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The
municipality of Chongqing was created on 14 March 1997,
succeeding the sub-provincial city administration that
was part of Sichuan Province. With an area of 82,300
km², it has jurisdiction over 19 districts, 17 counties,
and four autonomous counties. Recently, as industry and
economy develops quickly in this city, Chongqing has
become an increasingly popular destination for travelers
with its hilly slopes and Yangtze River landscape
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Chongqing City
重庆市 |
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106.55976 |
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Chongqing is an important
industrial center in
southwestern China. It is also
famous as a temporary capital of
the Republic of China during the
Second Sino-Japanese War (1937 –
1946). The city was established
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Luohan temple
罗汉寺 |
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29.55989,
106.58191 |
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This Buddhist temple was built
1000 years ago during the Song
Dynasty, remodeled in 1752, and
rebuilt in 1945 after the Second
World War. The name of this
popular place for worship and
penance, “Luohan”, is the
Chinese equivalent of the
Sanskrit word “arhat”, meaning a
holy man who has left behind all
earthly desires and concerns and
attained nirvana. The facility
serves simultaneously as a
cloister for a small community
of monks, and as the
headquarters of the Buddhist
Society of Chongqing. |
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Chongqing city (Others)
重庆市 |
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29.55845,
106.55976 |
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Chongqing is a megacity in
southwest China.
Administratively, it is one of
the four municipalities under
the direct administration of
central government of the
People's Republic of China and
the only such municipality
located far away from the coast.
The municipality of Chongqing,
which is around the size of
Austria, includes the city of
Chongqing and various
non-connected cities. |
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Chongqing Port
重庆港 |
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29.56402,
106.58938 |
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The Port of Chongqing is laid
out along the shores of the
Yangtze, Jialing and Wujiang
rivers. It is the deepest inland
class I port in China. Chongqing
Port has 181 production berths
of all kinds, including 4 main
multimodal transfer stations. |
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YANGTZE RIVER from Chongqing
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Fengdu stopover
丰都县 |
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29.8635,
107.73089 |
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A popular stop on Yangtze River
cruises has been the Fengdu
“Ghost City.” It used to be a
burial area with scores of
temples and shrines and a small
ancient town. Due to the
construction of the 3 Gorges
Dam, the ghostly city is now
underwater. However, a hill and
dozens of temples remain in the
big artificial lake behind the
dam. |
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Yunyang stopover |
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Lesser Three Gorges
巫山小三峡 |
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31.13444,
109.89755 |
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The Lesser Three Gorges are
situated along a 50 kilometer
stretch of the lower reaches of
the Daning River, just beyond
the point where the Daning River
begins to swing southward
enroute to its juncture with the
west-east oriented Three Gorges
stretch of the Yangtze River
near the city of Wushan,
Chongqing Municipality, which
city also marks the western end
of, or upstreams entrance to, Wu
Gorge. The Daning River is also
the largest tributary along the
192-kilometer, Three Gorges
stretch of the Yangtze River. |
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Yantze river
长江 |
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30.94749,
108.80878 |
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The Yangtze or Yangzi is the
longest river in Asia, the
third-longest in the world and
the longest in the world to flow
entirely within one country. It
rises at Jari Hill in the
Tanggula Mountains and flows
6,300 km in a generally easterly
direction to the East China Sea. |
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Chang Jiang (长江; 長江) is the
modern Chinese name for the
lower 2,884 km (1,792 mi) of the
Yangtze from its confluence with
the Min River at Yibin in
Sichuan to the river mouth at
Shanghai.
The Jinsha River
(Chinese: 金沙江) is the name for
2,308 km (1,434 mi) of the
Yangtze from Yibin upstream to
the confluence with the Batang
River near Yushu in Qinghai.
The Tongtian River (Chinese:
通天河) describes the 813 km (505
mi) section from Yushu up to the
confluence with the Dangqu
River.
The Tuotuo River (沱沱河)
is the official headstream of
the Yangtze, and flows 358 km
(222 mi) from the glaciers of
the Gar Kangri and the
Geladandong Massifs in the
Tanggula Mountains of
southwestern Qinghai to the
confluence with the Dangqu River
to form the Tongtian River. |
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Yantze river (Part 2) |
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Yantze river (Part 3) |
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YICHANG Area (Hubei
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Three Gorges Dam
三峡大坝 |
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30.73663,
111.27785 |
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The Three Gorges Dam is a
hydroelectric gravity dam that
spans the Yangtze River by the
town of Sandouping, in Yiling
District, Yichang. The Three
Gorges Dam has been the world's
largest power station in terms
of installed capacity (22,500
MW) since 2012. In 2018, the dam
generated 101.6 terawatt-hours
(TWh), breaking its previous
record, but was still slightly
lower than the Itaipú Dam
(Brazil), which had set the
world record in 2016 after
producing 103.1 TWh. |
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Yichang city (Others)
宜昌市 |
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30.70207,
111.28889 |
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Yichang, alternatively romanized
as Ichang, is a prefecture-level
city located in western Hubei
province, China. It is the
second largest city in the
province after the capital,
Wuhan. The Three Gorges Dam is
located within its
administrative area, in Yiling
District. |
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