Linfen
Coordinates: 36 ° 5 ' N , 111 ° 31' E
Linfen ( Chinese 臨汾 市 / 临汾 市 , Pinyin Línfén Shì ), formerly Pingyang , is a Chinese district-free city in Shanxi Province , which is one of the poorer provinces of the People's Republic. Linfen has an area of 20,589 km² and around 4.46 million inhabitants (end of 2016). 571,237 people live in the actual urban settlement area of Linfen (2010 census).
Administrative structure
At the district level, Linfen is made up of a city district , two independent cities and fourteen districts. These are:
- Yaodu district (尧都区 Yáodū Qū), 1,304 km², 770,000 inhabitants;
- City of Houma (侯马 市 Hóumǎ Shì), 274 km², 230,000 inhabitants;
- City of Huozhou (霍州市 Huòzhōu Shì), 765 km², 290,000 inhabitants;
- Quwo district (曲沃 县 Qǔwò Xiàn), 437 km², 230,000 inhabitants;
- District Yicheng (翼城县Yicheng Xiàn) km² 1149, 310,000 inhabitants;
- Xiangfen District (襄汾 县 Xiāngfén Xiàn), 1,304 km², 480,000 inhabitants;
- County Hongdong (洪洞县Hongdong Xiàn) 1,494 km², 730,000 inhabitants;
- District of Gu (古 县 Gǔ Xiàn), 1,190 km², 90,000 inhabitants;
- District of Anze (安泽 县 Ānzé Xiàn), 1,961 km², 80,000 inhabitants;
- District Fushan (浮山县Fushan Xiàn), km² 938, 130,000;
- District Ji (吉县 Jí Xiàn), 1,779 km², 100,000 inhabitants;
- Circle Xiangning (乡宁县Xiangning Xiàn) 2,024 km², 230,000 inhabitants;
- District Pu (蒲县 Pú Xiàn), 1,508 km², 100,000 inhabitants;
- Daning District (大 宁县 Dàníng Xiàn), 963 km², 60,000 inhabitants;
- Yonghe County (永和 县 Yǒnghé Xiàn), 1,212 km², 60,000 inhabitants;
- District Xi (隰 县 Xí Xiàn), 1,412 km², 100,000 inhabitants;
- Fenxi district (汾西 县 Fénxī Xiàn), 875 km², 140,000 inhabitants.
environmental pollution
The city was named one of the top ten most polluted places in the world by the Blacksmith Institute in 2006 and 2007. A Chinese ranking, which measures the environmental standards of 113 large cities in China, placed Linfen in last place in 2007. The Linfen Environment Agency has now reacted and, among other things, has deactivated more than 600 pollutant emitters. Therefore the ranking has improved to 46th place out of 113 until today (2009).
archeology
In Shanxi Province, near the city, archaeologists have come across a 4,100-year-old astronomical observatory . Similar to the circular systems of the Bronze Age in Europe, it was a semicircular field about 40 m in diameter. Around the area around 4 m high wooden pillars were set up, so that the course of the sunrises and sunsets, possibly also those of the moon and other stars, could be observed over the course of the year. According to a report by the China Daily , the observations only deviated by a maximum of 2 days from the traditional Chinese calendar, which is still in use today. (Source: Adventure Archeology 2006,1,10).
Nearby, more precisely in Xiangfen , there is an approximately 4,300 year old Taosi site that shows traces of Neolithic settlement.
Daughters and sons of the city
- Huo Qubing霍去病 († 117 BC) military leader
- Chai Jing柴静 (* 1976) filmmaker, journalist and environmental activist
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Shanxi (China): Prefecture Level, Cities & Counties - Population Statistics, Maps, Graphics, Weather and Web Information. Retrieved May 9, 2018 .
- ↑ The side of the Black Smith Institute (English)
- ↑ Linfen - the dirtiest city in the world - article at Tagesschau.de ( Memento from September 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Environmental protection in China: Hope for the dirtiest city in the world - Article at Tagesschau.de ( Memento from December 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
