温州 (Wēnzhōu)
温州1 (Wēnzhōu) is a city centered on the right (south) side of the Ou River in 浙江2 (Zhèjiāng) Province, 中华3 (Zhōnghuá) People's Republic. Only in the 20th century did its population grow so large (metropolitan population of 5.941 million).4 The tallest building is the Wēnzhōu Trade Center (1094 feet, 2010).5
Tourists like Yandang Mountain Scenic Area, centered on an old caldera.6
The area is served by the Wēnzhōu Yongqiang International Airport, one of the 50 busiest airports in the nation.7
| Year | Population | Political entity |
| 2000 CE | 4,552,0008| 中华 (Zhōnghuá or Chinese) People's Republic) | |
Historical Map
External references
Downtown Wēnzhōu, Zhèjiāng Province, Zhōnghuá People's Republic
Footnotes
1. Wēnzhōu or Wen-chou or Wenjou in transliterated Pŭtōnghuà Chinese. The first character is in its modern form and means warm or review. The second character refers to an administrative division, usually translated as either province, prefecture or county. In the Wenzhou dialect of the Wu dialect group it transliterates Luciou.
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 9.122 million according to the 2010 census. Omitting the five xiàn reduces this to 5.941 million. (2010 census figures are from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenzhou, accessed July 31, 2016.)
5. Emporis.com, accessed Dec. 8, 2016.
6. Tourist sites for the province are from two sites: http://www.china.org.cn/top10/2012-06/04/content_25538813.htm (Zhejiang tourism, accessed August 3, 2016)--for the first five only as the rest errored out, and these were really the top five as the list was backward-ordered; however the first one (that is, number ten) was eliminated. The rest are from https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attractions-g297468-Activities-Zhejiang.html--the top five, accessed August 3, 2016.
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_busiest_airports_in_China, accessed August 3, 2016: 2015 table of top 50.
8. 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 Dongtou County was upgraded to a district. Adding Dougtou District to the list of exclusions brings the metropolitan population down to 4.552 million, with the shi without exclusions having 7.558 million in 2000 CE.
