Jiayuguan City

Jiayuguan (嘉峪关 市) is a prefecture-level city in western China's Gansu province.

In contrast to most prefecture-level cities in China Jiayuguan has no further subdivisions at the county level. It is so to speak, a city that was collected at the district level. The city is located at an altitude 1,642 m above sea level and has an area of ​​2935 km ². It is surrounded to the north, east and west by the administrative territory of the prefecture-level city of Jiuquan. Just to the south it borders the Autonomous County of Sunan Yugur belonging to the prefecture-level city of Zhangye. Jiayuguan is located at one end of the Great Wall.

Administrative Divisions

At the community level, Jiayuguan is composed of six road districts and three large municipalities. These are:

  • Road district Shengli (胜利 街道), 28 166 inhabitants ( census 2000)
  • Road district Xinhua (新华 街道), 16,920 inhabitants ( census 2000)
  • Road district Wuyi (五一 街道), 16,893 inhabitants ( census 2000)
  • Road district Jianshe (建设 街道), 52 007 inhabitants ( census 2000)
  • Qianjin Street district (前进 街道), 18 737 inhabitants ( census 2000)
  • Road district Jingtieshan Kuangqu (镜 铁山 矿区 街道), 3,742 inhabitants ( census 2000)
  • Greater community Xincheng (新 城镇), 7,954 inhabitants ( census 2000)
  • Greater community Yuquan (峪 泉镇), 7,698 inhabitants ( census 2000)
  • Greater community Wenshu (文殊 镇), 7,424 inhabitants ( census 2000)

Ethnic structure of the population Jiayuguans (2000)

According to the 2000 census, Jiayuguan had 159 541 inhabitants ( population density: 54,36 inhabitants / km ²).

Attractions

  • Great Wall: The section of the Great Wall from Jiayuguan is on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China since 1961.
Northwest China Sunan Yugur Autonomous County Han Chinese Hui people Manchu people Dongxiangs Koreans Zhuang people Tujia people Baiyin Dingxi Jinchang Lanzhou Longnan Pingliang Qingyang Tianshui Wuwei, Gansu
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