Yueyang

The Yueyang City (岳阳市/岳阳市, Yueyang ) is a prefecture-level city in Hunan province in southern People's Republic of China. It is located on the shores of Dongting Lake. The administrative area of the city has a total land area of 14,896 km ² and approximately 5.27 million inhabitants ( end of 2003).

Administrative Divisions

The Yueyang City is made up at the county level from three districts, two county free cities and four counties. These are:

Municipality Yueyanglou (岳阳楼区), 304 km ², 550,000 inhabitants;
Municipality Junshan (君山区), 623 km ², 230,000 inhabitants;
Municipality Yunxi (云溪区), 417 km ², 160,000 inhabitants;
Miluo City (汨罗市), 1670 km ², 700,000 inhabitants;
City Linxiang (临湘市), 1714 km ², 480,000 inhabitants;
Yueyang county (岳阳县), 2905 km ², 750,000 inhabitants, capital: greater community Rongjiawan (荣家湾镇);
District Huarong (华容县), 1610 km ², 710,000 inhabitants, capital: greater community Chengguan (城关镇);
Circle Xiangyin (湘阴县), 1535 km ², 690,000 inhabitants, capital: greater community WENXING (文星镇);
Circle Pingjiang (平江县), 4118 km ², 1.0 million inhabitants, the capital: greater community Hanchang (汉昌镇).

Location

Yueyang is located on the southern shore of Dongting Lake, the second largest lake in China.

History

The area that is now called Yueyang was settled 3,000 years ago. It was originally established 210 BC during the period of the Three Kingdoms as a district Hanchang.

Under the Song Dynasty (960 AD - 1279 AD), Yueyang was heavily fortified. It has built a wall with a diameter of about 6.5 km around the city and it became the seat of the military district administration of Yueyang ( and bares that name). The capture of the city during the Taiping Rebellion in 1852 AD was a major success of the rebels on their way along the Yangtze River valley to Nanjing. At the time of founding of the People 's Republic of China in 1949 was Yueyang prefecture-level city.

Attractions

Yueyang Tower

The main attraction of the city is the Yueyang Tower 29.384722222222113.08833333333, after whom the city was named. It was first built in 716 AD, to 1880 but destroyed a total of 32 times and then rebuilt. He is one of the three large towers south of the Yangtze River, and is about 20 meters high, the smallest of them. The small Sanzuiting, the " Pavilion of triple drunkenness " is dedicated to the Taoist saint Lu Dongbin.

The tower is the subject of the famous poem "Essay on Yueyang Tower " by Fan Zhongyan ( 989-1052 ). He is on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China since 1988.

Twinning

Japan Numazu, Japan, since 1985
United States Titusville, United States, since 1988
Canada Castlegar, Canada, since 1992
Bulgaria Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, since 1992
Australia Cockburn City, Australia, since 1998
United States Cupertino, United States, since 2005
United States Salinas, United States, since 2010

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