Qijiang District () is a

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Chongqing ChongqingPostal Romanization, Previously romanized as Chungking ();. is a direct-administered municipality in Southwestern China. Chongqing is one of the four direct-administered municipalities under the State Council of the People's Republi ...

, China, bordering

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province to the south. The district has an area of 2,748 km² and a population of 1,213,770 (de facto resident population 825,500 as of 2017). In October 2011, Qijiang County and Wansheng District were merged to form the new ''Qijiang District''.

Administrative divisions

Climate

Transportation

China National Highway 210 China National Highway 210 (G210) runs from Mandula in Baotou, Inner Mongolia to Fangchenggang, Guangxi. It is 3,097 kilometres in length and runs south from Baotou and passes through the province-level divisions of Shaanxi, Sichuan, Chongqing, ...

* Sichuan–Guizhou Railway

Geology

The geology is notable for its fossils including

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-dominated tracksite from the Lower Cretaceous Jiaguan Formation (Barremian–Albian).

References

External links

Official government website
{{Authority control Districts of Chongqing