China
South-central China
Hubei

Yichang

Yichang, alternatively romanized as Ichang, is a prefecture-level city located in western province, China. Yichang had a population of 3.92 million people at the 2022 census, making it the third most populous city in Hubei.
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  • Type: City with 4,060,000 residents
  • Description: prefecture-level city in Hubei, China
  • Also known as: “Che-Kéou-chan”, “I-ch’ang-hsien”, “I-ch’ang-shih”, “I-chang”, “I-tchang”, “Itchang”, “Tung-hu”, and “Yichang County”
  • Historically known as: “Ichang”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Yichang and yiling square.

Railway station
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railway station is the railway station in downtown , province. Since October 2012, it has been closed to passengers. railway station was the first, and for several decades the only, passenger train station in .

Park
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is a park.

Bridge
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The is a cable-stayed bridge over the Yangtze River in the city-center of Yichang, . It has 3 towers and two main spans, with a total of 4 spans including the side spans.

Yichang

Latitude
30.6941° or 30° 41′ 39″ north
Longitude
111.2804° or 111° 16′ 49″ east
Population
4,060,000
Elevation
63 metres (207 feet)
IATA airport code
YIH
United Nations Location Code
CN YIC
Open location code
8P2HM7VJ+M4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244082544
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1786764
Wiki­data ID
Q71266
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Yichang” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Yichang”
  • Arabic: “ييتشانغ”
  • Armenian: “Յիչան”
  • Asturian: “Yichang”
  • Basque: “Yichang”
  • Belarusian: “Ічан”
  • Bengali: “ইচাং”
  • Bengali: “ইছাং”
  • Bulgarian: “Ичан”
  • Catalan: “Yichang”
  • Cebuano: “Yichang”
  • Chinese: “Gî-chhiong-chhī”
  • Chinese: “Yíchāng Shì”
  • Chinese: “夷陵”
  • Chinese: “宜昌”
  • Chinese: “宜昌市”
  • Chinese: “峡州”
  • Chinese: “彝陵”
  • Czech: “I-čchang”
  • Danish: “Yichang”
  • Dutch: “Yichang”
  • Esperanto: “Jiĉang”
  • Finnish: “Yichang”
  • French: “Itchang”
  • French: “Yichang”
  • Gan Chinese: “宜昌市”
  • Georgian: “იჩანგი”
  • German: “Yichang”
  • Greek: “Γιτσάνγκ”
  • Gujarati: “યિચાંગ”
  • Hebrew: “ייצ’אנג”
  • Hindi: “यिचांग”
  • Hungarian: “Jicsang”
  • Indonesian: “Yichang”
  • Interlingue: “Yichang”
  • Irish: “Yichang”
  • Italian: “Yichang”
  • Japanese: “宜昌市”
  • Kannada: “ಇಚಂಗ್”
  • Kikuyu: “Yichang”
  • Korean: “이창 시”
  • Korean: “이창시”
  • Kurdish: “Yichang”
  • Latvian: “Ičana”
  • Latvian: “Ičanga”
  • Lithuanian: “Ičangas”
  • Malagasy: “Yichang”
  • Malay: “Yichang”
  • Marathi: “यिंचोंग”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Ngì-chiŏng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gî-chhiong-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yichang”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yichang”
  • Norwegian: “Yichang”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Yichang”
  • Pampanga: “Yichang”
  • Persian: “ایچانگ”
  • Polish: “Yichang”
  • Portuguese: “Yichang”
  • Russian: “Ичан”
  • Serbian: “Јичанг”
  • Sinhala: “යිචන්ග්”
  • Slovenian: “Jičang”
  • Spanish: “Yichang”
  • Swedish: “Yichang”
  • Tagalog: “Yichang”
  • Tamil: “இசாங்”
  • Telugu: “ఇఛంగ్”
  • Thai: “อี้ชาง”
  • Turkish: “Yichang”
  • Uighur: “يىچاڭ شەھىرى”
  • Ukrainian: “Ічан”
  • Ukrainian: “Їчан”
  • Urdu: “یچنگ”
  • Venetian: “Yichang”
  • Veps: “Ičan”
  • Vietnamese: “Nghi Xương”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Yichang”
  • Welsh: “Yichang”
  • Wu Chinese: “宜昌市”
  • Yue Chinese: “宜昌”

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