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Wenchuan

Wenchuan is a small county in Sichuan’s , 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.
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  • Type: City with 37,100 residents
  • Description: county in Ngawa, Sichuan, China
  • Also known as: “Wen-ch’uan Hsien”, “Wenchuan County”, and “wenchuan xian”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Weizhou.

Town
is a town and the county seat of Wenchuan County, northwestern province, Southwestern China. The town has an area of 128 square kilometers and a population of 31,409.

Wenchuan

Latitude
31.4801° or 31° 28′ 48″ north
Longitude
103.5824° or 103° 34′ 57″ east
Population
37,100
Elevation
3,041 metres (9,977 feet)
Open location code
8P35FHJJ+2X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1700680482
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1791528
Wiki­data ID
Q1015140
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Yue Chinese—“Wenchuan” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Wenchuan Xian”
  • Chinese: “Bûn-chhoan-koān”
  • Chinese: “汶川”
  • Chinese: “汶川县”
  • Chinese: “汶川縣”
  • Chinese: “绵虒县”
  • Dutch: “Wenchuan”
  • French: “Comte de Wenchuan”
  • French: “Comté de wenchuan”
  • French: “Wenchuan”
  • French: “xian de Wenchuan”
  • French: “Xian de Wenchuan”
  • Gan Chinese: “汶川县”
  • German: “Wenchuan”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Vún-chhôn-yen”
  • Indonesian: “Kabupaten Wenchuan”
  • Indonesian: “Wenchuan”
  • Italian: “Contea di Wenchuan”
  • Japanese: “汶川県”
  • Japanese: “綿虒県”
  • Korean: “문천현”
  • Korean: “원촨현”
  • Literary Chinese: “汶川”
  • Literary Chinese: “汶川縣”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bûn-chhoan-koān”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wenchuan”
  • Norwegian: “Wenchuan”
  • Persian: “ونچوان”
  • Romanian: “Wenchuan”
  • Russian: “Вэйчжоу”
  • Russian: “Вэньчуань”
  • Spanish: “Wenchuan”
  • Swedish: “Wenchuan”
  • Tibetan: “ཝུན་ཁྲོན་རྫོང་།”
  • Tibetan: “ལུང་དགུ་རྫོང་།”
  • Turkish: “Webzhuan”
  • Turkish: “Wenchuan”
  • Ukrainian: “Веньчуань”
  • Vietnamese: “Mân Xuyên”
  • Vietnamese: “Uy Châu”
  • Vietnamese: “Vấn Xuyên”
  • Wu Chinese: “汶川县”
  • Yue Chinese: “汶川”
  • Yue Chinese: “汶川县”
  • Yue Chinese: “汶川縣”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Wenchuan”. Photo: Baycrest, CC BY-SA 2.5.