Skip to content
EntityQ178945· pop 37· linked from 692 articles

Bazhong () is a prefecture-level city in north-eastern Sichuan province, China. Its population was 2,712,894 at the 2020 census whom 1,064,766 lived in Bazhou and Enyang urban districts. As of the end of 2022, the resident population of Bazhong City was 2,658,800 people. At the end of 2024, the city's resident population was 2.613 million, including 1,278 million urban residents, and the urbanization rate of the resident population was 48.91%, an increase of 0.39 percentage points over the end of the previous year. At the end of the year, the registered population of the city was 3.543 million

Key facts

Settlement.name
Bazhong
Settlement.other_name
Pachung
Settlement.native_name
巴中市
Settlement.native_name_lang
zh
Settlement.nickname
Bazhou
Settlement.settlement_type
Prefecture-level city
Settlement.image_skyline
巴中 - panoramio.jpg
Settlement.image_map
Sichuan subdivisions - Bazhong.svg
Settlement.map_caption
Location of Bazhong in Sichuan
Settlement.subdivision_type
Country
Settlement.subdivision_name
People's Republic of China
Settlement.subdivision_type1
Province
Settlement.subdivision_name1
Sichuan
Settlement.subdivision_type2
County-level divisions
Settlement.subdivision_name2
2 districts3 counties
Settlement.seat_type
Municipal seat
Settlement.seat
Bazhou District
Settlement.area_total_km2
12,301

via Wikipedia infobox

~7 min read

Encyclopedic overview

9 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Geography and climate
  • Administration
  • Transportation
  • Economy
  • See also
  • Notes
  • References
  • External links

Bazhong () is a prefecture-level city in north-eastern Sichuan province, China. Its population was 2,712,894 at the 2020 census whom 1,064,766 lived in Bazhou and Enyang urban districts. As of the end of 2022, the resident population of Bazhong City was 2,658,800 people. At the end of 2024, the city's resident population was 2.613 million, including 1,278 million urban residents, and the urbanization rate of the resident population was 48.91%, an increase of 0.39 percentage points over the end of the previous year. At the end of the year, the registered population of the city was 3.543 million, a decrease of 23,100 compared with the end of the previous year.

==History==

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bazhong” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

On the map

2 mapped locations