Jiangsu Travel Guide
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Jiangsu is the coastal Chinese province that is sandwiched in between Shanghai Municipality to the south and Shandong Province to the north. The coast here switches to a southeast-to-northwest orientation from the southwest-to-northeast orientation that characteristizes both Shandong Province and the Chinese coast below Shanghai. The origin of the name, Jiangsu (two characters in Chinese, jiang and su) is from the province's two major prefecture level cities at the time, Jiangning* and Suzhou, i.e., the character "Jiang" of Jiangning is combined with the character "Su" of Suzhou to form the name of the province.
Jiangsu's coast thus faces the Yellow Sea, while the mighty Yangtze River passes through the southern part of the province, and in fact...[ View Details ]
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