Shuyang County facts for kids
"Shuyang" redirects here. For other uses, see Shuyang (disambiguation).
Quick facts for kids
Shuyang
沭阳县
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County
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Location of Shuyang (yellow) in Jiangsu
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| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Jiangsu |
| Prefecture-level city | Suqian |
| Established | 582 BC |
| Government | |
| • Type | Province Managing County |
| Area | |
| • County | 2,298 km2 (887 sq mi) |
| Population
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1,930,000 |
| • Density | 864.45/km2 (2,238.9/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 650,000 |
| • Metro | 650,000 |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code |
223600
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| Area code(s) | 527 |
| GDP | ¥63.01billion (2015) |
| Major Nationalities | Han |
| Township-level divisions | 34 |
| License Plate | 苏N |
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| Traditional Chinese | 沭陽 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 沭阳 | ||||||
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Shuyang (simplified Chinese: 沭阳县; traditional Chinese: 沭陽縣; pinyin: Shùyáng Xiàn) is a county in northern Jiangsu province. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Suqian. The county had a population of about 1.83 million, which ranks second among counties in mainland China, next to Linquan county of Anhui province, in the 2010 census. Shuyang sits on the Northern Jiangsu Plains and borders the cities of Xuzhou, Lianyungang and Huai'an to the north, east and south.
Shuyang is a pilot administrative division for "provinces governing county level units directly" in Jiangsu, along with Kunshan and Taixing.
Images for kids
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The City Wall in 1803
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On the Shuhe Riverside
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