Chekiang
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Zhejiang Province 浙江省 |
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| Province | |
| Name transcription(s) | |
| • Chinese | 浙江省 (Zhèjiāng Shěng) |
| • Abbreviation | (pinyin: Zhè) |
| • Wu | Tsehkaon San |
.svg) Map showing the location of Zhejiang Province |
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| Coordinates: 29°12′N 120°30′E / 29.2°N 120.5°ECoordinates: 29°12′N 120°30′E / 29.2°N 120.5°E | |
| Named for | Old name of Qiantang River |
| Capital (and largest city) |
Hangzhou |
| Divisions | 11 prefectures, 90 counties, 1570 townships |
| Government | |
| • Secretary | Xia Baolong |
| • Governor | Che Jun |
| Area | |
| • Total | 101,800 km2 (39,300 sq mi) |
| Area rank | 26th |
| Population (2016) | |
| • Total | 55,643,841 |
| • Rank | 10th |
| • Density | 550/km2 (1,400/sq mi) |
| • Density rank | 8th |
| Demographics | |
| • Ethnic composition |
Han: 99.2% She: 0.4% |
| • Languages and dialects | Wu, Huizhou, Jianghuai Mandarin, Min Nan (in Cangnan and Pingyang County) |
| ISO 3166 code | CN-33 |
| GDP (2016) |
CNY 4.65 trillion USD 700 billion (4th) |
| • per capita |
CNY 83,157 USD 12,523 (5th) |
| HDI (2010) | 0.744 (high) (5th) |
| Website | www |
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"Zhejiang" in Chinese characters
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Zhèjiāng |
| Bopomofo | ㄓㄜˋ ㄐㄧㄤ |
| Gwoyeu Romatzyh | Jehjiang |
| Wade–Giles | Chê4-chiang1 |
| IPA | [ʈʂɤ̂ tɕjáŋ] |
| Wu | |
| Romanization | Tseh-kaonIPA: ['t͡səʔ'kɑ̃] |
| Hakka | |
| Romanization | Tset-kông |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Jit-gōng |
| Jyutping | Zit3-gong1 |
| Southern Min | |
| Hokkien POJ | Chiat-kang |
| Tâi-lô | Tsiat-kang |
| Eastern Min | |
| Fuzhou BUC | Ciék-gŏng |
Zhejiang , formerly romanized as Chekiang, is an eastern coastal province of China. Zhejiang is bordered by Jiangsu province and Shanghai municipality to the north, Anhui province to the northwest, Jiangxi province to the west, and Fujian province to the south; to the east is the East China Sea, beyond which lie the Ryukyu Islands of Japan.
The province's name derives from the Zhe River (, Zhè Jiāng), the former name of the Qiantang River which flows past Hangzhou and whose mouth forms Hangzhou Bay. It is usually glossed as meaning "Crooked" or "Bent River", from the meaning of Chinese 折, but is more likely a phono-semantic compound formed from adding (the "water" radical used for river names) to phonetic (pinyin zhé but reconstructed Old Chinese *tet), preserving a proto-Wu name of the local Yue, similar to Yuhang, Kuaiji, and Jiang.
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