Yongcheng
Sign in to saveYongcheng () is county-level city in Henan province, China, and is the easternmost county-level division of the province, bordering Anhui province on all sides except the northwest and due north. Yongcheng has significant coal deposits and some insignificant magnet deposits. In 2014, Yongcheng was upgraded to a provincially directly administered city.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Yongcheng
- Settlement.other_name
- Yungcheng
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- ChinaHenanYongcheng.png
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- Location in Henan
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- Henan
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- Location in Henan
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 250
- Settlement.settlement_type
- County-level & Sub-prefectural city
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- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- People's Republic of China
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Henan
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- Prefecture-level city
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- Shangqiu
- Settlement.seat_type
- Municipal seat
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 2068
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2019
- Settlement.population_total
- 1241500
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Yongcheng () is county-level city in Henan province, China, and is the easternmost county-level division of the province, bordering Anhui province on all sides except the northwest and due north. Yongcheng has significant coal deposits and some insignificant magnet deposits. In 2014, Yongcheng was upgraded to a provincially directly administered city.
It is the former site of Shiyuan (), the capital of Han-era Liang. It includes the excavated mausoleum of the fabulously wealthy Liu Wu, prince of Liang, now a museum () famed for its murals.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yongcheng” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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