Jingkou District

Jingkou District
Traditional Chinese	京口區
Simplified Chinese	京口区
Literal meaning	Capital Mouth District
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Jīngkǒu Qū

Jingkou
Jingkou; 京口区
	District
	Jingkou Location in Jiangsu
	Coordinates: 32°12′05″N 119°27′37″E[1]
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Jiangsu
Prefecture-level city	Zhenjiang
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)

Jingkou District is one of three districts of Zhenjiang, Jiangsu province, China. The district has an area of 115 km² and a population of 410,000 people. The postal code for Jingkou is 212001 and the telephone code is 0511.

History

Jingkou was the site of the original meeting place between the Grand Canal and the Yangtze River. It was the site of an imperial army garrison under the Qing.[2]

References

Google (2014-07-02). "Jingkou" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 2014-07-02.
Cassel, Pär (2003), "Excavating Extraterritoriality: The "Judicial Sub-Prefect" as a Prototype for the Mixed Court in Shanghai", Late Imperial China, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 156–182.

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[1] Google (2014-07-02). "Jingkou" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 2014-07-02.

[2] Cassel, Pär (2003), "Excavating Extraterritoriality: The "Judicial Sub-Prefect" as a Prototype for the Mixed Court in Shanghai", Late Imperial China, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 156–182.