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Ningbo Municipality, A prefecture-level city under Zhejiang Province , In Chinese [宁波市]

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Administrative Division Code : 330200;
Post Code : 315000;
Phone Area Code :0574
The Prefix of Motor Vehicle License Plate : 浙B
The Prefix of Citizen Identity Card Number: 330200
Area Coverage: 9672 square kilometers;
Population : 5,567,000 persons;
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The adminitrative division form of Ningbo is Municipality, which is one of the four administrative divisional forms at the the second level of China local administrative division system .
Municipality is also referred to as a prefecture level city (地级市). Most of Chinese big cities belong to this variety.
A prefecture-level municipality is subject to the juridiction of a provincial government ,and directly controls some urban districts while overseeing some counties or smaller cities on behalf of the provincial government.
Thus it's normal to see a large City (a Municipality) have juridiction over some small cities in China.
Subdivisions Under the jurisdication of Ningbo Municipality
S/NFull NameIn Chinese In PinyinDivison type
1Yinzhou District鄞州区Yinzhou QuDistrict
2Zhenhai District镇海区Zhenhai QuDistrict
3Beilun District北仑区Beilun QuDistrict
4Jiangbei District江北区Jiangbei QuDistrict
5Jiangdong District江东区Jiangdong QuDistrict
6Haishu District海曙区Haishu QuDistrict
7Fenghua City奉化市Fenghua ShiCity
8Cixi City慈溪市Cixi ShiCity
9Yuyao City余姚市Yuyao ShiCity
10Ninghai County宁海县Ninghai XianCounty
11Xiangshan County象山县Xiangshan XianCounty
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The city of Ningbo is located in the northeastern corner of Zhejiang Province, roughly 125 kilometers, as the crow flies, east-southeast of the city of Hangzhou , across Hangzhou Bay from Shanghai , i.e., south of Shanghai, and facing the East China Sea to the east. The city, whose name means "Serene (Ning) waves (bo)" (surely a reference to Hangzhou Bay to the north), is a major port city, and, as will be seen in the brief history below, got its start as a significant modern port city thanks to its role as a so-called Treaty Port, as part of the so-called Unequal Treaties outcome that resulted from the Opium Wars (1839-42 and 1856-60), albeit, "thanks" is hardly the word that the Chinese themselves would use to describe the humiliation that the Unequal Treaties' "Colonial era" represented for the country, but which nevertheless hastened the demise of the feudalistic Imperial era, ushering in the Republic of China in 1912.

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