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Shanxi

Taiyuan

Taiyuan is the capital of It is an important central city in the central region of the province and a common stopover between Wu Tai Shan and Pingyao.
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  • Type: City with 4,940,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Shanxi province, China
  • Also known as: “Bing”, “T’ai-yuan”, “T’ai-yuan Shih”, “T’ai-yuan-fu”, “T’ai-yüan-shih”, “Tai-yuan”, “Tai-yuan Shih”, “Tai-yuan-fu”, “Taiyuan Shi”, “Taiyüan-fu”, “Yang-ch’ü”, “Yangkü”, “Yanka”, “并”, “并州”, “晋阳”, and “龙城”
  • Neighbors: , , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Shanxi museum and Taiyuan Ancient Mosque.

Museum
Photo: Roland Longbow, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is the largest museum and cultural building in the province of , China. The museum, located in Shanxi's provincial capital Taiyuan, is home to about 400,000 cultural relics and 110,000 old books.

Mosque
Photo: 猫猫的日记本, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a in Xinghualing District, Taiyuan City, , .

University
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is a university in , People's Republic of China under the authority of the provincial government.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Xinghua.

Suburb
Subdistrict is a subdistrict of Wanbailin District, Taiyuan, , People's Republic of China. As of 2011, it has ten residential communities under its administration.

Taiyuan

Latitude
37.87° or 37° 52′ 12″ north
Longitude
112.5437° or 112° 32′ 37″ east
Population
4,940,000
Elevation
795 metres (2,608 feet)
IATA airport code
TYN
United Nations Location Code
CN TYU
Open location code
8P9JVG9V+XF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244081765
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1793511
Wiki­data ID
Q72778
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zhuang—“Taiyuan” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Taiyuan”
  • Afrikaans: “Taiyuan”
  • Arabic: “تاي يوان”
  • Armenian: “Թայյուան”
  • Asturian: “Taiyuán”
  • Balinese: “Taiyuan”
  • Basque: “Taiyuan”
  • Belarusian: “Тайюань”
  • Belarusian: “Таюань”
  • Bengali: “টাইউয়ান”
  • Bengali: “থাই-ইউয়েন”
  • Bengali: “থাইউয়ান”
  • Breton: “Taiyuan”
  • Bulgarian: “Тайюен”
  • Catalan: “Taiyuan”
  • Catalan: “太原”
  • Cebuano: “Taiyuan (kapital sa lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Taiyuan”
  • Chechen: “Тайюань”
  • Chinese: “Bīng”
  • Chinese: “Jìnyáng”
  • Chinese: “Tàiyuán”
  • Chinese: “Thài-goân-chhī”
  • Chinese: “太原”
  • Chinese: “太原市”
  • Croatian: “Taiyuan”
  • Czech: “Tchaj-jüan”
  • Danish: “Taiyuan”
  • Dutch: “Taiyuan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تاى يوان”
  • Esperanto: “Tajuano”
  • Finnish: “Taiyuan”
  • French: “Taiyuan”
  • French: “Thai Chan”
  • Galician: “Taiyuan”
  • Galician: “太原”
  • Gan Chinese: “太原”
  • Gan Chinese: “太原市”
  • German: “Taiyuan”
  • Greek: “Ταϊγιουάν”
  • Gujarati: “તાઈયુઆન”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Thai-ngièn-sṳ”
  • Hebrew: “טאי-יואן”
  • Hindi: “ताइयुआन”
  • Hungarian: “Tajjüan”
  • Icelandic: “Taiyuan”
  • Indonesian: “Taiyuan”
  • Irish: “Taiyuan”
  • Italian: “Taiyuan”
  • Japanese: “太原市”
  • Kalaallisut: “Taiyuan”
  • Kannada: “ತೈಯುವನ್”
  • Kikuyu: “Taiyuan”
  • Kirghiz: “Тайюань”
  • Kongo: “Taiyuan”
  • Korean: “타이위안 시”
  • Korean: “타이위안시”
  • Kurdish: “Taiyuan”
  • Latin: “Taiyuenum”
  • Latvian: “Taijuaņa”
  • Literary Chinese: “太原市”
  • Lithuanian: “Tajuanas”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Taiyuan”
  • Macedonian: “Тајјуен”
  • Malagasy: “Taiyuan”
  • Malay: “Taiyuan”
  • Marathi: “थाय्युआन”
  • Mazanderani: “تاي يوآن”
  • Mazanderani: “تای یوآن”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Tái-nguòng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Thài-goân-chhī”
  • Mingrelian: “ტაიუანი”
  • Mongolian: “Тайюань”
  • Nepali: “ताइयुआन”
  • Northern Frisian: “Taiyuan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Taiyuan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Taiyuan”
  • Norwegian: “Taiyuan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Taiyuan”
  • Ossetian: “Тайюань”
  • Panjabi: “ਤਾਈਯੂਆਨ”
  • Persian: “تائی‌یوان”
  • Polish: “Taiyuan”
  • Portuguese: “Taiuã”
  • Portuguese: “Taiyuan”
  • Quechua: “Taiyuan”
  • Romanian: “Taiyuan”
  • Russia Buriat: “Тайюань”
  • Russian: “Тайюань”
  • Scots: “Taiyuan”
  • Serbian: “Таијуан”
  • Serbian: “Тајуен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Taiyuan”
  • Sinhala: “ටායියුආන්”
  • Slovak: “Tchaj-jüan”
  • Slovenian: “Taijuan”
  • Spanish: “Taiyuan”
  • Spanish: “Taiyuán”
  • Swedish: “Taiyuan”
  • Tagalog: “Taiyuan”
  • Tamil: “டாய்யுவான்”
  • Tamil: “தையுவான்”
  • Telugu: “టైయుఆన్”
  • Thai: “ไท่-ยฺเหวียน”
  • Thai: “ไท่หยวน”
  • Turkish: “Taiyuan”
  • Uighur: “تەييۈەن شەھىرى”
  • Ukrainian: “Тайюань”
  • Urdu: “تاییوان”
  • Uzbek: “Tayyuan”
  • Venetian: “Taiyuan”
  • Vietnamese: “Thái Nguyên, Sơn Tây”
  • Vietnamese: “Thái Nguyên”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Taiyuan”
  • Welsh: “Taiyuan”
  • Western Panjabi: “تائی یوآن”
  • Wu Chinese: “太原市”
  • Yakut: “Тайюань”
  • Yue Chinese: “太原”
  • Zhuang: “Daiyienz”

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