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Sichuan

Sichuan, is a province in . It is China's fourth most populous province; at 83 million it has about the population of Germany. Historically, Sichuan has been mainly an agricultural region, though with a few important cities.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Chengdu and Jiuzhaigou Nature Reserve.

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is the provincial capital and largest city of Sichuan Province in southwest . The megacity is home to over 21 million people. Its main draw for most foreign tourists is perhaps the giant pandas, with the world's foremost giant panda research institute just outside the city.

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Jiuzhaigou is a nature reserve in the north of Sichuan province in southwestern . It is officially known as Jiuzhai Valley in English. It is known as the habitat of giant pandas and for its many multi-level waterfalls and colorful lakes.

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Mount Emei, alternatively Mount Omei, is a 3,099-metre-tall mountain in Sichuan Province, China, and is the highest of the Four Sacred Buddhist Mountains of China.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as East Sichuan and Ganzi.

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Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, also known as Garzê in Tibetan, is located in western Sichuan Province, China. It is set amongst the scenic high alpine mountains of the province and it is historically part of the Tibetan region of Kham making the area interesting for both culture and landscape.

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Tibetan & Qiang Autonomous Prefecture (Mandarin Chinese: 阿坝藏族羌族自治州; Ābà Zàngzú Qiāngzú Zìzhìzhōu, or Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, is located in north-western Sichuan province.

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is in . It consists of Liangshan Autonomous Prefecture and Panzhihua Prefecture.
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Sichuan

  • Type: State with 83,700,000 residents
  • Description: province of China, previously inclusive of the present Chongqing Municipality
  • Also known as: “Ba”, “Four Rivers Province”, “Hua-hsi”, “Huahsi”, “Huaxi”, “Province of Sichuan”, “Se-chuan”, “Se-tchouan”, “Se-tchuen”, “Sechuan”, “Sechuen”, “Setchouan”, “Setchouen”, “Setchuen”, “Shu”, “Sichuan Province”, “Ssu-ch’uan”, “Ssu-chuan”, “Ssuch’uan”, “Ssuchuan”, “Su-tchuen”, “Süchwan”, “Sutchuen”, “Sz-chuan”, “Sz-chwan”, “Szchuan”, “Sze-tschwan”, “Szechuan”, “Szechuen”, “Szechwan”, “Szetschwan”, “West China”, and “Western China”
  • Neighbors: , , , , , , and
  • Categories: province of China and locality
  • Location: , , ,
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Latitude of center
30.5° or 30° 30′ north
Longitude of center
102.5° or 102° 30′ east
Population
83,700,000
Elevation
2,394 metres (7,854 feet)
Abbreviation
“川”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244081852
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1794299
Wiki­data ID
Q19770
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zhuang—“Sichuan” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Sichuan”
  • Afrikaans: “Sichuan”
  • Arabic: “سيتشوان”
  • Armenian: “Սիչուան”
  • Asturian: “Sichuan”
  • Asturian: “Sichuán”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sıçuan”
  • Balinese: “Sichuan”
  • Basque: “Sichuan”
  • Bavarian: “Sichuan”
  • Belarusian: “Правінцыя Сычуань”
  • Belarusian: “Сычуань”
  • Bengali: “সিছুয়ান”
  • Bhojpuri: “सिचुआन”
  • Bosnian: “Sečuan”
  • Breton: “Sichuan”
  • Bulgarian: “Съчуан”
  • Burmese: “စီချွမ်”
  • Catalan: “Sichuan”
  • Cebuano: “Sichuan Sheng”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای سیچوان”
  • Chechen: “Сычуань”
  • Chinese: “Chuān”
  • Chinese: “Huáxī”
  • Chinese: “Shǔ”
  • Chinese: “Sìchuān shěng”
  • Chinese: “Sìchuān Shěng”
  • Chinese: “Sìchuān”
  • Chinese: “Sù-chhoan-séng”
  • Chinese: “四川”
  • Chinese: “四川省”
  • Chinese: “川”
  • Chinese: “華西”
  • Chinese: “蜀”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Siçuan”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Sıçuan”
  • Croatian: “Sečuan”
  • Croatian: “Sichuan”
  • Czech: “S‘-čchuan”
  • Czech: “S’-čchuan”
  • Danish: “Sichuan”
  • Dutch: “Sichuan”
  • Esperanto: “Siĉuano”
  • Esperanto: “Siĉŭano”
  • Estonian: “Sichuan”
  • Finnish: “Sichuan”
  • French: “Chine occidentale”
  • French: “Province de Sichuan”
  • French: “Se-tchouen”
  • French: “Sé-tchouén”
  • French: “Setchouan”
  • French: “Sétchouan”
  • French: “Setchouen”
  • French: “Setchuen”
  • French: “Sichuan”
  • French: “Sìchuān”
  • French: “Sutchuen”
  • Galician: “Sichuan”
  • Galician: “四川”
  • Gan Chinese: “四川”
  • Gan Chinese: “四川省”
  • Georgian: “სიჩუანი”
  • German: “Sezuan”
  • German: “Sichuan”
  • German: “Szetschwan”
  • Greek: “Σετσουάν”
  • Greek: “Σιτσουάν”
  • Gujarati: “સિચુઆન”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Si-chhôn-sén”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Si-chhôn”
  • Hebrew: “סיצ’ואן”
  • Hebrew: “סצ’ואן”
  • Hindi: “सिचुआन”
  • Hungarian: “Szecsuan”
  • Icelandic: “Sesúan”
  • Ido: “Provinco Sichuan”
  • Ido: “Sichuan”
  • Indonesian: “Sichuan”
  • Interlingua: “Sichuan”
  • Irish: “Sichuan”
  • Italian: “Sichuan”
  • Japanese: “四川省 (中華人民共和国)”
  • Japanese: “四川省”
  • Kannada: “ಸಿಚುವಾನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Сычуань”
  • Kongo: “Sichuan”
  • Korean: “사천성”
  • Korean: “쓰촨 성”
  • Korean: “쓰촨성”
  • Kurdish: “Sichuan”
  • Latin: “Se-Ciuen”
  • Latin: “Secioan”
  • Latin: “Seciuen”
  • Latin: “Sichuan”
  • Latin: “Sina Occidentalis”
  • Latin: “Suchuen”
  • Latin: “Sutchuen”
  • Latvian: “Sičuaņa”
  • Latvian: “Sičuaņas province”
  • Literary Chinese: “四川”
  • Lithuanian: “Sičuanas”
  • Lombard: “Sichuan”
  • Macedonian: “Сечуан”
  • Malagasy: “Sichuan”
  • Malay: “Sichuan”
  • Malayalam: “സിഷ്വാൻ”
  • Manipuri: “ꯁꯤꯆ꯭ꯋꯥꯟ”
  • Manx: “Sichuan”
  • Marathi: “स-च्वान”
  • Marathi: “सच्वान”
  • Mazanderani: “سیچوآن”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Sé̤ṳ-chiŏng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sù-chhoan-séng”
  • Mingrelian: “სიჩუანი”
  • Mongolian: “Сычуань муж”
  • Nepali: “सिचुआन”
  • Northern Frisian: “Sichuan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sichuan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sichuan”
  • Norwegian: “Sichuan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sichuan”
  • Ossetian: “Сычуань”
  • Pampanga: “Sichuan”
  • Persian: “سیچوآن”
  • Persian: “سی‌چوان”
  • Polish: “Syczuan”
  • Portuguese: “província de Sichuan”
  • Portuguese: “Província de Sujuão”
  • Portuguese: “Sichuan”
  • Portuguese: “Sujuão”
  • Quechua: “Sichuan pruwinsya”
  • Romanian: “Sichuan”
  • Russian: “Сычуань”
  • Scots: “Sichuan”
  • Serbian: “Сичуан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sichuan”
  • Sichuan Yi: “ꌧꍧ”
  • Sichuan Yi: “ꌧꍧꌜ”
  • Sicilian: “Sichuan”
  • Sindhi: “سيچوان صوبو”
  • Sinhala: “සිචුවාන්”
  • Slovak: “S’-čchuan”
  • Slovenian: “Sečuan”
  • Slovenian: “Sičuan”
  • Spanish: “China Occidental”
  • Spanish: “Se-chuan”
  • Spanish: “Sechuan”
  • Spanish: “Sichuan”
  • Spanish: “Szechuan”
  • Spanish: “Szechwan”
  • Sundanese: “Propinsi Sichuan”
  • Swahili: “Sichuan”
  • Swedish: “Sichuan”
  • Tagalog: “Sichuan”
  • Tajik: “Сичуан”
  • Tamil: “சிச்சுவான்”
  • Tatar: “Сычуань”
  • Telugu: “సిచువాన్”
  • Thai: “มณฑลเสฉวน”
  • Tibetan: “སི་ཁྲོན་ཞིང་ཆེན།”
  • Turkish: “Siçuan”
  • Uighur: “سىچۈەن ئۆلكىسى”
  • Ukrainian: “Сичуань”
  • Urdu: “سیچوان”
  • Uzbek: “Sichuan”
  • Venetian: “Sichuan”
  • Vietnamese: “Tứ Xuyên”
  • Walloon: “Sichouan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sichuan”
  • Welsh: “Sichuan”
  • Western Armenian: “Սիչուան”
  • Western Panjabi: “سوجوان”
  • Western Panjabi: “سیچوآن”
  • Wu Chinese: “四川”
  • Wu Chinese: “四川省”
  • Yakut: “Сычуань”
  • Yue Chinese: “四川”
  • Yue Chinese: “蜀”
  • Zhuang: “Swconh”
  • “सिचुआन”

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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 “Sichuan”. Photo: Inkey, CC BY-SA 3.0.