Qilong Township
Qilong
启隆乡 | |
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| Coordinates (Qilong government): 31°46′27″N 121°27′23″E / 31.7741°N 121.4563°E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Jiangsu |
| Prefecture-level city | Nantong |
| County-level city | Qidong |
| Area | |
• Total | 36.8 km2 (14.2 sq mi) |
| Population (2010) | |
• Total | 3,436 |
| • Density | 93/km2 (240/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard Time) |
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| Traditional Chinese | 啟隆鄉 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 启隆乡 | ||||||
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| Qidong Stock Farm | |||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 啟東縣農業良種繁育場 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 启东县农业良种繁育场 | ||||||
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Qilong is a township of Qidong in eastern Jiangsu province. The land it occupies was formerly Yonglongsha, a separate island in the Yangtze River delta, but reclamation projects and natural deposition of sediment have joined it to Chongming Island, where it now forms a pene-enclave within Shanghai's Chongming County. Its population was 3436 at the time of the 2010 Chinese census. Qilong's name—literally "opening prosperity"—is a compound of contracted forms of its county and its former island.