Yiwu
Yiwu is a county-level city of Jinhua in central Zhejiang Province, roughly 100 km south of Hangzhou. It is world-famous for Yiwu International Trade City, the global hub for small commodity wholesale.
Photo: Zakaria55, Public domain.
- Type: City with 1,230,000 residents
- Description: county-level city
- Also known as: “Choucheng”, “I-wu-hsien”, “Iwu”, “YiWu”, “Yiwuhsien”, “ייוו”, “ಸೇಜಿಯಾಂಗ್ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”, “이우”, “烏傷”, “烏傷縣”, “烏孝県”, “義傷県”, “義鳥”, and “華川県”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Xiuhu and Qintang.
Yiwu
- Categories: county-level city of China, subprefecture-level city, and locality
- Location: Jinhua, Zhejiang, East China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
29.3093° or 29° 18′ 34″ north
Longitude
120.0704° or 120° 4′ 13″ east
Population
1,230,000
Elevation
84 metres (276 feet)
IATA airport code
YIW
UN/LOCODE
CN YIU
Open location code
7QX2835C+P5
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Yiwu” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ييوو”
- Armenian: “Իու (Ցզինհուա)”
- Armenian: “Իու”
- Basque: “Yiwu”
- Bengali: “ই-উ”
- Catalan: “Yiwu”
- Cebuano: “Yiwu”
- Chinese: “Yìwū Shì”
- Chinese: “义乌”
- Chinese: “义乌市”
- Chinese: “義烏市”
- Chinese: “義烏縣” (historical)
- Czech: “I-wu”
- Danish: “Yiwu”
- Dutch: “Yiwu”
- Esperanto: “Yiwu”
- Finnish: “Yiwu”
- French: “Yiwu”
- Gan Chinese: “义乌市”
- German: “Yiwu”
- Greek: “Γίγου”
- Gujarati: “યીવુ”
- Hebrew: “יי-וו”
- Hindi: “यिवू”
- Hindi: “यीवू”
- Hungarian: “Jivu”
- Indonesian: “Yiwu”
- Italian: “Yiwu”
- Japanese: “義烏市”
- Kannada: “ಯಿವಿ”
- Kikuyu: “Yiwu”
- Korean: “이우시”
- Latvian: “Lu”
- Literary Chinese: “義烏市”
- Lithuanian: “Lu”
- Malagasy: “Yiwu”
- Malay: “Yiwu”
- Marathi: “यिवू”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gī-o͘-chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yiwu”
- Norwegian: “Yiwu”
- Persian: “ایوو”
- Persian: “ییوو”
- Polish: “Yiwu”
- Portuguese: “Yiwu”
- Portuguese: “Yìwū”
- Russian: “Иу”
- Sinhala: “යිවූ”
- Spanish: “Yiwu”
- Swedish: “Yiwu”
- Tagalog: “Yiwu”
- Tamil: “இவ்யூ”
- Telugu: “యీవు”
- Thai: “อี้หวู่”
- Turkish: “Yiwu”
- Ukrainian: “Їу”
- Urdu: “یوو”
- Vietnamese: “Nghĩa Ô”
- Waray (Philippines): “Yiwu”
- Welsh: “Yiwu”
- Wu Chinese: “義烏市”
- Yue Chinese: “義烏”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: 稠城街道 and 江东街道.
Zhejiang: Must-Visit Destinations
Worth a closer look: Hangzhou and Ningbo.
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