Nanjing

**Nanjing** is a large city in eastern China. It has over nine million people, which makes it the 29th largest city proper in the world,  and the 51st largest urban area in the world.

## Name

The Mandarin Chinese name of the city is **', which means "The Southern Capital". It got this name when the Yongle Emperor of the Ming family of rulers moved most of his government to Beijing ("The Northern Capital") in the early 1400s. In Chinese, Nanjing's name is written . Today, people spell it "Nanjing" because they use the pinyin way of spelling. Pinyin tries to show how the word should sound in Mandarin. People also used to write it , using Mr.Wade and Mr.Giles's way of spelling, and "**Nanking'''", using the Chinese Postal Map's way.

## History

- Nanjing Massacre

## Political divisions

Nanjing Municipality is divided into 11 districts.
- Xuanwu District
- Qinhuai District
- Yuhuatai District
- Gulou District
- Pukou District
- Liuhe District
- Qixia District
- Jianye District
- Jiangning District
- Lishui District
- Gaochun District

## Attractions

- City Wall and the Gate of China
- Greenland Financial Center
- Jiming Temple
- Hongshan Zoo
- Nanjing Massacre Museum
- Nanjing Museum
- Presidential Palace
- Purple Mountain
- Purple Mountain Observatory
- Sun Yat-sen's Tomb
- Temple of Confucius
- Xuanwu Lake
- Yangtze River Bridge
- Yuhuatai Park

## Education

- Nanjing University
- Nanjing Foreign Language School
- Hehai University
- Southeast University

## Travelling

- Nanjing Bus
- Nanjing Metro
- Nanjing Tram

## Sister cities

Nanjing currently has 18 sister cities (areas), namely:
- Alsace, France
- Barranquilla, fockme
- Bloemfontein, South Africa
- Eindhoven, Netherlands
- Florence, Italy
- Hauts-de-Seine, France
- Houston, Texas, U.S.
- Leipzig, Germany
- Limassol, Cyprus
- London, Ontario, Canada
- Malacca Town, Malaysia (2001)
- Mexicali, Mexico
- Nagoya, Japan
- Perth, Australia
- St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. (Nov 02, 1978, The 1st pair of Twin Cities between America and People's Republic of China)
- Daejeon, South Korea
- Birmingham, United Kingdom
- Belo Horizonte, Brazil

## Other websites

- Nanjing Government website
- Jiangsu Network  Nanjing city guide with open directory
- Nanjing travel guide from the website Synotrip
- Nanking Illustrated is an old book from 1624

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## Infobox (settlement)

- **official name**: Nánjīng Shì
- **native name**: 南京市
- **settlement type**: Sub-provincial city, S.P.-City
- **image map**: Nanjing dot.png
- **mapsize**: 250px
- **map caption**: Location within China
- **mapsize1**: 250px
- **map caption1**: Nanjing is highlighted on this map of Jiangsu province
- **pushpin map**: China
- **subdivision type**: Country
- **subdivision name**: People's Republic of China
- **subdivision type1**: Political divisions of China#County level, County-level divisions
- **subdivision name1**: 13
- **subdivision type2**: Political divisions of China#Township level, Township divisions
- **subdivision name2**: 129
- **leader title**: Communist Party of China, CPC Nanjing
- **leader name**: Luo Zhijun
Committee Secretary
- **leader title1**: Mayor
- **leader name1**: .
- **established title**: Settled
- **established date**: 495 BC
- **area footnotes**: (List of China administrative regions by area, ranked 29th)
- **area total km2**: 6596
- **population as of**: 2000
- **population total**: 6,126,165
- **population density km2**: 928.8
- **timezone**: China Standard Time
- **utc offset**: +8
- **elevation ft**: 50
- **postal code type**: Postal code
- **postal code**: **2100**00 - **2113**00
- **area code**: 25
- **blank name**: License Plate (China), License plate prefixes
- **blank info**: 苏A
- **blank1 name**: Gross domestic product, GDP (2007)
- **blank1 info**: US$45.2 billion (1.00US$=7.25Renminbi¥,Nov, 2007)
- **blank2 name**:  - per capita
- **blank2 info**: US$7,442
- **website**: [http://www.nanjing.gov.cn City of Nanjing]
- **footnotes**: <big>**City trees**</big>
 Deodar Cedar (_Cedrus deodara_)<big>**City flowers**</big>
 ume, Chinese plum (_Prunus mume_)