Xinzhou
Xinzhou, ancient name Xiurong, is a prefecture-level city occupying the north-central section of Shanxi Province in the People's Republic of China, bordering Hebei to the east, Shaanxi to the west, and Inner Mongolia to the northwest.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 3,070,000 residents
- Description: prefecture-level city in Shanxi, China
- Also known as: “Hsin”, “Hsin-hsien”, “Hsin-hsien-ch’eng”, “Hsin-ting”, “Sinchow”, “Sinhsien”, “Xinfu Qu”, “Xinxian”, and “Xinzhou Shi”
- Neighbors: Baoding, Hebei, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, Luliang, Ordos City, Shaanxi, Shijiazhuang, Taiyuan, Yangquan, and Yulin
Places of Interest
Highlights include Xinzhou West railway station and Xinzhou.
Xinzhou West railway station
Railway station
Photo: 1969社论, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Xinzhou West railway station is a railway station in Xinfu District, Xinzhou, Shanxi, China. It opened with the Datong–Xi'an high-speed railway on 28 September 2018. It will be the western terminus of the planned Xiong'an–Xinzhou high-speed railway.
Xinzhou
- Categories: prefecture-level city, big city, and locality
- Location: Shanxi, North China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.4392° or 38° 26′ 21″ northLongitude
112.7175° or 112° 43′ 3″ eastPopulation
3,070,000Elevation
794 metres (2,605 feet)Named after
“欣”通“忻”，相传因汉高祖在此摆脱匈奴追兵，欣然如归而得名IATA airport code
WUTOpen location code
8PCJCPQ9+M2OpenStreetMap ID
node 244082679OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1788450Wikidata ID
Q73119
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Xinzhou” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شينتشو”
- Asturian: “Xinzhou”
- Basque: “Xinzhou”
- Belarusian: “Сіньджоу”
- Belarusian: “Сіньджоў”
- Belarusian: “Сіньчжоу”
- Belarusian: “Сіньчжоў”
- Bengali: “জিনঝু”
- Catalan: “Xinzhou”
- Cebuano: “Xinzhou”
- Chinese: “Hian-chiu-chhī”
- Chinese: “Xīnzhōu Shì”
- Chinese: “忻州”
- Chinese: “忻州市”
- Chinese: “忻府区”
- Czech: “Sin-čou”
- Danish: “Xinzhou”
- Dutch: “Xinzhou”
- Finnish: “Xinzhou”
- French: “Xinzhou”
- Gan Chinese: “忻州市”
- German: “Xinzhou”
- Greek: “Ξίνζου”
- Gujarati: “સિનઝોઉં”
- Hausa: “Xinzhou”
- Hebrew: “שינג’ואו”
- Hindi: “सिन्ज़्हौ”
- Hungarian: “Hszincsou”
- Indonesian: “Xinzhou”
- Irish: “Xinzhou”
- Italian: “Xinzhou”
- Japanese: “忻州市”
- Kannada: “ಕ್ಸಿನ್ಝೌ”
- Kikuyu: “Xinzhou”
- Korean: “신저우 시”
- Korean: “신저우시”
- Latvian: “Sindžou”
- Lithuanian: “Sindžou”
- Malagasy: “Xinzhou”
- Malay: “Xinzhou”
- Marathi: “सिनझोऊ”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Hṳ̆ng-ciŭ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hian-chiu-chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Xinzhou”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Xinzhou”
- Norwegian: “Xinzhou”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Xinzhou”
- Ossetian: “Синьчжоу”
- Persian: “شینجو”
- Polish: “Xinzhou”
- Portuguese: “Xinzhou”
- Russian: “Синьчжоу”
- Sinhala: “ක්සින්ශෞ”
- Slovenian: “Sindžov”
- Slovenian: “Xinzhou”
- Spanish: “Xinzhou”
- Swedish: “Xinzhou”
- Tamil: “சின்ஷோவு”
- Telugu: “క్సింజో”
- Thai: “ซินโจว”
- Turkish: “Xinzhou”
- Ukrainian: “Сіньчжоу”
- Urdu: “شنژوو”
- Venetian: “Xinzhou”
- Vietnamese: “Hãn Châu”
- Waray (Philippines): “Xinzhou, Shanxi”
- Waray (Philippines): “Xinzhou”
- Welsh: “Xinzhou”
- Wu Chinese: “忻州市”
- Yue Chinese: “忻州”
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