Zhili
Zhili was a province in northern China from the Ming Dynasty until it was dissolved in 1928. It was one of the 18 provinces sometimes called China proper, and was named because the emperor or the central government exercised direct rule over the province.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: administrative territorial entity
- Description: directly-controlled area of the Qing Empire, renaming Ming Beizhili after Nanjing was no longer considered a southern capital
- Also known as: “Chih-li”, “Direct Administration”, “Directly Administered Area”, “Directly Administered Region”, “Metropolitan Area”, “Nortern Zhili”, “North Chih-li”, “North Zhili”, “Northern Chih-li”, “Pe Tchi-li”, “Pe-tchi-li”, “Pei Chih-li”, “Pei-chih-li”, “Petchili”, “Tchi-li”, and “Zhili Province”
Zhili
Latitude
38.51° or 38° 30′ 36″ northLongitude
115.55° or 115° 33′ eastOpen location code
8PCQGH52+X2Wikidata ID
Q2604022
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Vietnamese—“Zhili” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Զհիլի պրոցինցիա”
- Armenian: “Զհիլի”
- Armenian: “Չիհլի պրովինցիա”
- Belarusian: “Чжылі”
- Catalan: “Província de Zhili”
- Catalan: “Zhili”
- Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای زیلی”
- Chinese: “直省”
- Chinese: “直隶”
- Chinese: “直隶省”
- Chinese: “直隸”
- Chinese: “直隸省”
- Czech: “Č‘-li”
- Czech: “Č’-li”
- Czech: “Nan č‘-li”
- Czech: “Pej č‘-li”
- French: “province de Zhili”
- French: “Zhili”
- German: “Provinz Zhili”
- German: “Zhili”
- Indonesian: “Zhili”
- Italian: “Zhili”
- Japanese: “北直隷省”
- Japanese: “直隷”
- Japanese: “直隷州”
- Japanese: “直隷省”
- Korean: “즈리성”
- Korean: “직례”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ti̍t-lē-séng”
- Ossetian: “Чжили”
- Polish: “Zhili”
- Russian: “Чжили”
- Serbian: “Џили”
- Slovenian: “Zhili”
- Slovenian: “Žili”
- Swedish: “Zhili”
- Ukrainian: “Джилі”
- Ukrainian: “Чжилі”
- Vietnamese: “Trực Lệ”
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