Fengjie County
Fengjie County (simplified Chinese: 奉节县; traditional Chinese: 奉節縣; pinyin: Fèngjié Xiàn) is a county of Chongqing Municipality, China. It is on the Yangtze River; located within a couple hundreds kilometers upstream from the Three Gorges Dam, it is within the dam's affected area.
Fengjie
奉节县 Fengkieh | |
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Three Gorges Reservoir near Baidicheng | |
Fengjie County in Chongqing | |
| Coordinates (Fengjie County Bureau of Civil Affairs (民政局)): 31°01′03″N 109°27′39″E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Municipality | Chongqing |
| Area | |
| • Total | 4,098 km2 (1,582 sq mi) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 834,259 |
| • Density | 200/km2 (530/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
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| Simplified Chinese | 奉节县 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 奉節縣 | ||||||
| Postal | Fengkieh | ||||||
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The county's most famous geographical feature is the Qutang Gorge, the first of the Yangtze's Three Gorges.
Notable karst phenomena, including the Xiaozhai Tiankeng sinkhole are located within the county.
It is the place where Still Life was shot, a film by Jia Zhangke that won the 2006 Venice Film Festival (Golden Lion).
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