宁波 (Níngbō)
宁波1 (Níngbō) is a city centered on the Yong River, west of the Chuanshan Peninsula. The shi is south of Hangzhou Bay and west of the Zhoushan Archipelago, in 浙江2 (Zhèjiāng) Province, 中华3 (Zhōnghuá) People's Republic. It gained its name and current large population (metropolitan population of 6.557 million4) only since 1949. There is a bridge across Hangzhou Bay connecting the city to Shanghai. The tallest building as of the beginning of winter 2016 is the Global Shipping Plaza (843 feet, 2015).5
UNESCO honors, as part of a World Heritage Site, three sections of canals: the Ningbo Sanjangkou Canal; and the Ningbo section of the Zhedong Canal; and the part of the Shangyu-Yupao section of the Zhedong Canal that is nearer Yupao.
The area is served by the Ningbo Lishe International Airport, one of the 50 busiest airports in the nation.6
| Year | Population | Political entity |
| 2000 CE | 4,106,0007| 中华 (Zhōnghuá or Chinese) People's Republic) | |
Historical Map
External references
Downtown Ningbo, Zhèjiāng Province, Zhōnghuá People's Republic
Footnotes
1. Níngbō or Ning-po or Ningbwo in transliterated Pŭtōnghuà Chinese. The first character is in its modern form and means peaceful or rather. The second character wave, ripple, storm or surge. Thus: peaceful waves. In the Wu dialect group it transliterates as Nyingpo.
2. Zhèjiāng or Che-Chiang or Jejyang in transliterated Pŭtōnghuà Chinese. It is also called Chekiang (former postal designation based on the Nanjing dialect). The first character is a phonetic marker coupled with the water radical. In reconstructed Old Chinese it was pronounced like tet, and was a proto-Wu term for the Yue people according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhejiang, accessed August 10, 2016. The second character means river.
3. Zhōnghuá or Chung-hua or Junghwa in transliterated Pŭtōnghuà Chinese. The first character means central and the second means Chinese/ illustrious/ flowery. China is its English name. In the Wu dialect group it transliterates as Tsonkoh.
4. The shi had 7.606 million according to the 2010 census. Omitting the three xiàn reduces this to 6.557 million. (2010 census figures are from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ningbo, accessed July 31, 2016.)
5. Emporis.com, accessed Dec. 7, 2016.
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_busiest_airports_in_China, accessed August 3, 2016: 2015 table of top 50.
7. https://www.citypopulation.de/php/china-zhejiang-admin.php (accessed Aug. 2, 2016) provided the prefectural and sub-prefectural populations for 2000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_administrative_divisions_of_Zhejiang, accessed on the same date provided the list of administrative changes 2000 to date, specifically that Yinzhou County was upgraded to a district. Adding Yinzhou District to the list of exclusions brings the metropolitan population down to 4.106 million, with the shi without exclusions having 5.963 million in 2000 CE.
