Huangyan District

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Huangyan District (Chinese: 黄岩区; pinyin: Huángyán Qū) is a district of Taizhou in Zhejiang Province, China. Huangyan has an area of 988 km² and a population of approximately 570,000.

It has an average annual precipitation of 1676mm and an annual average temperature of 17°C.

In 1989, Huangyan County was upgraded to a county-level city in Taizhou Prefecture. As of 1990 census, the population of Huangyuan City was 888,631. In 1994, Taizhou Prefecture was upgraded to a prefecture-level city, correspondingly Huangyan City was amalgamated in Taizhou City, and divided into two districts as Huangyan and Luqiao.

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Coordinates: 28°39′N, 121°15′E