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Zigong
自贡市 Tzu-kung, Tzu-liu-ching | |
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Coordinates (Zigong municipal government): 29°20′20″N 104°46′44″E / 29.339°N 104.779°E | |
Country | People's Republic of China |
Province | Sichuan |
Municipal seat | Ziliujing District |
Government | |
Area | |
• Prefecture-level city | 4,372.6 km2 (1,688.3 sq mi) |
• Urban | 1,441 km2 (556 sq mi) |
• Metro | 1,441 km2 (556 sq mi) |
Population (2020 census)[1] | |
• Prefecture-level city | 2,489,256 |
• Density | 570/km2 (1,500/sq mi) |
• Urban | 1,297,695 |
• Urban density | 900/km2 (2,300/sq mi) |
• Metro | 1,297,695 |
• Metro density | 900/km2 (2,300/sq mi) |
GDP[2] | |
• Prefecture-level city | CN¥ 114.3 billion US$ 18.4 billion |
• Per capita | CN¥ 41,447 US$ 6,655 |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
ISO 3166 code | CN-SC-03 |
Website | www |
Zigong | |||||||||||
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Simplified Chinese | 自贡 | ||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 自貢 | ||||||||||
Postal | Tzukung | ||||||||||
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Zigong (Chinese: 自贡, tsih-kung), formed by the merger of the two former towns of Ziliujing (Tzuliuching, literally "self-flow well") and Gongjing (Kungching, literally "offering well"), is a prefecture-level city in Sichuan, Southwestern China.