Wuchuan (Zhanjiang)
吴川 市 Wuchuan |
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Coordinates | 21 ° 21 ′ N , 110 ° 39 ′ E | |
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Country | People's Republic of China | |
Guangdong | ||
District-free city | Zhanjiang | |
ISO 3166-2 | CN-GD | |
surface | 848 km² | |
Residents | 1,010,000 (2003) | |
density | 1191 Ew. / km² |
Wuchuan ( Chinese 吴川 市 , Pinyin Wúchuān Shì ) is an independent city in the predominantly Yüeh -speaking Chinese province of Guangdong with an area of 848 km² and approx. 1.01 million inhabitants (end of 2003). At the census in 2000, 822,482 inhabitants were counted.
Wuchuan belongs to the administrative area of the prefecture-level city of Zhanjiang . It is the birthplace of Imperial China's first ambassador to the United States , Chen Lanbin.