Zigong

Zigong is a city in . 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.
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  • Type: City with 2,490,000 residents
  • Description: prefecture-level city in Sichuan, China
  • Also known as: “C‘-kung”, “Cykung”, “Tzekung”, “Tzeliuching”, “Tzeliutsing”, “Tzu-kung”, “Tzu-kung-shih”, “Tzu-liu-ching”, “Tzuliutsing”, “Zigong City”, and “쯔궁”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Huanhou Palace and Zigong North railway station.

Photo: Zhangzhugang, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Railway station
is a railway station in Da'an District, Zigong, , China.

Photo: Zhangzhugang, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Zigong

Latitude
29.3419° or 29° 20′ 31″ north
Longitude
104.7761° or 104° 46′ 34″ east
Population
2,490,000
Elevation
306 metres (1,004 feet)
IATA airport code
ZKL
UN/LOCODE
CN ZGO
Open location code
7PX68QRG+QC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244082533
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1783745
Wiki­data ID
Q29015
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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: “Zìgòng Shì”
  • Chinese: “自貢市”
  • Chinese: “自贡”
  • Chinese: “自贡市”
  • 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: “自貢市”
  • Kannada: “ಝಿಗೊಂಗ್”
  • Kashubian: “Zigong”
  • Kikuyu: “Zigong”
  • Korean: “쯔궁 시”
  • 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: “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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