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Jinzhong
Sign in to saveJinzhong, formerly Yuci, is a prefecture-level city in east central Shanxi province of the People's Republic of China, bordering Hebei province to the east. As of the 2020 census, its total population was 3,379,498 inhabitants of whom 1,226,617 lived in the Yuci and Taigu urban districts. However, 5,433,659 lived in the built-up (or metro) area of Taiyuan - Jinzhong made of Yuci district plus the 6 Taiyuan urban/built-up districts, largely conurbated.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Jinzhong
- Settlement.other_name
- Kinchung
- Settlement.native_name
- 晋中市
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- zh-Hans
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Prefecture-level city
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Hall of Great Acomplishement in the Confucious Temple of Pingyao.JPG
- Settlement.image_caption
- Hall of Great Accomplishment in the Confucious Temple of Pingyao
- Settlement.image_map
- Location of Jinzhong Prefecture within Shanxi (China).png
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Jinzhong City jurisdiction in Shanxi
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Shanxi
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location of the city center in Shanxi
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 240
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- People's Republic of China
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Shanxi
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- County-level divisions
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- big city
- Official name
- 晋中市
- Country
- China
- Located in
- Shanxi
- Contains
- Pingyao County
- Population
- 3379498
- Area
- 16391.98
- Time zone
- UTC+08:00
- Shares border with
- Shijiazhuang
- Official website
- www.sxjz.gov.cn
- Image
- Buildings in Pingyao 2018-06-13 093324.jpg
- Dialing code
- 354
- Licence plate code
- 晋K
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- topic's main category
- Category:Jinzhong
- Commons category
- Jinzhong
- postal code
- 030600
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Jinzhong
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Encyclopedic overview
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Jinzhong, formerly Yuci, is a prefecture-level city in east central Shanxi province of the People's Republic of China, bordering Hebei province to the east. As of the 2020 census, its total population was 3,379,498 inhabitants of whom 1,226,617 lived in the Yuci and Taigu urban districts. However, 5,433,659 lived in the built-up (or metro) area of Taiyuan - Jinzhong made of Yuci district plus the 6 Taiyuan urban/built-up districts, largely conurbated.
==History== Lingshi County was the location of the Nanshan Colliery disaster.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jinzhong” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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