Wenchang

Also known as Wenchang Shi

Wenchang (postal: Mencheong; ; Hainanese spellings: Boon Siou) is a county-level city in the northeast of Hainan Island in China. Covering an area of , the city has a coastline of , and is divided into 17 towns.

Key facts

Settlement.name: Wenchang
Settlement.settlement_type: County-level & Sub-prefectural city
Settlement.image_skyline: Wenchang City old area - 06.JPG
Settlement.image_caption: Wennan Old Street
Settlement.image_map: Hainan_subdivisions_-_Wenchang.png
Settlement.map_caption: Wenchang City jurisdiction in Hainan
Settlement.pushpin_map: Hainan
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location of the city center in Hainan
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: People's Republic of China
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Province
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Hainan
Settlement.unit_pref: Metric
Settlement.area_total_km2: 2403
Settlement.population_as_of: 2010
Settlement.population_total: 537,428
Settlement.population_density_km2: auto
Settlement.population_metro: 115000

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

16 sections

Contents

History
Geography
Wencheng Town
Wennan Old Street
Other towns
Climate
Culture
Points of interest
Spaceport
Education
Notable people
Artists
Business
Eunuchs
References
External links

The city is a major target for typhoons in the northwestern Pacific, and experiences the most frequent and severe typhoon-induced storm surges in the South China Sea. The city is a major ancestral home of Chinese diaspora, with the local dish Wenchang chicken as an origin of Hainanese chicken rice in Southeast Asia. Since 2016, the city has also been home to China’s newest spaceport.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wenchang” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.