Shantou
Shantou, known as Swatow in the local language, is a coastal city and Special Economic Zone in Guangdong Province in China. It is located in the east of the province near the border with Fujian.Photo: Lzy881114, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Sgnpkd, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Shantou Queshi Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Bru216, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Queshi Bridge, in Shantou, China, is among the world's longest bridges.
Localities in the Area
Jinsha
Suburb
Jinsha is a subdistrict of the Jinping District, Shantou City, Guangdong Province, China.
Shantou
- Type: City with 5,390,000 residents
- Description: prefecture-level city in Guangdong, China
- Categories: prefecture-level city, big city, million city and locality
- Location: Chaoshan, Guangdong, South China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
23.3564° or 23° 21' 23" northLongitude
116.6776° or 116° 40' 39" eastPopulation
5,390,000Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)IATA airport code
SWAUnited Nations Location Code
CN STGOpen Location Code
7PMR9M4H+H2OpenStreetMap ID
node 8399236300OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1795940Wikidata ID
Q59100Shantou Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Shantou
- Afrikaans: Sjantou
- Arabic: Shantou
- Arabic: شانتو
- Armenian: Շանտոու
- Asturian: Shantou
- Basque: Shantou
- Belarusian: Шаньтоу
- Bengali: শানটু
- Bengali: শানতু
- Bengali: শানতোউ
- Bengali: শানথৌ
- Bengali: শ্যানটু
- Bengali: শ্যানটোউ
- Bengali: শ্যানটৌ
- Bengali: সানটোউ
- Bengali: সানতু
- Bengali: সানতোউ
- Breton: Shantou
- Bulgarian: Шантоу
- Catalan: Shantou
- Chinese: Sòaⁿ-thâu-chhī
- Chinese: 汕头
- Chinese: 汕头市
- Chinese: 汕頭
- Chinese: 汕頭市
- Croatian: Shantou
- Czech: Šan-tchou
- Danish: Shantou
- Dutch: Shantou
- English: Swatow
- Esperanto: Ŝantoŭo
- Estonian: Shantou Shi
- Finnish: Shantou
- French: Shantou
- Galician: Shantou
- Gan Chinese: 汕头市
- Georgian: შანტოუ
- German: Shantou
- Greek: Σαντόου
- Gujarati: શાન્તૌ
- Hakka Chinese: Sân-thèu-sṳ
- Hausa: Sân-thèu-sṳ
- Hebrew: שאנטואו
- Hebrew: שנטאו
- Hindi: शांतोऊ
- Hindi: शांतौ
- Hungarian: Santou
- Icelandic: Shantou
- Indonesian: Shantou
- Irish: Shantou
- Italian: Shantou
- Japanese: 汕頭
- Japanese: 汕頭市
- Kannada: ಶಾಂಟೋ
- Kannada: ಶಾಂತೌ
- Kikuyu: Shantou
- Korean: 산터우 시
- Korean: 산터우시
- Kurdish: Shantou
- Latvian: Šantou
- Latvian: Šaņtou
- Literary Chinese: 汕頭市
- Lithuanian: Šantou
- Malagasy: Shantou
- Malay: Shantou
- Marathi: षांतौ
- Min Dong Chinese: Sáng-tàu
- Min Nan Chinese: Soaⁿ-thâu-chhī
- Min Nan Chinese: Sòaⁿ-thâu-chhī
- Mongolian: Шантоу
- Norwegian: Shantou
- Norwegian Bokmål: Shantou
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Shantou
- Occitan (post 1500): Shantou
- Pampanga: Shantou
- Persian: شانتو
- Polish: Shantou
- Portuguese: Shantou
- Russian: Шаньтоу
- Scots: Shantou
- Serbian: Шантоу
- Sinhala: ෂැන්ටොඋ
- Slovenian: Šantou
- Spanish: Shantou
- Swahili: Shantou
- Swedish: Shantou
- Tagalog: Shantou
- Tamil: ஷான்டோவு
- Telugu: శాంటౌ
- Thai: ซัวเถา
- Turkish: Shantou
- Uighur: شەنتۇ شەھىرى
- Ukrainian: Шаньтоу
- Urdu: شانتو
- Venetian: Shantou
- Vietnamese: Sán Đầu
- Waray (Philippines): Shantou
- Welsh: Shantou
- Western Panjabi: شانتوؤ
- Wu Chinese: 汕头
- Yue Chinese: 汕頭
- Zhuang: Sandouz
- Shan-t’ou-shih
- Shantow
Other Places Named Shantou
In the Area
Shantou is situated close to the suburb Xiaogongyuan and the neighbourhood 红亭花园.
Escape to a Random Place
About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Shantou. Photo: Sgnpkd, CC BY-SA 4.0.