Songpan

Songpan is a small town in northern . The city is mostly used as a base-camp for exploring the nearby national parks and Tibetan villages, and is additionally visited for its existing remnants of the old city.
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  • Type: City with 24,700 residents
  • Description: county
  • Also known as: Jin’an”, “Songpan County”, “songpan xian”, “Songzhou”, “Sung-p’an”, “Sung-p’an-hsien”, and “Sungqu County

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jin’an.

Town
Photo: Farm, CC BY 3.0.
Jin'an Town is a town and the county seat of Songpan County in the of , . The town is situated on the and famous for its Songpan Ancient Town.

Songpan

Latitude
32.6579° or 32° 39′ 28″ north
Longitude
103.6022° or 103° 36′ 8″ east
Population
24,700
Elevation
2,851 metres (9,354 feet)
Open location code
8P45MJ52+4V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4721739285
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1805754
Wiki­data ID
Q1339425
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Wu Chinese—“Songpan” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: Songpan
  • Catalan: Songzhou
  • Catalan: Sungqu
  • Chinese: Siông-phoan-koān
  • Chinese: Sōngpān Xiàn
  • Chinese: 松州
  • Chinese: 松潘
  • Chinese: 松潘县
  • Chinese: 松潘縣
  • Chinese: 松潘衛
  • Chinese: 进安
  • Dutch: Songpan
  • Dutch: Sungqu
  • French: Comte de Songpan
  • French: Comté de Songpan
  • French: Songpan
  • French: Songzhou
  • French: Sungqu
  • French: xian de Songpan
  • French: Xian de Songpan
  • Gan Chinese: 松潘县
  • German: Songpan
  • German: Sungqu
  • Indonesian: County Songpan
  • Italian: Contea di Songpan
  • Italian: Songpan
  • Japanese: 松潘
  • Japanese: 松潘県
  • Korean: 쑹판현
  • Literary Chinese: 松潘衛
  • Min Nan Chinese: Siông-phoan-koān
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Songpan
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Sungqu
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Songpan fylke
  • Norwegian: Songpan
  • Persian: شهرستان سونگپان
  • Polish: Songpan
  • Polish: Sungqu
  • Portuguese: Songpan
  • Portuguese: Sungqu
  • Russian: Сунгчу
  • Spanish: Songpan
  • Spanish: Sungqu
  • Swedish: Songpan
  • Tibetan: ཟུང་ཆུ་
  • Tibetan: ཤར་ཁོག
  • Vietnamese: Tùng Phan
  • Wu Chinese: 松潘县

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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 “Songpan”. Photo: rheins, CC BY 3.0.