Xuzhou

This article is about the prefecture of Xuzhou (徐州 市) in Jiangsu Province, China. For the large community of the same name Xuzhou (许 州镇) in Zitong County in the Chinese province of Sichuan, see Xuzhou (Zitong) .

Xúzhōu Shì 徐州 市 Xuzhou
Xuzhou
Coordinates	34 ° 16 '  N , 117 ° 10'  E Coordinates: 34 ° 16 '  N , 117 ° 10'  E
Location of Xuzhou in Jiangsu
Basic data
Country	People's Republic of China
region	East china
province	Jiangsu
status	district-free city
structure	5 city districts, 3 districts, 2 independent cities
surface	2347 km²
Metropolitan area	11,257 km²
Residents	2,623,066 (2010)
Metropolitan area	8,580,500 (2010)
density	1,117.6  Ew. / km²
Metropolitan area	762.2  Ew. / km²
Post Code	221000
Telephone code	+86 (0) 516
Time zone	UTC + 8
Website	xz.gov.cn
politics
mayor	Zhuang Zhaolin (庄兆林)

Xuzhou satellite image

Xuzhou ( Chinese  徐州 市 , Pinyin Xúzhōu Shì ) is a district-free city in the north of the east Chinese province of Jiangsu . Your administrative area has an area of ​​11,257 km² and approx. 8.58 million inhabitants; 3.05 million inhabitants lived in the 5 districts of the closer city (end of 2010).

Administrative structure

At the county level, Xuzhou consists of 5 city ​​districts , three districts and two independent cities . These are:

• Yunlong district (云龙 区), 118 km², 290,000 inhabitants (2004), center, seat of the city government;
• Gulou district (鼓楼 区), 212 km², 380,000 inhabitants (2004);
• Jiawang District (贾汪 区), 690 km², 430,000 inhabitants (2010);
• Quanshan district (泉山区), 62 km², 430,000 inhabitants (2004);
• Tongshan municipality (铜 山区), 1,856 km², 1.14 million inhabitants (2010), capital: Tongshan municipality (铜 山镇);
• Feng County (丰县), 1,446 km², 960,000 million inhabitants (2010), capital: Fengcheng Municipality (凤 城镇);
• Pei district (沛县), 1,349 km², 1.14 million inhabitants (2010), capital: Peicheng municipality (沛 城镇);
• Suining district (睢宁县), 1,767 km², 1.04 million inhabitants (2010), capital: Suicheng municipality (睢 城镇);
• City of Pizhou (邳州 市), 2,088 km², 1.46 million inhabitants (2010);
• City of Xinyi (新沂 市), 1,571 km², 920,000 inhabitants (2010).

The Jiuli District was dissolved in May 2010 and divided into the Gulou, Quanshan, and Tongshan Districts.

• Jiuli district (九 里 区), 98 km², 198,000 inhabitants (2004);

traffic

Xuzhou is a transportation hub connected by highways and railways to Shanghai , Lianyungang , Jinan ( Shandong ) and Zhengzhou ( Henan ) and has a domestic airport.

Twin cities

Xuzhou has been a twin town of Saint-Etienne in France since 1984 and of Bochum (economic town twinning) and Leoben since 1994 . Since November 2005 it has also been a twin town of the Thuringian state capital Erfurt . Since 2012 Xuzhou has been a twin town of Morgantown in the state of West Virginia in the USA.

The city also lists the following partner cities and districts :

city	country	since
Bochum	Germany	1994
Greater Dandenong City	Australia	1996
Handa	Japan	1994
Jeongeup	South Korea	2000
Newark	New Jersey, USA	1993
Kirovohrad Oblast	Ukraine	1996
Osasco	Brazil	1999
Ryazan	Russia	1998
Leoben	Austria	1994

Xuzhou Museum

The Xuzhou Museum ( Xuzhou bowuguan ) houses many clay figures from the Han period and other jade treasures as well as the two jade death dresses of Prince Liu Sheng (155-113 BC) and Princess Tou Wan, which were made in 1968 in the Han graves were found in Mancheng .

Web links

Commons : Xuzhou  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Facts about the international twin cities . Archived from the original on March 9, 2016. Retrieved January 11, 2015.
• 2000 and 2010 census

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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). 
2. ↑ Facts about the international twin cities . Archived from the original on March 9, 2016. Retrieved January 11, 2015.
3. ↑ 江苏 省 人民政府 en Xuzhou. Retrieved January 10, 2020 .