Sandouping Town
Sign in to saveSandouping () is a town in Yiling District of Yichang prefecture-level city in the Chinese province of Hubei. It is located on the right (southern) bank of the Yangtze River, next to Yiling District's border with Zigui County to the west. Sandouping is best known as the location of the Three Gorges Dam, which is the world's largest electricity-generating plant of any kind.
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Key facts
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- Sandouping
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- San-tou-p’ing
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- 三斗坪镇
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- Town
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- 250px
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- On the Yangtze waterfront near Sandouping town center (Huanglingmiao Village), looking west toward Xiling Bridge and the Three Gorges Dam (not visible because of fog)
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- China Hubei
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- Location in Hubei
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- 250
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- People's Republic of China
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- Hubei
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town of China
- Official name
- 三斗坪镇
- Country
- China
- Located in
- Yiling District
- Area
- 178
- Elevation
- 480
- Time zone
- UTC+08:00
- Official website
- sdp.10.gov.cn
- Image
- Sandouping-waterfront-4896.jpg
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Sandouping () is a town in Yiling District of Yichang prefecture-level city in the Chinese province of Hubei. It is located on the right (southern) bank of the Yangtze River, next to Yiling District's border with Zigui County to the west. Sandouping is best known as the location of the Three Gorges Dam, which is the world's largest electricity-generating plant of any kind.
==History== The predecessor of today's Sandouping, the village of Huangniupu (黄牛铺, "Yellow Cow Post Station") was established during the reign of the Hongzhi Emperor in 1496. Sandouping District was created in March 1949 and transformed into Sandouping Town in February 1984.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sandouping Town” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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