Xichang
Xichang is a relatively small city in the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan province. While the town may be of little interest, it is an excellent midpoint stop when traveling between Sichuan city and Yunnan, Lugu Lake is 6 hours to the west.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 955,000 residents
- Description: county-level city in Liangshan, Sichuan, China
- Also known as: “Gaindu”, “Hsi-ch’ang”, “Hsi-ch’ang-hsien”, “Jianchang”, “Kienchang”, “Ning-yüan”, “Ningyuan”, “Ningyuanfu”, “Sichang”, and “Sichanghsien”
Xichang
- Categories: county-level city and locality
- Location: Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, South Sichuan, Sichuan, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
27.8985° or 27° 53′ 55″ northLongitude
102.2627° or 102° 15′ 46″ eastPopulation
955,000Elevation
1,558 metres (5,112 feet)IATA airport code
XICOpen location code
7PV4V7X7+C3OpenStreetMap ID
node 6546353839OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Xichang” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شيتشانغ”
- Basque: “Xichang”
- Bengali: “জিচেং”
- Catalan: “Xichang”
- Cebuano: “Xichang”
- Chinese: “Se-chhiong-chhī”
- Chinese: “西昌”
- Chinese: “西昌市”
- Czech: “Si-čchang”
- Danish: “Xichang”
- Dutch: “Xichang”
- Finnish: “Xichang”
- French: “Gaindu”
- French: “Kien-tchang”
- French: “Lin-yuen-fou”
- French: “Si-tchang”
- French: “Xichang”
- Gan Chinese: “西昌市”
- German: “Xichang”
- Greek: “Σιτσάν”
- Gujarati: “ઝીચાંગ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Sî-chhông-sṳ”
- Hebrew: “שיצ’אנג”
- Hindi: “ज़िचेंग”
- Hungarian: “Hszicsang”
- Indonesian: “Xichang”
- Italian: “Xichang”
- Japanese: “西昌市”
- Kannada: “ಕ್ಸಿಚಂಗ್”
- Kikuyu: “Xichang”
- Korean: “시창”
- Korean: “시창시”
- Latvian: “Sičanga”
- Lithuanian: “Sičangas”
- Malagasy: “Xichang”
- Malay: “Xichang”
- Marathi: “झिचांग”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Se-chhiong-chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Xichang”
- Norwegian: “Xichang”
- Persian: “شیچانگ”
- Polish: “Xichang”
- Romanian: “Xichang”
- Russian: “Сичан”
- Sichuan Yi: “ꀒꎂ”
- Sichuan Yi: “ꀒꎂꏃ”
- Sichuan Yi: “ꆿꁮꀒꎂ”
- Sinhala: “ක්සිචාන්”
- Slovenian: “Šičang”
- Slovenian: “Xichang”
- Spanish: “Gaindu”
- Spanish: “Sichang”
- Spanish: “Xichang”
- Swedish: “Xichang”
- Tamil: “க்ஸிச்ங்”
- Telugu: “జీన్చాగ్”
- Thai: “ซีชาง”
- Thai: “สีฉาง”
- Turkish: “Xichang”
- Ukrainian: “Січан”
- Urdu: “شیکچانگ”
- Vietnamese: “Tây Xương”
- Waray (Philippines): “Xichang”
- Welsh: “Xichang”
- Wu Chinese: “西昌市”
- Yue Chinese: “西昌”
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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 “Xichang”. Photo: MNXANL, CC BY-SA 4.0.