Nanjing

南京市
南京市
S.P.-City
	Location within China
	Coordinates: 32°03′N 118°46′E / 32.050°N 118.767°ECoordinates: 32°03′N 118°46′E / 32.050°N 118.767°E
Country	People's Republic of China
County-level divisions	13
Township divisions	129
Settled	495 BC
Government
• CPC Nanjing	Luo Zhijun; Committee Secretary
• Mayor	Jiang Hongkun
Area (ranked 29th)
• Total	6,596 km2 (2,547 sq mi)
Elevation	20 m (50 ft)
Population (2000)
• Total	6,126,165
• Density	928.8/km2 (2,406/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard Time)
Postal code	210000 - 211300
License plate prefixes	苏A
GDP (2007)	US$45.2 billion (1.00US$=7.25Renminbi¥,Nov, 2007)
- per capita	US$7,442
Website	City of Nanjing
	City trees; Deodar Cedar (Cedrus deodara)City flowers; Chinese plum (Prunus mume)

Nanjing is a city in eastern China.

Name

The Mandarin Chinese name of the city is Nánjīng (info • help),^[a] which means "The Southern Capital". It got this name when the Yongle Emperor of the Ming family of rulers moved most of his government to Beijing ("The Northern Capital") in the early 1400s. In Chinese, Nanjing's name is written 南京. Today, people spell it "Nanjing" because they use the pinyin way of spelling. Pinyin tries to show how the word should sound in Mandarin. People also used to write it "Nan-chang", using Mr. Wade and Mr. Giles's way of spelling, and "Nanking", using the Chinese Postal Map's way.

Nanjing Municipality is divided into 11 districts.

Nanjing currently has 18 sister cities (areas), namely:

Purple Mountain or Zijin Shan, located to the east of the walled city of Nanjing, is the origin of the nickname "Jinling". The water in the front is Xuanwu Lake
The Śarīra pagoda in Qixia Temple. It was built in AD 601 and rebuilt in the 10th century.
Mochou Lake, established as a garden by the Hongwu Emperor
Ming Xiaoling, mausoleum of the Hongwu Emperor, founder of the Ming dynasty
The Ming Palace, the "Forbidden City of Nanjing", was the imperial palace of the first two Ming emperors.
Nanjing City Wall near Xuanwumen Gate
Nanking sive Kiangnan ("Nanjing or Jiangnan"), the 9th provincial map of the Chinese Empire in Martino Martini and Joan Blaeu's 1655 Novus Atlas Sinensis ("New Chinese Atlas"). Under the Qing, Nanjing continued to oversee the territory of Ming Nanzhili as Jiangnan until its division into the provinces of Jiangsu and Anhui.
The Presidential Palace of the National Government of the Republic of China in Nanjing, 1927
Japanese soldiers entering the walled city of Nanjing through the Gate of China

↑ These marks show the tones of the Chinese word, which are important in saying them correctly.

Jiang, Zanchu (1995). Nanjing shi hua. Nanjing: Nanjing chu ban she. ISBN 7-80614-159-6.

Nanjing travel guide from Wikivoyage
Nanjing Government website
Jiangsu Network Archived 2015-03-15 at the Wayback Machine Nanjing city guide with open directory
Nanjing travel guide from the website Synotrip
Nanking Illustrated is an old book from 1624

Preceded by Beijing	Capital of China 1368-1420	Succeeded by Beijing
Preceded by Beijing	Capital of China 1928-1937	Succeeded by Wuhan (wartime)
Preceded by Chongqing	Capital of China 1945-1949	Succeeded by Guangzhou for the Republic of China
Preceded by Chongqing	Capital of China 1945-1949	Succeeded by Beijing for the People's Republic of China

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