Chaoyang District (Chinese Postal Map Romanisation: Chaoyang; simplified Chinese: 潮阳区; traditional Chinese: 潮陽區; pinyin: Cháoyáng Qū) is a district in the municipality of Shantou, Guangdong Province, People's Republic of China.
Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture (Chinese: 昌吉回族自治州; Chinese: 昌吉回族自治州; pinyin: Chāngjí Huízú Zìzhìzhōu), Uyghur: سانجى خۇيزۇ ئاپتونوم ئوبلاستى, ULY: Sanji Huyzu Aptonom Oblasti, UYY: Sanji Xuizu Aptonom Oblasti) is an autonomous prefecture of Xinji…
The Beijing Museum of Natural History (“BMNH”, Chinese: 北京自然博物馆) is located at 126, Tian Qiao Nan Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing, 100050, and is the most popular natural history museum in China.
The Beijing Great Wheel, (simplified Chinese: 北京朝天轮; traditional Chinese: 北京朝天輪; pinyin: Běijīng Cháotiānlún) a 208-metre (682 ft) tall giant Ferris wheel, was to have been constructed in eastern Beijing's Chaoyang Park, one of the 2008 Summer Olymp…
Anping Bridge (simplified Chinese: 安平桥; traditional Chinese: 安平橋; pinyin: Ānpíng Qiáo) is a Song dynasty stone beam bridge in China's Fujian province. It is 2,070 metres (1.29 mi) long. The bridge is also known as the Wuli Bridge (simplified Chinese…
Aksu Airport (simplified Chinese: 阿克苏机场; traditional Chinese: 阿克蘇機場; pinyin: Ākèsù Jīchǎng) (IATA: AKU, ICAO: ZWAK) is an airport serving Aksu, a city in the autonomous region of Xinjiang in the People's Republic of China.
Aigun (simplified Chinese: 瑷珲; traditional Chinese: 璦琿; pinyin: Àihún; Manchu: ᠠᡳ᠌ᡥᡡᠨ ᡥᠣᡨ᠋ᠣᠨ Aihūn hoton) was a historic Chinese town in northern Manchuria, situated on the right bank of the Amur River, some 30 kilometres (19 mi) south (downstream) …
The Afāq Khoja Mausoleum or Aba Khoja Mausoleum (Uyghur: Apakh Khoja Mazar) is the holiest Muslim site in Xinjiang.
Ürümqi County (Uyghur: ئۈرۈمچى ناھىيىسى, ULY: Ürümchi Nahiyisi, UYY: Ürümqi Nah̡iyisi?) is a county within the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administrative jurisdiction of the Ürümqi City.
Zhuozhou (Chinese: 涿州; pinyin: Zhuōzhōu) is a county-level city with 628,000 inhabitants in Hebei province, bordering Beijing to the north. It is administered by Baoding prefecture-level city.
The Zhongshan Park (Chinese: 中山公园/中山公園), is a former imperial garden and now a public park that lies just southwest of the Forbidden City in the Dongcheng District of central Beijing.
The Zhenhai Tower (Chinese: 镇海楼; pinyin: Zhènhǎi Lóu), or colloquially the Five Stories Pogoda (五层楼) is a five-story tower in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
The Zhaojun Tomb (Chinese: 昭君墓; pinyin: Zhāojūnmù), located by the Da Hi River nine kilometers south of Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China, is said to be the resting place of Wang Zhaojun, a commoner woman from the Chinese Han Empire who married a Xiongn…
Zeya River (Russian: Зе́я; Manchu: Jingkiri bira, also Latinized as Zeja River), 1,242 km long, is a northern tributary of the Amur River. It rises in the Tokiysky Stanovik mountain ridge, a part of the Stanovoy Range.
Yuncheng Guangong Airport (Chinese: 运城关公机场) (IATA: YCU, ICAO: ZBYC) is an airport serving the city of Yuncheng in Shanxi Province, China. It is located in Zhangxiao Village, Taocun Town, 11 kilometers northeast of the city center, and is commonly ca…
Yuhang District (t 餘杭區, s 余杭区, p Yúháng Qū) is a suburban district of Hangzhou, Zhejiang, in the People's Republic of China. It's 2013 population was estimated at 1.17 million.
Yizhou (Chinese: 宜州; pinyin: Yízhōu), formerly Yishan County (宜山县), is a county-level city under the administration of Hechi City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China.
Yingde (Chinese Postal Map Romanisation: Yingtak; Chinese: 英德) is a historical city in the north of Guangdong Province, China. The city is on the Beijiang River, a tributary of the Pearl River.
Yecheng, Karghilik or Karghalik, also known as Chokkuka, is a city in Xinjiang, China. It is 249 km by road northwest to Kashgar, and 249 km south to Mazar.
Yanshi (Chinese: 偃师; pinyin: Yǎnshī) is a county-level city administered by the prefecture-level city of Luoyang in western Henan province in the People's Republic of China.
Yangxin County (simplified Chinese: 阳新县; traditional Chinese: 陽新縣; pinyin: Yángxīn Xiàn) is a county within the prefecture-level city of Huangshi in southeastern Hubei province, People's Republic of China. It occupies the southern half of the Huangs…
Yangbajain (also spelled Yangbajing) is a town approximately 87 kilometers (54 mi) north-west of Lhasa, halfway to Damxung in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. The town lies just south of the Nyainqêntanglha Mountains, in an upland lush green va…
Shelkar or Shelkar Dzong (Shelkhar = "white crystal"), also called "New Tingri", is the administrative centre for Tingri County, Shigatse Prefecture in southern Tibet.
Xuzhou Guanyin Airport (IATA: XUZ, ICAO: ZSXZ) is located in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, People's Republic of China, over 45 kilometres (28 mi) from the downtown area in the southeast outskirts of the city.
Xiamen Sports Centre Stadium (Chinese: 厦门市体育场; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: E mng chhi the iok tiuⁿ) is a multi-use stadium in Xiamen, China. It is currently used mostly for football matches and athletics events.
Xiahe (Chinese: 夏河; pinyin: Xiàhé; Tibetan: བསང་ཆུ་, Wylie: bsang chu, ZYPY: Sangqu) is a county in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu province, the People's Republic of China. It is home to the famed Labrang Tibetan Buddhist monastery, one…
Xi'an Xiguan Airport (Chinese: 西安西关机场) (IATA: SIA, ICAO: ZLSN) is the former airport serving Xi'an, capital of China's Shaanxi Province.
Wuzhi Mountain (Chinese: 五指山; pinyin: Wǔzhǐ Shān; literally: "Five Finger Mountain") is the highest mountain in Hainan, China, towering 1,840 metres (6,040 ft) above the center of Hainan Island. The surrounding areas of Wuzhi Mountain are inhabited …
Wusong (simplified Chinese: 吴淞; traditional Chinese: 吳淞; pinyin: Wúsōng), formerly romanized as Woosung, is a subdistrict of Baoshan in northern Shanghai.
Wuhan Sports Center Stadium (Chinese: 武汉体育中心体育场) or Zhuankou Stadium (Chinese: 沌口体育场)) is a multi-use stadium located in Wuhan, China. Completed in 2002, it has an all-seated capacity of 54,357. Local football team Wuhan Guanggu play some high atten…
USS Tilefish (SS-307), a Balao-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the tilefish, a large, yellow-spotted deepwater food fish.
Tradruk Temple (Tibetan: ཁྲ་འབྲུག་དགོན་པ།, Wylie: khra-’brug dgon-pa, Lhasa dialect IPA: [ʈʂʰaŋʈʂuk kø̃pa], referred to as Changzhu Monastery in Chinese) in the Yarlung Valley is the earliest great geomantic temple after the Jokhang and some sources…
Tongren County (Standard Tibetan: ཐུན་རིན་རྫོང་, Wylie: thung ren rdzong; Chinese: 同仁县; pinyin: Tóngrén Xiàn) known to Tibetans as Rebgong (Standard Tibetan: རེབ་གོང་, or Standard Tibetan: རེབ་ཀོང་, རེབ་སྐོང་) in the region previously known as Amdo …
The Temple of the Moon (Chinese: 月坛/月壇, Pinyin: Yuètán) is an altar located in Fuchengmen, Xicheng District, in western Beijing, China.
Tekes County is a county within the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administration of the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture. It contains an area of 8,067 km2.
The Suzhou District (Chinese: 肃州区, Suzhou Qu) is an administrative district in Gansu, the People's Republic of China.