Zigong
Zigong is a city in East Sichuan. It used to make its fortune from salt production, but now is better known as a destination that caters primarily to Chinese tourists who come to see its large dinosaur museum, and of course, its salt museum.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 2,490,000 residents
- Description: prefecture-level city in Sichuan, China
- Also known as: “Tzekung”, “Tzeliuching”, “Tzeliutsing”, “Tzu-kung”, “Tzu-kung-shih”, “Tzu-liu-ching”, “Tzuliutsing”, and “Zigong City”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Zigongbei and Huanhou Palace.
Zigongbei
Railway station
Zigong North railway station is a railway station in Da'an District, Zigong, Sichuan, China. It opened in 1958. It was formerly named Zigong but was renamed on 30 April 2021 in preparation for the opening of the new Zigong railway station.
Zigong
- Categories: prefecture-level city, big city, and locality
- Location: East Sichuan, Sichuan, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
29.3419° or 29° 20′ 31″ northLongitude
104.7761° or 104° 46′ 34″ eastPopulation
2,490,000Elevation
306 metres (1,004 feet)IATA airport code
ZKLUnited Nations Location Code
CN ZGOOpen location code
7PX68QRG+QCOpenStreetMap ID
node 244082533OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1783745Wikidata ID
Q29015
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Zigong” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “زيجونج”
- Asturian: “Zigong”
- Basque: “Zigong”
- Bengali: “জিগুং”
- Bulgarian: “Дзъгун”
- Catalan: “Zigong”
- Cebuano: “Zigong”
- Chinese: “Chū-kòng-chhī”
- Chinese: “Zìgòng Shì”
- Chinese: “自貢”
- Chinese: “自貢市”
- Chinese: “自贡”
- Chinese: “自贡市”
- Czech: “C-kung”
- Czech: “C‘-kung”
- Czech: “C’-kung”
- Danish: “Zigong”
- Dutch: “Zigong”
- Esperanto: “Zigong”
- Finnish: “Zigong”
- French: “Zigong”
- French: “Zìgòng”
- Gan Chinese: “自贡市”
- German: “Zigong”
- Greek: “Τζίγκονγκ”
- Gujarati: “ઝિગોન્ગ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Chhṳ-kung-sṳ”
- Hebrew: “דזה-גונג”
- Hindi: “ज़िगोंग”
- Hungarian: “Cekung”
- Indonesian: “Zigong”
- Irish: “Zigong”
- Italian: “Zigong”
- Japanese: “自貢”
- Japanese: “自貢市”
- Kannada: “ಝಿಗೊಂಗ್”
- Kashubian: “Zigong”
- Kikuyu: “Zigong”
- Korean: “쯔궁 시”
- Korean: “쯔궁”
- Korean: “쯔궁시”
- Latin: “Zigong”
- Latvian: “Dzigonga”
- Lithuanian: “Dzigongas”
- Malagasy: “Zigong”
- Malay: “Zigong”
- Marathi: “झिगॉन्ग”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Cê̤ṳ-góng”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chū-kòng-chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Zigong”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Zigong”
- Norwegian: “Zigong”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Zigong”
- Persian: “زیگانگ”
- Polish: “Cykung”
- Polish: “Zigong”
- Portuguese: “Zigong”
- Russian: “Цзыгун”
- Serbian: “Цигунг”
- Silesian: “Zigong”
- Sinhala: “සිගොන්ග්”
- Spanish: “Zigong”
- Swedish: “Zigong”
- Tamil: “ஜிகாங்”
- Telugu: “జిగాంగ్”
- Thai: “จือกง”
- Turkish: “Zigong”
- Ukrainian: “Цзигун”
- Urdu: “زیگونگ”
- Venetian: “Zigong”
- Vietnamese: “Tự Cống”
- Waray (Philippines): “Zigong”
- Welsh: “Zigong”
- Wu Chinese: “自贡市”
- Yue Chinese: “自貢”
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