zhejiang city Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/zhejiang-city Thu, 19 Jan 2017 20:00:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Zhejiang Map http://toursmaps.com/zhejiang-map.html http://toursmaps.com/zhejiang-map.html#respond Fri, 27 Jan 2017 04:54:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=230685 Area: 13sq.km/5sq. miles. Population: 117,000 (conurbation 666,000) Jiaxing is situated at 120°45’E and 30°43’N, in the extreme north of the province of Zhejiang, north-east ofthe provincial capital Hangzhou, in the middle of a fertile rice-growing area. Jiaxing can be reached by rail from Hangzhou in two hours, from Shanghai in three. The great age of thetown can be demonstrated by a documentfrom the Qin era (221-206 b.c.). At that time it was known as’Youquan, its present name going back to the period of the Three Kingdoms (a.d. 220-280). In 1921 the founding of the Communist Party of China was proclaimed

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