Name | Yueyang |
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Settlement type | Prefecture-level city |
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Native name | 岳阳 |
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Official name | 岳阳市 |
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Map caption | Location of Yueyang within Hunan |
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Pushpin map | China |
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Pushpin map caption | Location in China |
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Pushpin label position | left |
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Pushpin mapsize | 300 |
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Coordinates region | CN |
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Subdivision type | Country |
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Subdivision name | China |
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Subdivision type1 | Province |
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Subdivision name1 | Hunan |
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Leader title1 | |
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Unit pref | Imperial |
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Area total sq mi | 5799 |
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Area urban sq mi | 318 |
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Population as of | 2008 |
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Population total | 5,453,900 |
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Timezone | China standard time |
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Utc offset | +8 |
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Postal code type | |
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Website | http://www.yueyang.gov.cn/ |
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Yueyang (; Postal map spelling: Yochow) is a prefecture-level city in the Hunan province of China, on the shores of Dongting Lake.
The Yueyang metropolitan area occupies . and the city proper occupies . The population is 5,453,900 in 2008.
The city's most famous attraction is the Yueyang Tower (岳阳楼 Yuèyánglóu).
City flower: Gardenia. It is twinned with Numazu, Japan and Castlegar, British Columbia, Canada.
Administration
The Yueyang metropolitan area 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. 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.
Yueyanglou District 岳阳楼区
Junshan District 君山区
Yunxi District 云溪区
Miluo City 汨罗市
Linxiang City 临湘市
Yueyang County 岳阳县
Huarong County 华容县
Xiangyin County 湘阴县
Pingjiang County 平江县
History
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 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.
Education
There are a total of six colleges and polytechnic schools and several medical schools, among which the major national level educational institution is
Hunan Institute of Science and Technology.
Other colleges include:
Hunan Polytechnic
Radio and TV University Yueyang
National Institute of Occupational Hunan
Hunan petrochemical Vocational and Technical College
Yueyang Vocational and Technical College
Schools:
The No.1 Middle School of the City of Yueyang (key provincial)http://www.yysyz.com.cn/
The No. 2 Middle School of the City of Yueyang
The No. 3 Middle School of the City of Yueyang
The No. 4 Middle School of the City of Yueyang
The High School of Yueyang City
The No. 6 Middle School of the City of Yueyang
The No. 7 Middle School of the City of Yueyang (Music School of the City of Yueyang)
The No. 8 Middle School of the City of Yueyang
The No. 9 Middle School of the City of Yueyang
The No. 10 Middle School of the City of Yueyang
The No. 11 Middle School of the City of Yueyang (secondary school Yueyang Financial, in 1990 Technical School)
The No. 12 Middle School of the City of Yueyang
Changlian Middle School (key provincial)
The Yuehua Middle School (key provincial)
Middle School of the City of Miluo (key provincial)
The No.1 Middle School of Huarong (key provincial)
Secondary Vocational Schools
Yueyang City Ahafo language 1,193,280.20
Zhongshan Yueyang City School Finance
Pok Man Foreign Languages School
Huarong County Vocational Schools
Yueyang County Vocational Schools
Great Wall vocational schools
Primary Schools
Yueyang Tower Primary
Nanhu Primary
Dongfanghong Primary
Chaoyang Primary
External links
www.yueyang.gov.cn - Official Yueyang Government Website
http://www.yytour.com.cn/ - Yueyang tourism
Category:Cities in Hunan
Category:Populated places on the Yangtze River