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  2. Chongqing - Wikipedia

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    Chongqing food is part of Sichuan cuisine. Chongqing is known for its spicy food. Its food is normally considered numbing because of the use of Sichuan pepper, also known as Sichuan peppercorn, containing hydroxy alpha sanshool. Chongqing's city center has many restaurants and food stalls where meals often cost less than RMB10.

  3. History of Chongqing - Wikipedia

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    On November 23, the Sichuan Military Government was established, appointing Zhang Peijue of the Chongqing Revolutionary Alliance as the commander-in-chief and Xia Zhishi as the deputy commander-in-chief, marking Chongqing's entry into the Republic of China era. [14] In 1929, Chongqing was formally declared a city. [8]

  4. Southwestern China - Wikipedia

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    The narrowest concept of Southwestern China consists of Sichuan, Chongqing, Yunnan, and Guizhou, while wider definitions often include Guangxi and western portions of Hunan. [4] The official government definition of Southwestern China includes the core provinces of Sichuan, Chongqing, Yunnan, and Guizhou, in addition to the Tibet Autonomous ...

  5. Sichuan Basin - Wikipedia

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    The Sichuan Basin was integrated into Imperial China under Qin dynasty for whom it was an important agricultural resource. [ 12 ] During the period of the Three Kingdoms , the Sichuan Basin was at the centre of another independent Shu State , until it was reunified with China in the 3rd century CE by the Jin dynasty . [ 13 ]

  6. Administrative divisions of China - Wikipedia

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    Province-like, which is the municipality of Chongqing, a merger of 4 former prefectures and similar to the former Eastern-Sichuan province. Prefecture-like, which are the other three municipalities and almost all prefectural-level cities, usually 10–1,000 times larger than the urban center and a conglomeration of several counties and county ...

  7. Sichuan - Wikipedia

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    Japanese bombers bombing a road in Chongqing, then part of Sichuan province, during WW2. In the early 20th century, the newly founded Republic of China established the Chuanbian Special Administrative District (川邊特別行政區) on the province's territories to the west of the Sichuan Basin.

  8. List of administrative divisions of Sichuan - Wikipedia

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    parts of Sichuan Province: Chongqing (Municipality) provincial transferred ★ Chongqing (PL-City) provincial-controlled: disestablished & merged into ☆ Fuling (PL-City) disestablished & merged into ↳ Zhicheng District: ↳ Fuling District: disestablished & established ↳ Lidu District: disestablished & established ↳ Dianjiang County ...

  9. Sichuanese people - Wikipedia

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    During the Yuan and Ming dynasties, the population of Sichuan, Chongqing had been reduced due to immigration, deportation and flight of refugees fleeing war and plague, new or returning settlers from modern Hunan, Hubei, Guangdong and Jiangxi, replacing the earlier spoken language with different languages they adopted from the former regions to ...