Yushu

Yushu, also Romanized as Yüxü, is a county-level city of in Southern , China. It comprises a surface area of 13,462 square kilometres.
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  • Type: City with 141,000 residents
  • Description: county-level city
  • Also known as: Jyekundo”, “Yü-shu Hsien”, “Yülshül”, “Yushu City”, “Yüshu City”, “Yushu City, Qinghai”, “Yushu County”, and “Yüxü City

Places of Interest

Highlights include Gyêgu Monastery.

Buddhist temple
is a Buddhist temple.

Yushu

Latitude
32.9951° or 32° 59′ 42″ north
Longitude
97.0083° or 97° 0′ 30″ east
Population
141,000
Elevation
3,749 metres (12,300 feet)
IATA airport code
YUS
Open location code
8M4VX2W5+28
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244082786
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1279541
Wiki­data ID
Q1026088
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Yushu” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: مدينة يوشو، تشينغهاي
  • Arabic: مدينة يوشو
  • Arabic: يوشو، تشينغهاي
  • Bengali: ইউশু শহর, কিংহাই
  • Catalan: Yushu
  • Cebuano: Yushu Xian
  • Chinese: Gio̍k-sū-chhī
  • Chinese: Yùshù Shì
  • Chinese: 三江源市
  • Chinese: 玉树
  • Chinese: 玉树县
  • Chinese: 玉树市
  • Chinese: 玉樹市
  • Chinese: 玉樹縣
  • Chinese: 结古市
  • Czech: Jü-šu
  • Danish: Yushu
  • Dutch: Arrondissement Yushu
  • Dutch: Yushu (arrondissement)
  • Dutch: Yushu Dzong
  • Dutch: Yushu Xian
  • Dutch: Yushu Xiàn
  • Dutch: Yùshù Xiàn
  • Dutch: Yushu
  • Finnish: Yushu
  • French: Comte de Gyegu
  • French: Comté De Gyêgu
  • French: Comté de Yushu
  • French: Xian de Yushu
  • French: Yekundo
  • French: Yushu
  • Gan Chinese: 玉树市
  • German: Yushu
  • Greek: Γιούσου Σίτι
  • Gujarati: યુશુ શહેર, ક્વિંઘાઇ
  • Hindi: युशु सिटी
  • Indonesian: Yushu City
  • Italian: Yushu City
  • Italian: Yushu
  • Japanese: ジェクンド
  • Japanese: 玉樹市
  • Kannada: ಯೂಶು ನಗರ , ಕ್ವಿನ್ಘಾಇ
  • Kikuyu: Yushu City
  • Korean: 위수 현
  • Korean: 위수시
  • Kurdish: Yushu, Qinghai
  • Latvian: Jušu
  • Lithuanian: Jušu miestas, Čingchai
  • Malay: Yushu City
  • Marathi: युशु शहर, क्ंगहाई
  • Min Nan Chinese: Gio̍k-sū-chhī
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Yushu
  • Norwegian: Yushu
  • Polish: Yushu
  • Portuguese: Cidade de Yushu
  • Russian: Юйшу
  • Sinhala: යුෂු නගරය කුඉන්හයි
  • Slovak: Jü-šu
  • Spanish: Yushu
  • Swedish: Yushu, Yushu
  • Swedish: Yushu
  • Tamil: யுஷு நகரம் , கின்காய்
  • Telugu: యుషు నగరం, క్విన్హాయ్
  • Thai: ยูซู ซิตี้, ฉิงไห่
  • Tibetan: ཡུལ་ཤུལ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
  • Tibetan: ཡུལ་ཤུལ་རྫོང།
  • Tibetan: ཡུལ་ཤུལ།
  • Tibetan: ཡུས་ཧྲུའུ་
  • Tibetan: ཡུས་ཧྲུའུ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།
  • Tibetan: ཡུས་ཧྲུའུ་རྫོང་།
  • Turkish: Yushu City
  • Turkish: Yushu, Çinghay
  • Uighur: يۈشۇ شەھىرى
  • Ukrainian: Юйшу
  • Urdu: یشو سٹی، قنگھائی
  • Urdu: یشو شہر، قنگھائی
  • Urdu: یوشو شہر، چنگھائی
  • Vietnamese: Gyêgu
  • Vietnamese: Huyện Ngọc Thụ
  • Vietnamese: Ngọc Thụ
  • Vietnamese: Thành phố Ngọc Thụ, Thanh Hải
  • Wu Chinese: 玉树市
  • Yue Chinese: 玉樹市

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