Yangquan

Yangquan is a prefecture-level city in the east of province, China, bordering province to the east. Known as "Rippling Spring" in ancient times, it lies on the eastern edge of the and the western side of the .
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  • Type: City with 1,370,000 residents
  • Description: prefecture-level city in Shanxi, China
  • Also known as: “Yang-ch’üan”, “Yang-ch’üan-chan”, “Yang-ch’üan-shih”, and “Yangquan Shi”
  • Neighbors: , , , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights: Yangquan.

Railway station
Photo: 1969社论, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a railway station.

Yangquan

Latitude
37.8563° or 37° 51′ 23″ north
Longitude
113.574° or 113° 34′ 27″ east
Population
1,370,000
Elevation
722 metres (2,369 feet)
Open location code
8P9MVH4F+GJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244082473
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1787351
Wiki­data ID
Q72907
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Yangquan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “يانغتشوان”
  • Asturian: “Yangquan”
  • Basque: “Yangquan”
  • Bengali: “ইয়াংকুয়ান”
  • Catalan: “Yangquan”
  • Cebuano: “Yangquan”
  • Chinese: “Yángquán Shì”
  • Chinese: “阳泉”
  • Chinese: “阳泉市”
  • Chinese: “陽泉市”
  • Czech: “Jang-čchüan”
  • Danish: “Yangquan”
  • Dutch: “Yangquan”
  • Esperanto: “Jancjuan”
  • Finnish: “Yangquan”
  • French: “Yangquan”
  • Gan Chinese: “阳泉市”
  • German: “Yangquan”
  • Greek: “Γιάνγκουαν”
  • Gujarati: “યાંગક્વાન”
  • Hebrew: “יאנגצ’ו’אן”
  • Hindi: “यंगकुआं”
  • Hungarian: “Jangcsüan”
  • Indonesian: “Yangquan”
  • Irish: “Yangquan”
  • Italian: “Yangquan”
  • Japanese: “陽泉市”
  • Kannada: “ಯಾಂಗ್ಕ್ವಾನ್”
  • Kikuyu: “Yangquan”
  • Korean: “양취안 시”
  • Korean: “양취안시”
  • Latvian: “Jangčuana”
  • Lithuanian: “Jangčuanas”
  • Malagasy: “Yangquan”
  • Malay: “Yangquan”
  • Marathi: “यांगक्व्यानं”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Iòng-ciòng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Iông-choân-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yangquan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yangquan”
  • Norwegian: “Yangquan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Yangquan”
  • Ossetian: “Янцюань”
  • Persian: “یانگکوان”
  • Polish: “Yangquan”
  • Portuguese: “Yangquan”
  • Russian: “Янцюань”
  • Serbian: “Јангћуен”
  • Sinhala: “යැන්ග්කුආන්”
  • Spanish: “Yangquan”
  • Swedish: “Yangquan”
  • Tamil: “யாங்குவான்”
  • Telugu: “యఙక్కులన్”
  • Thai: “หยางฉวน”
  • Turkish: “Yangquan”
  • Ukrainian: “Янцюань”
  • Urdu: “یانگچوان”
  • Venetian: “Yangquan”
  • Vietnamese: “Dương Tuyền”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Yangquan”
  • Welsh: “Yangquan”
  • Wu Chinese: “阳泉市”
  • Yue Chinese: “陽泉”

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