Chengdu
Query URLs
https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/place/23577
- Note
- "Chengdu is located in central Sichuan. The surrounding Chengdu Plain is known as the "Country of Heaven" (Chinese: 天府之国; pinyin: Tiānfǔ zhi Guó) and the "Land of Abundance". Its prehistoric settlers included the Sanxingdui culture. The site of Dujiangyan, an ancient irrigation system, is designated as a World Heritage Site. The Jin River flows through the city.
Founded by the state of Shu prior to its incorporation into China, Chengdu is unique as a major Chinese settlement that has maintained its name mostly unchanged throughout the imperial, republican, and communist eras. It was the capital of Liu Bei´s Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms Era, as well as several other local kingdoms during the Middle Ages.[13] During World War II, refugees from eastern China fleeing from the Japanese settled in Chengdu. After the war, Chengdu´s importance as a link between Eastern and Western China expanded, with railways built to Chongqing in 1952, and Kunming and Tibet afterwards.[13] In the 1960s, Chengdu became an important centre of China´s national defense industry." - (en.wikipedia.org 23.09.2020) - Latitude
- 30.663610458374
- Longitude
- 104.06666564941
- Inhabitants
- 7,415,590
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