Yueyang
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Yueyang 岳阳市 |
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| Prefecture-level city | |
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 Yueyang
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| Coordinates: 29°22′N 113°26′E / 29.367°N 113.433°E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Hunan |
| Area | |
| • Prefecture-level city | 14,896 km2 (5,751 sq mi) |
| • Urban | 1,344 km2 (519 sq mi) |
| • Metro | 721 km2 (278 sq mi) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Prefecture-level city | 5,477,911 |
| • Density | 370/km2 (950/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 1,232,133 |
| • Urban density | 920/km2 (2,400/sq mi) |
| • Metro | 991,465 |
| • Metro density | 1,400/km2 (3,600/sq mi) |
| Time zone | China Standard (UTC+8) |
| Website | yueyang |
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| Traditional Chinese | 岳陽 | ||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 岳阳 | ||||||||
| Postal | Yuehyang Yochow (former) |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Yuèyáng |
| Wade–Giles | Yüeh4-yang2 |
Yueyang (simplified Chinese: 岳阳; traditional Chinese: 岳陽; pinyin: Yuèyáng) is a prefecture-level city at the northeastern corner of Hunan province, People's Republic of China, on the southern shores of Dongting Lake.
Yueyang has an administrative area of 14,896 km2 (5,751 sq mi) and the city proper, 304 km2 (117 sq mi). The population was 5,477,911 at the 2010 census whom 991,465 lived in the built-up (or metro) area made up of Yueyanglou District and Yunxi District.
The city's most famous attraction is the Yueyang Tower and Dongting Lake.
The Yueyang prefecture is made up of six outlying districts, two special districts and the city proper. The six city districts are Huarong, Linxiang, Xiangyin, Pingjiang, Miluo and Yueyang County. The two special (smaller) districts are Junshan and Yunxi, which used to be part of Yueyang city proper but were separated into their own special districts for administrative purposes.
The area now called Yueyang has been inhabited for over 3,000 years. It was originally established as a prefecture called Hanchang in 210 AD during the Three Kingdoms period.
Under the Song Dynasty (AD 960-AD 1279) it was heavily fortified, with walls 4 miles (6.4 km) in circumference, and became the seat of the military prefecture of Yueyang, whence its present name. During the Taiping Rebellion, its capture by the rebels in AD 1852 was an important stage in their advance up the Yangtze River valley to Nanjing. At the time of the foundation of the Republic of China in AD 1911, it became a county, taking the name Yueyang.
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