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”, “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”
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Places of Interest

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

Mosque
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The Great Mosque of Xi'an, also known as the Huajue Xiang Mosque due to its location on 30 Huajue Lane, and is sometimes called the Great Eastern Mosque, is a located in the eastern segments of the Xi'an Muslim Quarter, Xi'an, in the province of .

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The or Little Wild Goose Pagoda is a Tang-dynasty brick pagoda in the former Jianfu Temple precinct in Xi'an, , China. It was built between 707 and 709, when the city was the imperial capital Chang'an, and was associated with the temple's translation of Buddhist texts brought from India.

Historic building
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The Bell Tower 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 and lays on the axis of the Imperial Way.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Zhangjiacun and Taiyilu.

Suburb
Subdistrict is a subdistrict of Beilin District, Xi'an.

Suburb
Subdistrict is a subdistrict of Beilin District, Xi'an.

Suburb
Subdistrict is a subdistrict of Beilin District, Xi'an.

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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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”
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