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Longgang, Zhejiang
Longgang is a county-level city of Zhejiang, China. As of 2018, its population was 378,000, spread across divided into 14 neighborhoods, 22 residential areas, and 171 villages. Longgang is administered as a part of the prefecture-level city of Wenzhou, whose downtown is about away. Geography Longgang lies on the south side of the estuary of the , opposite the town of in Pingyang County. Name The winding Ao River is also called the Qinglong River ''Qīnglóng jiāng'') by locals on the south bank of the river, after the Azure Dragon of Chinese mythology. This gave its name to the village of Longjiang ''Lóngjiāng cūn'', " Dragon River"). In 1982, Longjiang was joined with nearby Yanjiang ''Yánjiāng cūn'', "Village upon the River") under the name Yanjiang Port Area ''Yánjiāng gǎngqū''), but because this could be misunderstood as "a port area upon the river" instead of as a proper name it was soon renamed the Longjiang Port Area ''Lóngjiāng gǎngqū'') ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County-level City
A county-level municipality (), county-level city or county city, formerly known as prefecture-controlled city (1949–1970: ; 1970–1983: ), is a Administrative divisions of China#County level (3rd), county-level administrative division of the China, People's Republic of China. County-level cities have judiciary, judicial but no legislature, legislative rights over their own local ordinance, local law and are usually governed by Administrative divisions of China#Prefectural level (2nd), prefecture-level divisions, but a few are governed directly by Administrative divisions of China#Provincial level (1st), province-level divisions. A county-level city is a "city" () and "county" () that have been merged into one unified jurisdiction. As such it is simultaneously a city, which is a municipal entity and a county which is an administrative division of a prefecture. Most county-level cities were created in the 1980s and 1990s by replacing denser populated Counties of Chin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |