Category: China
Province: Shandong Area: 18,OOOsq.km/6950sq. miles Population: 356,000 (conurbation 780,000) Weifang lies in the east of Shandong province, on the railway line from Jinan to Qingdao, at 119°07’E and 36°42’N. …
Province: Zhejiang. Area: 1033sq.km/399sq. miles Population: 1,040,000 (conurbation 4,980,000) Ningbo is situated at 121°32’E and 29°51 ‘N, in the north-east ofthe province of Zhejiang, 25km from the East China …
Hong Kong is a British Crown Colony (since 1842), to which were annexed the Kowloon peninsula in 1860 and the New Territories in 1898 (a 99-year lease). Each of …
Province: Guangdong Area: 327.5sq.km/126sq. miles. Population: 1,000,000 Bordering on Hong Kong, Shenzhen lies at 114°04’E and 22°31’N, 140km/ 87 miles to the south of the provincial capital of Canton, …
Teachings stress the return to an original state, to a natural order. Preserving the equilibrium of this order is one of the purposes of life. Man is just a …
Province: Jiangsu. Altitude: 604m/1982ft. Area: 148km/57sq. miles Population: 410,000 (conurbation 6,980,000) Yangzhou lies in the central region of Jiangsu province, between the Changjiang river and the Grand Canal, at …
To the South it is compassed with two walls high and strong, so broad that twelve Horses may easily runne abreast on the breadth without hindering one the other. …
The Park ofthe Beautiful View lies just a short distance north ofthe Imperial Palace. The hill in the centre of the park was named “coal hill” (Meisham), because under …