Shenzhen
Shenzhen is a fast-paced city of ambition and enterprise: engineers on the cutting edge of modern technology, hardscrabble farmers coming to the big city in search of a better life, middle managers who dream of someday opening their own factories, designers looking to sell to a global market, and all manner of entrepreneurs from across China.Photo: Charlie fong, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Popular Destinations
Nanshan
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Nanshan is a district of Shenzhen. It's a happening place—international artist communities, multiple amusement parks, historic sites, and more.
Destinations
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Notable Places in the Area
Ping An Finance Center
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The Ping An Finance Center is a 115-storey, 599.1 m supertall skyscraper in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.
Futian
Railway station
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Futian station is a station on the Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong Express Rail Link, and the final…
Shenzhen Library
Library
Shenzhen Library is the public library system of Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.
Localities in the Area
Huaqiangbei
Neighbourhood
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Huaqiangbei is a subdistrict of Futian, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China, one of Shenzhen's notable retail areas, having one of the largest electronics markets in the world.
Shenzhen
- Type: City with 17,600,000 residents
- Description: prefecture-level city in Guangdong, China
- Neighbors: Dongguan, Guangzhou and Hong Kong
- Categories: sub-province-level division, big city, million city, prefecture-level city, city specifically designated in the state plan, megacity, global city, special economic zone and locality
- Location: Pearl River Delta, Guangdong, South China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
22.5446° or 22° 32' 41" northLongitude
114.0545° or 114° 3' 16" eastPopulation
17,600,000Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)IATA airport code
SZXUnited Nations Location Code
CN SNZOpen Location Code
7PJPG3V3+RROpenStreetMap ID
node 3510661780OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1795565Wikidata ID
Q15174Shenzhen Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afar: Shenchjen
- Afrikaans: Shenzhen
- Albanian: Shenzhen
- Arabic: Shenzhen
- Arabic: شنجن (الصين)
- Arabic: شنجن
- Arabic: شينزين
- Armenian: Շենժեն
- Asturian: Shenzhen
- Azerbaijani: Şençjen
- Bambara: Shenzhen
- Bashkir: Шэньчжэнь
- Basque: Shenzhen
- Belarusian: Шэньчжэнь
- Bengali: শেনচেন
- Bengali: সেনজেন
- Bosnian: Shenzhen
- Breton: Shenzhen
- Bulgarian: Шънджън
- Burmese: ရှိန်းကျိန့်မြို့
- Catalan: Shenzhen
- Cebuano: Shenzhen
- Central Kurdish: شنجن
- Cheyenne: Shenzhen
- Chinese: Chhim-chùn-chhī
- Chinese: 深圳
- Chinese: 深圳市
- Chinese: 鵬城
- Chinese: 鹏城
- Cornish: Shenzhen
- Croatian: Shenzhen
- Croatian: Šenžden
- Croatian: Šenžen
- Czech: Šen-čen
- Danish: Shenzhen
- Dutch: Shenzhen
- Egyptian Arabic: شينزن
- English: Sham Chun
- Esperanto: Ŝenĵeno
- Estonian: Shenzhen
- Fijian: Shenzhen
- Finnish: Shenzhen
- French: Shenzhen
- Galician: Shenzhen
- Gan Chinese: 深圳
- Gan Chinese: 深圳市
- Georgian: შენცენი
- Georgian: შენჯენი
- German: Shenzhen
- Greek: Σενζέν
- Greek: Σεντζέν
- Greek: Σεντσέν
- Gujarati: શેનઝેન
- Hakka Chinese: Chhṳ̂m-chun-sṳ
- Hausa: Chhṳ̂m-chun-sṳ
- Hausa: Shenzhen
- Hebrew: שנג'ן
- Hebrew: שנז'ן
- Hebrew: שנזן
- Hindi: शेन्झेन
- Hungarian: Sencsen
- Icelandic: Shenzhen
- Ido: Shenzhen
- Indonesian: Shenzhen
- Interlingua: Shenzhen
- Irish: Shenzhen
- Italian: Shenzhen
- Japanese: 深セン
- Japanese: 深セン市
- Japanese: 深圳
- Japanese: 深圳市
- Kalaallisut: Shenzhen
- Kannada: ಶೆನ್ಝೆನ್
- Kara-Kalpak: Sham Chun
- Kara-Kalpak: Shenchjen
- Kazakh: Шэньчжэнь
- Kazakh: Шэньчжэнь қаласы
- Kikuyu: Shenzhen
- Kirghiz: Шэньчжэнь
- Korean: 선전 시
- Korean: 선전시
- Korean: 심천
- Kurdish: Shenzhen
- Latin: Shenzhen
- Latvian: Šeņdžeņa
- Literary Chinese: 深圳市
- Lithuanian: Šendženas
- Macedonian: Шенџен
- Maithili: शेनझेन
- Malagasy: Shenzhen
- Malay: Shenzhen
- Malayalam: ഷെഞ്ജെൻ
- Maori: Shenzhen
- Marathi: षेंचेन
- Min Dong Chinese: Chĭng-dáung
- Min Nan Chinese: Chhim-chùn-chhī
- Mongolian: Шэньжэнь
- Nepali: शेनझेन
- Norwegian: Shenzhen
- Norwegian Bokmål: Shenzhen
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Shenzhen
- Nyanja: Shenzhen
- Occitan (post 1500): Shenzhen
- Ossetian: Шэньчжэнь
- Pampanga: Shenzhen
- Panjabi: ਸ਼ੈਨਜ਼ੈਨ
- Persian: شنژن
- Persian: شنژن
- Polish: Shenzhen
- Portuguese: Shenzhen
- Quechua: Shenzhen
- Romanian: Shenzen
- Romanian: Shenzhen
- Russian: Шэньчжэнь
- Scots: Shenzhen
- Serbian: Šendžen
- Serbian: Шенџен
- Serbo-Croatian: Šenžen
- Sinhala: ෂෙන්සෙන්
- Slovak: Šen-čen
- Slovenian: Shenzhen
- Slovenian: Šendžen
- Spanish: Shenzhen
- Swahili: Shenzhen
- Swedish: Shenzhen
- Tagalog: Shenzhen
- Tajik: Шэнжэн
- Tamil: சென்சென்
- Tamil: சென்ச்சென்
- Tamil: ஷென்ஃஜென்
- Tatar: Şencen
- Telugu: షెన్జెన్
- Thai: เชินเจิ้น
- Thai: เซินเจิ้น
- Tswana: Shenzhen
- Turkish: Shenzhen
- Turkmen: Şenszen
- Uighur: شېنجېن شەھىرى
- Ukrainian: Шеньчжень
- Urdu: شینزین
- Urdu: شینژین
- Uzbek: Shenchjen
- Uzbek: Shenjen
- Venetian: Shenzhen
- Veps: Šen'čžen'
- Vietnamese: Thâm Quyến
- Waray (Philippines): Shenzhen
- Welsh: Shenzhen
- Western Panjabi: شینژین
- Wolof: Shenzhen
- Wu Chinese: 深圳市
- Yakut: Дьэндьэн
- Yue Chinese: 深圳
- Yue Chinese: 深圳市
- Yue Chinese: 鵬城
- Zhuang: Sinhcin
- Bao'an
- Pao-an-hsien
- Pao-an
- Sham Chun Hu
- Shen-ch'üan-chen
- Shen-ch'üan-hsü
- Shen-ch'üan
- Shen-chen
- Shen-chun
- Shiem Chun
- Shumchün
- Tschhimtschun
- شێنجێن
- शेन्ज़ेन
- შენჭენი
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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 Shenzhen. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.