Administration Type: Prefecture-level city
City Seat: Guangling District
(32°23′N, 119°25′E)
Area Total: 6,634 km2
Urban center: 988.81 km2
Population Total: 4,536,100 (2003)
Urban center: 1,151,300 (2006)
GDP Total: ￥64.722 billion (2003)
Per Capita: ￥14,300 (2003)
Major Nationalities: Han - 99.57%, Hui - 0.28%
County-level divisions: 7
Township-level divisions: 98
Area code: 514
Postal Code: 225000, 225100
(Urban center)
225200, 225600, 225800
(Other areas)
License Plate Prefix: 苏K
Yangzhou (Simplified Chinese: 扬州; Traditional Chinese: 揚州; Pinyin: Yángzhōu; former spellings: Yang-chou, Yangchow; literally "Rising Prefecture") is a prefecture-level city in central Jiangsu province, Peoples Republic of China. Sitting on the northern bank of the Yangtze River, it borders the provincial capital of Nanjing to the southwest, Huaian to the north, Yancheng to the northeast, Taizhou to the east, and Zhenjiang across the river to the south.
Administration
The prefecture-level city of Yangzhou administers 7 county-level divisions. There are 3 districts, 3 county-level cities and 1 county:
Guangling District (广陵区)
Weiyang District (维扬区)
Hanjiang District (邗江区)
Jiangdu City (江都市)
Gaoyou City (高邮市)
Yizheng City (仪征市)
Baoying County (宝应县)
These are further divided into 98 township-level divisions, including 87 towns and townships, and 11 subdistricts.
