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Qinghai

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”, “Siningfu”, “Xining Fu”, “Xining Shi”, and “Xiningfu”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Dongguan Mosque and Xining.

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is a in Xining, Province, . It is the largest mosque in Qinghai.

Railway station
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railway station is the main railway station serving the city of in , . It is the first station on the Qinghai–Tibet Railway which connects the city with in .

Park
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People's Park is an urban public park in central Xining, capital of province in western China. Covering an area of 40 hectares, it is the largest park in downtown Xining. The park was established in 1959 and expanded in 1964.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Renminjie.

Suburb
Renmin Street Subdistrict is a subdistrict situated in Chengzhong District, Xining, , . As of 2020, it administers the following two residential neighborhoods:…

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
United Nations Location Code
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”
  • Arabic: “شينينغ”
  • Asturian: “Xining”
  • Basque: “Xining”
  • Belarusian: “Сінін”
  • Bengali: “জিনিং”
  • Bengali: “শিনিং”
  • Bulgarian: “Синин”
  • Burmese: “ရှီးနင်”
  • Burmese: “ရှီးနင်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Qingtang cheng”
  • Catalan: “Xining”
  • Cebuano: “Xining (kapital sa lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Xining”
  • Chinese: “Se-lêng-chhī”
  • Chinese: “Xīníng”
  • Chinese: “西宁”
  • Chinese: “西宁市”
  • Chinese: “西寧”
  • Chinese: “西寧市”
  • Chinese: “青唐城”
  • Croatian: “Xining”
  • Czech: “Si-ning”
  • Danish: “Xining”
  • Dutch: “Qingtang cheng”
  • Dutch: “Xining”
  • Esperanto: “Sinino”
  • Estonian: “Xining Shi”
  • Estonian: “Xining”
  • Finnish: “Xining”
  • French: “Qingtang cheng”
  • French: “Sining”
  • French: “Xining”
  • French: “Xīníng”
  • Galician: “Xining”
  • Gan Chinese: “西宁市”
  • Gan Chinese: “西寧”
  • Georgian: “სინინი”
  • German: “Qingtang cheng”
  • German: “Xining”
  • Greek: “Ξίνινγκ”
  • Greek: “Σινίν”
  • Gujarati: “ઝિનિંગ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Sî-nèn-sṳ”
  • Hebrew: “עיר ברמה הטיבטית”
  • Hebrew: “שינינג”
  • Hindi: “शिनिंग”
  • Hungarian: “Hszining”
  • Icelandic: “Xining”
  • Indonesian: “Xining”
  • Irish: “Xining”
  • Italian: “Qingtang cheng”
  • Italian: “Xining”
  • Japanese: “西寧市”
  • Japanese: “青唐城”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ಸಿನಿಂಗ್”
  • Kikuyu: “Xining”
  • Kongo: “Xining”
  • Korean: “시닝 시”
  • Korean: “시닝시”
  • Kurdish: “Xining”
  • Latin: “Xining”
  • Latvian: “Sininga”
  • 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”
  • Nepali: “सिनिगं”
  • Nepali: “सिनिङ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Xining”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Xining”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Xining”
  • Norwegian: “Xining”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Xining”
  • Ossetian: “Синин”
  • Persian: “شینینگ”
  • Polish: “Qingtang cheng”
  • Polish: “Xining”
  • Portuguese: “Qingtang cheng”
  • Portuguese: “Xining”
  • Quechua: “Xining”
  • Russian: “Синин”
  • Scots: “Xining”
  • Serbian: “Сининг”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Xining”
  • Sinhala: “ක්සිනින්”
  • Slovak: “Si-ning”
  • Slovenian: “Šining”
  • Spanish: “Qingtang cheng”
  • Spanish: “Xining”
  • Spanish: “Xiníng”
  • Swedish: “Xining”
  • Tagalog: “Xining”
  • Tamil: “சினிங்”
  • Tamil: “ஷின்இங்”
  • Telugu: “క్షీనింగ్”
  • Thai: “ซีหนิง”
  • Tibetan: “ཟི་ལིང་།”
  • Tibetan: “ཟི་ལིང་མཁར།”
  • Turkish: “Xining”
  • Uighur: “Shining shehiri”
  • Ukrainian: “Сінін”
  • Urdu: “شینینگ”
  • 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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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 “Xining”. Photo: 归零者, CC BY-SA 4.0.