Yiyang

According to the 2010 Census, Yiyang has a population of 4,313,084 inhabitants residing in an area of 12,144 km² (4,689 sq mi). The previous census was in 2000 when it was recorded there were 4,309,143 inhabitants.

Yiyang 益阳市 I-yang
Prefecture-level city
Location of Yiyang City jurisdiction in Hunan
Yiyang Location of the city centre in Hunan
Coordinates (Yiyang municipal government): 28°33′18″N 112°21′22″E / 28.5549°N 112.3560°E / 28.5549; 112.3560
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Hunan
Municipal seat	Heshan District
Area
• Prefecture-level city	12,144 km2 (4,689 sq mi)
• Urban  (2017)	109.00 km2 (42.09 sq mi)
• Districts	1,851.0 km2 (714.7 sq mi)
Population  (2010 Census)
• Prefecture-level city	4,313,084
• Density	360/km2 (920/sq mi)
• Urban  (2017)	666,600
• Districts	1,459,000
GDP
• Prefecture-level city	CN¥ 210.8 billion US$ 31.3 billion
• Per capita	CN¥ 55,567 US$ 8,263
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code	413000
Area code	0737
ISO 3166 code	CN-HN-09
Website	www.yiyang.gov.cn/yiyang/index.htm

Yiyang county was founded in 221 BC after Qin conquest Chu state. It is designated Yiyang as the county seat was situated at the north bank of the Yi River (modern Zi River). Then the present-day jurisdiction mostly became a part of the Principality of Changsha commandery during the Western Han.

 

Yiyang administers two districts, one county-level city, and three counties. The information here presented uses the metric system and data from 2010 national census.

Map
Ziyang Heshan Nan County Taojiang County Anhua County Yuanjiang (city)

Yiyang has many hilly farmlands in its vicinity. The primary crop around Yiyang is rice, with tea, and bamboo is also grown.

The current CPC Party Secretary of Yiyang is Qu Hai and the current Mayor is Zhang Zhiheng.

Huaguxi, the local Hunanese opera is very popular in Yiyang. The cuisine of Yiyang (a species of Xiang cuisine) is very famous for its spicy food made from pure Chili peppers.

Yiyang has many famous people in the modern time of China. Ho Feng-Shan is very famous in the history of Chinese foreign affairs since he had saved many Jewish families in Europe and China when he worked as a diplomat for China during World War II. Libo Zhou is a well-known writer in China, who was born in Yiyang.

The Language in Yiyang is "Yiyong-Wa" (Yiyang Dialect), which belongs to New Xiang dialect of the Chinese language. This dialect is very prevalent in all of Yiyang. But the western area of Anhua County of Yiyang has a slightly different accent, which is close to the Old Xiang accent of the Loudi District. Yiyang Dialect retains many ancient words and pronunciations and is influenced surprisingly little by Mandarin Chinese. Consequently, the Yiyang Dialect is very hard to understand for outsiders, although its speakers can communicate well with the speakers of other New Xiang dialects.

Historically, Buddhism and Taoism both played very important roles in the life of Yiyang people. In modern times, both of these religions experienced a decline, as in many other places in China. But nowadays, however, Buddhism and Christianity have many adherents in Yiyang, respectively 340,500 and 238,100 registered members.

• Hunan City University (湖南城市学院)

Twin towns — Sister cities

Yiyang is twinned with:

•   Namhae County, South Korea (2006)
•   Petah Tikva, Israel (2011)
•   Stara Zagora, Bulgaria (1994.12.04)
•   Guarulhos, Brazil (2019)

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