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Nanchong
Sichuan, China · Asia
About Nanchong
Nanchong sits on the route: 10 minutes from Huohua.
Nanchong is in Sichuan, China, with about 1.9 million people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Huohua, about 5 km away.
Nanchong (Chinese: 南充; pinyin: Nánchōng; Wade–Giles: Nan-ch'ung; Sichuanese: lan2cong1) is a prefecture-level city in the northeast of Sichuan province, China, with an area of 12,479.96 km2 (4,818.54 sq mi). At the 2020 census it was home to 5,607,565 people, of whom 1,936,534 lived in the built-up (or 'metro') areaRead more
made of three urban districts. It is the second most populated city of Sichuan Province, after Chengdu. The administrative center is Shunqing District. At the end of 2024, the resident population of the city was 5.489 million, a decrease of 22,000 from the previous year. The resident population of urban areas is 2.949 million, and the resident population of rural areas is 2.54 million. The urbanization rate of the resident population is 53.73%, an increase of 0.9 percentage points over the previous year. At the end of the year, the registered population of the city was 6.977 million, a decrease of 55,000 compared with the end of the previous year.
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Nanchong is in Sichuan, China, about 5 km from Huohua.
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- Population
- 1,858,875
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- China
- Region
- Sichuan
- Timezone
- Asia/Shanghai
- Coordinates
- 30.7951, 106.0847
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