Yueyang
Yueyang is a historic port city in Hunan Province, China. It is renowned for its cultural heritage and stunning natural scenery, centered around the immense Dongting Lake and the iconic Yueyang Tower.
- Type: City with 1,230,000 residents
- Description: prefecture-level city in Hunan, China
- Also known as: “Hanchang”, “Yochau”, “Yochow”, “Youchou”, “Yuezhou”, “악양”, “악양 시”, “악양시”, “웨양”, “ユエヤン”, “岳州”, and “巴丘”
- Historically known as: “Youchow”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Nanjingang Railway Station and Yueyang Tower.
Yueyang
- Categories: prefecture-level city of China, big city, and locality
- Location: Hunan, South-central China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
29.3595° or 29° 21′ 34″ north
Longitude
113.123° or 113° 7′ 23″ east
Population
1,230,000
Elevation
43 metres (141 feet)
IATA airport codes
YYA and YUG
UN/LOCODE
CN YYA
Open location code
7PXM945F+Q5
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Yueyang” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Yueyang”
- Arabic: “يوييانغ”
- Armenian: “Յուեյան”
- Asturian: “Yueyang”
- Basque: “Yueyang”
- Bengali: “ইউয়েইয়াং”
- Bulgarian: “Юъян”
- Catalan: “Yueyang”
- Chinese: “Yuèyáng Shì”
- Chinese: “岳阳”
- Chinese: “岳阳市”
- Chinese: “岳陽市”
- Czech: “Jüe-jang”
- Danish: “Yueyang”
- Dutch: “Yueyang”
- Esperanto: “Juejang”
- Finnish: “Yueyang”
- French: “Yueyang”
- Galician: “Yueyang”
- Gan Chinese: “岳阳市”
- German: “Yueyang”
- Greek: “Γιουέγιανγκ”
- Gujarati: “યુએયાંગ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Ngo̍k-yòng-sṳ”
- Hebrew: “יו’ה-יאנג”
- Hindi: “युएयांग”
- Hungarian: “Jüejang”
- Indonesian: “Yueyang”
- Irish: “Yueyang”
- Italian: “Yueyang”
- Japanese: “岳陽市”
- Kannada: “ಯುಯಯಾಂಗ್”
- Kikuyu: “Yueyang”
- Korean: “웨양 시”
- Korean: “웨양시”
- Kurdish: “Yueyang”
- Latvian: “Juejana”
- Literary Chinese: “岳陽市”
- Lithuanian: “Jujengas”
- Malagasy: “Yueyang”
- Malay: “Yueyang”
- Marathi: “युएयांग”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Ngŏk-iòng”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ga̍k-iông-chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yueyang”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Changde”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yueyang”
- Norwegian: “Yueyang”
- Pampanga: “Yueyang”
- Persian: “یویونگ”
- Polish: “Yueyang”
- Portuguese: “Yueyang”
- Russian: “Юэян”
- Scots: “Yueyang”
- Serbian: “Јуејанг”
- Silesian: “Yueyang”
- Sinhala: “යුයියෑන්ග්”
- Slovenian: “Juejang”
- Spanish: “Yueyang”
- Swedish: “Yueyang”
- Tamil: “யூயாங்”
- Telugu: “యుఎయాంగ్”
- Thai: “เย้ว์หยาง”
- Turkish: “Yueyang”
- Uighur: “يۆياڭ”
- Ukrainian: “Юеян”
- Urdu: “یوئیانگ”
- Venetian: “Yueyang”
- Vietnamese: “Nhạc Dương”
- Waray (Philippines): “Yueyang”
- Welsh: “Yueyang”
- Wu Chinese: “岳阳”
- Yue Chinese: “岳陽”
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