Jiayuguan
| 嘉峪关 市 Jiayuguan |
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| Coordinates | 39 ° 46 ′ N , 98 ° 17 ′ E | ||
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| Country | People's Republic of China | ||
| Gansu | |||
| ISO 3166-2 | CN-GS | ||
| Residents | 245,900 ((end of 2016)) | ||
.png) Location of Jiayuguan in Gansu Province
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Jiayuguan ( Chinese 嘉峪关 市 , Pinyin Jiāyùguān Shì ) is a district-free city in the west of the Chinese province of Gansu .
Unlike most prefecture-level cities in China, Jiayuguan has no further subdivisions at the county level. It is a district-free city that was surveyed at the district level. The city lies at an altitude of 1,642 m above sea level and has an area of 2,935 km². It is enclosed in the north, east and west by the administrative area of the district-free city of Jiuquan . Only in the south does it border on the Yugur Sunan Autonomous County , which belongs to the prefecture-level city of Zhangye . Jiayuguan is at the end of a section of the Great Wall of China .
Administrative structure
At the community level, Jiayuguan consists of six street districts and three large communities. These are:
- Shengli street district (胜利 街道), population 28,166 (2000 census)
- Xinhua street district (新华 街道), 16,920 inhabitants (2000 census)
- Wuyi street district (五一 街道), 16,893 inhabitants (2000 census)
- Jianshe Street District (建设 街道), 52,007 inhabitants (2000 census)
- Street district Qianjin (前进 街道), 18,737 inhabitants (2000 census)
- Street district Jingtieshan Kuangqu (镜 铁山 矿区 街道), 3,742 inhabitants (2000 census)
- Xincheng municipality (新 城镇), 7,954 inhabitants (2000 census)
- Large municipality of Yuquan (峪 泉镇), 7,698 inhabitants (2000 census)
- Large municipality of Wenshu (文殊 镇), 7,424 inhabitants (2000 census)
Ethnic breakdown of the population of Jiayuguan (2000)
According to the 2000 census, Jiayuguan had 159,541 inhabitants (population density: 54.36 inhabitants / km²).
| Name of the people | Residents | proportion of |
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| Han | 155.970 | 97.76% |
| Hui | 2.115 | 1.33% |
| Manchu | 838 | 0.53% |
| Tibetans | 153 | 0.1% |
| Yugur | 127 | 0.08% |
| Mongols | 101 | 0.06% |
| Dongxiang | 84 | 0.05% |
| Do | 35 | 0.02% |
| Korean | 18th | 0.01% |
| Zhuang | 17th | 0.01% |
| Tujia | 16 | 0.01% |
| Others | 67 | 0.04% |
Attractions
- Great Wall: The section of the Jiayuguan Great Wall has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China since 1961 .
