Xiamen

Xiamen is a coastal city in Province in . It is a very vibrant, affluent and modern place, though by Chinese standards it is a small city — only 5.1 million counting suburbs.
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  • Type: City with 3,530,000 residents
  • Description: prefecture-level city in Fujian, China
  • Also known as: “Aimoey”, “Amoy”, “Hiamen”, “Hsia-men”, “Hsia-men-shih”, “Hsiamen”, “Shamen”, “Siamen”, “Ssu-ming”, “Ssu-ming-hsien”, “Szeming-hsien”, “Xia-men”, and “Xiamen City”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Xiamen and Xiamen Sports Centre Stadium.

Railway station
Photo: MasaneMiyaPA, CC BY-SA 4.0.
railway station is a railway station located in , , , on the Yingxia Railway which is operated by Nanchang Railway Bureau, China Railway Corporation.

Stadium
The Xiamen Sports Center Stadium is a multi-use in Xiamen, . It is currently used mostly for football matches and athletics events. The stadium has a capacity of 32,000 people, and was the home of Xiamen Blue Lions, between 1996 and 2007.

Hospital
Photo: HualinXMN, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kaiyuan and Zhonghua.

Suburb
Subdistrict is a subdistrict of Siming District, Xiamen, Province, People's Republic of China. It covers an area of 5.7 square kilometres and has a registered population of 63,362.

Suburb
Subdistrict is a township-level division of the Siming District of Xiamen, Fujian Province, .

Suburb
Photo: HualinXMN, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a suburb.

Xiamen

Latitude
24.4798° or 24° 28′ 47″ north
Longitude
118.0894° or 118° 5′ 22″ east
Population
3,530,000
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
IATA airport code
XMN
United Nations Location Code
CN XAM
Open location code
7PPWF3HQ+WQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244082165
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1790645
Wiki­data ID
Q68744
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Xiamen” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Xiamen”
  • Albanian: “Siamen”
  • Albanian: “Xiamen”
  • Arabic: “شيامن”
  • Armenian: “Շամեն”
  • Armenian: “Սյամին”
  • Asturian: “Xiamen”
  • Balinese: “Xiamen”
  • Basque: “Xiamen”
  • Belarusian: “Сямынь”
  • Bengali: “জিয়ামেন”
  • Bengali: “শিয়ামেন”
  • Breton: “Xiamen”
  • Bulgarian: “Сямен”
  • Bulgarian: “Сямън”
  • Catalan: “Xiamen”
  • Cebuano: “Xiamen (kapital sa prepektura)”
  • Cebuano: “Xiamen”
  • Chinese: “Ē-mn̂g-chhī”
  • Chinese: “Xiàmén Shì”
  • Chinese: “厦门”
  • Chinese: “厦门市”
  • Chinese: “廈門”
  • Chinese: “廈門市”
  • Croatian: “Xiamen”
  • Czech: “Sia-men”
  • Danish: “Xiamen”
  • Dutch: “Xiamen”
  • Esperanto: “Sjamen”
  • Estonian: “Xiamen Shi”
  • Estonian: “Xiamen”
  • Finnish: “Amoy”
  • Finnish: “Xiamen”
  • French: “Xiamen”
  • Galician: “Xiamen”
  • Gan Chinese: “厦门市”
  • Gan Chinese: “廈門”
  • Georgian: “სიამინი”
  • German: “Xiamen”
  • Greek: “Σιαμέν”
  • Gujarati: “ઝિયામેન”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Ha-mùn-sṳ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Hà-mûn-sṳ”
  • Hausa: “Åmøy”
  • Hebrew: “שיאמן”
  • Hindi: “शियामेन”
  • Hindi: “सिआमेन”
  • Hungarian: “Hsziamen”
  • Icelandic: “Xiamen”
  • Indonesian: “Xiamen”
  • Irish: “Xiamen”
  • Italian: “Xiamen”
  • Japanese: “アモイ”
  • Japanese: “廈門市”
  • Japanese: “新城”
  • Japanese: “鷺島”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ಸಿಯಾಮೆನ್”
  • Kikuyu: “Xiamen”
  • Korean: “샤먼 시”
  • Korean: “샤먼시”
  • Kurdish: “Xiamen”
  • Latvian: “Siamena”
  • Latvian: “Sjameņa”
  • Literary Chinese: “廈門市”
  • Lithuanian: “Siamenas”
  • Macedonian: “Амој”
  • Macedonian: “Шјиамен”
  • Malagasy: “Xiamen”
  • Malay: “Xiamen”
  • Maltese: “Xiamen”
  • Marathi: “च्यामेन”
  • Mazanderani: “شیمن”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Â-muòng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ē-mn̂g-chhī”
  • Mingrelian: “სიამენი”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Xiamen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Xiamen”
  • Norwegian: “Xiamen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Xiamen”
  • Ossetian: “Сямынь”
  • Pampanga: “Xiamen”
  • Persian: “شیامن”
  • Polish: “Xiamen”
  • Portuguese: “Xiamen”
  • Quechua: “Hiyamin”
  • Russian: “Амой”
  • Russian: “Сямынь”
  • Russian: “Сямэнь”
  • Scots: “Xiamen”
  • Serbian: “Сјамен”
  • Silesian: “Xiamen”
  • Sinhala: “ක්සියාමෙන්”
  • Slovenian: “Šjamen”
  • Slovenian: “Xiamen”
  • Spanish: “Xiamen”
  • Swedish: “Xiamen”
  • Tagalog: “Xiamen”
  • Tamil: “சியாமென்”
  • Tatar: “Шиямен”
  • Telugu: “క్షియమేం”
  • Thai: “เซี่ยเหมิน”
  • Turkish: “Xiamen”
  • Uighur: “شيامېن شەھىرى”
  • Ukrainian: “Сямень”
  • Urdu: “شیامین”
  • Venetian: “Xiamen”
  • Vietnamese: “Hạ Môn”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Hạ Môn”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Xiamen”
  • Welsh: “Xiamen”
  • Western Panjabi: “شیامن”
  • Wu Chinese: “厦门市”
  • Yue Chinese: “廈門”

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