Key facts
- Country
- People's Republic of China
- Province
- Jiangsu
- Prefecture level city
- Zhenjiang
- County level city
- 1,047 km (404 sq mi)
- Density
- 944.5/km (2,446/sq mi)
- Urban
- 792,584
- Rural
- 196,316
- Time zone
- UTC+8 ( China Standard )
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Encyclopedic overview
Danyang (simplified Chinese: 丹阳; traditional Chinese: 丹陽; pinyin: Dānyáng) is a county-level city located on the southwest (right) bank of the Yangtze River, and is under the administration of Zhenjiang, Jiangsu province, China. It is noted for the production of optical lenses used in sunglasses and eyeglasses. Danyang has a total area of 1,059 km (409 sq mi) and a population of roughly 988,900 in 2020. Danyang locals speak a dialect of Wu Chinese, and the city is on the linguistic borderline between Wu Chinese and Jianghuai Mandarin.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Danyang” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.