Yidu is a county-level city in western Hubei Province, China, under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Yichang. It has a population of 395,000 residents and covers an area of 1,357 square kilometres, divided into one subdistrict, eight towns and one township. Its gross domestic product in 2015 was 50 billion yuan. Yidu was established as a county in 196 BC during the Western Han dynasty, when it was called Yidao, and in 210 AD Liu Bei established Yidu Commandery there, which gives the city a recorded administrative history of more than two thousand years.
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Founding Year Elevation (m) Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Yidu (Wikipedia)
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It has a population of 395,000 residents
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Yidu was established as a county in 196 BC during the Western Han dynasty
View the Source2. Opentopodata (SRTM, ASTER, EU-DEM elevation API): SRTM 90 m elevation at 30.378, 111.45
Opentopodata (SRTM, ASTER, EU-DEM elevation API)Elevation result for the city coordinatesQuote, Elevation result for the city coordinates
"elevation": 84.0
3. Hubei (Wikipedia)
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the third-largest among inland provinces
4. Koppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koppen-Geiger climate classification updated (ASCII data)
Koppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Grid cell 30.25 N 111.25 E containing the city coordinatesQuote, Grid cell 30.25 N 111.25 E containing the city coordinates
30.25 111.25 Cfa
5. IANA Time Zone Database: IANA Time Zone Database, asia zone file
IANA Time Zone DatabaseChina section, report quoted from the US Naval ObservatoryQuote, China section, report quoted from the US Naval Observatory
CHINA 8 H AHEAD OF UTC ALL OF CHINA, INCL TAIWAN
China (Wikipedia)
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is a country in East Asia
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