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Nanjing. unknown (Yecheng, 495 BCE. Jinling City, 333 BCE) Nanjing[b] is the capital of Jiangsu in eastern China. The city, which is located in the southwestern corner of the province, has 11 districts, an administrative area of 6,600 km 2 (2,500 sq mi), and a population of 9,423,400 as of 2021. [6] Situated in the Yangtze River Delta region ...
The Nanjing Massacre[1] or the Rape of Nanjing (formerly romanized as Nanking[note 2]) was the mass murder of Chinese civilians in Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China, immediately after the Battle of Nanking and the retreat of the National Revolutionary Army in the Second Sino-Japanese War, by the Imperial Japanese Army. [2][3][4][5 ...
The Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders is a museum to memorialize those that were killed in the Nanjing Massacre by the Imperial Japanese Army in and around the then-capital of China, Nanjing, after it fell on December 13, 1937. It is located in the southwestern corner of downtown Nanjing known as Jiangdongmen ...
Yangtze Delta. The Yangtze Delta or Yangtze River Delta (YRD, Chinese: 长江三角洲 or simply 长三角), once known as the Shanghai Economic Zone, is a megalopolis generally comprising the Wu -speaking areas of Shanghai, southern Jiangsu, northern Zhejiang, southern Anhui. The area lies in the heart of the Jiangnan region (literally, "south ...
Battle of Nanking. The Battle of Nanking (or Nanjing) was fought in early December 1937 during the Second Sino-Japanese War between the Chinese National Revolutionary Army and the Imperial Japanese Army for control of Nanjing (Nanking), the capital of the Republic of China. Following the outbreak of war between Japan and China in July 1937, the ...
The Port of Nanjing (Chinese: 南京港, SZSE: 002040) is located in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China, and is the largest inland port in the world (depending on how you classify the ports in the Yangtze Delta), with throughput reaching 191 million tons of cargo in 2012. Nanjing Port has a long history reaching back to A.D 229, when it became a ...
Stone City (Nanjing) Coordinates: 32°03′09″N 118°44′59″E. "Ghost-faced Wall" (Guiliancheng), part of the remnant Stone City wall. The Stone City ( Chinese: 石头城; pinyin: Shítóu Chéng) [1] is the site of an ancient fortified city within Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China. Almost all of the original city is gone; all that remains ...
The City Wall of Nanjing (Chinese: 南京城墙; pinyin: Nánjīng chéngqiáng) was designed by the Hongwu Emperor (1328–1398) after he founded the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644) and established Nanjing as the capital in 1368. To consolidate his sovereignty and defend the city against coastal pirates, he adopted the suggestions of advisor Zhu ...