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Yinchuan
Ningxia, China · Asia
About Yinchuan
Yinchuan sits on the route: 20 minutes from Wangyuan.
Yinchuan is in Ningxia, China, with about 1.5 million people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Wangyuan, about 9 km away.
Yinchuan (Chinese: 银川; pinyin: Yínchuān; lit. 'Silver River') is a prefecture‑level city and the capital of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in northwest China. It served as the imperial capital of the Tangut‑led Western Xia (1038–1227).
Yinchuan hosts the biennial China–Arab States Expo. As of the 2020 ChineseRead more
census, Yinchuan’s administrative area had 2,859,074 inhabitants; the built‑up area had 2,564,918 residents, comprising the three urban districts and the urbanized parts of Helan and Yongning counties. At the end of 2024, the resident population of the city was 2,914,700, an increase of 66,600 over the end of the previous year. Among them, the urban population is 2,429,400.
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Yinchuan is in Ningxia, China, about 9 km from Wangyuan.
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- Population
- 1,487,579
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- China
- Region
- Ningxia
- Timezone
- Asia/Shanghai
- Coordinates
- 38.4681, 106.2731
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