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 history, culture, and stunning landscapes.
- Type: City with 3,310,000 residents
- Description: prefecture-level city in Gansu, China
- Also known as: “Ch’in-chou”, “Chan-jang”, “Qincheng”, “Qincheng Qu”, “Qinzhou”, “Qinzhou Qu”, “Šang-kuej”, “T’ien-shui”, “T’ien-shui-chen”, “Tianshui City”, “Tianshui Shi”, “Tianshuizhen”, “Tsin’chzhou”, “Tsinchow”, “Tyan’shuy”, and “秦州区”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Houjie Mosque.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yuquan.
Tianshui
- Categories: prefecture-level city of China, big city, and locality
- Location: Tianshui Shi, Gansu, Northwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.5798° or 34° 34′ 47″ north
Longitude
105.7063° or 105° 42′ 23″ east
Population
3,310,000
Elevation
1,164 metres (3,819 feet)
UN/LOCODE
CN TSU
Open location code
8P67HPH4+WG
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap 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: “Tiānshuǐ Shì”
- Chinese: “天水”
- Chinese: “天水市”
- Chinese: “秦城”
- Chinese: “秦城区”
- Czech: “Tchien-šuej”
- Danish: “Tianshui”
- Dutch: “Tianshui”
- Esperanto: “Tianshui”
- Esperanto: “Tianŝui”
- 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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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: 成纪花园 and Xiguan.
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