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city near Quanzhou, Fujian, China

Key facts

Country
People's Republic of China
Province
Fujian
Prefecture level city
Quanzhou
City seat
Luoshan Subdistrict ( 罗山街道 )
Total
721.7 km (278.6 sq mi)
Density
2,857/km (7,398/sq mi)
Time zone
UTC+8 ( China Standard )
Area code
0595
Website
www.JinJiang.gov.cn

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Encyclopedic overview

Jinjiang City (Chinese: 晋江市; pinyin: Jìnjiāng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chìn-kang) is a county-level city under Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, China. It is located in the southeastern part of the province (Minnan), on the right or south bank of the Jin River, across from Quanzhou's urban district of Fengze and Licheng. Jinjiang also borders the Taiwan Strait of the East China Sea to the south, and Quanzhou's other county-cities of Shishi and Nan'an to the east and west, respectively. It has an area of 721.7 square kilometres (278.6 sq mi) and a population of 2,061,551 as of 2020.

Jinjiang has the only extant Manichean temple in China (Cao'an temple) and is near the eastern end of the world's longest estimated straight-line (great circle) path over land, at 11,241 km (6,985 mi), ending near Sagres, Portugal.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jinjiang” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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