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Tangshan

Eastern Asia

Tangshan is a coastal, industrial prefecture-level city in the northeast of Hebei province, China, facing the Bohai Sea and lying east-southeast of Beijing. Its prefecture population reached about 7.7 million at the 2020 census. Known as the birthplace of China's first standard-gauge railway, railway plant, steam locomotive and cement factory following the start of coal mining there in 1870, the city is remembered as the country's "cradle of industrialization." Tangshan was devastated by a magnitude 7.8 earthquake on July 28, 1976, with an official death toll of 255,000, and has since been rebuilt into a major port and industrial center.

Facts
Population
7,717,983 1
2020 census figure, prefecture-level city administrative area, not the smaller urban-core figure (4,963,907) the same infobox states separately.
Area (sq km)
13,472 1
Prefecture-level city administrative area, matching the same infobox's population_total scope, per the Beijing entry's own established convention on this atlas.
Founding Year
1938 1
1938 is the modern municipal establishment date. The same article traces the city's growth to 1870, when the Kailuan Group opened coal mines that made Tangshan an industrial and railway town well before 1938.
Population Estimate Year
2020 1
Elevation (m)
39 2
Source gives 38.76 m exactly; rounded to the nearest whole metre for this Int-typed key.
Latitude
39.62944 degrees north 1
Longitude
118.17389 degrees east 1
Elevation Band
Lowland 3
Coastal
Yes 1
Climate Zone
Continental 4
Time Zone
UTC+08:00 5
Sources
1. Tangshan (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Infobox: area_total_km2
    13472
  • Article text
    Tangshan's prefecture population was 7,717,983 at the 2020 census, with 3,687,607 in the built-up (or metro) area made of the 7 urban core districts.
  • Infobox coordinates field
    39°37′46″N 118°10′26″E / 39.62944°N 118.17389°E
  • Article text
    In 1878, Qiaotun town was established at Tangshan and renamed Tangshan Town in 1889. In 1938, Tangshan City was formally founded.
  • Lead
    is a coastal, industrial prefecture-level city in the northeast of Hebei province
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2. Tangshan (Weather and Climate)
World Weather and Climate InformationCity elevation figure
Quote, City elevation figure
an elevation of 38.76 meters (127.17 feet) above sea level
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3. OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m): SRTM 90 m elevation at 39.6294,118.1739
OpenTopoData (SRTM 90 m)results elevation
Quote, results elevation
"elevation": 30.0
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4. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 39.75, 118.25
Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 39.75, 118.25
39.75 118.25 Dwa
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5. GeoNames: Tangshan - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 1793346
Quote, cities500 record 1793346
39.64381 118.18319 P PPLA2 CN 10 1302 3372102 7 Asia/Shanghai
Wikidata: Tangshan
  • Wikidata Q58422, class allow-list match verified against P17/real-world identity (w-geo-qidcite-0926).
  • In Group: Cities of Eastern Asia (World), Wikipedia infobox, country field
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Wikidata: China
On Continent: Asia, Wikidata item for China, property P30 (continent)View the Source
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