Yueyang
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| Greater Region: | Central and South China |
| Province : | Hunan |
| Status: | district-free city |
| Subdivision: | 3 city districts, four districts, 2 independent cities |
| Residents : | 5,629,200 (2016) |
| Area : | 14,896 km² |
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The city of Yueyang ( 岳陽 市 / 岳阳 市 , Yuèyáng Shì ) is a district-free city in the province of Hunan in the south of the People's Republic of China . It is on the shores of Dongting Lake . The administrative area of the city has a total area of 14,896 km² and around 5.63 million inhabitants (end of 2016). 924,099 people live in the actual urban settlement area of Yueyang (2010 census).
Administrative structure
The city of Yueyang is composed of three districts, two county-level cities and four counties. These are:
- District Yueyanglou (岳阳楼区), 304 square kilometers, 550,000 inhabitants;
- Junshan District (君 山区), 623 km², 230,000 inhabitants;
- Yunxi District (云 溪 区), 417 km², 160,000 inhabitants;
- Miluo City (汨罗 市), 1,670 km², 700,000 inhabitants;
- Linxiang City (临湘 市), 1,714 km², 480,000 inhabitants;
- Yueyang County (岳阳 县), 2,905 km², 750,000 inhabitants, capital: Rongjiawan Municipality (荣 家 湾镇);
- District Huarong (华容县) km² 1610, 710,000 inhabitants, capital: greater community Chengguan (城关镇);
- District Xiangyin (湘阴县), km² 1535, 690,000 inhabitants, capital: greater community Wenxing (文星镇);
- District Pingjiang (平江县) 4,118 km², 1.0 million inhabitants, the capital: greater community Hanchang (汉昌镇).
location
Yueyang is located on the south bank of Dongting Lake , the second largest inland lake in China.
history
The area now called Yueyang was settled over 3,000 years ago. It was originally 210 BC. . Chr in the Three Kingdoms period has been established as a district Hanchang.
During the Song Dynasty (960 AD - 1279 AD), Yueyang was heavily fortified. A wall approximately 6.5 km in diameter was built around the city and it became the seat of the Yueyang District Military Administration (and has been named since then). The capture of the city during the Taiping Uprising in AD 1852 was a major success for the rebels on their way along the Yangtze Valley to Nanjing . When the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949, Yueyang became a prefecture-level city.
Attractions
Yueyang Tower
The main attraction of the city is the Yueyang Tower , after which the city was named. It was first built in 716 AD, but destroyed a total of 32 times by 1880 and then rebuilt. It is one of the three large towers south of the Yangzi and is the smallest of them at around 20 meters high. The small sanzuiting, the "pavilion of triple drunkenness", is dedicated to the Daoist saint Lü Dongbin.
The tower is the subject of the famous poem "Essay from the Yueyang Tower" by Fan Zhongyan (989-1052). It has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China since 1988 .
Town twinning
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Numazu , Japan, since 1985 -
Titusville , United States, since 1988 -
Castlegar , Canada, since 1992 -
Stara Sagora , Bulgaria, since 1992 -
Cockburn City , Australia, since 1998 -
Cupertino , United States, since 2005
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Salinas , United States, since 2010
Web links
- Yueyang Tower - English
Coordinates: 29 ° 22 ' N , 113 ° 6' E