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Qijiang District () is a
district A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions o ...
of
Chongqing Chongqing ( or ; ; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ), Postal Romanization, alternately romanized as Chungking (), is a Direct-administered municipalities of China, municipality in Southwes ...
, China, bordering
Guizhou Guizhou (; formerly Kweichow) is a landlocked province in the southwest region of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Guiyang, in the center of the province. Guizhou borders the autonomous region of Guangxi to t ...
province to the south. The district has an area of 2,748 km2 and a population of 1,213,770 (de facto resident population 825,500 as of 2017.) In October 2011, Qijiang County and
Wansheng District Wansheng District () is a former district of Chongqing Municipality, China. In October 2011, Wansheng was merged into Qijiang County to form the new Qijiang District Qijiang District () is a district of Chongqing, China, bordering Guizhou prov ...
were merged to form the new ''Qijiang District''.


Administrative divisions


Climate


Transportation

* China National Highway 210 * Sichuan–Guizhou Railway


Geology

The geology is notable for its fossils including
ornithopod Ornithopoda () is a clade of ornithischian dinosaurs, called ornithopods (), that started out as small, bipedal running grazers and grew in size and numbers until they became one of the most successful groups of herbivores in the Cretaceous world ...
-dominated tracksite from the Lower Cretaceous
Jiaguan Formation The Jiaguan Formation is a Lower Cretaceous geologic formation in China. Its lithology is described as consisting of "alternating thick purple red sandstone layers and thin purple red mudstone and siltstone layers, and bottom layers of thick congl ...
(Barremian–Albian).


References


External links


Official government website
{{Authority control Districts of Chongqing