Shihezi
Shihezi is a city in Xinjiang Province in China. Built in the Junggar desert from 1954, it has more trees per acre than any other city in China. It is a quiet little city with friendly people that rarely sees tourists.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 499,000 residents
- Description: county-level city in Xinjiang, China
- Also known as: “Shih-ho-tzu”, “Shih-yen-tzu”, “Shihezi Xiang”, “Shikhedze”, “Shikhedzy”, “Shixenzi”, and “第八师”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Xiangyang.
Xiangyang
Suburb
Xiangyang Subdistrict is a subdistrict in Shihezi, Xinjiang, China. As of 2018, it has 10 residential communities under its administration.
Shihezi
- Categories: county-level city, big city, provincial directly controlled county-level division, and locality
- Location: Shihezi, Dzungarian, Xinjiang, Northwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
44.3017° or 44° 18′ 6″ northLongitude
86.0776° or 86° 4′ 39″ eastPopulation
499,000Elevation
467 metres (1,532 feet)IATA airport code
SHFUnited Nations Location Code
CN SZIOpen location code
8MP8832H+M2OpenStreetMap ID
node 244081874OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1529195Wikidata ID
Q848680
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Shihezi” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شيهيزي”
- Asturian: “Shihezi”
- Azerbaijani: “Şihezi”
- Basque: “Shihezi”
- Bengali: “সিহেচি”
- Bulgarian: “Шъхъдзъ”
- Catalan: “Shihezi”
- Cebuano: “Shihezi Shi”
- Chinese: “Chio̍h-hô-chú-chhī”
- Chinese: “Shíhézǐ”
- Chinese: “石河子”
- Chinese: “石河子市”
- Chinese: “石河子乡”
- Czech: “Š’-che-c’”
- Danish: “Shihezi”
- Dutch: “Shihezi”
- Esperanto: “Ŝihezi”
- Estonian: “Shihezi”
- Finnish: “Shihezi”
- French: “Shihezi”
- Gan Chinese: “石河子市”
- German: “Shihezi”
- Greek: “Σιχέζι”
- Gujarati: “શીહેઝી”
- Hebrew: “שה-חדזה”
- Hindi: “शीहेज़ी”
- Hungarian: “Sihoce”
- Indonesian: “Shihezi”
- Irish: “Shihezi”
- Italian: “Shihezi”
- Japanese: “石河子”
- Japanese: “石河子市”
- Kannada: “ಶಿಯಾಜಿ”
- Kikuyu: “Shihezi”
- Korean: “스허즈 시”
- Korean: “스허즈”
- Korean: “스허쯔”
- Korean: “스허쯔시”
- Latvian: “Šihezi”
- Literary Chinese: “石河子市”
- Lithuanian: “Šichezi”
- Malagasy: “Shihezi”
- Malay: “Shihezi”
- Marathi: “शीहजी”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Siŏh-ò̤-cṳ̄”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chio̍h-hô-chú-chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Shihezi”
- Norwegian: “Shihezi”
- Persian: “شیهزی”
- Polish: “Shihezi”
- Portuguese: “Shihezi”
- Russian: “Шихэцзы”
- Serbian: “Шихези”
- Sinhala: “ශිහෙසි”
- Spanish: “Shihezi”
- Swedish: “Shihezi”
- Tamil: “ஷிஹிஜி”
- Telugu: “శిహేజి”
- Thai: “ซือเหอจือ”
- Turkish: “Shihezi”
- Uighur: “Shixenze shehiri”
- Uighur: “Shixenze”
- Uighur: “Xihənzə”
- Uighur: “Шихәнзә”
- Uighur: “شىخەنزە شەھرى”
- Uighur: “شىخەنزە شەھىرى”
- Uighur: “شىخەنزە”
- Ukrainian: “Шихецзи”
- Ukrainian: “Шіхецзи”
- Urdu: “شیہیزی”
- Venetian: “Shihezi”
- Vietnamese: “Thạch Hà Tử”
- Waray (Philippines): “Shihezi”
- Welsh: “Shihezi”
- Wu Chinese: “石河子市”
- Yue Chinese: “石河子”
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