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Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Chengdu 成都

Chengdu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Chengdu (Chinese: 成都; Hanyu Pinyin: Chéngdū; Wade-Giles: Ch'eng-tu), located in southwest China, is the capital of the Sichuan province and a sub-provincial city. It is the 4th most populous city in China and a political, cultural and economic centre of southwest China."

By 2004 the population was 10,596,900.

In 1979, Chengdu signed a sister city agreement with Montpellier, France,the first pair of Sino-French sister cities.

Official site, in English

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