Tongzhou District
Sign in to saveAlso known as Tunghsien, Distretto di Tongzhou, Pechino, Tong Xian, Tong County
district of Beijing, China
Key facts
- Country
- China
- Municipality
- Beijing
- Township level divisions
- 4 subdistricts, 10 towns, 1 ethnic township
- District seat
- Zhongcang Subdistrict
- Total
- 906 km (350 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 32 m (105 ft)
- Density
- 2,030/km (5,260/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+8 ( China Standard )
- Area code
- 0010
- Website
- bjtzh.gov.cn/
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of China
- Official name
- Тунчжоу
- Country
- China
- Population
- 1840295
- Area
- 905.79
- Elevation
- 32
- Time zone
- UTC+08:00
- Capital of
- Beijing
- Official website
- www.bjtzh.gov.cn
- Image
- Canal Business District 13.jpg
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- Tongzhou District, Beijing
- topic's main category
- Category:Tongzhou District, Beijing
- postal code
- 101149
- twinned administrative body
- Budapest District XXIII
- native label
- 通州
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Encyclopedic overview
Tongxian (Tong County) Simplified Chinese通县 Traditional Chinese通縣 PostalTungchow
Tongzhou (Chinese: 通州; pinyin: Tōngzhōu), historically romanized as Tong-Choo-Foo in 18th-century British accounts, is a district of Beijing. It is located in southeast Beijing and considered the eastern gateway to the nation's capital. Downtown Tongzhou itself lies around 20 km (12 mi) east of central Beijing, at the northern end of the Grand Canal (on the junction between the Tonghui Canal and the Northern Canal) and at the easternmost end of Chang'an Avenue. The entire district covers an area of 906 km (350 sq mi), or 6% of Beijing's total area. It had a population of 673,952 at the 2000 Census, and has seen significant growth and development since then, growing to a population of 1,184,000 at the 2010 Census and 1,840,295 at the 2020 census. The district is subdivided into four subdistricts, ten towns, and one ethnic township.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tongzhou District” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.