Jinghong
Sign in to saveJinghong (; ; ; , , ; , ; , ; also formerly romanised as Chiang Hung, Chengrung, Cheng Hung, Jeng Hung, Jinghung, Keng Hung, Kiang Hung and Muangjinghung) is a city in and the seat of Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, in the far south of China's Yunnan province, and the historic capital of the former Tai kingdom of Sipsongpanna.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Jinghong
- Settlement.native_name
- ·
- Settlement.other_name
- ·
- Settlement.settlement_type
- County-level city
- Settlement.image_skyline
- 景澜3101.jpg
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- Lancang River bank in Jinghong
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- 景洪市位置图.svg
- Settlement.mapsize
- 250px
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- Location of Jinghong City (red) within Xishuangbanna Prefecture (pink) and Yunnan
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- Yunnan#China
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- Location of the city centre in Yunnan
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- Xishuangbanna Prefecture government
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- Country
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- China
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- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Yunnan
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- Autonomous prefecture
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- Xishuangbanna
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county-level city
- Official name
- ᦵᦋᧂ ᦣᦳᧂᧈ ᦉᦹᧈ
- Country
- China
- Located in
- Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture
- Population
- 642737
- Area
- 6867
- Elevation
- 558
- Time zone
- UTC+08:00
- Capital of
- Chiang Hung
- Official website
- www.jhs.gov.cn
- Image
- City of Jinghong, Yunnan, China in 2015.JPG
- Dialing code
- 691
- Licence plate code
- 云K
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- Commons category
- Jinghong
- postal code
- 666100
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- History
- Kingdom of [[Chiang Hung]] (Sipsongpanna)
- Geography and climate
- Administrative divisions
- Transport
- Places of interest
- Notable people
- Notes
- References
- External links
Jinghong (; ; ; , , ; , ; , ; also formerly romanised as Chiang Hung, Chengrung, Cheng Hung, Jeng Hung, Jinghung, Keng Hung, Kiang Hung and Muangjinghung) is a city in and the seat of Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, in the far south of China's Yunnan province, and the historic capital of the former Tai kingdom of Sipsongpanna.
==History== The town was founded as Chiang Hung (Cheli), by Tai king Phanya Coeng in 1180.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jinghong” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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