衢州 (Qúzhōu)
衢州1 (Qúzhōu) is a city centered on the right (south) bank of the Qu River, shortly after the stream takes on that name,2 in 浙江3 (Zhèjiāng) Province, in 中华4 (Zhōnghuá) People's Republic. Only in the 20th century did it have such a large population (2010 metropolitan population of 1.275 million).5
UNESCO honors, as part of "China Danxia" World Heritage Site, the "Jianglang Shan Unit" of mountains that is found in the Jiāngshān county-level shi (city) that is subordinate to the Qúzhōu prefectural-level shi.
| Year | Population | Political entity |
| 2000 CE | 760,0006| 中华 (Zhōnghuá or Chinese) People's Republic) | |
External references
Fugai Mountain, Jiāngshān county-level shi, Qúzhōu prefectural-level shi, Zhèjiāng Province, Zhōnghuá People's Republic
Footnotes
1. Qúzhōu or Ch'u-chou or Chyujou are transliterations from Pŭtōnghuà Chinese. The first character means broad road and the second refers to an administrative division, usually translated as either province, prefecture or county. I do not know the Wu dialect group's transliteration of this city.
2. Upstream it is called the Changshan and downstream the Fuchun and the Qiantang.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. The shi had 2.123 million according to the 2010 census. Omitting the three xiàn reduces this to 1.275 million. (2010 census figures are from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quzhou, accessed July 31, 2016.)
6. 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 Qujiang District had been upgraded from Qu County. Adding that district to the exclusions reduces the metropolitan population to 760 thousand, with the shi without exclusions having 2.189 million in 2000 CE.
