Huai'an
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'''Huai'an, formerly Huaiyin''', is a prefecture-level city in central Jiangsu Province in Eastern China. As of 2020, the built-up area (metro) of its 3 central urban districts had 2,544,767 inhabitants and the prefecture-level city as a whole had 4,556,230 inhabitants, down from 4.8 million in 2010.
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Huai'an is a prefecture-level city in Jiangsu, China. It has a population of 4,556,230 and covers an area of 10,029.54 square kilometers. The city contains the administrative entities of Qingjiangpu District, Huai'an District, Huaiyin District, and Lianshui County. Its official names are 淮安市 and 淮阴市, and it operates in the UTC+08:00 time zone.
The city is twinned with Sassnitz, Pernik, Beersheba, and Cuenca. Its postal code is 223000, and the local dialing code is 517. The license plate code for the region is 苏H.
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Place details
- Locality
- 淮安区
- Region
- 江苏省
- Country
- 中国
- Population
- 2,494,013
- Timezone
- Asia/Shanghai
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Key facts
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- Huai'an
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- Hwaian, Huai-an
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Prefecture-level city
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- Left to right, top to bottom: Zhenhuailou Tower above the city gate, the skyline of Huai'an, Huai'an tram line 1, the Zhou Enlai Memorial Hall, night view of Hexia old town.
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- yes
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- 7
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- none
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- Huaian locator map in Jiangsu.svg
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- Location of Huai'an City (red) in Jiangsu
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- China Jiangsu#Eastern China#China
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- Location of the city center in Jiangsu
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- People's Republic of China
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- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Jiangsu
- Settlement.seat_type
- Municipal seat
- Settlement.seat
- Huai'an District
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- big city
- Official name
- 淮阴市
- Country
- China
- Located in
- Jiangsu
- Contains
- Jinhu County
- Population
- 4556230
- Area
- 10029.54
- Elevation
- 194
- Time zone
- UTC+08:00
- Official website
- www.huaian.gov.cn
- Image
- 清江浦码头风光.jpg
- Dialing code
- 517
- Licence plate code
- 苏H
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- Commons category
- Huai'an
- topic's main category
- Category:Huai'an
- twinned administrative body
- Saarijärvi
- postal code
- 223000
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Huai'an
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Encyclopedic overview
18 sectionsContents
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- Geography
- Climate
- Administration
- History
- Prehistoric China
- Ancient China
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- Modern China
- Culture
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- Transportation
- Notable people
- Twin towns and sister cities
- References
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'''Huai'an, formerly Huaiyin''', is a prefecture-level city in central Jiangsu Province in Eastern China. As of 2020, the built-up area (metro) of its 3 central urban districts had 2,544,767 inhabitants and the prefecture-level city as a whole had 4,556,230 inhabitants, down from 4.8 million in 2010.
Long an important regional center, Huai'an lies on and is named for the Huai River, the historical boundary between Northern and Southern Chinese culture. Once much closer to the East China Sea, it now lies in the middle of Jianghuai, the vast alluvial plain created by silt from the Huai and from the Yellow River, which flowed nearby for centuries prior to the massive floods in the mid-19th century which returned it to its old course north of Shandong. Huai'an is known as the birthplace of Han Xin, a famed general who helped found the Han dynasty and overwhelm Xiang Yu in the Chu-han contention; Wu Cheng'en (1500–1582), the Ming author of Journey to the West; and Zhou Enlai (1898–1976), a prominent and early Chinese Communist leader who served as premier of the PRC from 1949 until his death in 1976.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Huai'an” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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