Shenzhen
Shenzhen is a fast-paced city of ambition and enterprise: engineers on the cutting edge of modern technology, hardscrabble farmers coming to the big city in search of a better life, middle managers who dream of someday opening their own factories, designers looking to sell to a global market, and all manner of entrepreneurs from across China.Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Center and Nanshan.
Center
Shenzhen's city center, consisting of the two districts of Futian and Luohu, has everything you'd expect from a thriving international city—skyscrapers, shopping, museums, performances—but is also surprisingly green, with huge, lovely parks and mountains.Nanshan
Nanshan is a district of Shenzhen. It's a happening place—international artist communities, multiple amusement parks, historic sites, and more. Nanshan district also includes Shekou, on metro line 2, the expat neighborhood with everything Western that you might be accustomed to as well as the main ferry terminal.Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as East Shenzhen.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lianhuashan Park and Futian.
Lianhuashan Park
Park
Lianhuashan Park is a hill and urban park in Shenzhen, China, inaugurated in 1997. It is located at the northern end of the Futian Central Business District and covers an area of 150 hectares.
Futian
Railway station
Futian station is an underground China Railway High-speed and Shenzhen Metro station in Futian District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. It is on the Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong Express Rail Link and is the last mainland Chinese station before the line enters Hong Kong.
The Museum of Contemporary Art & Planning Exhibition (MOCAPE)
Museum
Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning is a museum located in Futian District, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China. The museum opened in 2016 and occupies a land area of 29,688 square metres, with a total construction area of 88,185 square metres.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Futian Subdistrict and Huafu Subdistrict.
Futian Subdistrict
Suburb
Huafu Subdistrict
Suburb
The sub-provincial municipality of Shenzhen in Guangdong, China is divided into nine districts and one management new area. Shenzhen is further divided into 74 subdistricts since the latest plan in October 2016.
Huaqiangbei
Neighborhood
Huaqiangbei is a subdistrict of Futian, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China. It is one of Shenzhen's notable retail areas, having one of the largest electronics markets in the world.
Shenzhen
- Type: City with 17,600,000 residents
- Description: city in China
- Also known as: “Bao’an”, “Pao-an”, “Pao-an-hsien”, “Sham Chun”, “Sham Chun Hu”, “Shen-ch’üan”, “Shen-ch’üan-chen”, “Shen-ch’üan-hsü”, “Shen-chen”, “Shen-chun”, “Shiem Chun”, “Shumchün”, and “Tschhimtschun”
- Historically known as: “寶安”
- Neighbors: Dongguan, Guangzhou, and Hong Kong
- Categories: sub-province-level division, big city, prefecture-level city of China, city specifically designated in the state plan, megacity, global city, special economic zone, and locality
- Location: Pearl River Delta, Guangdong, South China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
22.5446° or 22° 32′ 41″ north
Longitude
114.0545° or 114° 3′ 16″ east
Population
17,600,000
Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)
IATA airport code
SZX
United Nations Location Code
CN SNZ
Open location code
7PJPG3V3+RR
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zhuang—“Shenzhen” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Shenzhen”
- Albanian: “Shenzhen”
- Arabic: “شنجن”
- Arabic: “شينزين”
- Armenian: “Շենժեն”
- Asturian: “Shenzhen”
- Azerbaijani: “Şençjen”
- Balinese: “Shenzhen”
- Bambara: “Shenzhen”
- Bashkir: “Шэньчжэнь”
- Basque: “Shenzhen”
- Belarusian: “Шэньчжэнь”
- Bengali: “শেনচেন”
- Bengali: “শেনজেন”
- Bosnian: “Shenzhen”
- Breton: “Shenzhen”
- Bulgarian: “Шънджън”
- Burmese: “ရှိန်းကျိန့်မြို့”
- Catalan: “Shenzhen”
- Cebuano: “Shenzhen”
- Central Kurdish: “شێنجێن”
- Cheyenne: “Shenzhen”
- Chinese: “Chhim-chùn-chhī”
- Chinese: “Shēnzhèn Shì”
- Chinese: “宝安” (historical)
- Chinese: “新安” (historical)
- Chinese: “深圳”
- Chinese: “深圳市”
- Chinese: “鹏城”
- Cornish: “Shenzhen”
- Croatian: “Šenžden”
- Croatian: “Šenžen”
- Croatian: “Shenzhen”
- Czech: “Šen-čen”
- Danish: “Shenzhen”
- Dutch: “Shenzhen”
- Dzongkha: “ཤིན་ཅན། རྒྱ་ནག། Shinzhen, China”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شينزن”
- Esperanto: “Ŝenĝeno”
- Esperanto: “Ŝenĵeno”
- Estonian: “Shenzhen”
- Fijian: “Shenzhen”
- Finnish: “Shenzhen”
- French: “Shenzhen”
- Galician: “Shenzhen”
- Gan Chinese: “深圳”
- Gan Chinese: “深圳市”
- Georgian: “შენცენი”
- Georgian: “შენჭენი”
- Georgian: “შენჯენი”
- German: “Shenzhen”
- Greek: “Σενζέν”
- Greek: “Σεντζέν”
- Greek: “Σεντσέν”
- Gujarati: “શેનઝેન”
- Hakka Chinese: “Chhṳ̂m-chun-sṳ”
- Hausa: “Shenzhen”
- Hebrew: “שנג’ן”
- Hebrew: “שנז’ן”
- Hebrew: “שנזן”
- Hindi: “शेन्ज़ेन”
- Hindi: “शेन्झेन”
- Hungarian: “Sencsen”
- Iban: “Shenzhen”
- Icelandic: “Shenzhen”
- Ido: “Shenzhen”
- Indonesian: “Shenzhen”
- Interlingua: “Shenzhen”
- Irish: “Shenzhen”
- Italian: “Shenzhen”
- Japanese: “Shinsenshi”
- Japanese: “しんせんし”
- Japanese: “深セン”
- Japanese: “深セン市”
- Japanese: “深圳市”
- Kalaallisut: “Shenzhen”
- Kannada: “ಶೆನ್ಝೆನ್”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Sham Chun”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Shenchjen”
- Kazakh: “Шэньчжэнь қаласы”
- Kazakh: “Шэньчжэнь”
- Kikuyu: “Shenzhen”
- Kirghiz: “Шэньчжэнь”
- Korean: “선전 시”
- Korean: “선전시”
- Korean: “심수”
- Korean: “심천”
- Kurdish: “Shenzhen”
- Lao: “ເສີນເຈີ້ນ”
- Latin: “Shenzhen”
- Latvian: “Šeņdžeņa”
- Literary Chinese: “深圳市”
- Lithuanian: “Šendženas”
- Luxembourgish: “Shenzhen”
- Macedonian: “Шенџен”
- Maithili: “शेनझेन”
- Malagasy: “Shenzhen”
- Malay: “Shenzhen”
- Malayalam: “ഷെഞ്ജെൻ”
- Maltese: “Shenzhen”
- Maori: “Shenzhen”
- Marathi: “षेंचेन”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Chĭng-cóng”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Chĭng-dáung”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chhim-chùn-chhī”
- Moksha: “Шэньчжэнь”
- Mongolian: “Шэньжэнь”
- Nepali: “शेनझेन”
- Nepali: “सेन्जेन”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Shenzhen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Shenzhen”
- Norwegian: “Shenzhen”
- Nyanja: “Shenzhen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Shenzhen”
- Ossetian: “Шэньчжэнь”
- Pampanga: “Shenzhen”
- Panjabi: “ਸ਼ੈਨਜ਼ੈਨ”
- Persian: “شنژن”
- Persian: “شنژن”
- Polish: “Shenzhen”
- Portuguese: “Shenzhen”
- Pushto: “شینزن (شینجیانګ)”
- Pushto: “شینزن”
- Quechua: “Shenzhen”
- Romanian: “Shenzen”
- Romanian: “Shenzhen”
- Russian: “Шэньчжэнь”
- Scots: “Shenzhen”
- Serbian: “Šendžen”
- Serbian: “Шенџен”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Šenžen”
- Shan: “ဝဵင်းသျႅင်းၸၢင်ႇ”
- Sindhi: “شينزين”
- Sinhala: “ෂෙන්සෙන්”
- Slovak: “Šen-čen”
- Slovenian: “Šendžen”
- Slovenian: “Šenžen”
- Slovenian: “Shenzhen”
- Spanish: “Shenzhen”
- Swahili: “Shenzhen”
- Swedish: “Shenzhen”
- Tagalog: “Shenzhen”
- Tajik: “Шэнжэн”
- Tamil: “சென்சென்”
- Tamil: “சென்ச்சென்”
- Tamil: “ஷென்ஃஜென்”
- Tatar: “Şencen”
- Tatar: “Шэньчжэнь”
- Telugu: “షెన్జెన్”
- Thai: “เชินเจิ้น”
- Thai: “เซินเจิ้น”
- Tosk Albanian: “Shenzhen”
- Tswana: “Shenzhen”
- Tumbuka: “Shenzhen”
- Turkish: “Shenzhen”
- Turkmen: “Şenszen”
- Uighur: “شېنجېن شەھىرى”
- Ukrainian: “Шеньчжень”
- Urdu: “شینزین”
- Urdu: “شینژین”
- Uzbek: “Shenchjen”
- Uzbek: “Shenjen”
- Venetian: “Shenzhen”
- Veps: “Šen’čžen‘”
- Veps: “Šen’čžen’”
- Vietnamese: “Thâm Quyến”
- Waray (Philippines): “Shenzhen”
- Welsh: “Shenzhen”
- Western Panjabi: “شینژین”
- Wolof: “Shenzhen”
- Wu Chinese: “深圳市”
- Yakut: “Дьэндьэн”
- Yue Chinese: “Sam Zan”
- Yue Chinese: “Sham Chan”
- Yue Chinese: “Sham Chun”
- Yue Chinese: “深圳”
- Yue Chinese: “深圳市”
- Zhuang: “Sinhcin”
- “ma tomo Sensen”
- “Q15174”
- “Shenzhen”
- “深圳”
- “鵬城”
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