China
NW China
Gansu

Wuwei

Wuwei is a prefecture-level city in northwest central province. In the north it borders , in the southwest, . Its central location between three western capitals, , , and makes it an important business and transportation hub for the area.
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  • Type: City with 1,820,000 residents
  • Description: prefecture-level city in Gansu, China
  • Also known as: “Liang-chou”, “Liang-chow”, “Liangzhou”, “Wu-wei-hsien”, “Wuwei City”, “Wuwei Shi”, and “Wuwei, Gansu”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Wuwei Railway Station.

Railway station
Photo: Zhangzhugang, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Wuwei

Latitude
37.9289° or 37° 55′ 44″ north
Longitude
102.636° or 102° 38′ 10″ east
Population
1,820,000
Elevation
1,542 metres (5,059 feet)
Open location code
8P94WJHP+H9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244082207
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1803936
Wiki­data ID
Q249007
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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: “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”
  • 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، گانسو”
  • 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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