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Nanchang
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About Nanchang
Nanchang sits on the route: 5 minutes from Changleng.
Nanchang is in Jiangxi, China, with about 2.4 million people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Changleng, about 4 km away.
Nanchang is the capital of Jiangxi, China. Located in the north-central part of the province and in the hinterland of Poyang Lake Plain, it is bounded on the west by the Jiuling Mountains, and on the east by Poyang Lake. Because of its strategic location connecting the prosperous East and South China, it has become aRead more
major railway hub in Southern China in recent decades.
As the Nanchang Uprising in 1927 is distinctively recognized by the ruling Communist Party as "firing the first gunshot against the Nationalists", the current government has therefore named the city since 1949 "the place where the People's Liberation Army was born", and the most widely known "place where the military banner of the People's Liberation Army was first raised".
Nanchang is also a major city, appearing among the top 100 cities in the world by scientific research outputs, as tracked by the Nature Index and home to Nanchang University.
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Nanchang is in Jiangxi, China, about 4 km from Changleng.
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- Population
- 2,357,839
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- China
- Region
- Jiangxi
- Timezone
- Asia/Shanghai
- Coordinates
- 28.6840, 115.8531
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