shanxi”
- Azerbaijani: “Şansi”
- Balinese: “Shanxi”
- Basque: “Shanxi”
- Belarusian: “Шаньсі”
- Bengali: “শানক্সি”
- Bengali: “শানশি”
- Breton: “Shanxi”
- Bulgarian: “Шанси”
- Catalan: “Shanxi”
- Cebuano: “Shanxi Sheng”
- Central Kurdish: “شانسی”
- Chechen: “Шаньси”
- Chinese: “山西”
- Chinese: “山西省”
- Crimean Tatar: “Şansi”
- Crimean Tatar: “Şanşi”
- Croatian: “Shanxi”
- Czech: “Šan-si”
- Danish: “Shanxi”
- Dutch: “Shanxi”
- Esperanto: “Ŝanŝio”
- Estonian: “Shanxi”
- Finnish: “Shanxi”
- French: “Province de Shanxi”
- French: “Shanxi”
- Galician: “Shanxi”
- Gan Chinese: “山西”
- Gan Chinese: “山西省”
- Georgian: “შანსი”
- German: “Shanxi”
- Greek: “Σανσί”
- Gujarati: “શાન્ક્સી”
- Hakka Chinese: “Sân-sî”
- Hausa: “Shanxi”
- Hebrew: “שאנשי”
- Hindi: “शन्शी”
- Hungarian: “Sanhszi”
- Icelandic: “Shansi”
- Ido: “Provinco Shanxi”
- Indonesian: “Shanxi”
- Interlingua: “Shanxi”
- Irish: “Shanxi”
- Italian: “Shanxi”
- Japanese: “山西”
- Japanese: “山西省”
- Javanese: “Shanxi”
- Kannada: “ಶಾಂಕ್ಸಿ”
- Kashmiri: “شنشی”
- Kazakh: “Шаньси”
- Khmer: “ខេត្តសានស៊ី”
- Kirghiz: “Шанши”
- Kirghiz: “Шаньси”
- Kongo: “Shanxi”
- Korean: “산시성”
- Kurdish: “Shanxi”
- Latin: “Xansia”
- Latvian: “Šaņsji”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Shanxi”
- Literary Chinese: “山西”
- Literary Chinese: “山西省”
- Lithuanian: “Šansi”
- Lombard: “Shanxi”
- Macedonian: “Шанси”
- Malagasy: “Shanxi”
- Malay: “Shanxi”
- Maltese: “Shanxi”
- Manipuri: “ꯁꯟꯁꯤ”
- Manx: “Shanxi”
- Marathi: “षान्शी”
- Mazanderani: “شانشی”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Săng-să̤”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Soaⁿ-sai-séng”
- Mingrelian: “შანსი (ჩინეთი)”
- Mingrelian: “შანსი”
- Mongolian: “Шаньси муж”
- Nepali: “सान्सी”
- Northern Frisian: “Shanxi”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Shanxi”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Shanxi”
- Norwegian: “Shanxi”
- Novial: “Shanxi”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Shanxi”
- Oromo: “Shanxi”
- Ossetian: “Шаньси”
- Pampanga: “Shanxi”
- Panjabi: “ਸ਼ਾਨਸੀ”
- Panjabi: “ਸ਼ਾਨਸ਼ੀ”
- Persian: “شانشی”
- Polish: “Shanxi”
- Portuguese: “Shanxi”
- Portuguese: “Xanxim”
- Pushto: “شانسي”
- Pushto: “شانشي”
- Quechua: “Shanxi pruwinsya”
- Romanian: “Shanxi”
- Russian: “Шаньси”
- Scots: “Shanxi”
- Serbian: “Шанси”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Shanxi”
- Sinhala: “ශන්ක්සි”
- Slovak: “Šan-si”
- Slovenian: “Šanši”
- Somali: “Shanxi”
- Spanish: “Shanxi”
- Swahili: “Shanxi”
- Swedish: “Shanxi”
- Tagalog: “Shanxi”
- Tajik: “Шанси”
- Tajik: “Шаньси”
- Tamil: “சான்சி”
- Tatar: “Шаньси”
- Telugu: “షాంక్సి”
- Thai: “มณฑลชานซี”
- Tibetan: “ཧྲན་ཞི་ཞིང་ཆེན།”
- Turkish: “Şansi”
- Turkish: “Şanşi”
- Uighur: “شەنشى ئۆلكىسى”
- Ukrainian: “Шаньсі”
- Urdu: “شنسی”
- Uzbek: “Shan’si”
- Uzbek: “Shansi”
- Venetian: “Shanxi”
- 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: “山西”
- Zhuang: “Sanhsih”
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