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Ningbo[ a ] is a sub-provincial city in northeast Zhejiang province, People's Republic of China. It comprises six urban districts, two satellite county-level cities, and two rural counties, including several islands in Hangzhou Bay and the East China Sea. Ningbo is the southern economic center [ 3 ] of the Yangtze Delta megalopolis. [ 4 ]
Zhoushan [a] is an urbanized archipelago with the administrative status of a prefecture-level city in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang. [b] It consists of an archipelago of islands at the southern mouth of Hangzhou Bay, off the mainland city of Ningbo.
It is the province's largest island and 3rd-largest in mainland China after Hainan and Chongming. The island is the district seat of both Dinghai and Putuo. The island was the site of the first and second capture of Chusan during the First Opium War . When referred to as a port, the Port of Zhoushan (舟山市) refers to the prefecture-level ...
Port of Ningbo-Zhoushan宁波舟山港. / 29.933°N 121.833°E / 29.933; 121.833. The Port of Ningbo-Zhoushan is the busiest port in the world in terms of cargo tonnage. It handled 888.96 million tons of cargo in 2015. [1] The port is located in Ningbo and Zhoushan, on the coast of the East China Sea, in Zhejiang province on the ...
The capital Hangzhou marks the end of the Grand Canal and lies on Hangzhou Bay on the north of Zhejiang, which separates Shanghai and Ningbo. The bay contains many small islands collectively called the Zhoushan Islands. Hangzhou is a historically important city of China and is considered a World City with a "Beta+" classification according to ...
Yanguan tidal bore (2017). The Bay is known for hosting the world's largest tidal bore, up to 9 meters (30 feet) high, and traveling up to 40 km (25 mi) per hour. Yanguan Town Tide-Viewing Park (盐官镇观潮胜地公园 Yánguān Zhèn Guāncháo Shèngdì Gōngyuán), on the north shore of Hangzhou Bay some 50 km east of the city of Hangzhou, is regarded as one of the best place to watch ...
Yushan Island ( Chinese: 渔山列岛; pinyin: Yúshānlièdǎo) [1] is in Xiangshan County in northeast Zhejiang province, Eastern China. It is the most southeastern island in Xiangshan, located 27 miles from Shipu Town ( Chinese: 石浦镇; pinyin: Shípǔzhèn ), [2] [3] near Ningbo City. It is situated in the north and south ocean current ...
The Yangtze Delta or Yangtze River Delta ( YRD, Chinese : 长江三角洲 or simply 长三角 ), once known as the Shanghai Economic Zone, is a megalopolis generally comprising the Wu -speaking areas of Shanghai, southern Jiangsu, northern Zhejiang, southern Anhui. The area lies in the heart of the Jiangnan region (literally, "south of the ...