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: “Arrondissement Yushu”, “Comte de Gyegu”, “Comté De Gyêgu”, “Comté de Yushu”, “Gyêgu”, “Huyện Ngọc Thụ”, “Jyekundo”, “Thành phố Ngọc Thụ, Thanh Hải”, “Yekundo”, “Yü-shu Hsien”, “Yülshül”, “Yushu (arrondissement)”, “Yushu City”, “Yüshu City”, “Yushu City, Qinghai”, “Yushu County”, “Yushu Dzong”, “Yushu Xiàn”, “Yùshù Xiàn”, “Yüxü City”, “يوشو، تشينغهاي”, “یشو شہر، قنگھائی”, “ཡུལ་ཤུལ་རྫོང།”, “ཡུལ་ཤུལ།”, “ཡུས་ཧྲུའུ་”, “ཡུས་ཧྲུའུ་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།”, “ཡུས་ཧྲུའུ་རྫོང་།”, “ジェクンド”, “三江源市”, “玉树市 ཡུལ་ཤུལ།”, “玉樹縣”, and “结古市”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Gyêgu Monastery.

Buddhist temple
Photo: Gruschke, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a Buddhist temple.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Yushu.

Suburb
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Gyêgu Subdistrict, formerly a part of the Gyêgu…

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”
  • Bengali: “ইউশু শহর, কিংহাই”
  • Catalan: “Yushu”
  • Cebuano: “Yushu Xian”
  • Chinese: “Yùshù Shì”
  • Chinese: “玉树”
  • Chinese: “玉树县”
  • Chinese: “玉树市”
  • Chinese: “玉樹市”
  • Czech: “Jü-šu”
  • Danish: “Yushu”
  • Dutch: “Yushu”
  • Finnish: “Yushu”
  • French: “Xian de Yushu”
  • 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: “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།”
  • Turkish: “Yushu City”
  • Turkish: “Yushu, Çinghay”
  • Uighur: “يۈشۇ شەھىرى”
  • Ukrainian: “Юйшу”
  • Urdu: “یشو سٹی، قنگھائی”
  • Urdu: “یوشو شہر، چنگھائی”
  • Vietnamese: “Ngọc Thụ”
  • Wu Chinese: “玉树市”
  • Yue Chinese: “玉樹市”

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