Shaoxing

Shaoxing is a city in , near and , famous for its traditional Chinese bridges, boats, architecture, yellow wine and a huge number of textile and cloth factories.
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  • Type: City with 4,910,000 residents
  • Description: prefecture-level city in Zhejiang, China
  • Also known as: “Kuaiji”, “Shanyin”, “Shao-hing”, “Shao-hing-foo”, “Shao-hing-fu”, “Shao-hsing”, “Shao-hsing Foo”, “Shao-hsing-fu”, “Shaohing”, “Shaohingfu”, “Shaohsing”, “Shaoshing”, “Shaoxing City”, “Shaoxing Fu”, and “Shaoxingfu”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cai Yuanpei’s Former Residence and Shaoxing.

Museum
Photo: Zhangzhugang, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 .

Railway station
Photo: Zhangzhugang, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a railway station.

Tower
Photo: Gisling, CC BY 3.0.
is a pagoda in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, . Originally built during the Song dynasty in 504, the tower has been destroyed and rebuilt many times.

Shaoxing

Latitude
29.9992° or 29° 59′ 57″ north
Longitude
120.5769° or 120° 34′ 37″ east
Population
4,910,000
Elevation
21 metres (69 feet)
IATA airport code
RNX
United Nations Location Code
CN SXG
Open location code
7QX2XHXG+MP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244081612
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1795855
Wiki­data ID
Q42666
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Shaoxing” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Shaoxing”
  • Afrikaans: “Sjaoxing”
  • Arabic: “شاوكسينج”
  • Asturian: “Shaoxing”
  • Balinese: “Shaoxing”
  • Basque: “Shaoxing”
  • Belarusian: “Шаасін”
  • Bengali: “শাওশিং”
  • Catalan: “Shaoxing”
  • Cebuano: “Shaoxing”
  • Chinese: “Shàoxīng Shì”
  • Chinese: “Siāu-heng-chhī”
  • Chinese: “紹興”
  • Chinese: “紹興市”
  • Chinese: “绍兴”
  • Chinese: “绍兴市”
  • Croatian: “Shaoxing”
  • Czech: “Šao-sing”
  • Danish: “Shaoxing”
  • Dutch: “Shanyin”
  • Dutch: “Shaoxing”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝaosing”
  • Esperanto: “Shaoxing”
  • Estonian: “Shaoxing”
  • Finnish: “Shaoxing”
  • French: “Chao-hing Fou”
  • French: “Chao-hing-fou”
  • French: “Chao-hing”
  • French: “Shaoxing”
  • Galician: “Shaoxing”
  • Gan Chinese: “绍兴市”
  • Georgian: “შაოსინგი”
  • Georgian: “შაოსინი”
  • German: “Shaoxing”
  • Greek: “Σάοσιν”
  • Gujarati: “શાઓક્સિંગ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Sau-hîn-sṳ”
  • Hebrew: “שאושינג”
  • Hindi: “शाओसिंग”
  • Hungarian: “Saohszing”
  • Indonesian: “Shaoxing”
  • Irish: “Shaoxing”
  • Italian: “Shaoxing”
  • Japanese: “紹興市”
  • Kannada: “ಶಾಓಸಿಂಗ್”
  • Kikuyu: “Shaoxing”
  • Korean: “사오싱 시”
  • Korean: “사오싱”
  • 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 Bokmål: “Shaoxing”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Shaoxing”
  • Norwegian: “Shaoxing”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Shaoxing”
  • Ossetian: “Шаосин”
  • Persian: “شاوشینگ”
  • Polish: “Shaoxing”
  • Polish: “Szaosing”
  • Portuguese: “Shaoxing”
  • Russian: “Шаосин”
  • Scots: “Shaoxing”
  • Serbian: “Шаосинг”
  • Sinhala: “ශෑඕක්සින්ග්”
  • Slovenian: “Šaošing”
  • Slovenian: “Shaoxing”
  • Spanish: “Shaoxing”
  • Swedish: “Shaohing”
  • Swedish: “Shaoxing”
  • Tagalog: “Shaoxing”
  • Tamil: “ஷாவோசிங்”
  • Telugu: “షావోక్సింగ్”
  • Thai: “เช่าซิง”
  • Turkish: “Shaoxing”
  • Uighur: “Shawshin shehiri”
  • Uighur: “شاۋشىن شەھىرى”
  • Ukrainian: “Шаосін”
  • Urdu: “شاوشنگ”
  • Venetian: “Shaoxing”
  • Vietnamese: “Thiệu Hưng”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Shaoxing”
  • Welsh: “Shaoxing”
  • Wu Chinese: “绍兴”
  • Wu Chinese: “绍兴市”
  • Yue Chinese: “紹興”

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