Jiande
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Jiande is a county-level city of Zhejiang Province, East China, it is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Hangzhou.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Jiande
- Settlement.other_name
- Kienteh
- Settlement.settlement_type
- County-level city
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Xin'anjiang-east-enterance.jpg
- Settlement.image_map
- ChinaHangzhouJiande.png
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Jiande City within Hangzhou
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- China Zhejiang
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Zhejiang
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- People's Republic of China
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Zhejiang
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Sub-provincial city
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Hangzhou
- Settlement.seat1_type
- Seat
- Settlement.seat1
- Xin'anjiang
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 2,314.19
- Settlement.timezone
- China Standard
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county-level city
- Official name
- 建德县
- Country
- China
- Population
- 442709
- Area
- 2314.19
- Time zone
- UTC+08:00
- Official website
- www.jiande.gov.cn
- Image
- Baisha Bridge of Jiande.jpg
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- Commons category
- Jiande
- postal code
- 311600
- urban population
- 120300
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- History
- Administrative divisions
- Climate
- Transportation
- See also
- Notes
Jiande is a county-level city of Zhejiang Province, East China, it is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Hangzhou.
==History== During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Jiande was the capital of Yanzhou Prefecture. On account of this, Jiande was often referred to as Yanzhou Fu (). A transcription commonly seen in both French and English writing of the time was Yen-tcheou-fou, derived from French missionary writing.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jiande” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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