Place:Jiaozuo, Henan, People's Republic of China

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NameJiaozuo
Alt namesChiaotsosource: NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
TypeInhabited place
Coordinates35.233°N 113.217°E
Located inHenan, People's Republic of China
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Jiaozuo ( ; postal: Tsiaotso) is a prefecture-level city in the northwest of Henan province, China. Sitting on the northern bank of the Yellow River, it borders the provincial capital of Zhengzhou to the south, Xinxiang to the east, Jiyuan to the west, Luoyang to the southwest, and the province of Shanxi to the north. Jiaozuo is one of the core cities of the Central Plains urban agglomeration and a regional central city along the Shanxi–Henan border area.

Its population was 3,590,700 as of the 2018 estimate whom 1,424,500 lived in the built-up area made of 4 urban districts (Jiefang, Shanyang, Zhongzhan and Macun) and Bo'ai County largely being urbanized.

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History

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The city was founded on an industrial site left by the British after the First and Second Opium Wars (18391860). Jiaozuo was established as a city in 1953. Mao Zedong has written praise about the hard work of people from Jiaozuo in the coal industry.

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