Jingmen
荆门市 Kingmen | |
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From top, left to right: View from Bailong Mountain; Nanxun Gate on Zhongtian Street; Pavilion in Longquan Park; View from Languan Pavilion; Street in Dongbao | |
.png) Location of Jingmen City in Hubei and the PRC | |
  Jingmen Location in Hubei | |
| Coordinates (Jingmen municipal government): 31°02′07″N 112°11′56″E / 31.0354°N 112.1990°E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Hubei |
| Municipal seat | Dongbao District |
| Area | |
| 12,404 km2 (4,789 sq mi) | |
| • Urban (2017)[1] | 248.70 km2 (96.02 sq mi) |
| • Districts[1] | 2,251.9 km2 (869.5 sq mi) |
| Population (2012) | |
| 3,023,000 | |
| • Density | 240/km2 (630/sq mi) |
| • Urban (2017)[1] | 553,400 |
| • Districts[1] | 915,000 |
| GDP[2] | |
| • Prefecture-level city | CN¥ 138.8 billion US$ 22.3 billion |
| • Per capita | CN¥ 47,999 US$ 7,706 |
| Time zone | UTC+08:00 (China Standard) |
| Area code | 0724 |
| ISO 3166 code | CN-HB-08 |
| Licence plate prefixes | 鄂H |
| Website | jingmen |
Jingmen (simplified Chinese: 荆门; traditional Chinese: 荆門; pinyin: Jīngmén; Wade–Giles: Ching1mên2) is a prefecture-level city in central Hubei province, People's Republic of China. Jingmen is within an area where cotton and oil crops are planted. The population of the prefecture is 2,873,687 (2010 population census). The urban area of Jingmen City has a population of about 400,000. Jingmen is so named as in ancient times it was the gateway to Jingzhou, one of the Nine Provinces and means literally Gateway to Jingzhou.
During the Second World War, the city was occupied by Japanese forces.
- ^ a b c d Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, ed. (2019). China Urban Construction Statistical Yearbook 2017. Beijing: China Statistics Press. p. 66. Archived from the original on 18 June 2019. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ 湖北省统计局、国家统计局湖北调查总队 (August 2016). 《湖北统计年鉴－2016》. 中国统计出版社. ISBN 978-7-5037-7847-6. Archived from the original on 2017-03-01. Retrieved 2017-06-05.