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Nantong
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About Nantong
Nantong sits on the route: 25 minutes from Jinsha.
Nantong is in Jiangsu, China, with about 2.3 million people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Jinsha, about 20 km away.
Nantong is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Jiangsu province, China. Located on the northern bank of the Yangtze River, near the river mouth. Nantong is a vital river port bordering Yancheng to the north; Taizhou to the west; Suzhou, Wuxi and Shanghai to the south across the river; and the East China Sea to theRead more
east. Its population was 7,726,635 as of the 2020 census, 3,766,534 of whom lived in the built-up area made up of three urban districts.
On September 26, 2004, the first World Metropolitan Development Forum was held in Nantong. In 2005, Nantong had a GDP growth of 15.4%, the highest growth rate in Jiangsu province, and in 2016 Nantong's GDP had a total of about 675 billion yuan, ranking 21st in the whole country.
Although the city took a blow from the economic depression of the 1930s, as well as the Japanese occupation of the 1930s and 40s, Nantong has remained an important center for the textile industry. Because of its deepwater harbor and connections to inland navigational canals, it was one of 14 port cities opened to foreign investment in recent Chinese economic reforms.
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Nantong is in Jiangsu, China, about 20 km from Jinsha.
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- Population
- 2,273,326
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- China
- Region
- Jiangsu
- Timezone
- Asia/Shanghai
- Coordinates
- 32.0303, 120.8747
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