Changzhou (other)

	Changzhou (other) Changzhou is a prefecture-level city in Jiangsu, China. Changzhou may also refer to: * a historical name of Suzhou, Jiangsu (written as 长洲, different from Changzhou City) * Cháng Prefecture (written as 常州), prefecture between the 6th and 13th centuries in modern Jiangsu, China * Changzhou dialect of Wu Chinese, spoken in Changzhou City * Changzhou District, in Wuzhou, Guangxi, China * Changzhou Island, in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China * Cheung Chau Cheung Chau (lit. "Long Island") is an island southwest of Hong Kong Island. It is nicknamed the 'dumbbell island (啞鈴島)' due to its shape. It has been inhabited for longer than most other places in Hong Kong, and had a population of 2 ... , in Island District, Hong Kong, China {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Changzhou Changzhou ( Changzhounese: ''Zaon Tsei'', ) is a prefecture-level city in southern Jiangsu province, China. It was previously known as Yanling, Lanling and Jinling. Located on the southern bank of the Yangtze River, Changzhou borders the provincial capital of Nanjing to the west, Zhenjiang to the northwest, Wuxi to the east, and the province of Zhejiang to the south. Changzhou is located in the highly developed Yangtze Delta region of China extending from Shanghai going northwest. The population of Changzhou city was 4,592,431 at the 2010 census.Linked from the OEChere The city is the birthplace of Zhou Youguang who created the pinyin romanization system. History "The Ruins of Yancheng" (), comprise the remains of a walled city located in the Wujin district of Changzhou that was founded over 3000 years ago at the beginning of the Western Zhou dynasty. The earliest record of a settlement on the site of modern Changzhou is as a commandery founded in 221 BC at the beg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Suzhou Suzhou (; ; Suzhounese: ''sou¹ tseu¹'' , Mandarin: ), alternately romanized as Soochow, is a major city in southern Jiangsu province, East China. Suzhou is the largest city in Jiangsu, and a major economic center and focal point of trade and commerce. Administratively, Suzhou is a prefecture-level city with a population of 6,715,559 in the city proper, and a total resident population of 12,748,262 as of the 2020 census in its administrative area. The city jurisdiction area's north waterfront is on a lower reach of the Yangtze whereas it has its more focal south-western waterfront on Lake Tai – crossed by several waterways, its district belongs to the Yangtze River Delta region. Suzhou is now part of the Greater Shanghai metro area, incorporating most of Changzhou, Wuxi and Suzhou urban districts plus Kunshan and Taicang, with a population of more than 38,000,000 residents as of 2020. Its urban population grew at an unprecedented rate of 6.5% between 2000 and 2014, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Cháng Prefecture Changzhou or Chang Prefecture was a '' zhou'' (prefecture) in imperial China, centering on modern Changzhou, Jiangsu, China. It existed (intermittently) from 589 until 1277, when the Yuan dynasty renamed it Changzhou Route. The modern prefecture-level city Changzhou, created in 1949, retains its name. Geography The administrative region of Chang Prefecture in the Tang dynasty was in modern southern Jiangsu directly to the north of Lake Tai. It probably includes parts of modern: Under the administration of Changzhou: Changzhou Under the administration of Wuxi Wuxi (, ) is a city in southern Jiangsu province, eastern China, by car to the northwest of downtown Shanghai, between Changzhou and Suzhou. In 2017 it had a population of 3,542,319, with 6,553,000 living in the entire prefecture-level city ar ...: Wuxi Jiangyin ** Yixing See also * Jinling Commandery * Changzhou Route References * Prefectures of the Sui dynasty Prefectures of the Tang dynasty Pref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Changzhou Dialect The Changzhou dialect (Simplified Chinese: 常州话; Traditional Chinese: 常州話; IPA: ̥ɑŋ.tsei.ɦu(pronunciation in the Changzhou dialect)), sometimes called ''Changzhounese'', is a dialect of Wu, a Sino-Tibetan language family, and belongs to the Taihu dialect group. It is spoken in the city of Changzhou and surrounding areas in Jiangsu province of China. It has many similarities with the Shanghainese and Suzhou dialect. It is not at all mutually intelligible with Mandarin, China's official language. It is much more closely related to the neighboring Wuxi dialect with which it is mostly mutually intelligible. Phonetically, the Changzhou dialect makes use of a number of voiced or slack voiced initials that are not found in Mandarin as well as a larger number of vowel sounds . The tone system also is of greater complexity, using 7 tones based on the classical tonal system. It also has a more complex tone sandhi than found in most other Chinese varieties. Changzhou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Changzhou District Changzhou District () is a district of the city of Wuzhou, Guangxi Guangxi (; ; Chinese postal romanization, alternately romanized as Kwanghsi; ; za, Gvangjsih, italics=yes), officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (GZAR), is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the People's Republic ..., China. External links County-level divisions of Guangxi Wuzhou {{Guangxi-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Changzhou Island Changzhou Island, formerly known in English as Dane or , is an island in the Pearl River Delta of China's Guangdong Province. It is now administered as part of Guangzhou's Huangpu District, although the historic Huangpu Island was nearby Pazhou, which forms part of Haizhu District. Geography Changzhou is about , of which is dry land. History During the Canton trade, Changzhou was used by Danish crews for repairs and burials. It lay on the eastern side of the Huangpu or "Whampoa" anchorage. The island was the site of Sun Yat-sen's Whampoa Military Academy. (. 1924) and the 1926 ''Zhongshan'' Incident that propelled the academy's commandant Chiang Kai-shek to leadership over the Chinese Nationalists and then all of Warlord China. Transportation Changzhou is now linked to Guangzhou's road network by a bridge to neighboring Xiaoguwei and will be served by the Phase II eastern extension of Guangzhou Metro The Guangzhou Metro () ( and ) is the rapid transit syst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]