Gulangyu
Gulangyu is an island in Xiamen, a few minutes by ferry from downtown. It has a population around 17,000 and an area of about 2 km². It was a foreign enclave from the 1840s until the 1930s, and is now a residential suburb, a major tourist area, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.- Type: Locality
- Description: island of China
- Also known as: “Kou-lang-se”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Xiamen Music School and Zhenhai Road.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gulangyu and Zhonghua.
Zhonghua
Suburb
Zhonghua Subdistrict is a township-level division of the Siming District of Xiamen, Fujian Province, China.
Gulangyu
- Categories: island, foreign concession in China, car-free place, and Chinese AAAAA-rated tourist attraction
- Location: Siming, Xiamen, South Fujian, Fujian, East China, China, East Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Gulangyu” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة قولانغيو”
- Basque: “Gulangyu”
- Belarusian: “Гулан’юй”
- Cebuano: “Gulang Yu”
- Chinese: “Kó͘-lōng-sū”
- Chinese: “圆沙洲”
- Chinese: “圆洲仔”
- Chinese: “鼓浪屿―万石山风景名胜区”
- Chinese: “鼓浪屿”
- Chinese: “鼓浪屿岛”
- Chinese: “鼓浪屿风景名胜区”
- Chinese: “鼓浪嶼”
- Croatian: “Kulangsu”
- Czech: “Ku-lang-jü”
- Dutch: “Gulangyu”
- Esperanto: “Gulangyu”
- Finnish: “Kulangsu”
- French: “Gulangyu”
- Galician: “Gulangyu”
- Georgian: “კულანსუ”
- German: “Gulangyu”
- German: “Kulangsu”
- Hebrew: “גולאנגיו”
- Indonesian: “Gulangyu”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Gulangyu”
- Italian: “Gulangyu”
- Italian: “Kulangsu”
- Japanese: “（ころうしょ）”
- Japanese: “Kó͘-lōng-sū”
- Japanese: “グーランユー”
- Japanese: “コロンス島”
- Japanese: “鼓浪屿”
- Japanese: “鼓浪嶼”
- Korean: “구랑위 섬”
- Korean: “구랑위”
- Lithuanian: “Gulangju”
- Macedonian: “Гулангју”
- Maltese: “Gulang”
- Maltese: “Gulangyu”
- Maltese: “Kulangsu”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kó͘-lōng-sū”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kó·-lōng-sū”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gulangyu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kulangsu”
- Norwegian: “Gulangyu”
- Persian: “جزیره گولانگیو”
- Portuguese: “Gulangyu”
- Russian: “Гуланъюй”
- Russian: “Остров Гуланъюй”
- Slovak: “Ku-lang-jü”
- Spanish: “Isla Gulangyu”
- Swedish: “Gulangyu”
- Swedish: “Kulang-Su”
- Swedish: “Kulangsoo”
- Swedish: “Kulangsu”
- Turkish: “Gulangyu”
- Ukrainian: “Кулансу”
- Urdu: “گولانگ یو”
- Vietnamese: “Cổ Lãng Tự”
- Wu Chinese: “鼓浪屿”
- Yue Chinese: “鼓浪嶼”
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