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Yidu () is a county-level city in western Hubei Province, China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Yichang. It has a population of 395,000 residents, and covers an area of , divided into 1 subdistrict, 8 towns, and 1 township. Its GDP in 2015 was 50 billion yuan.

Key facts

Settlement.name
Yidu
Settlement.other_name
Itu
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Postal code
Settlement.settlement_type
County-level city
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宜都字碑 02.jpg
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Chinese Yidu
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Location of Yidu
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China Hubei
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Location in Hubei
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Country
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People's Republic of China
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Province
Settlement.subdivision_name1
Hubei
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Prefecture-level city
Settlement.subdivision_name2
Yichang
Settlement.established_title
Founded
Settlement.established_date
196 BC
Settlement.area_total_km2
1357

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Yidu () is a county-level city in western Hubei Province, China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Yichang. It has a population of 395,000 residents, and covers an area of , divided into 1 subdistrict, 8 towns, and 1 township. Its GDP in 2015 was 50 billion yuan.

Yidu was established as a county in 196 BC during the Western Han dynasty, then called Yidao (). In 210 AD, Liu Bei established Yidu Commandery.

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

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