Shashi City
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Shashi 沙市市 Shasi | |
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| Shashi City | |
 Clockwise from top: Shashi bianhe square | |
| Etymology: Wade–Giles: Shashi; literally: 'Sand of city' | |
| Nickname(s): The City of Sand | |
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| Coordinates: 30°20′06″N 112°14′24″E / 30.335°N 112.240°E Fatal error: The format of the coordinate could not be determined. Parsing failed. | |
| Province | Hubei |
| Settled | 966 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Zhang Daoheng（last） |
| Area | |
| • Special municipality | 166.0 km2 (64.1 sq mi) |
| • Water | 2.7 km2 (1.0 sq mi) 1.0% |
| • Urban | 27.8 km2 (10.7 sq mi) |
| Area rank | 16 out of 22 |
| Population (1994) | |
| • Special municipality | 356,300 |
| • Rank | 4 out of 22 |
| • Density | 2,100/km2 (5,600/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 304,600 |
| • Urban density | 11,000/km2 (28,000/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (National Standard Time) |
| ISO 3166 code | CN-HB-04 |
| song | Shashi, a beautiful city |
| Flower | Rosa chinensis |
| Tree | Magnolia grandiflora |
| Licence plate prefixes | 鄂D |
| Website | http://www.shashi.gov.cn |
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| Traditional Chinese | 沙市市 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 沙市市 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Sand of City | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Kanji | 沙市市 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Kana | さしし | ||||||||||||||||||
| Kyūjitai | 沙市市 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Shashi (Chinese: 沙市; pinyin: Shāshì) was a prefecture-level city in Hubei province, People's Republic of China from 1949 to 1994. It is located on the left (northern) bank of the Yangtze River, between Yichang and Wuhan.[1]
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