Chongqing

Chongqing is a municipality in southwestern China, governed directly by China’s central government. Its mountainous urban core stands at the confluence of the Yangtze and Jialing rivers.

Municipality of China: A top-level administrative division in China governed directly by the central government. Chongqing shares this status with Beijing, Shanghai, and Tianjin.
Ba State: An ancient state centered in the Sichuan Basin before its conquest by Qin in 316 BCE. The region around Chongqing formed part of Ba’s historical heartland.
Chongqing Port: An inland river port on the Yangtze, serving southwestern China. It anchors Chongqing’s role in shipping goods between the interior and the coast.
Beijing: The capital of China and a municipality governed directly by the central government. Like Chongqing, Beijing has provincial-level status, but it is the national capital rather than a river-port hub.
Yangtze River: Asia’s longest river, flowing from the Tibetan Plateau to the East China Sea. The river passes through Chongqing and connects it to the Three Gorges and eastern China.
Chongqing history: The history of Chongqing and its surrounding region from ancient times to the present. Its changing names and jurisdictions explain the municipality’s unusual territorial scale.
Chengdu–Chongqing economic circle: A development region linking Chongqing with Chengdu and surrounding cities in Sichuan and Chongqing. The initiative coordinates two major southwestern centers and their manufacturing and transport networks.
Shanghai: A municipality and major coastal city in eastern China. Both are centrally administered municipalities, but Shanghai is a coastal metropolis while Chongqing lies inland.
Jialing River: A major tributary of the Yangtze River in southwestern China. Its meeting with the Yangtze marks the setting of Chongqing’s central urban area.
Sichuan: A province in southwestern China, west of Chongqing. Chongqing was administered as part of Sichuan for much of its modern history.

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