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  2. Nanjing - Wikipedia

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    Nanjing [b] is the capital of Jiangsu, a province in East China.The city, which is located in the southwestern corner of the province, has 11 districts, an administrative area of 6,600 km 2 (2,500 sq mi), and as of 2021 a population of 9,423,400. [6]

  3. Historical capitals of China - Wikipedia

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    Datong was the capital of the Northern Wei dynasty from 398 to 493. Emin was briefly the capital of the Western Liao dynasty from 1132 to 1134. Fenghao, located near present-day Xi'an, was the capital of the Western Zhou dynasty from 1046 BC to 771 BC. Fuzhou was briefly the capital of the Southern Ming dynasty from 1645 to 1646.

  4. City Wall of Nanjing - Wikipedia

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    The City Wall of Nanjing (Chinese: 南京城墙; pinyin: Nánjīng chéngqiáng) was designed by the Hongwu Emperor (1328–1398) after he founded the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644) and established Nanjing as the capital in 1368.

  5. Timeline of Nanjing - Wikipedia

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    1421 - Capital of Ming Dynasty relocated from Nanjing to Beijing. [2] 1430 - Porcelain Tower of Nanjing built. [5] [6] 1441 - 1441 Yangtze flood. 1645 - Qing conquest of Nanjing; Nanzhili reorganized as Jiangnan, later divided into Jiangsu and Anhui; 1657 - City besieged by forces of Koxinga. [7] 1723 - Viceroy of Liangjiang residence relocated ...

  6. Ming Palace - Wikipedia

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    The Republic of China (1912-49) established Nanjing as its capital in 1928, and transformed one of the Qing buildings into the Presidential Palace. The planned development of the capital called for a new central executive zone to be built, around the Presidential Palace, on the former Ming Palace complex grounds. The plan was never completed.

  7. Exclusive-China's Shein files for U.S. IPO -sources - AOL

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    The company's founder Chris Xu moved the company's headquarters to Singapore from Nanjing, capital of China's eastern Jiangsu province, more than a year ago, a move that helps Shein circumvent ...

  8. Qinhuai, Nanjing - Wikipedia

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    Nanjing: Area • Total. 49.11 km 2 (18.96 sq mi) Population ... Qínhuái Qū) is one of 11 districts of Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu province, China. ...

  9. Nanjing Massacre - Wikipedia

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    The Nanjing Massacre [b] or the Rape of Nanjing (formerly romanized as Nanking [c]) was the mass murder of Chinese civilians by the Imperial Japanese Army in Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China, immediately after the Battle of Nanking and retreat of the National Revolutionary Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War.