Taizhou (Jiangsu)
| Tàizhōu Shì 泰州 市 Taizhou |
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 Xinghua |
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| Coordinates | 32 ° 29 ′ N , 119 ° 54 ′ E | ||
 Location of Taizhou in Jiangsu |
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| Basic data | |||
| Country | People's Republic of China | ||
| region | East china | ||
| province | Jiangsu | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | CN-JS | ||
| status | District-free city | ||
| structure | 3 city districts, 3 independent cities | ||
| height | 56 m | ||
| surface | 1567 km² | ||
| Metropolitan area | 5793 km² | ||
| Residents | 1,607,108 (2010) | ||
| Metropolitan area | 4,645,800 (2016) | ||
| density | 1,025.6 Ew. / km² | ||
| Metropolitan area | 802 Ew. / km² | ||
| Post Code | 214500, 225300-225700 | ||
| Telephone code | +86 (0) 523 | ||
| Time zone | UTC + 8 | ||
| License Plate | 苏 M | ||
| Website | www.taizhou.gov.cn | ||
| politics | |||
| mayor | Xu Guoping | ||
Taizhou ( Chinese 泰州 市 , Pinyin Tàizhōu shì ) is a district-free city in the Jiangsu Province of the People's Republic of China . The administrative area of Taizhou covers an area of 5,793 km² and is inhabited by 4.65 million people (end of 2016). 676,877 people live in the actual urban settlement area of Taizhou (2010 census).
Administrative structure
At the county level, Taizhou consists of three boroughs and three independent cities. These are:
- Hailing district (海陵区), 210 km², 430,000 inhabitants;
- Gaogang district (高 港区), 224 km², 190,000 inhabitants;
- Jiangyan District (姜堰 区), 1,046 km², 900,000 inhabitants;
- Jingjiang City (靖江 市), 665 km², 660,000 inhabitants;
- City of Taixing (泰兴 市), 1,256 km², 1.28 million inhabitants;
- City of Xinghua (兴化 市), 2,393 km², 1.55 million inhabitants.
General
Taizhou is north of the Yangtze, halfway between Shanghai and Nanjing . On the opposite side of the river, in the west, is Zhenjiang, connected by the Taizhou Yangtze River Bridge , one of the 30 longest suspension bridges and with almost 10 km the longest in the world. Changzhou is opposite in the south . Taizhou is the founding place of the Chinese Navy.
Twin cities
Sister cities of Taizhou are the US American Newport News , the South Korean county Eumseong- gun, Huy (Belgium) and Santos (Brazil). Since 2001, the Finnish Kotka has also been part of it.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 走进 江苏 行政 区划.江苏 省政府 门户 网站, May 18, 2018, accessed August 24, 2018 (Chinese).
- ↑ Kansainvälinen toiminta ǀ kotka.fi. Accessed January 30, 2019 .