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Sanmenxia
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Sanmenxia (; postal: Sanmenhsia) is a prefecture-level city in the west of Henan Province, China. The westernmost prefecture-level city in Henan, Sanmenxia borders Luoyang to the east, Nanyang to the southeast, Shaanxi Province to the west and Shanxi Province to the north. The city lies on the south side of the Yellow River at the point where the river cuts through the Loess Plateau on its way to the North China Plain.
Key facts
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- Sanmenxia
- Settlement.other_name
- Sanmenhsia
- Settlement.native_name
- 三门峡市
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- zh-Hans
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Prefecture-level city
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- Smxgongcheng.jpg
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- Sanmenxia Dam
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- Location of Sanmenxia City jurisdiction in Henan
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- China
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- left
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- Location in China
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- 225
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- Country
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- People's Republic of China
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- Province
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- Henan
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- Municipal seat
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- big city
- Official name
- 三门峡市
- Country
- China
- Located in
- Henan
- Contains
- Lingbao City
- Population
- 2034872
- Area
- 9935.74
- Elevation
- 376
- Time zone
- UTC+08:00
- Official website
- www.smx.gov.cn
- Image
- Lushi No.1 Senior High School.jpg
- Dialing code
- 398
- Licence plate code
- 豫M
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- Category:Sanmenxia
- Commons category
- Sanmenxia
- postal code
- 472000
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Sanmenxia
- twinned administrative body
- Kitakami
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Names and history
- Geography and climate
- Administration
- Transportation
- Notable people
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Sanmenxia (; postal: Sanmenhsia) is a prefecture-level city in the west of Henan Province, China. The westernmost prefecture-level city in Henan, Sanmenxia borders Luoyang to the east, Nanyang to the southeast, Shaanxi Province to the west and Shanxi Province to the north. The city lies on the south side of the Yellow River at the point where the river cuts through the Loess Plateau on its way to the North China Plain.
As of the 2020 census, it was home to 2,034,872 inhabitants of which 820,300 lived in the built-up area made of Hubin, Shanzhou urban districts and Pinglu County in neighboring Shanxi (205,080 inhabitants), now within the agglomeration.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sanmenxia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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