Tengchong
Tengchong is a county-level city in Yunnan, South-West China，located on the western periphery of Yunnan Province, adjacent to Myanmar. As a famous tourist destination, Tengchong is famous for its rich natural resources and historical culture.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 179,000 residents
- Description: county-level city
- Also known as: “Momein”, “T’eng-ch’ung-hsien”, “Tenchong”, “Tengchong City”, “Tengchong County”, “Tengchong Xian”, “Téngchōng Xiàn”, “Tengyue”, “Tengyüeh”, and “腾冲县”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tengchong Confucius Temple and Former Englisch Consulate.
Former Englisch Consulate
Historic building
Photo: STW932, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Former Englisch Consulate is a historic building.
Memorial Hall of the Anti-Japanese War in Western Yunnan
Museum
Photo: STW932, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Memorial Hall of the Anti-Japanese War in Western Yunnan is a museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tengyue and Heshun Town.
Tengyue
Suburb
Tengchong is a county-level city of Baoshan City, western Yunnan province, People's Republic of China. It is well known for its volcanic activity. The city is named after the town of Tengchong which serves as its political center, previously known as Tengyue in Chinese.
Heshun Town
Town
Photo: Han Lei, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Heshun Town is an ancient town in Tengchong City, located four kilometers southwest of the city centre in Yunnan, China. The town's ancient name is Yangwendun which was changed to Heshun and eventually the name it bears today.
Tengchong
- Categories: county-level city and locality
- Location: Baoshan, Western Yunnan, Yunnan, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
25.0284° or 25° 1′ 42″ northLongitude
98.4937° or 98° 29′ 37″ eastPopulation
179,000Elevation
1,639 metres (5,377 feet)Open location code
7MQW2FHV+9FOpenStreetMap ID
node 244081806OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1279891Wikidata ID
Q1355705
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Tengchong” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تنغتشونغ”
- Bengali: “থেংচুং”
- Cebuano: “Tengchong Xian”
- Chinese: “Thêng-chhiong-chhī”
- Chinese: “腾冲”
- Chinese: “腾冲市”
- Chinese: “腾越”
- Chinese: “腾越镇”
- Chinese: “騰沖”
- Chinese: “騰沖縣”
- Chinese: “騰衝”
- Chinese: “騰衝市”
- Czech: “Tcheng-čchung”
- Dutch: “Tengchong”
- French: “Comte de Tengchong”
- French: “Comté de tengchong”
- French: “Tengchong”
- French: “Xian de Tengchong”
- Gan Chinese: “腾冲市”
- German: “Tengchong”
- Indonesian: “Tengchong”
- Italian: “Tengchong”
- Japanese: “騰冲”
- Japanese: “騰沖”
- Japanese: “騰沖県”
- Japanese: “騰衝”
- Japanese: “騰衝市”
- Japanese: “騰越”
- Kikuyu: “Tengchong”
- Korean: “텅충 현”
- Korean: “텅충시”
- Malay: “Tengchong”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Thêng-chhiong-chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tengchong”
- Norwegian: “Tengchong”
- Persian: “شهرستان تنگچونگ”
- Persian: “شهرستان تنگچونگ”
- Russian: “Тэнчун”
- Spanish: “Tengchong”
- Swedish: “Tengchong Xian”
- Swedish: “Tengchong”
- Turkish: “Tengchong”
- Ukrainian: “Тенчун”
- Urdu: “تینگچونگ”
- Vietnamese: “Đằng Xung”
- Wu Chinese: “腾冲市”
- Yue Chinese: “騰衝”
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