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Hangzhou is classified as a sub-provincial city [76] and forms the core of the Hangzhou metropolitan area, [66] the fourth-largest in China. [77] It is the capital and most populous city of Zhejiang Province in East China. [18]: 86 Hangzhou comprises 10 districts, 1 county-level city, and 2 counties.
Fuzhou was briefly the capital of the Southern Ming dynasty from 1645 to 1646. Guangzhou (also romanized Canton) was the capital of: Nanyue Kingdom (204–111 BC). Southern Ming dynasty from 1646 to 1647. Nationalist government of the Republic of China, before 1928 and in 1949 towards the end of the Chinese Civil War. Hangzhou was the capital of:
1947 – Constitution of the Republic of China adopted; 1949 – May: Communists take city. [10] 1955 – Hangzhou Ri Bao (Hangzhou Daily) newspaper begins publication. [11] 1956 – Hangzhou Xuejun High School and Hangzhou Botanical Garden [12] established. 1957 Hangzhou Jianqiao Airport begins operating civilian flights. Population: 784,000. [13]
Chinese Capital since Land area (km²) Population (2020) Urban area population (2020) Symbol Seat Map ... Hangzhou: 杭州市 1367 16,847 11,936,010 10,711,238
The list contains all the cities with the administrative designation of "national central city" (国家中心城市) and "sub-provincial city" (副省级城市) – including five "cities with independent planning status" (计划单列市) and ten large "provincial capital cities" (省会城市), as well as some large "special economic zones" (经济特区城市), "open coastal cities ...
Zhejiang [a] is an eastern coastal province of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Hangzhou, and other notable cities include Ningbo and Wenzhou. Zhejiang is bordered by Jiangsu and Shanghai to the north, Anhui to the northwest, Jiangxi to the west and Fujian to the south.
The economic power of Song China can be attested by the growth of the urban population of its capital city Hangzhou. The population was 200,000 at the start of the 12th century and increased to 500,000 around 1170 and doubled to over a million a century later. [152] This economic power also heavily influenced foreign economies abroad.
Phoenix Mountain, also known by its Chinese name Fenghuangshan, is a mountain located on the edge of West Lake in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province in eastern China. It is connected with a string of hills called Wushan and is the highest point within the city. [1]