South China
Guangdong
Pearl River Delta

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.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Center and Nanshan.

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is a district of Shenzhen. It's a happening place—international artist communities, multiple amusement parks, historic sites, and more. 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.

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Places of Interest

Highlights include Lianhuashan Park and Shenzhen Library.

Park
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is a hill and in Shenzhen, , inaugurated in 1997. It is located at the northern end of the Futian Central Business District and covers an area of 150 hectares.

Library
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is the municipal public library of Shenzhen, , . The main library is a part of the Shenzhen Cultural Center in . The main library occupies a 49,589-square-metre building on a 29,612-square-metre plot.

Railway station
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station is a station on the Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong Express Rail Link, and the final station in mainland China before trains enter .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Huaqiangbei and Lok Ma Chau.

Neighborhood
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is a subdistrict of Futian, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, . It is one of Shenzhen's notable retail areas, having one of the largest electronics markets in the world.

Hamlet
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or Lokmachau is an area in , . It is the site of a major pedestrian and road border crossing point between Hong Kong and mainland China.

Suburb
The sub-provincial municipality of Shenzhen in , is divided into nine districts and one management new area. Shenzhen is further divided into 74 subdistricts since the latest plan in October 2016.

Shenzhen

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
node 3510661780
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1795565
Wiki­data ID
Q15174
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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: “鵬城”
  • Chinese: “鹏城”
  • Cornish: “Shenzhen”
  • Croatian: “Šenžden”
  • Croatian: “Šenžen”
  • Croatian: “Shenzhen”
  • Czech: “Šen-čen”
  • Danish: “Shenzhen”
  • Dutch: “Shenzhen”
  • 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”
  • Icelandic: “Shenzhen”
  • Ido: “Shenzhen”
  • Indonesian: “Shenzhen”
  • Interlingua: “Shenzhen”
  • Irish: “Shenzhen”
  • Italian: “Shenzhen”
  • Japanese: “深セン”
  • Japanese: “深セン市”
  • Japanese: “深圳”
  • 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-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”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • Yue Chinese: “鵬城”
  • Zhuang: “Sinhcin”
  • “ma tomo Sensen”
  • “Shenzhen”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Shenzhen”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.