China
NW China
Shaanxi

Xi’an

Xi'an is a city in Province in . The oldest surviving capital of ancient China, Xi'an is home to thousands of years of Chinese heritage and history.
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  • Type: City with 12,200,000 residents
  • Description: capital of Shaanxi Province, China
  • Also known as: “Ch’ang-an”, “Ch’ang-an-hsien”, “Chang-ngan”, “Changan”, “Hsi Gnan Fu”, “Hsi-an”, “Hsi-an-fu”, “Hsi-an-shih”, “Hsi-ching”, “Hsi-ching-shih”, “Hsi’an”, “Hsian”, “Hsingan”, “Kansan”, “Kenjan”, “Kenjanfu”, “Khumdan”, “Khumdán”, “Kingchao”, “Kingchao-fu”, “Quen-zan”, “Quen-zan-fu”, “Quenzan”, “Quenzanfu”, “Si-Gan-Fu”, “Si-ngan”, “Si-ngan Fu”, “Si-ngan-fu”, “Sian”, “Sianfu”, “Siking”, “Singan”, “Singan-fu”, “Xi An”, “Xi’an City”, “Xi’an Fu”, “Xi’an, China”, “Xi’anfu”, “Xian”, “Xianfu”, “長安市”, and “长安市”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include The Great Mosque of Xi’an and Small Wild Goose Pagoda.

Mosque
Photo: 長安城根喚朱雀, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Great Mosque of Xi'an is one of the largest premodern in . Although the mosque was first built in 742 AD during the Tang dynasty, its current form was largely constructed in 1384 AD during Emperor Hongwu's reign of the Ming dynasty, as recorded by the Records of Xi'an Municipality.

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The Small or Little Wild Goose Pagoda is one of two significant Buddhist pagodas in Xi'an, , China, the site of the old Han and Tang capital Chang'an.

Museum
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The of Xi'an, built in 1384 during the early Ming Dynasty, is a symbol of the city of Xi'an and one of the grandest of its kind in China. The also contains several large bronze-cast bells from the Tang Dynasty.

Xi’an

Latitude
34.261° or 34° 15′ 40″ north
Longitude
108.9423° or 108° 56′ 32″ east
Population
12,200,000
Elevation
416 metres (1,365 feet)
IATA airport code
SIA
United Nations Location Codes
CN CHN and CN XIA
Open location code
8P6C7W6R+CW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244082124
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1790630
Wiki­data ID
Q5826
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zhuang—“Xi’an” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Xi’an”
  • Afrikaans: “Xi’an”
  • Albanian: “Sian”
  • Arabic: “شيان”
  • Armenian: “Սիան”
  • Asturian: “Xi’an”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sian”
  • Balinese: “Xi’an”
  • Bambara: “Xi’an”
  • Bashkir: “Сиань”
  • Basque: “Xi’an”
  • Belarusian: “Сіянь”
  • Bengali: “শিআন”
  • Bengali: “শিয়ান”
  • Bosnian: “Xi’an”
  • Breton: “Xi’an”
  • Bulgarian: “Сиан”
  • Burmese: “ရှီးအန်းမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Xi’an”
  • Catalan: “Xian”
  • Cebuano: “Xi’an”
  • Chechen: “Сиань”
  • Cheyenne: “Xi’an”
  • Chinese: “Cháng’ān”
  • Chinese: “Chángān”
  • Chinese: “Se-an-chhī”
  • Chinese: “Xī’ān shì”
  • Chinese: “Xī’ān”
  • Chinese: “Xīān”
  • Chinese: “西安”
  • Chinese: “西安市”
  • Chinese: “西安府”
  • Chinese: “長安”
  • Chinese: “长安”
  • Croatian: “Xi’an”
  • Croatian: “Xian”
  • Czech: “Si-an”
  • Danish: “Sian”
  • Danish: “Xi’an City”
  • Danish: “Xi’an”
  • Danish: “Xian”
  • Dutch: “Xi’an”
  • Esperanto: “Siano”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝiano”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝingano”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝjiano”
  • Estonian: “Xi’an Shi”
  • Extremaduran: “Xi’an”
  • Fijian: “Xi’an”
  • Finnish: “Xi’an”
  • Finnish: “Xian”
  • French: “Xi’an (Q5826)”
  • French: “Xi’an”
  • Galician: “Xi’an”
  • Gan Chinese: “西安”
  • Gan Chinese: “西安市”
  • Georgian: “ქსიანი”
  • German: “Xi’an”
  • Greek: “Σιάν”
  • Gujarati: “શિયાન”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Sî-ôn-sṳ”
  • Hausa: “Xi’an”
  • Hebrew: “צ’אנג-אן”
  • Hebrew: “צ’אנגאן”
  • Hebrew: “שי-אן”
  • Hebrew: “שיאן”
  • Hindi: “झियान”
  • Hindi: “शिआन”
  • Hindi: “शीअन्”
  • Hungarian: “Hszian”
  • Icelandic: “Xi’an”
  • Icelandic: “Xian”
  • Indonesian: “Xi’an”
  • Indonesian: “Xian”
  • Interlingue: “Xi’an”
  • Irish: “Xi’an”
  • Italian: “Sian”
  • Italian: “Xi’an”
  • Japanese: “シーアン”
  • Japanese: “大興”
  • Japanese: “秦”
  • Japanese: “西京”
  • Japanese: “西安市”
  • Japanese: “西都”
  • Japanese: “豊京”
  • Japanese: “豊邑”
  • Japanese: “鎬”
  • Japanese: “鎬京”
  • Japanese: “長安”
  • Kalaallisut: “Xi’an”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ಸಿಯಾನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಶೀಅನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Ан”
  • Kazakh: “Джиң чжау”
  • Kazakh: “Сиан”
  • Kazakh: “Сиань қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Сиань”
  • Kazakh: “Хау”
  • Kazakh: “Чаң-ан”
  • Kikuyu: “Xi’an”
  • Korean: “시안 시”
  • Korean: “시안시”
  • Kurdish: “Xi’an”
  • Latin: “Siganum”
  • Latvian: “Siaņa”
  • Latvian: “Sjiaņa”
  • Literary Chinese: “西安市”
  • Lithuanian: “Sianas”
  • Low German: “Xi’an”
  • Luxembourgish: “Xian”
  • Macedonian: “Сиан”
  • Malagasy: “Xi’an”
  • Malay: “Xi’an”
  • Malayalam: “സിയാൻ”
  • Maltese: “Xi’an”
  • Maori: “Xi’an”
  • Marathi: “शीआन”
  • Mazanderani: “شی‌ئان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Să̤-ăng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Se-an-chhī”
  • Mingrelian: “სიანი”
  • Mongolian: “Шиань”
  • Nepali: “सियान”
  • Northern Frisian: “Xi’an”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Xi’an”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Xi’an”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Xian”
  • Norwegian: “Xi’an”
  • Norwegian: “Xian”
  • Nyanja: “Xi’an”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Xi’an”
  • Ossetian: “Сиань”
  • Panjabi: “ਸ਼ੀਆਨ”
  • Panjabi: “ਜ਼ੀਆਨ”
  • Persian: “شی‌آن”
  • Polish: “Xi’an”
  • Portuguese: “Hsi’an”
  • Portuguese: “Hsian”
  • Portuguese: “Sian”
  • Portuguese: “Xi An”
  • Portuguese: “Xi’an”
  • Portuguese: “Xiam”
  • Portuguese: “Xian”
  • Pushto: “شيان”
  • Quechua: “Xi’an”
  • Romanian: “Xi’an”
  • Romanian: “Xī’ān”
  • Russia Buriat: “Сиань”
  • Russian: “Сиань”
  • Sakizaya: “Si-an-se”
  • Scots: “Xi’an”
  • Serbian: “Си’ан”
  • Serbian: “Сијан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Xi’an”
  • Silesian: “Xi’an”
  • Sindhi: “زيان”
  • Sindhi: “زیان”
  • Sinhala: “ෂියෑන් නගරය”
  • Slovak: “Si-an”
  • Slovenian: “Šian”
  • Slovenian: “Šjan”
  • Slovenian: “Xi’an”
  • Spanish: “Xi’an”
  • Swahili: “Xi’an”
  • Swedish: “Xi’an”
  • Swiss German: “Xi’an”
  • Tagalog: “Xi’an”
  • Tajik: “Сиан”
  • Tajik: “Шион”
  • Tamil: “சிய்யான்”
  • Tamil: “ஷியான்”
  • Tatar: “Сиань”
  • Telugu: “జియాన్”
  • Thai: “ซีอาน”
  • Tibetan: “ཤེ་ཨན།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Xi’an”
  • Tswana: “Xi’an”
  • Turkish: “Şian”
  • Turkish: “Xi’an”
  • Turkmen: “Sian”
  • Uighur: “شىئەن شەھىرى”
  • Uighur: “شىئەن”
  • Ukrainian: “Сіань”
  • Urdu: “شیان”
  • Uzbek: “Sian”
  • Venetian: “Xi’an”
  • Veps: “Sian‘”
  • Veps: “Sian’”
  • Vietnamese: “Sian”
  • Vietnamese: “Tây An”
  • Vietnamese: “Xi’an”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Xi’an”
  • Welsh: “Xi’an”
  • Western Armenian: “Սիան”
  • Western Panjabi: “سیان”
  • Wolof: “Xi’an”
  • Wu Chinese: “西安”
  • Yakut: “Сиань”
  • Yiddish: “שיאן”
  • Yue Chinese: “西安”
  • Yue Chinese: “西安市”
  • Zhuang: “Sih’anh”
  • “Xi’an”

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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 “Xi’an”. Photo: Dcastor, Public domain.