Jinjiang
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Key facts
- Country
- People's Republic of China
- Province
- Fujian
- Prefecture level city
- Quanzhou
- City seat
- Luoshan Subdistrict ( 罗山街道 )
- Total
- 721.7 km (278.6 sq mi)
- Density
- 2,857/km (7,398/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+8 ( China Standard )
- Area code
- 0595
- Website
- www.JinJiang.gov.cn
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- 晋江市
- Population
- 2061551
- Area
- 744.28
- Official website
- www.jinjiang.gov.cn
- Image
- Jinjiang - panoramio.jpg
- Dialing code
- 595
- Licence plate code
- 闽C
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- Commons category
- Jinjiang, Fujian
- postal code
- 362200
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Jinjiang City (Chinese: 晋江市; pinyin: Jìnjiāng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chìn-kang) is a county-level city under Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, China. It is located in the southeastern part of the province (Minnan), on the right or south bank of the Jin River, across from Quanzhou's urban district of Fengze and Licheng. Jinjiang also borders the Taiwan Strait of the East China Sea to the south, and Quanzhou's other county-cities of Shishi and Nan'an to the east and west, respectively. It has an area of 721.7 square kilometres (278.6 sq mi) and a population of 2,061,551 as of 2020.
Jinjiang has the only extant Manichean temple in China (Cao'an temple) and is near the eastern end of the world's longest estimated straight-line (great circle) path over land, at 11,241 km (6,985 mi), ending near Sagres, Portugal.