Wuwei
Wuwei is a prefecture-level city in northwest central Gansu province. In the north it borders Inner Mongolia, in the southwest, Qinghai. Its central location between three western capitals, Lanzhou, Xining, and Yinchuan makes it an important business and transportation hub for the area.
- Type: City with 394,000 residents
- Description: prefecture-level city in Gansu, China
- Also known as: “Liang-chou”, “Liang-chow”, “Liangzhou”, “Wu-wei-hsien”, “Wuwei Shi”, and “Wuwei, Gansu”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wuwei Railway Station.
Wuwei
- Categories: prefecture-level city of China, big city, and locality
- Location: Gansu, Northwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.9278° or 37° 55′ 40″ north
Longitude
102.6349° or 102° 38′ 6″ east
Population
394,000
Elevation
1,542 metres (5,059 feet)
Open location code
8P94WJHM+4W
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Wuwei” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ووي”
- Armenian: “Ուվեյ”
- Asturian: “Wuwei”
- Basque: “Wuwei”
- Bengali: “উ-ওয়েই”
- Bulgarian: “Вувей”
- Bulgarian: “Ууей”
- Catalan: “Wuwei”
- Cebuano: “Wuwei”
- Chinese: “Bú-ui-chhī”
- Chinese: “Wǔwēi Shì”
- Chinese: “武威”
- Chinese: “武威市”
- Czech: “Wu-wej”
- Danish: “Wuwei”
- Dutch: “Wuwei”
- Esperanto: “Uvej”
- Esperanto: “Wuwei”
- Finnish: “Wuwei”
- French: “Wuwei”
- Gan Chinese: “武威市”
- German: “Wuwei”
- Greek: “Γουγουέι”
- Gujarati: “વુવેઈ”
- Hebrew: “וו-ויי (נציבות עירונית)”
- Hebrew: “וו-ויי”
- Hindi: “वूवेइ”
- Hungarian: “Vuvej”
- Indonesian: “Wuwei, Gansu”
- Indonesian: “Wuwei”
- Irish: “Wuwei”
- Italian: “Wuwei”
- Japanese: “武威市”
- Kannada: “ವೂವೆ”
- Kikuyu: “Wuwei”
- Kirghiz: “Увей”
- Korean: “우웨이시”
- Kurdish: “Wuwei, Gansu”
- Latvian: “Vuveja”
- Lithuanian: “Vuvėjus”
- Malay: “Wuwei”
- Marathi: “वूवेई”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Ū-ŭi”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bú-ui-chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wuwei”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wuwei”
- Norwegian: “Wuwei”
- Pampanga: “Wuwei, Gansu”
- Pampanga: “Wuwei”
- Persian: “وووی”
- Polish: “Wuwei”
- Portuguese: “Wuwei”
- Russian: “Увэй”
- Serbian: “Вувеј”
- Sinhala: “වුවෙයි”
- Spanish: “Wuwei”
- Swedish: “Wuwei, Gansu”
- Swedish: “Wuwei”
- Tagalog: “Wuwei”
- Tamil: “வுவேய்”
- Telugu: “వువెయి”
- Thai: “อู่เวย์”
- Thai: “อู๋เหว่ย”
- Turkish: “Wuwei”
- Uighur: “ۋۇۋېي”
- Ukrainian: “Увей”
- Urdu: “ووئی، گانسو”
- Urdu: “ووئی”
- Venetian: “Wuwei”
- Vietnamese: “Vũ Uy, Cam Túc”
- Vietnamese: “Vũ Uy”
- Waray (Philippines): “Wuwei, Gansu”
- Waray (Philippines): “Wuwei”
- Welsh: “Wuwei”
- Western Panjabi: “وو وئی”
- Wu Chinese: “武威市”
- Yue Chinese: “武威”
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