Dazhou
Sign in to saveDazhou () is a prefecture-level city in the northeast of Sichuan province, China, bordering Shaanxi to the north and Chongqing to the east and south. At the end of 2024 and the beginning of 2025, the resident population will be 5,304,300, the urbanization rate is 52.72%, the urban population is 2.794 million, and the rural population is 2.506 million live in the built-up (or metro) area made of 2 urban districts.
Weather now
cached 2h ago30°overcast clouds
60% 1.3 m/s OpenWeatherMap
7-day forecast
via Open-Meteo
Place details
- Locality
- 达州市
- Region
- 四川省
- Country
- 中国
- Population
- 1,589,435
- Timezone
- Asia/Shanghai
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Wikipedia views (30d)
1,359 totalvia Wikimedia Pageviews API
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Dazhou
- Settlement.other_name
- Tachow, Suiting
- Settlement.native_name
- 达州市
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- zh-Hans
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Prefecture-level city
- Settlement.image_skyline
- 四川 达州市-廊桥 - panoramio.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Covered bridge
- Settlement.image_map
- Sichuan subdivisions - Dazhou.svg
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Dazhou City jurisdiction in Sichuan
- Settlement.coor_pinpoint
- Dazhou municipal government
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- People's Republic of China
Key dates
- Inception
- 20 June 1999
via Wikidata · CC0
Article
9 sectionsContents
- History
- Geography and climate
- Administration
- Economy
- Tourism
- Points of interest
- Transportation
- References
- External links
Dazhou () is a prefecture-level city in the northeast of Sichuan province, China, bordering Shaanxi to the north and Chongqing to the east and south. At the end of 2024 and the beginning of 2025, the resident population will be 5,304,300, the urbanization rate is 52.72%, the urban population is 2.794 million, and the rural population is 2.506 million live in the built-up (or metro) area made of 2 urban districts.
==History== thumb|left|A taotie on the [[Han dynasty Shen family mausoleum (Mausoleum of the Prefect of Shen, )]] Dazhou's history goes back to the Eastern Han dynasty when in 90 AD it was made a county by the name of Liweizhou ). Then until the Liao dynasty its name was Zaidi (). During the Liao and Tang dynasties its name was again changed, this time to Tongzhou (). Finally in the Song dynasty it was given its present name of Dazhou.