Hanjiang District is one of the three
districts
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of
Yangzhou
Yangzhou is a prefecture-level city in central Jiangsu Province, East China. Sitting on the north bank of the Yangtze, it borders the provincial capital Nanjing to the southwest, Huai'an to the north, Yancheng to the northeast, Taizhou, Jiangsu, ...
,
Jiangsu
Jiangsu is a coastal Provinces of the People's Republic of China, province in East China. It is one of the leading provinces in finance, education, technology, and tourism, with its capital in Nanjing. Jiangsu is the List of Chinese administra ...
Province
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, in
eastern China
East China () is a geographical region in the People’s Republic of China, mainly consisting of seven province-level administrative divisions, namely the provinces (from north to south) Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, a ...
. It is one of the two districts (along with
Guangling District) that divide the prefecture's
urbanized core. It includes roughly the western half of Yangzhou's central city and adjacent suburbs. The
Yangtze River
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and the
Grand Canal of China
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serve as the district's principal southern and eastern borders.
In the past, the northern part of Yangzhou's main urban area constituted the separate
Weiyang District
Weiyang District () is one of 11 urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi Province, Northwest China. It is located at northwest Xi'an, functioning as the new administrative centre of the city. The district b ...
but, in late 2011, Weiyang District was abolished and merged into Hanjiang.
Administrative divisions
Hanjiang District is divided to 10 subdistricts, 10 towns, and 3 townships:
;10 Subdistricts:
;10 Towns:
;3 Townships:
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Pingshan ()
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Shuangqiao ()
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Chengbei ()
Gallery
File:Yangzhou - walking south from Baozhang Lake - CIMG3223.JPG, A residential area near Slender West Lake
Slender West Lake, also known by its Chinese name Shouxihu and by other names, is a scenic lake in Hanjiang District in central Yangzhou, China. The lake developed from the city moats of Tang-era Yangzhou. During the Qing dynasty, its ba ...
(Shouxihu)
File:Yangzhou - sculpture plaza - CIMG2858.JPG, A public plaza near RT-Mart on Yangzhou's west side
File:Yangzhou - Xinsheng Jiedao - commercial center - P1070070.JPG, Xinsheng Subdistrict
File:Yangzhou Museum - CIMG2857.JPG, Yangzhou Museum
File:Yangzhou Railway Station - P1070063.JPG, Yangzhou Railway Station on the Nanjing–Qidong Railway
The Nanjing–Qidong railway ( zh, s=南京–启东铁路, t=南京–啟東鐵路, hp=Nánjīng–Qǐdōng tiělù), commonly referred to in short as the Ningqi railway ( zh, s=宁启铁路, t=寧啟鐵路, hp=Níngqǐ tiělù), is a higher-spe ...
See also
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Other Hanjiangs
References
External links
www.xzqh.org
County-level divisions of Jiangsu
Yangzhou
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