China
South China
Hainan

Wenchang

Wenchang is a county-level city in the northeast of Island in China. Covering an area of 2,403 square kilometres, the city has a coastline of 207 kilometres, and is divided into 17 towns.
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  • Type: City with 153,000 residents
  • Description: county-level city in Hainan, China
  • Also known as: “Mencheong”, “Mencheonghsien”, “Vun Sio”, “Wen-ch’ang-hsien”, “Wen-ch’eng-chen”, “Wen-chiang”, “Wenchang Shi”, “Wencheng”, and “Wencheng Zhen”
  • Neighbors: and

Wenchang

Latitude
19.5453° or 19° 32′ 43″ north
Longitude
110.7932° or 110° 47′ 36″ east
Population
153,000
Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)
IATA airport code
WEC
United Nations Location Code
CN WEC
Open location code
7PFGGQWV+47
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244081928
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1791544
Wiki­data ID
Q997767
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zhuang—“Wenchang” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “وينشانغ”
  • Basque: “Wenchang”
  • Bengali: “ওয়েনছাং”
  • Catalan: “Wenchang”
  • Cebuano: “Wenchang Shi”
  • Chinese: “Bûn-chhiong-chhī”
  • Chinese: “Wénchāng Shì”
  • Chinese: “文城”
  • Chinese: “文城镇”
  • Chinese: “文昌”
  • Chinese: “文昌县”
  • Chinese: “文昌市”
  • Czech: “Wen-čchang”
  • Danish: “Wenchang”
  • Dutch: “Wenchang”
  • Esperanto: “Wenchang”
  • Finnish: “Wenchang”
  • French: “Wenchang”
  • Gan Chinese: “文昌市”
  • German: “Wenchang”
  • Greek: “Γουεντσάνγκ”
  • Gujarati: “વેન્ચંગ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Vùn-chhông-sṳ”
  • Hebrew: “ונצ’אנג”
  • Hindi: “वेनचांग”
  • Indonesian: “Wenchang”
  • Italian: “Wenchang”
  • Japanese: “文昌”
  • Japanese: “文昌市”
  • Japanese: “文昌県”
  • Kannada: “ವೆನ್ಚಾಂಗ್”
  • Kazakh: “Вэньчан”
  • Kikuyu: “Wenchang”
  • Korean: “원창 시”
  • Korean: “원창시”
  • Kurdish: “Wenchang”
  • Latvian: “Večanga”
  • Lithuanian: “Venčangas”
  • Malagasy: “Wenchang”
  • Malay: “Wenchang”
  • Marathi: “वेंन्चग”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bûn-chhiong-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wenchang”
  • Norwegian: “Wenchang”
  • Pampanga: “Wenchang”
  • Polish: “Wenchang”
  • Portuguese: “Wenchang”
  • Russian: “Вэньчан”
  • Sinhala: “වෙන්චෑන්ග්”
  • Slovenian: “Venčang”
  • Slovenian: “Wenchang”
  • Spanish: “Wenchang”
  • Swedish: “Wenchang Shi”
  • Swedish: “Wenchang, Hainan”
  • Swedish: “Wenchang”
  • Tamil: “வென்சாங்”
  • Telugu: “వెన్చాంగ్”
  • Thai: “เหวินฉาง”
  • Turkish: “Wenchang”
  • Ukrainian: “Веньчан”
  • Urdu: “وینچانگ”
  • Vietnamese: “Văn Xương”
  • Welsh: “Wenchang”
  • Wu Chinese: “文昌市”
  • Yue Chinese: “文昌”
  • Zhuang: “Vwnzcangh”

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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 Wikipedia page “Wenchang”. Photo: 川号子, CC BY 3.0.