Jiading District
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Jiading 嘉定区 |
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Shanghai International Circuit
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 Jiading in Shanghai |
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| Country | China |
| Region | Shanghai |
| Time zone | China Standard (UTC+8) |
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| Simplified Chinese | 嘉定区 | ||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 嘉定區 | ||||||||||
| Postal | Kahding | ||||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Jiādìng Qū |
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Shanghainese Romanization |
Ka-din Chiu |
Jiading is a suburban district of Shanghai. It had a population of 1,471,100 in 2010.
Jiading District is located in the northwestern part of Shanghai. It stretches across 463.9 square kilometers (179.1 sq mi). It is located about 20 kilometres (12 mi) from downtown Shanghai. It is connected to downtown by the Hujia Expressway, which was the first expressway in Shanghai. It is near Shanghai's Hongqiao Airport but across town from the Pudong International Airport.
Jiading administers several towns including Jiading, Anting, Nanxiang, Huating, Xuhang, Waigang, Huangdu, Malu Town and Jiangqiao.
Shanghai University has a campus in downtown Jiading, which is where SILC is based.
The Shanghai International Circuit is located in Jiading. Each year in April the Shanghai International Circuit holds the Chinese Grand Prix.
The Jiading Confucian Temple is one of the best conserved county-level Confucian temples in China. It has gone through several repairs in the past 800 years.
The Fahua Pagoda located in central Jiading is a tetrahedral brick-wooden pagoda with seven floors and a height of 40.85 meters (134.0 ft).
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