Danzhou
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Danzhou () is a prefecture-level city in the northwest of the Chinese island province of Hainan. The administrative seat and urban center of Danzhou is Nada Town. Danzhou was upgraded from a county-level city into a prefecture-level city in February 2015.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Danzhou
- Settlement.official_name
- City of Danzhou
- Settlement.native_name
- 儋州市
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- zh
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Prefecture-level city
- Settlement.image_map
- Location of Danzhou within Hainan (China).png
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Danzhou City jurisdiction in Hainan
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- China
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Hainan
- Settlement.seat
- Nada
- Settlement.leader_title1
- Party Secretary
- Settlement.leader_title2
- Congress Standing Committee Chairman
- Settlement.leader_name2
- Vacant
- Settlement.leader_title3
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name3
- Chen Yang
- Settlement.leader_title4
- People's Political Consultative Conference Chairman
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- big city
- Official name
- 儋州市
- Country
- China
- Located in
- Hainan
- Population
- 954259
- Area
- 3394.41
- Time zone
- UTC+08:00
- Shares border with
- Changjiang Li Autonomous County
- Official website
- www.danzhou.gov.cn
- Image
- 海南国际旅游岛——洋浦大桥上俯视洋浦港码头（西北向） - panoramio (1).jpg
- Dialing code
- 898
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- Commons category
- Danzhou
- topic's main category
- Category:Danzhou
- postal code
- 571700
- twinned administrative body
- Hạ Long
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- History
- Politics and governance
- Incumbent leadership
- Danzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau
- Subdivisions
- Demographics
- Language
- Transportation
- National priority protected sites
- Climate
- See also
- References
- External links
Danzhou () is a prefecture-level city in the northwest of the Chinese island province of Hainan. The administrative seat and urban center of Danzhou is Nada Town. Danzhou was upgraded from a county-level city into a prefecture-level city in February 2015.
==History== What is now Danzhou was settled by Cantonese peasants firstly named Danzhou () in the 12th century and only renamed to Danxian in 1912 after hundreds of years, but later re-obtained its name Danzhou after the Communist takeover in the 1950s.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Danzhou” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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