Zhangye

Zhangye, formerly romanized as Changyeh and also formerly known as Kanchow, is a prefecture-level city in central Province in the .
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  • 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.

Buddhist temple
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The Dafo Temple or Great Buddha Temple is a in Zhangye, , , notable for its gigantic reclining Buddha statue made around 1100 during the Western Xia period, which is thirty-five metres long and is reputedly the largest reclining Buddha clay statue in China.

Zhangye

Latitude
38.9365° or 38° 56′ 11″ north
Longitude
100.4556° or 100° 27′ 20″ east
Population
1,220,000
Elevation
1,481 metres (4,859 feet)
IATA airport code
YZY
Open location code
8PC2WFP4+J7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244082916
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1785036
Wiki­data ID
Q197402
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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”
  • Georgian: “ჭანგიე”
  • 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: “Džangje”
  • 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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