Yangzhou

Yangzhou 扬州市 Yangchow
Prefecture-level city
Five-Pavilion Bridge and the Slender West Lake
Location of Yangzhou administrative area in Jiangsu
Yangzhou Location of the city center in Jiangsu Show map of Jiangsu Yangzhou Yangzhou (Eastern China) Show map of Eastern China Yangzhou Yangzhou (China) Show map of China
Coordinates (Yangzhou municipal government): 32°23′40″N 119°24′46″E / 32.3944°N 119.4128°E / 32.3944; 119.4128
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Jiangsu
County-level divisions	6 (3 Districts, 2 County-level cities, 1 County)
Municipal seat	Hanjiang District
Government
• Communist Party Chief	Zhang Baojuan (张宝娟)[1]
• Mayor	Wang Jinjian (王进健) (Acting)[2]
Area
• Prefecture-level city	6,626 km2 (2,558 sq mi)
• Urban  (2018)[3]	363 km2 (140 sq mi)
• Metro	2,310 km2 (890 sq mi)
Population  (2020 census[4])
• Prefecture-level city	4,559,797
• Density	690/km2 (1,800/sq mi)
• Urban  (2018)[3]	1,665,000
• Urban density	4,600/km2 (12,000/sq mi)
• Metro	2,635,435
• Metro density	1,100/km2 (3,000/sq mi)
	Includes only those with Hukou permits
GDP[5]
• Prefecture-level city	CN¥ 546.6 trillion US$ 82.8 billion
• Per capita	CN¥ 120,944 US$ 18,311
Time zone	UTC+8 (Beijing Time)
Telephone	(0)514
ISO 3166 code	CN-JS-10
Licence plate prefixes	苏K
Website	yangzhou.gov.cn/english

Yangzhou
"Yangzhou" in Simplified (top) and Traditional (bottom) Chinese characters
Traditional Chinese	揚州
Simplified Chinese	扬州
Literal meaning	[Seat of] Yang Province
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Yángzhōu Wade–Giles Yang-chou IPA [jǎŋ.ʈʂóʊ] Wu Romanization Yang-tseu Yue: Cantonese Jyutping Joeng⁴ Zau¹
Historical Names Hancheng
Chinese	邗城
Literal meaning	Han City
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Hánchéng Wade–Giles Han-cheng
Guangling
Traditional Chinese	廣陵
Simplified Chinese	广陵
Literal meaning	Expansive Tomb
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Guǎnglíng Wade–Giles Kuang-ling
Jiangdu
Chinese	江都
Literal meaning	Capital on the [Yangtze] River
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Jiāngdū Wade–Giles Chiang-tu

Yangzhou is a prefecture-level city in central Jiangsu Province, East China. Sitting on the north bank of the Yangtze, it borders the provincial capital Nanjing to the southwest, Huai'an to the north, Yancheng to the northeast, Taizhou to the east, and Zhenjiang across the river to the south. Its population was 4,559,797 at the 2020 census and its urban area is home to 2,635,435 inhabitants, including three urban districts, currently in the agglomeration.

Historically, Yangzhou was one of the wealthiest cities in China, known at various periods for its great merchant families, poets, artists, and scholars. Its name (lit. "Rising Prefecture") refers to its former position as the capital of the ancient Yangzhou prefecture in imperial China. Yangzhou was one of the first cities to benefit from one of the earliest World Bank loans in China, used to construct Yangzhou thermal power station in 1994.^[6][7]