Nantong, called Tongzhou for short in ancient times, is also called Jinghai, Chongzhou and Zilang. Jiangsu Province is a prefecture-level city, a central city in the Yangtze River Delta, a second-tier city, an economic center in the Yangtze River Delta of China and a modern port city. Nantong has a land area of 800 1 km2, governs 3 districts 1 counties, and governs 3 county-level cities with a permanent population of 7,743,500.
Nantong is located in East China, southeast Jiangsu, at the mouth of the Yangtze River, east of the Pacific Ocean, south of the Yangtze River, and invited by Shanghai and Suzhou. It is the gateway of Shanghai metropolitan area, the core of Yangtze River urban agglomeration, and a member of C9 Alliance in Yangtze River Delta. It is one of the first batch of 14 coastal open cities in China, integrating the golden coast and golden waterway, with a coastline of 284 kilometers and a coastline of 226 kilometers along the Yangtze River.
topography
Nantong's earliest land area is in Hai 'an and Rugao, located at the easternmost tip of Yangtai ancient Shazui. The discovery of the Neolithic site at Qingdun, Hai 'an in 1970s and subsequent studies confirmed that there were human activities in the northwest of Nantong more than 6,000 years ago. 4000 years ago, the coastal areas of Jianghuai flooded.
In the Han Dynasty, the northwest of Nantong rose again. From the 5th century to the beginning of the 20th century, Zhou Fuhai (now Rudong County), Hudouzhou (now Nantong City and its vicinity), Southern Zhou (now Tongzhou Jinsha and other places) and Eastern Zhou (now Haimen and north-central Qidong) were successively connected with the mainland through four large sandbars connecting the land. While the land is continuously connected, due to the influence of water potential, some regional plots are constantly rising and falling.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Nantong