Nanchino
Nanchino (南京 sempl., Nánjīng pinyin – Capitale del sud – )è una città della Repubblica popolare cinese. Nanchino è la capitale e municipalità della provincia dello Jiangsu. Nanchino ha 3.087.010 abitanti nel centro città, 3.967.437 nell’agglomerato urbano (al 1º gennaio 2005) e 6 milioni nell’intero territorio cittadino. È rivendicata come capitale della Repubblica di Cina (detta anche di Taiwan) dal 1949, anche se la capitale de facto della detta Repubblica è Taipei.
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Nanjing (Chinese: 南京; pinyin: Nánjīng; literally “Southern Capital”; Mandarin: [nǎntɕíŋ]; Romanizations: Nánjīng (Pinyin), Nan-ching (Wade-Giles), Nanking (Postal map spelling)) is the capital of Jiangsu Province, China, and has a prominent place in Chinese history and culture. The city’s name (南京) means “Southern Capital”, and was widely romanised as ‘Nanking’ until the Pinyin language reform, after which ‘Nanjing’ became the international standard spelling of the city’s name.
Located in the lower Yangtze River drainage basin and Yangtze River Delta economic zone, Nanjing has always been one of China’s most important cities. It served as the capital of China during several historical periods and is recognised as one of the Four Great Ancient Capitals of China. Nanjing was the capital of the Republic of China before the Chinese Civil War in 1949. Nanjing is also one of the fifteen sub-provincial cities in the People’s Republic of China’s administrative structure, enjoying jurisdictional and economic autonomy only slightly less than that of a province. Nanjing has long been a national center of education, research, transport networks, and tourism. The city will host the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics.
With an urban population of over five million (2006), Nanjing is the second largest commercial center in the East China region, after Shanghai. It has been ranked fourth by Forbes magazine in its listing of “2008 Top 100 Busin