Tianshui
Tianshui is a city in Gansu Province. Tianshui, a gem on China’s Loess Plateau, is where ancient legends and natural beauty intertwine. From the mythical birthplace of Fuxi to the breathtaking Maijishan Grottoes, this city offers a perfect blend of history, culture, and stunning landscapes.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 3,310,000 residents
- Description: prefecture-level city in Gansu, China
- Also known as: “Ch’in-chou”, “Qincheng”, “Qincheng Qu”, “Qinzhou”, “Qinzhou Qu”, “T’ien-shui”, “T’ien-shui-chen”, “Tianshui City”, “Tianshui Shi”, “Tianshuizhen”, “Tsin’chzhou”, “Tyan’shuy”, and “秦州区”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Houjie Mosque.
Houjie Mosque
Mosque
Photo: Zhangzhugang, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Houjie Mosque or Black Street Mosque is a mosque in Qinzhou District, Tianshui City, Gansu, China.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yuquan.
Yuquan
Town
Yuquan is a town in Qinzhou District, Tianshui, Gansu province, China. As of 2020, it administers the following 32 residential neighborhoods:…
Tianshui
- Categories: prefecture-level city, big city, and locality
- Location: Tianshui Shi, Gansu, Northwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.5798° or 34° 34′ 47″ northLongitude
105.7063° or 105° 42′ 23″ eastPopulation
3,310,000Elevation
1,164 metres (3,819 feet)United Nations Location Code
CN TSUOpen location code
8P67HPH4+WGOpenStreetMap ID
node 244082074OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Tianshui” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تيانشوي”
- Armenian: “Տյանշույ”
- Asturian: “Tianshui”
- Basque: “Tianshui”
- Bengali: “থিয়েনশুই”
- Catalan: “Tianshui”
- Chinese: “Thian-chúi-chhī”
- Chinese: “Tiānshuǐ Shì”
- Chinese: “天水”
- Chinese: “天水市”
- Chinese: “秦城”
- Chinese: “秦城区”
- Czech: “Chan-jang”
- Czech: “Šang-kuej”
- Czech: “Tchien-šuej”
- Czech: “Tsinchow”
- Danish: “Tianshui”
- Dutch: “Tianshui”
- Esperanto: “Tianshui”
- Finnish: “Tianshui”
- French: “Tianshui”
- Gan Chinese: “天水市”
- German: “Tianshui”
- Greek: “Τιανσουί”
- Gujarati: “તિયાનશુઈ”
- Hebrew: “טיינשווי”
- Hindi: “तिआंशुई”
- Hungarian: “Tiensuj”
- Indonesian: “Tianshui”
- Irish: “Tianshui”
- Italian: “Tianshui”
- Japanese: “天水市”
- Kannada: “ಟಿಯಾನ್ಸುಯಿ”
- Kikuyu: “Tianshui”
- Korean: “톈수이시”
- Kurdish: “Tianshui”
- Latvian: “Tianšui”
- Lithuanian: “Tianšui”
- Malagasy: “Tianshui”
- Malay: “Tianshui”
- Marathi: “तियानशुई”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Tiĕng-cūi”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Thian-chúi-chhī”
- Mongolian: “Тяньшуй”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tianshui”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tianshui”
- Norwegian: “Tianshui”
- Pampanga: “Tianshui”
- Persian: “تیانشوی”
- Polish: “Tianshui”
- Portuguese: “Tianshui”
- Russian: “Тяньшуй”
- Scots: “Tianshui”
- Serbian: “Тјеншуеј”
- Sinhala: “ටියැන්ෂුයි”
- Spanish: “Tianshui”
- Swedish: “Tianshui”
- Tagalog: “Tianshui”
- Tamil: “டியான்ஷுயி”
- Telugu: “తిఅంశుయి”
- Thai: “เทียนซุย”
- Turkish: “Tianshui”
- Uighur: “تيەنشۇي”
- Ukrainian: “Тяньшуй”
- Urdu: “تیانشوئی”
- Venetian: “Tianshui”
- Vietnamese: “Thiên Thủy”
- Waray (Philippines): “Tianshui”
- Welsh: “Tianshui”
- Western Panjabi: “تیان شوئی”
- Wu Chinese: “天水市”
- Yue Chinese: “天水”
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