Jingkou District is one of three built-up zones (

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) of

Zhenjiang Zhenjiang, alternately romanized as Chinkiang, is a prefecture-level city in Jiangsu Province, China. It lies on the southern bank of the Yangtze River near its intersection with the Grand Canal. It is opposite Yangzhou (to its north) and ...

Jiangsu Jiangsu is a coastal Provinces of the People's Republic of China, province in East China. It is one of the leading provinces in finance, education, technology, and tourism, with its capital in Nanjing. Jiangsu is the List of Chinese administra ...

province, China. The district has an area of 115 km² and a population of 410,000 people. The postal code for Jingkou is 212001 and the telephone code is 0511. In recent years, it was split to form Zhenjiang New Area () which is divided to 2

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(Dagang Subdistrict (大港街道), Dingmao Subdistrict (丁卯街道)) and 3 towns (Dalu (大路镇), Yaoqiao (姚桥镇), Dinggang (丁岗镇)).

History

Jingkou was the site of the original meeting place between the Grand Canal and the

Yangtze River The Yangtze or Yangzi ( or ) is the longest river in Eurasia and the third-longest in the world. It rises at Jari Hill in the Tanggula Mountains of the Tibetan Plateau and flows including Dam Qu River the longest source of the Yangtze, i ...

. It was the site of an imperial army garrison under the

Qing The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led Dynasties of China, imperial dynasty of China and an early modern empire in East Asia. The last imperial dynasty in Chinese history, the Qing dynasty was preceded by the ...

Administrative divisions

Jingkou District has 8 subdistricts and 3 towns. ;8 subdistricts ;3 towns * Yaoqiao () * Dalu () * Dinggang ()

Transportation

Dagang South railway station Dagang South railway station () is a railway station in Jingkou District, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China. It opened with the remaining section of the Lianyungang–Zhenjiang high-speed railway The Lianyungang–Zhenjiang high-speed railway is a high ...

is situated here.

References

County-level divisions of Jiangsu {{Jiangsu-geo-stub