Xining

Xining is the capital of Province and the capital of Xining City District, a prefecture of Qinghai. It stands on the elevation of 2,270 m and has a population of around 2.5 million.
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  • Type: City with 2,330,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Qinghai province, China
  • Also known as: “Hsi-ning”, “Hsi-ning Shih”, “Hsi-ning-fu”, “Hsi-ning-shih”, “Qingtang cheng”, “Sining”, “Sining-fu”, “Sining-hsien”, “Sininga”, “Siningfu”, “Xining Fu”, “Xiningfu”, “ཟི་ལིང་མཁར།”, “ရှီးနင်”, and “青唐城”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Dongguan Mosque and Xining.

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The is a in Xining, in the province of .

Railway station
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railway station is the main railway station serving the city of in , .

Park
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People's Park is an urban public park in central…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Renminjie.

Suburb
Renmin Street Subdistrict is a subdistrict situated in Chengzhong District, Xining, , China.

Xining

Latitude
36.6173° or 36° 37′ 2″ north
Longitude
101.7762° or 101° 46′ 34″ east
Population
2,330,000
Elevation
2,275 metres (7,464 feet)
IATA airport code
XNN
UN/LOCODE
CN XNT
Open location code
8P83JQ8G+WF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244082386
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1788852
Wiki­data ID
Q69060
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zhuang—“Xining” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Xining”
  • Afrikaans: “Xining”
  • Amharic: “ስኒንግ”
  • Arabic: “شينينغ”
  • Asturian: “Xining”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sinin”
  • Balinese: “Xining”
  • Basque: “Xining”
  • Belarusian: “Сінін”
  • Bengali: “জিনিং”
  • Bengali: “শিনিং”
  • Bulgarian: “Синин”
  • Burmese: “ရှီးနင်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Xining”
  • Cebuano: “Xining (kapital sa lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Xining”
  • Chinese: “Xīníng”
  • Chinese: “西宁”
  • Chinese: “西宁市”
  • Chinese: “西寧”
  • Chinese: “西寧市”
  • Croatian: “Xining”
  • Czech: “Si-ning”
  • Danish: “Xining”
  • Dutch: “Xining”
  • Esperanto: “Sinino”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝjinino”
  • Estonian: “Xining Shi”
  • Estonian: “Xining”
  • Finnish: “Xining”
  • French: “Xining”
  • French: “Xīníng”
  • Galician: “Xining”
  • Gan Chinese: “西宁市”
  • Gan Chinese: “西寧”
  • Georgian: “სინინგი”
  • Georgian: “სინინი”
  • German: “Xining”
  • Greek: “Ξίνινγκ”
  • Greek: “Σινίν”
  • Gujarati: “ઝિનિંગ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Sî-nèn-sṳ”
  • Hausa: “Xining”
  • Hebrew: “שינינג”
  • Hindi: “शिनिंग”
  • Hungarian: “Hszining”
  • Icelandic: “Xining”
  • Indonesian: “Xining”
  • Irish: “Xining”
  • Italian: “Xining”
  • Japanese: “西寧市”
  • Javanese: “Xining”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ಸಿನಿಂಗ್”
  • Kashmiri: “شِنِنٛگ”
  • Kazakh: “Синин”
  • Kikuyu: “Xining”
  • Kirghiz: “Синин”
  • Kongo: “Xining”
  • Korean: “시닝 시”
  • Korean: “시닝시”
  • Kurdish: “Xining”
  • Latin: “Xining”
  • Latvian: “Sjinina”
  • Literary Chinese: “西寧市”
  • Lithuanian: “Siningas”
  • Macedonian: “Сининг”
  • Malagasy: “Xining”
  • Malay: “Xining”
  • Marathi: “शीनिंग”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Să̤-nìng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Se-lêng-chhī”
  • Mingrelian: “სინინი”
  • Mongolian: “Шинин”
  • Mongolian: “ᠰᠢᠨᠢᠩ”
  • Nepali: “सिनिगं”
  • Nepali: “सिनिङ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Xining”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Xining”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Xining”
  • Norwegian: “Xining”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Xining”
  • Oromo: “Xining”
  • Ossetian: “Синин”
  • Panjabi: “ਸ਼ਿਨਿੰਗ”
  • Persian: “شینینگ”
  • Polish: “Xining”
  • Portuguese: “Xining”
  • Pushto: “زننگ”
  • Quechua: “Xining”
  • Russian: “Синин”
  • Scots: “Xining”
  • Serbian: “Сининг”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Xining”
  • Sinhala: “ක්සිනින්”
  • Slovak: “Si-ning”
  • Slovenian: “Šining”
  • Somali: “Xining”
  • Spanish: “Xining”
  • Spanish: “Xiníng”
  • Swahili: “Xining”
  • Swedish: “Xining”
  • Tagalog: “Xining”
  • Tajik: “Синин”
  • Tamil: “சினிங்”
  • Tamil: “ஷின்இங்”
  • Tatar: “Синин”
  • Telugu: “క్షీనింగ్”
  • Thai: “ซีหนิง”
  • Tibetan: “ཟི་ལིང་།”
  • Turkish: “Xining”
  • Uighur: “Shining shehiri”
  • Ukrainian: “Сінін”
  • Urdu: “شینینگ”
  • Uzbek: “Xining”
  • Venetian: “Xining”
  • Vietnamese: “Tây Ninh, Thanh Hải”
  • Vietnamese: “Tây Ninh”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Xining”
  • Welsh: “Xining”
  • Western Frisian: “Xining”
  • Western Panjabi: “شینینگ”
  • Wu Chinese: “西宁”
  • Yakut: “Синиин”
  • Yue Chinese: “西寧”
  • Zhuang: “Sihningz”

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