Nanjing: Capital city of Jiangsu Province, China, former capital of the Republic of China and China's Ming dynasty

Nánjīng Shì

南京市
Nánjīng Shì 南京市
S.P.-City
	Location within China
	Nánjīng Shì
	Coordinates: 32°03′N 118°46′E / 32.050°N 118.767°E
Country	People's Republic of China
County-level divisions	13
Township divisions	129
Settled	495 BC
Government
• CPC Nanjing	Luo Zhijun; Committee Secretary
• Mayor	Jiang Hongkun
Area (ranked 29th)
• Total	6,596 km2 (2,547 sq mi)
Elevation	20 m (50 ft)
Population (2000)
• Total	6,126,165
• Density	928.8/km2 (2,406/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard Time)
Postal code	210000 - 211300
Area code	25
License plate prefixes	苏A
GDP (2007)	US$45.2 billion (1.00US$=7.25Renminbi¥,Nov, 2007)
- per capita	US$7,442
Website	City of Nanjing
	City trees; Deodar Cedar (Cedrus deodara)City flowers; Chinese plum (Prunus mume)

Name

The Mandarin Chinese name of the city is Nánjīng (help·info), which means "The Southern Capital". It got this name when the Yongle Emperor of the Ming family of rulers moved most of his government to Beijing ("The Northern Capital") in the early 1400s. In Chinese, Nanjing's name is written 南京. Today, people spell it "Nanjing" because they use the pinyin way of spelling. Pinyin tries to show how the word should sound in Mandarin. People also used to write it "Nan-chang", using Mr. Wade and Mr. Giles's way of spelling, and "Nanking", using the Chinese Postal Map's way.

Nanjing Municipality is divided into 11 districts.

Nanjing currently has 18 sister cities (areas), namely:

Preceded by Beijing	Capital of China 1368-1420	Succeeded by Beijing
Preceded by Beijing	Capital of China 1928-1937	Succeeded by Wuhan (wartime)
Preceded by Chongqing	Capital of China 1945-1949	Succeeded by Guangzhou for the Republic of China
Preceded by Chongqing	Capital of China 1945-1949	Succeeded by Beijing for the People's Republic of China