Yueyang
Sign in to saveYueyang, formerly known as Yuezhou or Baling, is a prefecture-level city on the eastern shores of Dongting Lake and the Yangtze river in the northeastern corner of Hunan Province in the People's Republic of China.
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- Yueyang
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- Prefecture-level city
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- Yuehyang; Yoyang
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- 岳阳市
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- Yueyang Temple.jpg
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- Yueyang Tower
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- Location of Yueyang City jurisdiction in Hunan
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- China Hunan
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- Location of the city centre in Hunan
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11 sectionsContents
- Administration
- Climate
- History
- Yueyang Tower
- Government
- Transportation
- Education
- International relations
- Twin towns — sister cities
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Yueyang, formerly known as Yuezhou or Baling, is a prefecture-level city on the eastern shores of Dongting Lake and the Yangtze river in the northeastern corner of Hunan Province in the People's Republic of China.
Yueyang has an administrative area of and the city proper, . The population was 5,051,922 at the 2020 Chinese census whom 1,134,058 lived in the built-up (or metro) area made up of Yueyanglou District and Yunxi District, Junshan District not being conurbated. Yueyang is the only international trade port city in Hunan and a famous port city in China, at the same time, Yueyang's comprehensive economic strength ranks of Hunan second only to Changsha, the provincial capital.