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Yixing
Sign in to saveYixing () is a county-level city administered under the prefecture-level city of Wuxi in southern Jiangsu province, China, and is part of the Yangtze River Delta. The city is known for its traditional Yixing clay ware tea pots. It is a pene-exclave with Changzhou. The city spans an area of , and has a registered hukou population of about 1,075,800 as of 2020.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Yixing
- Settlement.other_name
- Ihing
- Settlement.settlement_type
- County-level city
- Settlement.image_skyline
- 宜兴市丁蜀镇龙溪公园水面 - panoramio.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- A park in Yixing
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- China Jiangsu
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location within Jiangsu
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- China
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Prefecture-level city
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Jiangsu
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Wuxi
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 1996.6
- Settlement.population_total
- 1075800
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2020
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county-level city
- Official name
- 宜兴县
- Country
- China
- Population
- 1285785
- Area
- 1996.61
- Time zone
- UTC+08:00
- Official website
- www.yixing.gov.cn
- Image
- 宜兴国际大酒店广场 - panoramio.jpg
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- Novo Mesto
- topic's main category
- Category:Yixing
- Commons category
- Yixing
- postal code
- 214200
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Yixing
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Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- History
- People's Republic of China
- Geography
- Environment
- Climate
- Administrative divisions
- Subdistricts
- Towns
- Other township-level divisions
- Demographics
- Economy
- Transportation
- Tourist attractions
- Notable people
- References
- External links
Yixing () is a county-level city administered under the prefecture-level city of Wuxi in southern Jiangsu province, China, and is part of the Yangtze River Delta. The city is known for its traditional Yixing clay ware tea pots. It is a pene-exclave with Changzhou. The city spans an area of , and has a registered hukou population of about 1,075,800 as of 2020.
==History== thumb|A teapot dating to the reign of the Qianlong Emperor, made from the city's famous [[Yixing ware]] During the Xia dynasty and Shang dynasty, the area fell under the jurisdiction of Yangzhou and was known as Jingxi (). The area was subsequently known as Jingyi () during the Zhou dynasty.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yixing” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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