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East Sichuan

Ya’an

Ya'an, also known as Yucheng, is an unremarkable city located 2 hours southwest of on the Sichuan-Tibet highway. It is an emerging tourist city, known as the "rainy city", "the throat of western Sichuan", "the gateway to Tibet", "ethnic corridor"…
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  • Type: City with 1,430,000 residents
  • Description: prefecture-level city in Sichuan, China
  • Also known as: “Ya-an-hsien”, “Ya-an-shih”, “Ya-chou”, “Yaan”, “Yachow”, “Yucheng”, “Yucheng Qu”, “雨城”, and “雨城区”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ya’an.

Railway station
Photo: 来斤小仓鼠吧, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a railway station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Daxing and Hebei.

Suburb
is a town under the administration of Yucheng District, Ya'an, , . As of 2018, it has 14 villages under its administration.

Suburb
Subdistrict is a subdistrict in Yucheng District, Ya'an, province, . As of 2020, it has five residential communities and two villages under its administration.

Ya’an

Latitude
30.0131° or 30° 0′ 47″ north
Longitude
103.0402° or 103° 2′ 25″ east
Population
1,430,000
Elevation
591 metres (1,939 feet)
Open location code
8P25227R+63
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1734071341
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1787816
Wiki­data ID
Q427557
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Ya’an” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ياان”
  • Asturian: “Ya’an”
  • Basque: “Ya’an”
  • Bengali: “ইয়া‘ন”
  • Catalan: “Ya’an”
  • Chinese: “Ngá-an-chhī”
  • Chinese: “Yǎ’ān”
  • Chinese: “雅安”
  • Chinese: “雅安市”
  • Czech: “Ja-an”
  • Danish: “Ya’an”
  • Dutch: “Ya’an”
  • Esperanto: “Ya’an”
  • Estonian: “Ya’an Shi”
  • Estonian: “Ya’an”
  • Finnish: “Ya’an”
  • French: “Ya’an”
  • French: “Yǎ’ān”
  • Gan Chinese: “雅安市”
  • German: “Ya’an”
  • Greek: “Γιαάν”
  • Gujarati: “યાન”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Ngá-ôn-sṳ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Ngâ-ôn-sṳ”
  • Hebrew: “יא’אן”
  • Hindi: “या आन”
  • Hungarian: “Ja-an”
  • Hungarian: “Jen”
  • Indonesian: “Ya’an”
  • Irish: “Ya’an”
  • Italian: “Ya’an”
  • Japanese: “雅安市”
  • Kannada: “ಯಾಯಾನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Яань”
  • Kikuyu: “Ya’an”
  • Korean: “야안시”
  • Latin: “Ya’an”
  • Latvian: “Jāna”
  • Lithuanian: “Jaanas”
  • Malay: “Ya’an”
  • Marathi: “याआन”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Ngā-ăng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ngá-an-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ya’an”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ya’an”
  • Norwegian: “Ya’an”
  • Persian: “یاان”
  • Polish: “Ya’an”
  • Portuguese: “Yan”
  • Russian: “Яань”
  • Scots: “Ya’an”
  • Sinhala: “යාන්”
  • Spanish: “Ya’an”
  • Swedish: “Ya’an”
  • Tamil: “யான்”
  • Telugu: “యా‘ న్”
  • Thai: “หยาน”
  • Turkish: “Ya’an”
  • Ukrainian: “Яань”
  • Urdu: “یآن”
  • Venetian: “Ya’an”
  • Vietnamese: “Nhã An”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Yaan”
  • Welsh: “Ya’an”
  • Wu Chinese: “雅安市”
  • Yue Chinese: “雅安”

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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 “Ya’an”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.