🇨🇳 Liyang is a county-level city under the administration of Changzhou in the Jiangsu province of the People's Republic of China. It borders the prefecture-level divisions of Wuxi to the east, Xuancheng to the south, and Nanjing to the west.
Administration In August 1990, the PRC State Council approved the upgrade of Liyang from a county to a county-level city under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Changzhou.
At present, Liyang City has 10 towns: • Licheng (溧城镇) • Daitou (埭头镇) • Shanghuang (上黄镇) • Daibu (戴埠镇) • Tianmuhu (天目湖镇) • Bieqiao (别桥镇) • Shangxing (上兴镇) • Zhuze (竹箦镇) • Nandu (南渡镇) • Shezhu (社渚镇).
Geography Liyang has a total area of 1,535.87 square km (593.00 sq mi). Liyang resides at the boundary of Jiangsu and Anhui provinces and is part of the Yangtze River Delta.
Transport The Nanjing–Hangzhou Passenger Railway crosses Liyang. As of 2020, over 80 passenger trains make daily stops at Liyang Railway Station, which is located 5 km south of downtown Liyang. The shortest commute time to major cities nearby by train is 26 minutes for Nanjing and 53 minutes for Hangzhou. There are also direct connections to other major Chinese cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Xiamen, Tianjin, Qingdao, Wuhan, Changsha, and Kunming.
National highways G25 and G4011 cross Liyang.
The nearest major airport is Nanjing Lukou International Airport, roughly one hour by car away.
Language The dialect spoken by most people in Liyang is a Northern Wu dialect closely related to that of Changzhou, while others speak Standard Mandarin or Jianghuai Mandarin.
Sights Tian Mu Lake inside Liyang, is a popular tourist area featuring the lake, resorts, and famous fish head soup. Nanshan Zhuhai is another tourist site with great views of bamboo trees all over the hills. It is also an artificial lake.
Education Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics has a campus in Liyang for its School of Civil Aviation and School of General Aviation. • Liyang Guanghua Senior School.
Liyang has a population of over 781,500 people. Liyang also forms part of the wider Changzhou Prefecture which has a population of over 4,592,431 people.
To set up a UBI Lab for Liyang see: https://www.ubilabnetwork.org Twitter: https://twitter.com/UBILabNetwork
Twin Towns, Sister Cities Liyang has links with:
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🇨🇳 Zhenjiang 119.423,32.205 d: 87.3
🇨🇳 Huzhou 120.088,30.893 d: 82.7
Antipodal to: Liyang -60.523,-31.422
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