🇨🇳 Yueyang, formerly known as Yuezhou or Yochow, is a prefecture-level city on the eastern shores of Dongting Lake and Yangtze in the north-eastern corner of Hunan Province in the People's Republic of China. The built-up (or metro) area made up of Yueyanglou District and Yunxi District, Junshan District not being conurbated. Yueyang is the only international trade port city in Hunan and a famous port city in China, at the same time, Yueyang's comprehensive economic strength ranks second only to Changsha, the provincial capital.
The city's most famous attractions are the Yueyang Tower and Dongting Lake. The most famous food is Dongting lake silver fish (洞庭银鱼).
Administration The Yueyang prefecture is made up of six outlying districts, two special districts and the city proper. The six city districts are Huarong, Linxiang, Xiangyin, Pingjiang, Miluo and Yueyang County. The two special (smaller) districts are Junshan and Yunxi, which used to be part of Yueyang city proper but were separated into their own special districts for administrative purposes.
Districts: • Yueyanglou District (岳阳楼区) • Junshan District (君山区) • Yunxi District (云溪区).
County-level City: • Miluo City (汨罗市) • Linxiang City (临湘市).
Counties: • Yueyang County (岳阳县) • Huarong County (华容县) • Xiangyin County (湘阴县) • Pingjiang County (平江县).
History The area now called Yueyang has been inhabited for over 3,000 years. It was originally established as a prefecture called Hanchang (Hanchang) by Sun Wu in 210 AD during the Three Kingdoms period. It was called Ximi during the Spring and Autumn period and Warring States period under the Chu state.
Under the Song Dynasty (AD 960-AD 1279) it was heavily fortified, with walls 4 miles (6.4 km) in circumference, and became the seat of the military prefecture of Yueyang, whence its present name. During the Taiping Rebellion, its capture by the rebels in AD 1852 was an important stage in their advance up the Yangtze River valley to Nanjing. At the time of the foundation of the Republic of China in AD 1911, it became a county, taking the name Yueyang.
Yueyang Tower Yueyang Tower is an ancient Chinese tower in Yueyang, Hunan Province, on the shore of Lake Dongting. Alongside the Pavilion of Prince Teng and Yellow Crane Tower, it is one of the Three Great Towers of Jiangnan, and attracts many tourists. It is a famous place for tourism.
Transport Yueyang has two Yangtze River crossings, the Jingyue Yangtze River Bridge and Dongting Lake Bridge.
The city is served by Yueyang Sanhe Airport.
Education There are a total of six colleges and polytechnic schools and several medical schools, the largest of which is Hunan Institute of Science and Technology.
Other colleges include: • Hunan Polytechnic • Radio and TV University Yueyang • National Institute of Occupational Hunan • Hunan petrochemical Vocational and Technical College • Yueyang Vocational and Technical College.
Yueyang has a population of over 1,134,058 people. Yueyang also forms the centre of the wider Yueyang Prefecture which has a population of over 5,051,922 people.
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🇨🇳 Yongjiawan 113.212,29.346 d: 8.1
🇨🇳 Yueyanglou 113.212,29.346 d: 8.1
🇨🇳 Miluo City 113.16,28.761 d: 66.3
🇨🇳 Miluo 113.16,28.761 d: 66.3
🇨🇳 Hongshan 113.636,29.717 d: 63.3
🇨🇳 Jingling 112.5,30.133 d: 105.6
Antipodal to: Yueyang -66.871,-29.356
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🇪🇸 La Rioja -66.855,-29.413 d: 20008.6
🇦🇷 La Rioja -66.855,-29.413 d: 20008.6
🇦🇷 San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca -65.773,-28.467 d: 19869.4
🇦🇷 Concepción -65.583,-27.333 d: 19757.2
🇦🇷 San Juan -68.517,-31.533 d: 19726.2
🇦🇷 Termas de Río Hondo -64.867,-27.483 d: 19729.1
🇦🇷 Tucumán -65.366,-26.944 d: 19708.9
🇦🇷 San Miguel de Tucumán -65.225,-26.83 d: 19691.1
🇦🇷 Santiago del Estero -64.267,-27.783 d: 19706.4