| Yueyang 岳阳 |
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| — Prefecture-level city — | |
| 岳阳市 | |
| Dongting Lake | |
| Location of Yueyang within Hunan | |
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Yueyang
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| Country | China |
| Province | Hunan |
| Area | |
| • Prefecture-level city | 5,751.4 sq mi (14,896 km2) |
| • Urban | 518.9 sq mi (1,344 km2) |
| • Metro | 117.4 sq mi (304 km2) |
| Population (2010 census) | |
| • Prefecture-level city | 5,477,911 |
| • Density | 952.5/sq mi (367.7/km2) |
| • Urban | 977,036 |
| • Urban density | 1,882.8/sq mi (727/km2) |
| • Metro | 571,670 |
| • Metro density | 4,870.5/sq mi (1,880.5/km2) |
| Time zone | China standard time (UTC+8) |
| Website | http://www.yueyang.gov.cn/ |
Yueyang (simplified Chinese: 岳阳; traditional Chinese: 岳陽; pinyin: Yuèyáng; Wade–Giles: Yüeh-yang; Postal map spelling: Yochow) is a prefecture-level city at the northeastern corner of Hunan province, South Central China, on the southern shores of Dongting Lake.
The Yueyang metropolitan area occupies 14,896 km². and the city proper occupies 304 km². The population is 5,477,911 at the 2010 census whom 571,670 live in the built up area made of Yueyanglou District.
The city's most famous attraction is the Yueyang Tower (岳阳楼 Yuèyánglóu).
City flower: Gardenia. It is twinned with Numazu, Japan and Castlegar, British Columbia, Canada.
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The Yueyang prefecture is made up of six outlying districts, two special districts and the city proper. The six city districts are Huarong, Linxiang, Xiangyin, Pingjiang, Miluo and Yueyang. The two special (smaller) districts are Junshan and Yunxi, which used to be part of Yueyang city proper but were separated into their own special districts for administrative purposes.
The area now called Yueyang has been inhabited for over 3,000 years. It was originally established as a prefecture called Hanchang in 210 AD during the Three Kingdoms period.
Under the Song Dynasty (AD 960-AD 1279) it was heavily fortified, with walls 4 miles (6.4 km) in circumference, and became the seat of the military prefecture of Yueyang, whence its present name. During the Taiping Rebellion, its capture by the rebels in AD 1852 was an important stage in their advance up the Yangtze River valley to Nanjing. At the time of the foundation of the Republic of China in AD 1911, it became a county, taking the name Yueyang.
| Climate data for Yueyang (1953–2007) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | 8.2 (46.8) |
10.1 (50.2) |
14.6 (58.3) |
20.9 (69.6) |
25.5 (77.9) |
29.2 (84.6) |
32.5 (90.5) |
32.0 (89.6) |
27.8 (82.0) |
22.3 (72.1) |
16.4 (61.5) |
10.7 (51.3) |
20.9 (69.6) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 2.1 (35.8) |
4.0 (39.2) |
8.2 (46.8) |
14.1 (57.4) |
18.9 (66.0) |
23.0 (73.4) |
26.4 (79.5) |
25.6 (78.1) |
21.0 (69.8) |
15.5 (59.9) |
9.8 (49.6) |
4.3 (39.7) |
14.4 (57.9) |
| Precipitation mm (inches) | 57.0 (2.244) |
76.0 (2.992) |
120.9 (4.76) |
172.9 (6.807) |
186.9 (7.358) |
213.5 (8.406) |
133.7 (5.264) |
117.2 (4.614) |
59.7 (2.35) |
76.0 (2.992) |
69.1 (2.72) |
42.7 (1.681) |
1,325.6 (52.189) |
| Source: National Meteorological Centre of CMA | |||||||||||||
There are a total of six colleges and polytechnic schools and several medical schools, among which the major national level educational institution is Hunan Institute of Science and Technology.
Other colleges include:
Schools:
Secondary Vocational Schools
Primary Schools
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