Wenchuan
Wenchuan is a small county in Sichuan’s Aba Tibetan-Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, which straddles the confluence of the Min and Zagunao Rivers. Wenchuan county is one of only 4 counties that are the main location of China’s Qiang ethnic group – the others being Lixian, Maoxian and Beichuan.
- City with about 83,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 3,040 metres (9,980 feet)
- Description: county in Ngawa, Sichuan, China
- Also known as“Wen-ch’uan Hsien”“Wenchuan County”“wenchuan xian”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Weizhou.
Wenchuan
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Latitude
31.4801° or 31° 28′ 48″ north
Longitude
103.5824° or 103° 34′ 57″ east
Open location code
8P35FHJJ+2X
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OpenStreetMap feature
place = city
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Yue Chinese—“Wenchuan” goes by many names.
Wenchuan XianCebuano
汶川Chinese
汶川县Chinese
汶川縣Chinese
绵虒县Chinese
WenchuanDutch
汶川县Gan Chinese
Vún-chhôn-yenHakka Chinese
Kabupaten WenchuanIndonesian
WenchuanIndonesian
Contea di WenchuanItalian
汶川県Japanese
綿虒県Japanese
문천현Korean
원촨현Korean
汶川Literary Chinese
汶川縣Literary Chinese
Bûn-chhoan-koānMin Nan Chinese
WenchuanNorwegian
WenchuanNorwegian Bokmål
ونچوانPersian
WenchuanRomanian
ВэйчжоуRussian
ВэньчуаньRussian
WenchuanSwedish
ཝུན་ཁྲོན་རྫོང་།Tibetan
ལུང་དགུ་རྫོང་།Tibetan
WebzhuanTurkish
WenchuanTurkish
ВеньчуаньUkrainian
Mân XuyênVietnamese
Uy ChâuVietnamese
Vấn XuyênVietnamese
汶川县Wu Chinese
汶川Yue Chinese
汶川县Yue Chinese
汶川縣Yue Chinese
Places with the Same Name
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