Ganxian District () is a

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in the municipal region of

Ganzhou Ganzhou (), alternately romanized as Kanchow, is a prefecture-level city in the south of Jiangxi province, China, bordering Fujian to the east, Guangdong to the south, and Hunan to the west. Its administrative seat is at Zhanggong District. Hist ...

Jiangxi Jiangxi (; ; formerly romanized as Kiangsi or Chianghsi) is a landlocked province in the east of the People's Republic of China. Its major cities include Nanchang and Jiujiang. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze river in the north int ...

Province.

Administration

Ganxian has an area of . The district executive, legislature and

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are at Meilin Town (), just upriver from the prefectural seat, together with the CPC and PSB branches. These organs oversee 19 towns & townships. In the present, Ganxian District has 10 towns and 9 townships. ;10 towns ;9 townships

People

The population was 546,964 at the 2010 census. At the end of 2014 there were 641,677 inhabitants in Ganxian, among them there were 336,054 male inhabitants and 305,623 female inhabitants. The farming population was 540,131. There were 170,729 households. 99.5% of the inhabitants of Ganxian are Hakka.

Transport

Ganzhou–Longyan Railway The Ganzhou–Longyan railway or Ganlong railway () is a railway connecting Jiangxi and Fujian Provinces, in southeastern China. The line is named after its two terminal cities Ganzhou and Longyan, and has a total length of . Construction bega ...

References

Ganzhou County-level divisions of Jiangxi {{Jiangxi-geo-stub