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Jingmen
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About Jingmen
Jingmen sits on the route: 45 minutes from Zhongxiang.
Jingmen is in Hubei, China, with about 630,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Zhongxiang, about 39 km away.
Jingmen (simplified Chinese: 荆门; traditional Chinese: 荆門; pinyin: Jīngmén; Wade–Giles: Ching1mên2) is a prefecture-level city in central Hubei province, People's Republic of China. Jingmen is within an area where cotton and oil crops are planted. The population of the prefecture is 2,873,687 (2010 population census).Read more
The urban area of Jingmen City has a population of about 400,000.It covers an area of 12,400 square kilometers and has a total population of more than 3 million. The maximum horizontal distance from east to west is 155 kilometers and the maximum vertical distance from north to south is 131 kilometers. Jingmen is so named as in ancient times it was the gateway to Jingzhou, one of the Nine Provinces and means literally Gateway to Jingzhou.
Jingmen is located in the middle of Hubei, overlooking Wuhan in the east, the Three Gorges in the west, Xiaoxiang in the south, and Sichuan and Shaanxi in the north. It is known as the "Gateway to Jingchu".
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Jingmen is in Hubei, China, about 39 km from Zhongxiang.
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- Population
- 632,954
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- China
- Region
- Hubei
- Timezone
- Asia/Shanghai
- Coordinates
- 31.0336, 112.2047
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