Yining

Yining is a city in the Province in . Though the official Chinese name is Yining, the city is almost never referred to by that name even by the Chinese who live there. Local people call it Ghulja, Kulja or Yili.
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  • Type: City with 571,000 residents
  • Description: county-level city
  • Also known as: Ailan Mubage”, “Ailanmubage”, “Almaligh”, “Ghulja”, “Goulja”, “Gulja”, “Hui-ning”, “Huining”, “I-ning”, “Khuldja”, “Khulja”, “Kouldja”, “Kulja”, “Old Kouldja”, “Old Koulja”, “Old Kuldja”, “Old Kulja”, “Yining City”, “Yining Shi”, and “Yining/Qulja

Yining

Latitude
43.9052° or 43° 54′ 19″ north
Longitude
81.2748° or 81° 16′ 29″ east
Population
571,000
Elevation
643 metres (2,110 feet)
United Nations Location Code
CN YIN
Open location code
8MM3W74F+3W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 243798633
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
8563527
Wiki­data ID
Q866021
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Yining” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: ينينغ
  • Azerbaijani: Külcə
  • Azerbaijani: Qulca
  • Bashkir: Ҡолжа
  • Basque: Ghulja
  • Basque: Yining
  • Belarusian: Кульджа
  • Bengali: ইনিং শহর
  • Catalan: Yining
  • Cebuano: Yining Shi
  • Chinese: Ghulja-chhī
  • Chinese: Yíníng
  • Chinese: 亦力把里
  • Chinese: 伊宁市
  • Chinese: 伊寧
  • Chinese: 伊寧市
  • Chinese: 固勒扎
  • Chinese: 惠寧
  • Chinese: 艾兰木巴格
  • Czech: Almaligh
  • Czech: Jining
  • Czech: Kuldža
  • Czech: Kulja
  • Czech: Yining City
  • Danish: Yining
  • Dutch: Yining
  • Finnish: Yining
  • French: Almaligh
  • French: Goulja
  • French: Kouldja
  • French: Kulja
  • French: V. Kouldja
  • French: Vieille Kouldja
  • French: Yining
  • Gan Chinese: 伊宁市
  • German: Almaligh
  • German: Gulja
  • German: Khuldscha
  • German: Kuldscha
  • German: Yining
  • Greek: Γινίνγκ
  • Gujarati: યીનિંગ શહેર
  • Hebrew: יינינג
  • Hindi: यीनिंग सिटी
  • Indonesian: Yining City
  • Indonesian: Yining
  • Italian: Ghulja
  • Italian: Yining
  • Japanese: イーニン
  • Japanese: クルジャ
  • Japanese: グルジャ
  • Japanese: グルジャ市
  • Japanese: 伊寧
  • Japanese: 伊寧市
  • Kannada: ಯೋನಿಂಗ್
  • Kazakh: Qulja
  • Kazakh: Құлжа
  • Kazakh: قۇلجا
  • Kikuyu: Yining City
  • Kirghiz: Кулжа
  • Korean: 굴자 시
  • Korean: 이닝시
  • Latvian: Guldža
  • Latvian: Kuldža
  • Lithuanian: Kuldža
  • Malay: Yining City
  • Marathi: येनिंग शहर
  • Min Nan Chinese: Ghulja-chhī
  • Mongolian: Хулж хот
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Yining
  • Norwegian: Yining
  • Persian: قولجا
  • Persian: قولجه
  • Polish: Ining
  • Polish: Kuldża
  • Polish: Yining
  • Portuguese: Gulja
  • Portuguese: Kuldja
  • Romanian: Yining
  • Russian: Кульджа
  • Russian: Кульчжа
  • Serbian: Јининг
  • Sinhala: යිනින්ග් සිටි
  • Slovenian: Guldža
  • Slovenian: Jining
  • Slovenian: Yining
  • Spanish: Ghulja
  • Spanish: Gulja
  • Spanish: Kulja
  • Spanish: Yining
  • Swedish: Ghulja
  • Swedish: Kuldja
  • Swedish: Yining Shi
  • Swedish: Yining
  • Tamil: யினிங் நகரம்
  • Tatar: Голҗа
  • Telugu: యైనింగ్ నగరం
  • Thai: เมืองหยีหนิง
  • Turkish: Gulca
  • Turkish: Gulja
  • Turkish: Kulca
  • Turkish: Yining
  • Uighur: Ghulja shehiri
  • Uighur: Herembagh
  • Uighur: غۇلجا شەھىرى
  • Uighur: غۇلجا
  • Uighur: ھەرەمباغ
  • Ukrainian: Їнін Кульджа
  • Ukrainian: Інін
  • Ukrainian: Кульджа
  • Urdu: غولجا
  • Urdu: یننگ شہر
  • Urdu: یننگ کتے
  • Uzbek: Gʻulja
  • Uzbek: Inin
  • Vietnamese: Ghulja
  • Vietnamese: Thành phố Y Ninh
  • Vietnamese: Y Ninh
  • Waray (Philippines): Ghulja
  • Waray (Philippines): Yining
  • Wu Chinese: 伊宁市
  • Yue Chinese: 伊寧

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