Yangzhou
Yangzhou, postal romanization Yangchow, is a prefecture-level city in central Jiangsu Province, East China. Sitting on the north bank of the Yangtze, it borders the provincial capital Nanjing to the southwest, Huai'an to the north, Yancheng to the northeast, Taizhou to the east, and Zhenjiang across the river to the south. Its population was 4,559,797 at the 2020 census and its urban area is home to 2,635,435 inhabitants, including three urban districts, currently in the agglomeration.
Yangzhou
扬州市 Yangchow | |
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Location of Yangzhou administrative area in Jiangsu | |
Yangzhou Location of the city center in Jiangsu Yangzhou Yangzhou (Eastern China) Yangzhou Yangzhou (China) | |
| Coordinates (Yangzhou municipal government): 32°23′40″N 119°24′46″E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Jiangsu |
| County-level divisions | 6 (3 Districts, 2 County-level cities, 1 County) |
| Municipal seat | Hanjiang District |
| Government | |
| • Communist Party Chief | Zhang Baojuan (张宝娟) |
| • Mayor | Wang Jinjian (王进健) (Acting) |
| Area | |
| • Prefecture-level city | 6,626 km2 (2,558 sq mi) |
| • Urban (2018) | 363 km2 (140 sq mi) |
| • Metro | 2,310 km2 (890 sq mi) |
| Population (2020 census) | |
| • Prefecture-level city | 4,559,797 |
| • Density | 690/km2 (1,800/sq mi) |
| • Urban (2018) | 1,665,000 |
| • Urban density | 4,600/km2 (12,000/sq mi) |
| • Metro | 2,635,435 |
| • Metro density | 1,100/km2 (3,000/sq mi) |
| Includes only those with Hukou permits | |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (Beijing Time) |
| Telephone | (0)514 |
| ISO 3166 code | CN-JS-10 |
| Licence plate prefixes | 苏K |
| Website | yangzhou |
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"Yangzhou" in Simplified (top) and Traditional (bottom) Chinese characters | |||||||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 揚州 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 扬州 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | [Seat of] Yang Province | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Historical Names Hancheng | |||||||||||||||||||
| Chinese | 邗城 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Han City | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 廣陵 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 广陵 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Expansive Tomb | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Chinese | 江都 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Capital on the [Yangtze] River | ||||||||||||||||||
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Historically, Yangzhou was one of the wealthiest cities in China, known at various periods for its great merchant families, poets, artists, and scholars. Its name (lit. "Rising Prefecture") refers to its former position as the capital of the ancient Yangzhou prefecture in imperial China. Yangzhou was one of the first cities to benefit from one of the earliest World Bank loans in China, used to construct Yangzhou thermal power station in 1994.