Zhangye
Zhangye is a city in Gansu Province with striking and beautiful mountain scenery nearby. As for most Chinese cities, the name "Zhangye" is somewhat ambiguous since it can refer either to the city itself or to the prefecture with that city at its center.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Elmschrat, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Dcpeets, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: City with 1,220,000 residents
- Description: prefecture-level city in Gansu, China
- Also known as: “Chang-i”, “Chang-yeh”, “Chang-yeh-hsien”, “Chang-yeh-shih”, “Changyen”, “Kan-chou”, “Zhangye City”, and “Zhangye Shi”
- Historically known as: “Campichu”, “Ganzhou”, and “Kanchow”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Reclined Buddah Temple.
Reclined Buddah Temple
Buddhist temple
Photo: Leuband, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Dafo Temple or Great Buddha Temple is a Buddhist temple in Zhangye, Gansu, China, notable for its gigantic reclining Buddha statue made around 1100 during the Western Xia period, which is thirty-five metres long.
Zhangye
- Categories: prefecture-level city, big city, and locality
- Location: Zhangye, Gansu, Northwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.9365° or 38° 56′ 11″ northLongitude
100.4556° or 100° 27′ 20″ eastPopulation
1,220,000Elevation
1,481 metres (4,859 feet)IATA airport code
YZYOpen location code
8PC2WFP4+J7OpenStreetMap ID
node 244082916OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Zhangye” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “زهانغي”
- Armenian: “Չժանիե”
- Asturian: “Zhangye”
- Basque: “Zhangye”
- Bengali: “চাংইয়ে”
- Bulgarian: “Джание”
- Bulgarian: “Чжанджие”
- Catalan: “Zhangye”
- Cebuano: “Zhangye (kapital sa prepektura sa Republikang Popular sa Tsina)”
- Cebuano: “Zhangye”
- Central Bikol: “Zhangye”
- Chinese: “Tiuⁿ-e̍k-chhī”
- Chinese: “Zhāngyè Shì”
- Chinese: “张掖”
- Chinese: “张掖市”
- Chinese: “張掖”
- Chinese: “張掖市”
- Chinese: “甘州” (historical)
- Czech: “Čang-jie”
- Danish: “Zhangye”
- Dutch: “Zhangye”
- Esperanto: “Ĝanje”
- Esperanto: “Zhangye”
- Finnish: “Zhangye”
- French: “Zhangye”
- Gan Chinese: “张掖市”
- German: “Zhangye”
- Greek: “Τσανγκγιέ”
- Gujarati: “ઝાંગયે”
- Hebrew: “ג’אנג-יה”
- Hindi: “झांग्ये”
- Hungarian: “Csangje”
- Indonesian: “Zhangye”
- Irish: “Zhangye”
- Italian: “Zhangye”
- Japanese: “張掖市”
- Kannada: “ಝಾನ್ಗ್ಯೇ”
- Kikuyu: “Zhangye”
- Korean: “장예 시”
- Korean: “장예시”
- Kurdish: “Zhangye”
- Latvian: “Žangje”
- Lithuanian: “Žangje”
- Malagasy: “Zhangye”
- Malay: “Zhangye”
- Marathi: “झांग्ये”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Diŏng-ĭk”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tiuⁿ-e̍k-chhī”
- Mongolian: “Жанъе”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Zhangye”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Zhangye”
- Norwegian: “Zhangye”
- Pampanga: “Zhangye”
- Persian: “ژانگیه”
- Polish: “Zhangye”
- Portuguese: “Zhangye”
- Russian: “Чжанъе”
- Scots: “Zhangye”
- Serbian: “Џангје”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Zhangye”
- Sinhala: “සැන්ග්යි”
- Slovenian: “Zhangye”
- Spanish: “Zhangye”
- Swedish: “Zhangye”
- Swiss German: “Zhangye”
- Tagalog: “Zhangye”
- Tamil: “ஷாங்ஏ”
- Tatar: “Җаңъе”
- Telugu: “జాన్గ్యే”
- Thai: “จางเหยอ”
- Tosk Albanian: “Zhangye”
- Turkish: “Zhangye”
- Ukrainian: “Чжан’е”
- Ukrainian: “Чжан’є”
- Urdu: “ژانگیے”
- Venetian: “Zhangye”
- Vietnamese: “Trương Dịch”
- Waray (Philippines): “Zhangye”
- Welsh: “Zhangye”
- Western Panjabi: “ژانگیۓ”
- Wu Chinese: “张掖市”
- Yue Chinese: “張掖”
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