Yinchuan
Yinchuan
银川市 Yinchwan | |
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The territory of Yinchuan prefecture-level city (yellow) within Ningxia | |
Yinchuan Location of the city center in Ningxia Yinchuan Yinchuan (China) | |
| Coordinates (Ningxia People's Government): 38°29′06″N 106°13′30″E / 38.485°N 106.225°E | |
| Country | China |
| Autonomous region | Ningxia |
| Municipal seat | Jinfeng District |
| Government | |
| • Type | Prefecture-level city |
| • Body | Yinchuan Municipal People's Congress |
| • CCP Secretary | Zhang Zhu |
| • Congress Chairman | Li Hongru |
| • Mayor | Zhao Xuhui |
| • CPPCC Chairman | Ma Kai |
| Area | |
| 6,945.9 km2 (2,681.8 sq mi) | |
| • Urban | 3,919.9 km2 (1,513.5 sq mi) |
| • Metro | 3,919.9 km2 (1,513.5 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 1,100 m (3,600 ft) |
| Population (2020 census) | |
| 2,859,074 | |
| • Density | 411.62/km2 (1,066.1/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 2,564,918 |
| • Urban density | 654.33/km2 (1,694.7/sq mi) |
| • Metro | 2,564,918 |
| • Metro density | 654.33/km2 (1,694.7/sq mi) |
| GDP | |
| • Prefecture-level city | CN¥ 149.4 billion US$ 24.0 billion |
| • Per capita | CN¥ 69,595 US$ 11,174 |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 750000 |
| Area code | 0951 |
| ISO 3166 code | CN-NX-01 |
| License plate prefixes | 宁A |
| Website | www.yinchuan.gov.cn (Chinese) |
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"Yínchuān" in Simplified (top) and Traditional (bottom) Chinese characters | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 银川 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 銀川 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hanyu Pinyin | Yínchuān | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | "Silver River" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yinchuan (Chinese: 银川; pinyin: Yínchuān; lit. "Silver River") is a prefecture‑level city and the capital of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in northwest China. It served as the imperial capital of the Tangut‑led Western Xia (1038–1227).
Yinchuan hosts the biennial China–Arab States Expo. As of the 2020 Chinese census, Yinchuan’s administrative area had 2,859,074 inhabitants; the built‑up area had 2,564,918 residents, comprising the three urban districts and the urbanized parts of Helan and Yongning counties. At the end of 2024, the resident population of the city was 2,914,700, an increase of 66,600 over the end of the previous year. Among them, the urban population is 2,429,400.