Shaoxing
Shaoxing is a city in Zhejiang, near Shanghai and Hangzhou, famous for its traditional Chinese bridges, boats, architectures, yellow wine and a huge number of textile and cloth factories and production.Notable Places in the Area
Cai Yuanpei's Former Residence
Museum
The Former Residence of Cai Yuanpei or Cai Yuanpei's Former Residence is the birthplace of Cai Yuanpei, a Chinese educator, esperantist, president of Peking University, and founder of the Academia Sinica. Photo: Zhangzhugang, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Shaoxing
- Type: City
- Description: prefecture-level city in Zhejiang, China
- Categories: prefecture-level city, big city and city with millions of inhabitants
- Location: Zhejiang, East China, China, East Asia, Asia
Latitude 29.9992° or 29° 59' 57.3" north | Longitude 120.5769° or 120° 34' 36.7" east |
Population 4,910,000 | IATA airport code RNX |
United Nations Location Code CN SXG | Elevation 21 metres (69 feet) |
OpenStreetMap ID node 244081612 | GeoNames ID 1795855 |
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Shaoxing
- Afrikaans: Sjaoxing
- Arabic: Shaoxing
- Arabic: شاوكسينج
- Basque: Shaoxing
- Belarusian: Шаасін
- Bengali: শাওশিং
- Catalan: Shaoxing
- Chinese: Shàoxīng
- Chinese: Siāu-heng-chhī
- Chinese: 紹興
- Chinese: 紹興市
- Chinese: 绍兴
- Chinese: 绍兴市
- Czech: Šao-sing
- Danish: Shaoxing
- Dutch: Shanyin
- Dutch: Shaoxing
- English: Kuaiji
- English: Shanyin
- English: Shao-Hsing
- English: Shaohsing
- Esperanto: Shaoxing
- Esperanto: Ŝaosing
- Estonian: Shaoxing
- Finnish: Shaoxing
- French: Shaoxing
- Gan Chinese: 绍兴市
- German: Shaoxing
- Greek: Σάοσιν
- Gujarati: શાઓક્સિંગ
- Hakka Chinese: Sau-hîn-sṳ
- Hausa: Sau-hîn-sṳ
- Hebrew: שאושינג
- Hindi: शाओसिंग
- Hungarian: Saohszing
- Indonesian: Shaoxing
- Italian: Shaoxing
- Japanese: 紹興市
- Kannada: ಶಾಓಸಿಂಗ್
- Kikuyu: Shaoxing
- Korean: 사오싱
- Korean: 사오싱 시
- Korean: 사오싱시
- Korean: 샤오싱
- Korean: 샤오싱시
- Korean: 소흥
- Latin: Shaoxing
- Latvian: Šaosina
- Latvian: Šaosjina
- Literary Chinese: 紹興
- Literary Chinese: 紹興市
- Lithuanian: Šaosinas
- Macedonian: Шаосјинг
- Malagasy: Shaoxing
- Malay: Shaoxing
- Marathi: शाओक्सिन्ग
- Min Dong Chinese: Siêu-hĭng
- Min Nan Chinese: Siāu-heng-chhī
- Min Nan Chinese: Siāu-hin-chhī
- Norwegian: Shaoxing
- Norwegian Bokmål: Shaoxing
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Shaoxing
- Occitan (post 1500): Shaoxing
- Persian: شاوشینگ
- Polish: Shaoxing
- Polish: Szaosing
- Portuguese: Shaoxing
- Russian: Шаосин
- Scots: Shaoxing
- Serbian: Шаосинг
- Sinhala: ශෑඕක්සින්ග්
- Spanish: Shaoxing
- Swedish: Shaohing
- Swedish: Shaoxing
- Tagalog: Shaoxing
- Tamil: ஷாவோசிங்
- Telugu: షావోక్సింగ్
- Thai: เฉาซิง
- Turkish: Shaoxing
- Uighur: Shawshin shehiri
- Uighur: شاۋشىن شەھىرى
- Ukrainian: Шаосін
- Urdu: شاوشنگ
- Vietnamese: Thiệu Hưng
- Waray (Philippines): Shaoxing
- Welsh: Shaoxing
- Wu Chinese: 绍兴
- Wu Chinese: 绍兴市
- Yue Chinese: 紹興
- Shao-hsing
- Shaohingfu
Other Places Named Shaoxing
- Keqiao DistrictCity, Zhejiang, China
- Yuecheng DistrictZhejiang, China
- Shaoxing XianZhejiang, China
- Shaoxing ShiZhejiang, China
- ShaoxingRailway station, Zhejiang, China
In the Area
Localities
Landmarks
- Shaoxing Railway StationRailway station
- Mount XiangluMountain
- MeishanMountain
- Gaobu ZhanRailroad station
- Yangcha HuLake
- Guazhu HuLake, 11 km northwest
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