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

 Notes 

 Sources 
Pages

Books


 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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