Songzi

Songzi
松滋市
Sungtze
Songzi is located in Hubei
Songzi
Songzi
Location in Hubei
Coordinates (Songzi government): 30°10′26″N 111°45′25″E / 30.174°N 111.757°E / 30.174; 111.757
CountryPeople's Republic of China
ProvinceHubei
Prefecture-level cityJingzhou
Area
 • County-level city2,176.9 km2 (840.5 sq mi)
 • Urban
96.00 km2 (37.07 sq mi)
Population
 (2017)[1]
 • County-level city839,000
 • Density390/km2 (1,000/sq mi)
 • Urban
130,700
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Websitewww.hbsz.gov.cn

Songzi (Chinese: 松滋; pinyin: Sōngzī Shì) is a city in the southwest of Hubei province, People's Republic of China, located in the middle reach and southern bank of the Yangtze River. It is a county-level city under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Jingzhou, and controls 16 townships and 2 development zones, 235,000 households and a population of 765,911 (data from the 2010 census). It is a long-historied but young and robust city.

  1. ^ a b Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, ed. (2019). China Urban Construction Statistical Yearbook 2017. Beijing: China Statistics Press. p. 66. Retrieved 11 January 2020.