Gaochun District (), formerly Gaochun County () until January 2013, is one of 11 districts of

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, the capital of

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province, China. The southernmost of Nanjing's districts, bordering the province of

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to the south and west, it spans an area of , with a total population of 430,000.

Culture

Gaochun is known for its traditional style shopping area known as Gaochun Old Street. The local language is the

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dialect of

Wu Chinese The Wu languages (; Wu romanization and IPA: ''wu6 gniu6'' [] ( Shanghainese), ''ng2 gniu6'' [] (Suzhounese), Mandarin pinyin and IPA: ''Wúyǔ'' []) is a major group of Sinitic languages spoken primarily in Shanghai, Zhejiang, Zhejiang Provin ...

, unlike the rest of Nanjing, where mostly

Lower Yangtze Mandarin Lower Yangtze Mandarin () is one of the most divergent and least mutually-intelligible of the Mandarin languages, as it neighbours the Wu, Hui, and Gan groups of Sinitic languages. It is also known as Jiang–Huai Mandarin (), named after th ...

is spoken.

Administrative divisions

There are 8 towns that fall under the jurisdiction of Gaochun District. They are:

Climate

Education

* Jiangsu Gaochun High School (1923)

References

External links

Gaochun Official Government Website
*http://www.xzqh.org/quhua/32js/0125gc.htm Districts of Nanjing {{Jiangsu-geo-stub