Ruichang () is a

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under the jurisdiction of

Jiujiang Jiujiang, formerly transliterated Kiukiang and Kew-Keang, is a prefecture-level city located on the southern shores of the Yangtze River in northwest Jiangxi Province in the People's Republic of China. It is the second-largest prefecture-level ...

, in the north of

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province, along the

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, bordering

Hubei Hubei is a province of China, province in Central China. It has the List of Chinese provincial-level divisions by GDP, seventh-largest economy among Chinese provinces, the second-largest within Central China, and the third-largest among inland ...

province to the north. Ruichang suffered deaths and extensive damage from the 2005 Ruichang earthquake.

Administrative divisions

Ruichang City is divided to 2 subdistricts, 8 towns and 9 townships. ;2 subdistricts * Pencheng () *

Guilin Guilin (Standard Zhuang: ''Gveilinz''), postal map romanization, formerly romanization of Chinese, romanized as Kweilin, is a prefecture-level city in the northeast of China's Guangxi, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It is situated on the we ...

() ;8 towns ;9 townships

Transportation

Ruichang is served by the Wuhan–Jiujiang Railway.

Climate

References

External links

Official website (Chinese)
County-level divisions of Jiangxi Cities in Jiangxi Populated places on the Yangtze River Jiujiang {{Jiangxi-geo-stub