Leshan (simplified Chinese: 乐山; traditional Chinese: 樂山; pinyin: Lèshān; literally: "Happy mountain"; Sichuanese Pinyin: No2san1; local pronunciation: [nʊʔ˧sã˥]) is a prefecture-level city located at the confluence of the Dadu and Min rivers in Sichuan Province, China. Leshan is located on the southwestern fringe of the Red Basin in southern Sichuan, about 120 km (75 mi) from Chengdu. At the 2010 census, its population was 3,235,759 whom 662,814 lived in the built-up (or metro) area made of Shizhong district, as Wutongqiao and Jinkouhe districts are not conurbated yet.
In 1996, the Mount Emei Scenic Area, including the Leshan Giant Buddha, the largest stone-carved buddha in the world, was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
Mount Emei is located within the county-level city of Emeishan, which is under the administrative jurisdiction of Leshan.
The ancestral home of Chinese writer, academic and politician Guo Moruo is preserved in the Shawan District of Leshan.
Lešane (Serbian Cyrillic: Лешане, Albanian: Leshan) is a settlement in the Suva Reka municipality in south Kosovo. It is located in the Prizrenski Podgor region. It lies 374 m above sea level. It has an ethnic Albanian majority, and Serbian minority; in the 1991 census, it had 2381 inhabitants. The smaller settlement of Topličane has been registered with Lešane in the censuses (The 1981 data shows only Lešane data).
Coordinates: 42°19′40″N 20°46′52″E / 42.32778°N 20.78111°E / 42.32778; 20.78111
Leshan or LeShan may refer to: