yangzhou hotels Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/yangzhou-hotels Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:21:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Yangzhou Map http://travelsfinders.com/yangzhou-map.html http://travelsfinders.com/yangzhou-map.html#respond Tue, 24 Jan 2017 13:36:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=231566 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 119°26’E and 32°27’N. Buses run to the provincial capital Nanjing, about 100km/60 miles to the north. The origins of Yangzhou go back some 2400 years, to the Spring and Autumn period, but it really came into prominence in the 6th c. when the Sui Emperor Yangdi ordered the Grand Canal to be dug. When this project was completed Yangzhou became a major port for foreign trade. Underthe Tangs (618-907) the famous

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