Nanjing is located in the east of China, in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and near the river. It is the headquarters of China Eastern Theater Command, the shipping and logistics center of yangtze river international, an important national gateway city driven by the Yangtze River Delta radiation, and an important node city where the eastern coastal economic belt and the Yangtze River economic belt meet strategically.
Nanjing is one of the four ancient capitals in China, one of the first national historical and cultural cities and an important birthplace of Chinese civilization. Blessing China several times in history. It is the only one of the four ancient capitals that has never been the capital of an alien regime, and has long been the political, economic and cultural center of southern China. There were ancient human activities in Nanjing as early as100-1.20 thousand years ago, and there was Nanjing ape-man life in Tangshan 350 thousand-600 thousand years ago. With a history of more than 7,000 years of civilization, nearly 2,600 years of city construction and nearly 500 years of capital construction, it is known as "the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties" and "the metropolis of the Ten Dynasties".
Nanjing is an important science and education center in China. Since ancient times, it has been a city that worships and values education. It has the reputation of "the literary hub in the world" and "the first school in Southeast China". During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, more than half of the top scholars in China came from Gongyuan in the south of the Yangtze River. As of 20 16, there are 74 colleges and universities in Nanjing, including 9 planned colleges and 25 disciplines, second only to Beijing. 2 1 1 There are 8 universities and 12 first-class universities, second only to Beijing and Shanghai. There are 82 academicians of the two academies, and 87 invited experts of the Thousand Talents Program, ranking third in the country.
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Nanjing is located in the middle of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, in the southwest of Jiangsu Province. It is a national regional central city (East China), the headquarters of the East China Theater, an important national gateway city driven by the radiation of the Yangtze River Delta, a node city where the "Belt and Road" strategy meets the Yangtze River Economic Belt strategy, and a core city of the Nanjing metropolitan area. Geographical coordinates are 3 1 14 "north latitude to 32 37"18 22 "east longitude to114". The geographical coordinates of Xinjiekou in the city center are 32 02' 38 "north latitude and118 46' 43" east longitude. The total area is 6587.02km2, and the built-up area in 20 17 years/kloc-0 1398.69km2.
Nanjing's landform belongs to Ningzhenyang hilly area, with low mountains and gentle hills as the main features. Low mountains account for 3.5% of the total land area, hills account for 4.3%, hills account for 53%, and plains, depressions, rivers and lakes account for 39.2%. Ningzhen Mountain Range and Laoshan Mountain in the north of the Yangtze River run through the middle of the city. There are Hengshan Mountain and Donglu Mountain in the south, which are located in the southern boundary of the hilly area of Qinhuai River Basin. Nanjing's plane position is long from north to south and narrow from east to west, forming a positive north-south direction; The straight-line distance between north and south is150km, the east-west width in the middle is 50-70km, and the east-west width at the north and south ends is about 30km. The southern part is a landform complex composed of low mountains, hills, valley plains, lakeside plains and rivers along the river.
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Baidu Encyclopedia-Nanjing