Yinchuan

Yinchuan is the capital of . Located on the Yellow River, it was once the capital of the Western Xia kingdom, also called the Tangut Empire. The city has a population of around 750,000.
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  • Type: City with 1,300,000 residents
  • Description: prefecture-level city in Ningxia, China
  • Also known as: “City of Yinchuan”, “Gîn-chhoan”, “Ho-lan”, “Inčuana”, “Inczuan”, “Jin-tsjoean”, “Ning Sia”, “Ning-hsia”, “Ninghia”, “Ningsia”, “Ningsia (city)”, “Ningsia (town)”, “Ningsia-hsien”, “Ningsiafu”, “Ningxia”, “Ningxia (city)”, “Ningxia (town)”, “Yin-ch’uan-shih”, “Yinchuan City”, “Yinchuan Shi”, “Yinchwan”, “يىنچۈەن شەھىرى”, “หยินชวน”, “ཡིན་ཁྲོའོན།”, “ယင်ချွမ်း”, “은천”, “인촨”, and “インチョワン”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Ningxia Museum and Haibao Pagoda.

Museum
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The is a in Jinfeng District, Yinchuan, , .

Buddhist temple
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is a Buddhist temple.

Buddhist temple
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The is a located…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Xihuayuan.

Suburb
Subdistrict is a subdistrict in Xixia District, Yinchuan, , China.

Yinchuan

Latitude
38.4872° or 38° 29′ 14″ north
Longitude
106.2267° or 106° 13′ 36″ east
Population
1,300,000
Elevation
1,117 metres (3,665 feet)
IATA airport code
INC
UN/LOCODE
CN YCH
Open location code
8PC8F6PG+VM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244083626
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1786657
Wiki­data ID
Q211243
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zhuang—“Yinchuan” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Yinchuan”
  • Afrikaans: “Yinchuan”
  • Amharic: “ይንቹዋን”
  • Arabic: “مدينة ينشوان”
  • Arabic: “ينشوان”
  • Armenian: “Յինչուան”
  • Asturian: “Yinchuan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yinchuan”
  • Balinese: “Yinchuan”
  • Basque: “Yinchuan”
  • Belarusian: “Іньчуань”
  • Bengali: “ইনচুয়ান”
  • Bengali: “ইনছুয়ান”
  • Bulgarian: “Инчуан”
  • Burmese: “ယင်ချွမ်းမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Yinchuan”
  • Cebuano: “Yinchuan (kapital sa prepektura)”
  • Cebuano: “Yinchuan”
  • Chinese: “Yínchuān Shì”
  • Chinese: “銀川市”
  • Chinese: “银川”
  • Chinese: “银川市”
  • Croatian: “Yinchuan”
  • Czech: “Jin-čchuan”
  • Danish: “Yinchuan”
  • Dutch: “Yinchuan”
  • Esperanto: “Jinĉŭano”
  • Estonian: “Yinchuan”
  • Finnish: “Yinchuan”
  • French: “Yinchuan”
  • Galician: “Yinchuan”
  • Gan Chinese: “銀川”
  • Gan Chinese: “银川市”
  • Georgian: “ინჩუანი”
  • German: “Yinchuan”
  • Greek: “Γιντσουάν”
  • Gujarati: “યિનચુઆન”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Ngiùn-chhôn-sṳ”
  • Hausa: “Yinchuan”
  • Hebrew: “יינצ’וואן”
  • Hindi: “यिंगचुआन”
  • Hindi: “यिंचुआन”
  • Hindi: “यिनचुआन”
  • Hungarian: “Jincsuan”
  • Icelandic: “Yinchuan”
  • Indonesian: “Yinchuan”
  • Interlingua: “Yinchuan”
  • Irish: “Yinchuan”
  • Italian: “Yinchuan”
  • Japanese: “銀川市”
  • Javanese: “Yinchuan”
  • Kannada: “ಯಿನ್ಚುಆನ್”
  • Kashmiri: “یِنچُوان”
  • Kazakh: “Иньчуань”
  • Kikuyu: “Yinchuan”
  • Kirghiz: “Иньчуань”
  • Korean: “인촨 시”
  • Korean: “인촨시”
  • Kurdish: “Yinchuan”
  • Latin: “Yinchuan”
  • Latvian: “Iņčuaņa”
  • Literary Chinese: “銀川市”
  • Lithuanian: “Inčuanas”
  • Macedonian: “Јинчуен”
  • Malagasy: “Yinchuan”
  • Malay: “Yinchuan”
  • Malayalam: “യിഞ്ചുവാൻ”
  • Marathi: “यिंच्वान”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Ngṳ̀ng-chiŏng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gîn-chhoan-chhī”
  • Mingrelian: “ინჩუანი”
  • Mongolian: “Иньчуань”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ينشوان”
  • Nepali: “यिनचुआन”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yinchuan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yinchuan”
  • Norwegian: “Yinchuan”
  • Oromo: “Yinchuan”
  • Ossetian: “Иньчуань”
  • Panjabi: “ਯਿਨਚੁਆਨ”
  • Persian: “یین‌چوآن”
  • Persian: “یینچوان”
  • Polish: “Yinchuan”
  • Portuguese: “Yinchuan”
  • Pushto: “ین چوان”
  • Russian: “Иньчуань”
  • Scots: “Yinchuan”
  • Serbian: “Јинчуан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Yinchuan”
  • Sinhala: “යින්චුආන්”
  • Slovak: “Jin-čchuan”
  • Slovenian: “Jinčuan”
  • Somali: “Yinchuan”
  • Spanish: “Yinchuan”
  • Swahili: “Yinchuan”
  • Swedish: “Yinchuan”
  • Tagalog: “Yinchuan”
  • Tajik: “Иньчуань”
  • Tamil: “இன்சுவான்”
  • Tamil: “யின்சுவான்”
  • Tatar: “Иньчуань”
  • Telugu: “యిన్చువాన్”
  • Thai: “อิ๋นชวน”
  • Thai: “อิ๋นชวัน”
  • Tibetan: “ཡིན་ཁྲོའོན་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།”
  • Turkish: “Yinchuan”
  • Uighur: “Yinchüen shehiri”
  • Uighur: “يىنچۈئەن شەھىرى”
  • Ukrainian: “Їньчуань”
  • Urdu: “ینچوان”
  • Uzbek: “Inchuan”
  • Uzbek: “Yinchuan”
  • Venetian: “Yinchuan”
  • Vietnamese: “Ngân Xuyên”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Ngân Xuyên”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Yinchuan”
  • Welsh: “Yinchuan”
  • Western Panjabi: “ینچوآن”
  • Wu Chinese: “银川市”
  • Yue Chinese: “銀川”
  • Zhuang: “Yinzconh”

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