Xi’an
Xi'an is a city in Shaanxi Province in China. The oldest surviving capital of ancient China, Xi'an is home to thousands of years of Chinese heritage and history.
Photo: Dcastor, Public domain.- 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”, “Cháng’ān”, “Changan”, “Chángān”, “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”, “Sianfu”, “Siano”, “Siking”, “Singan”, “Singan-fu”, “Xi An”, “Xi’an City”, “Xi’an Fu”, “Xi’an, China”, “Xi’anfu”, “Xīān”, “Xianfu”, “Ан”, “Джиң чжау”, “Сиань қаласы”, “Хау”, “Чаң-ан”, “צ’אנג-אן”, “צ’אנגאן”, “שי-אן”, “شىئەن”, “শিয়ান”, “ஷியான்”, “シーアン”, “大興”, “秦”, “西京”, “西安府”, “西都”, “豊京”, “豊邑”, “鎬”, “鎬京”, “長安”, “長安市”, “长安”, and “长安市”
Places of Interest
Highlights: The Great Mosque of Xi’an and Small Wild Goose Pagoda.
Small Wild Goose Pagoda
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zhangjiacun and Taiyilu.
Xi’an
- Categories: sub-province-level division, big city, prefecture-level city of China, megacity, former capital, ancient city, provincial capital, and locality
- Location: Shaanxi, Northwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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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)
Open location code
8P6C7W6R+CW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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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”
- Amharic: “ስያን”
- Arabic: “شيآن”
- Arabic: “شيان”
- Armenian: “Սիան”
- Asturian: “Xi’an”
- Azerbaijani: “Sian”
- Azerbaijani: “Xi’an”
- Balinese: “Xi’an”
- Bambara: “Xi’an”
- Bashkir: “Сиань”
- Basque: “Xi’an”
- Belarusian: “Сіянь”
- Bengali: “জিয়ান”
- Bengali: “শিআন”
- Bosnian: “Xi’an”
- Breton: “Xi’an”
- Bulgarian: “Сиан”
- Burmese: “ရှီးအန်းမြို့”
- Catalan: “Xi’an”
- Cebuano: “Xi’an”
- Central Kurdish: “شیان”
- Chechen: “Сиань”
- Cheyenne: “Xi’an”
- Chinese: “Xī’ān Shì”
- Chinese: “西安”
- Chinese: “西安市”
- Croatian: “Xi’an”
- Croatian: “Xian”
- Czech: “Si-an”
- Danish: “Xi’an”
- Danish: “Xian”
- Dutch: “Xi’an”
- Dzongkha: “ཞི་ཨཱན། རྒྱ་ནག། Xian, China”
- Esperanto: “Ŝiano”
- Esperanto: “Ŝingano”
- Esperanto: “Ŝjiano”
- Estonian: “Xi’an Shi”
- Extremaduran: “Xi’an”
- Fijian: “Xi’an”
- Finnish: “Xi’an”
- Finnish: “Xian”
- French: “Xi’an”
- Galician: “Xi’an”
- Gan Chinese: “西安”
- Gan Chinese: “西安市”
- Georgian: “სიანი”
- German: “Xi’an”
- Greek: “Σιάν”
- Gujarati: “શિયાન”
- Hakka Chinese: “Sî-ôn-sṳ”
- Hausa: “Xi’an”
- Hebrew: “שיאן”
- Hindi: “शिआन”
- Hindi: “शीअन्”
- Hungarian: “Hszian”
- Icelandic: “Xi’an”
- Icelandic: “Xian”
- Indonesian: “Xi’an”
- Indonesian: “Xian”
- Interlingue: “Xi’an”
- Irish: “Xi’an”
- Italian: “Xi’an”
- Japanese: “西安市”
- Javanese: “Xi’an”
- Kalaallisut: “Xi’an”
- Kannada: “ಕ್ಸಿಯಾನ್”
- Kannada: “ಶೀಅನ್”
- Kashmiri: “شِیان”
- Kazakh: “Сиань”
- Kikuyu: “Xi’an”
- Kirghiz: “Сиань”
- 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”
- Oromo: “Xi’an”
- Ossetian: “Сиань”
- Panjabi: “ਸ਼ੀਆਨ”
- Panjabi: “ਜ਼ੀਆਨ”
- Persian: “سیان”
- Persian: “شیآن”
- Polish: “Xi’an”
- Portuguese: “Xi’an”
- Portuguese: “Xiam”
- Portuguese: “Xian”
- Pushto: “سیان”
- 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”
- Somali: “Xi’an”
- Spanish: “Xi’an”
- Swahili: “Xi’an”
- Swedish: “Xi’an”
- Swiss German: “Xi’an”
- Tagalog: “Xi’an”
- Tajik: “Сиан”
- Tajik: “Сиань”
- Tajik: “Шион”
- Tamil: “சிய்யான்”
- Tatar: “Сиань”
- Telugu: “జియాన్”
- Thai: “ซีอาน”
- Tibetan: “ཤེ་ཨན།”
- Tswana: “Xi’an”
- Turkish: “Şian”
- Turkish: “Xi’an”
- Turkmen: “Sian”
- Uighur: “شىئەن شەھىرى”
- Ukrainian: “Сіань”
- Urdu: “سیان”
- Urdu: “شیان”
- Uzbek: “Sian”
- Uzbek: “Xi’an”
- Venetian: “Xi’an”
- Veps: “Sian‘”
- Veps: “Sian’”
- Vietnamese: “Tây 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”
- Zhuang: “Sih’anh”
- “ma tomo Sijan”
- “Xi’an”
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