Yuzhou
Yuzhou is named after the flood control by Emperor Yu of Xia, and has a profound historical background and rich cultural heritage. As the birthplace of Chinese Jun porcelain, it has a unique porcelain art and handicraft tradition, especially the ancient town of Shenhou, which is famous for its well-preserved streets and ancient kiln sites from the Ming and Qing dynasties.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 88,000 residents
- Description: county-level city in Henan, China
- Also known as: “Yingchuan”, “Yü”, “Yü-hsien”, “Yuchow”, “Yuxian”, “Yuzhou City”, “Yuzhou Shi”, “Yuzhou, Henan”, “均平府”, “钧州”, “阳翟”, and “颍川”
Yuzhou
- Categories: county-level city and locality
- Location: Xuchang, Central Henan, Henan, North China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.1599° or 34° 9′ 36″ northLongitude
113.4667° or 113° 28′ eastPopulation
88,000Elevation
126 metres (413 feet)Open location code
8P6M5F58+XMOpenStreetMap ID
node 244082802OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1785566Wikidata ID
Q1344848
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Yuzhou” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “يوزهو”
- Asturian: “Yuzhou”
- Bengali: “ইউচৌ”
- Cebuano: “Yuzhou Shi”
- Chinese: “Ú-chiu-chhī”
- Chinese: “Yǔzhōu Shì”
- Chinese: “禹州”
- Chinese: “禹州市”
- Chinese: “颍川”
- Czech: “Jü-čou”
- Danish: “Yuzhou”
- Dutch: “Yuzhou”
- Finnish: “Yuzhou”
- French: “Yuzhou”
- Gan Chinese: “禹州市”
- German: “Yuzhou”
- Greek: “Γιούζου”
- Gujarati: “યૂઝોઉ”
- Hindi: “यूज़होउ”
- Hungarian: “Jücsou”
- Indonesian: “Yuzhou”
- Irish: “Yuzhou”
- Italian: “Yuzhou”
- Japanese: “禹州市”
- Japanese: “禹県”
- Kannada: “ಯುಜ್ಹೌ”
- Kikuyu: “Yuzhou”
- Korean: “위저우시”
- Kurdish: “Yuzhou, Henan”
- Kurdish: “Yuzhou”
- Latvian: “Judžou”
- Lithuanian: “Južou”
- Malay: “Yuzhou”
- Marathi: “युझोऊ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ú-chiu-chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yuzhou”
- Norwegian: “Yuzhou”
- Pampanga: “Yuzhou, Henan”
- Pampanga: “Yuzhou”
- Polish: “Yuzhou”
- Russian: “Юйчжоу”
- Sinhala: “යුසොහු”
- Spanish: “Yuzhou”
- Swedish: “Yuzhou Shi”
- Swedish: “Yuzhou”
- Tamil: “யுஷோவு”
- Telugu: “యుజ్హౌ”
- Thai: “หยูซู”
- Turkish: “Yuzhou”
- Ukrainian: “Юйчжоу”
- Urdu: “یوزحوو”
- Vietnamese: “Vũ Châu”
- Waray (Philippines): “Yuzhou, Henan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Yuzhou”
- Welsh: “Yuzhou”
- Wu Chinese: “禹州市”
- Yue Chinese: “禹州”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Yuzhou”. Photo: Ruzhouxiaojun, CC0.