Jinzhong, formerly Yuci, is a prefecture-level city in east central

Shanxi Shanxi (; ; formerly romanised as Shansi) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the North China region. The capital and largest city of the province is Taiyuan, while its next most populated prefecture-lev ...

province of the People's Republic of China, bordering Hebei province to the east. As of the 2020 census, its total population was 3,379,498 inhabitants whom 1,226,617 lived in the

Yuci Yuci District () is a district in Jinzhong, Shanxi, China. Administrative Divisions Subdistricts:http://www.yuci.gov.cn/article_desc?article_id=370.html * Beiguan Subdistrict (), Jinlun Subdistrict (), Xinhua Subdistrict (), Xinan Subdistrict ...

and Taigu urban districts. However,5,433,659 lived in the built-up (or metro) area of Taiyuan - Jinzhong made of Yuci district plus the 6

Taiyuan Taiyuan (; ; ; Mandarin pronunciation: ; also known as (), ()) is the capital and largest city of Shanxi Province, People's Republic of China. Taiyuan is the political, economic, cultural and international exchange center of Shanxi Province. ...

urban districts, largely conurbated.

History

Lingshi County was the location of the

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. In 1999, the area was considered sufficiently

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that Jinzhong

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became a prefecture-level city, with its former seat at Yuci becoming its county-level Yuci District.

Administrative divisions

Jinzhong is divided into the following county-level subdivisions:

Climate

Jinzhong has a continental, monsoon-influenced semi-arid climate ( Köppen ''BSk''),Peel, M. C., Finlayson, B. L., and McMahon, T. A.: Updated world map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 11, 1633-1644, , 2007. with cold and very dry winters, and hot, humid summers. The monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from in January to in July, and the annual mean is . Typifying the influence of the

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, over two-thirds of the annual of precipitation occurs from June to September.

Transportation

* Taiyuan–Jiaozuo Railway

Culture

The prefecture-level city houses several Shanxi Courtyard Houses, businessmen's residences lauded as outstanding civilian residences. Yuci District is increasingly connected to nearby

, whose built-up area was home to 3,848,151 people in 2010.

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References

External links

Jinzhong City Portal

- Jinzhong Information Network
{{Authority control Cities in Shanxi