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County-level divisions
  
12

Time zone
  
China Standard (UTC+8)

Area code(s)
  
0354

Population
  
3.249 million (2010)

Municipal seat
  
Yuci District

Postal code
  
030600

Local time
  
Sunday 4:37 AM

Province
  
Shanxi

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Country
  
People's Republic of China

Weather
  
2°C, Wind N at 26 km/h, 50% Humidity

Colleges and Universities
  
Shanxi Agricultural University, Taiyuan Normal University

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Jinzhong (simplified Chinese: 晋中; traditional Chinese: 晉中; pinyin: Jìnzhōng) is a prefecture-level city with 3,249,425 inhabitants at the 2010 census in east central Shanxi province of the People's Republic of China.

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Map of Jinzhong, Shanxi, China

Administrative divisions

Before 1999, what is now Jinzhong was Jinzhong Prefecture, with its capital at the county-level city of Yuci (Chinese: 榆次; pinyin: Yúcì; Wade–Giles: Yu-tz'u). In 1999, Jinzhong Prefecture became Jinzhong Prefecture-level City, and Yuci County-level City became Yuci District (a county-level district). Yuci district is now part of Taiyuan built up area home to 3,848,151 inhabitants in 2010.

Jinzhong is divided into the following county-level subdivisions:

History

Lingshi County was the location of the Nanshan Colliery disaster.

Transportation

  • Taiyuan–Jiaozuo Railway
  • Culture

    The prefecture-level city houses several Shanxi Courtyard Houses, businessmen's residences lauded as outstanding civilian residences.

    Sister Cities

  • Szolnok, Hungary
  • Quảng Nam Province, Vietnam
  • Vals, Austria
  • Provins, France
  • Luang Prabang, Laos
  • Jinhua, China
  • References

    Jinzhong Wikipedia