China
NW China
Shaanxi

Yan’an

Yan'an is a prefecture-level city in the Shaanbei region of province, China, bordering to the east and to the west. It administers several counties, including , which served as the headquarters of the Chinese Communist Party before the city of Yan'an proper took that role.
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  • Type: City with 2,280,000 residents
  • Description: prefecture-level city in Shaanxi, China
  • Also known as: “Fu-shih”, “Fu-shih-hsien”, “Fushi”, “Yan’an Diqu”, “Yan’an Shi”, “Yanan”, “Yen-an Chuan-ch’u”, “Yen-an Shih”, “Yen-an Ti-ch’u”, “Yen-an-fu”, “Yen-an-hsien”, and “Yen-an-shih”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Baotashan and Qiaogou.

Suburb
Subdistrict is a subdistrict in , Yan'an, , China. The subdistrict had a population of 67,388 as of 2010.

Suburb
Subdistrict is a subdistrict in , Yan'an, , . The subdistrict spans an area of 110.85 square kilometres, and has a population of 69,345 as of 2010.

Town
Subdistrict is a subdistrict in , Yan'an, , . The subdistrict had a population of 57,320 as of 2010.

Yan’an

Latitude
36.6028° or 36° 36′ 10″ north
Longitude
109.4874° or 109° 29′ 15″ east
Population
2,280,000
Elevation
960 metres (3,150 feet)
IATA airport code
ENY
United Nations Location Code
CN ENY
Open location code
8P8FJF3P+4X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244082487
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1787765
Wiki­data ID
Q515388
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zhuang—“Yan’an” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “يانان”
  • Asturian: “Yan’an”
  • Basque: “Yan’an”
  • Belarusian: “Яньань”
  • Bengali: “ইয়ান’আন”
  • Catalan: “Yan’an”
  • Cebuano: “Yan’anshi”
  • Chinese: “Iân-an-chhī”
  • Chinese: “Yán’ān Shì”
  • Chinese: “延安”
  • Chinese: “延安市”
  • Czech: “Jen-an”
  • Danish: “Yan’an”
  • Dutch: “Yan’an”
  • Esperanto: “Janan”
  • Finnish: “Yan’an”
  • Finnish: “Yanan”
  • French: “Yan’an”
  • French: “Yen-an”
  • Gan Chinese: “延安市”
  • German: “Yan’an”
  • Greek: “Γιανάν”
  • Gujarati: “યાનન”
  • Hebrew: “ין-אן”
  • Hindi: “यानां”
  • Hindi: “यानान”
  • Hungarian: “Jen-an”
  • Hungarian: “Jenan”
  • Indonesian: “Yan’an”
  • Irish: “Yan’an”
  • Italian: “Yan’an”
  • Japanese: “延安市”
  • Kannada: “ಯಾನಾನ್”
  • Kikuyu: “Yan’an”
  • Korean: “연안시”
  • Korean: “옌안 시”
  • Korean: “옌안시”
  • Kurdish: “Yan’an”
  • Latvian: “Janana”
  • Lithuanian: “Jananas”
  • Malagasy: “Yan’an”
  • Malay: “Yan’an”
  • Marathi: “यानान”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Iòng-ăng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Iân-an-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yan’an”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yan’an”
  • Norwegian: “Yan’an”
  • Persian: “یان‌آن”
  • Polish: “Jenan”
  • Polish: “Yan’an”
  • Portuguese: “Yan’an”
  • Russian: “Яньань”
  • Scots: “Yan’an”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Yan’an”
  • Silesian: “Yan’an”
  • Sinhala: “යන්ආන්”
  • Spanish: “Yan’an”
  • Swedish: “Yan’an”
  • Tamil: “யான்‘அன்”
  • Telugu: “యాన్ అం”
  • Thai: “ยานาน”
  • Thai: “หยานอาน”
  • Thai: “เหยียนอาน”
  • Tibetan: “ཡན་ཨན།”
  • Turkish: “Yan’an”
  • Ukrainian: “Яньань”
  • Urdu: “ین ان”
  • Venetian: “Yan’an”
  • Vietnamese: “Diên An”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Yan’an”
  • Welsh: “Yan’an”
  • Wu Chinese: “延安市”
  • Yue Chinese: “延安”
  • Zhuang: “Yenzanh”

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