Wenzhou
温州市 Wenchow, Yujeu, Iu Tsiu, Dong Ou | |
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Left to right, top to bottom: City view of Wen, Wuma shopping street, the central city viewed from Bailuzhou Park, Pearl Beach, a suspension bridge in Taishun County. | |
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![]() Location of Wenzhou City jurisdiction in Zhejiang | |
Coordinates (Wenzhou municipal government): 27°59′38″N 120°41′57″E / 27.9938°N 120.6993°E | |
Country | ![]() |
Province | Zhejiang |
County-level divisions | 9 |
Municipal seat | Lucheng District |
Government | |
• CPC City Secretary | Zhang Zhenfeng (张振丰) |
• Mayor | Zhang Wenjie (张文杰) |
Area | |
• Land | 12,255.74 km2 (4,731.97 sq mi) |
• Urban | 1,243.4 km2 (480.1 sq mi) |
Population (2020 census)[1] | |
• Prefecture-level city | 9,572,903 |
• Urban | 3,604,446 |
• Urban density | 2,900/km2 (7,500/sq mi) |
• Metro | 6,642,592 |
• Rank in China | 15th |
GDP[2] | |
• Prefecture-level city | CN¥ 873 billion US$ 121.4 billion |
• Per capita | CN¥ 89,443 US$ 12,439 |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Postal code | 325000 |
Area code | 0577 |
ISO 3166 code | CN-ZJ-03 |
License Plate | 浙C |
Spoken language | Wenzhounese |
Website | www.wenzhou.gov.cn |
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![]() "Wenzhou" in Simplified (top) and Traditional (bottom) Chinese characters | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 温州 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 溫州 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wu | Iu1-ciou1 (Wenzhounese) Uen1tseu1 (Shanghainese) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Postal | Wenchow | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Literal meaning | "Wen[qiao Mountains] Prefecture" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Wenzhou[a] is a prefecture-level city in China's Zhejiang province. Wenzhou is located at the extreme southeast of Zhejiang, bordering Lishui to the west, Taizhou to the north, and the province of Fujian to the south. The area consists of mostly mountainous terrain, as well as hundreds of islands off the East China Sea coast, which is nearly 355 kilometres (221 miles) in length. It is said that the city's land is 70% mountains, 20% farmland, and 10% water.[3] At the time of the 2010 Chinese census, 3,039,500 people lived in Wenzhou's urban area.[4] The greater Wenzhou prefecture, which also includes three satellite cities and six counties, had a population totalling 9,122,100, of which 31.16% are residents originally from outside of Wenzhou.[5]
During the 19th century, the progenitor city of modern Wenzhou was known as Yungkia (Chinese: 永嘉, Yǒngjiā),[6] a prosperous foreign treaty port that remains well-preserved today. Being situated in the mountains, it has been isolated for most of its history from the rest of the country, making its local culture and language, known as Wenzhounese, particularly distinct, even from its direct neighbours. The city is also the native land of many emigrants to Europe and the United States, with many Wenzhounese immigrants abroad becoming entrepreneurs, restaurantiers, and retail and wholesale businesspeople in their adopted countries.[7] Wenzhou people make up a large proportion of the Chinese residents in Italy, constituting approximately 90% of Tuscany's Chinese population.[8] Significant concentrations of Wenzhounese also live in New York City, as well as across France and Spain.[9]
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