Fengjie County

Fengjie
奉节县
Fengkieh
Fengjie County in Chongqing
Coordinates (Fengjie County Bureau of Civil Affairs (民政局)): 31°01′03″N 109°27′39″E / 31.0175°N 109.4607°E / 31.0175; 109.4607
CountryPeople's Republic of China
MunicipalityChongqing
Area
  Total
4,098 km2 (1,582 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)
  Total
744,836
  Density180/km2 (470/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Fengjie County
Simplified Chinese奉节
Traditional Chinese奉節
PostalFengkieh
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinFèngjié Xiàn

Fengjie County (simplified Chinese: 奉节; traditional Chinese: 奉節; pinyin: Fèngjié Xiàn) is a county of Chongqing Municipality, China. It is on the Yangtze River; located within a couple hundreds kilometers upstream from the Three Gorges Dam, it is within the dam's affected area.

The county's most famous geographical feature is the Qutang Gorge, the first of the Yangtze's Three Gorges.

Notable karst phenomena, including the Xiaozhai Tiankeng sinkhole are located within the county.

It is the place where Still Life was shot, a film by Jia Zhangke that won the 2006 Venice Film Festival (Golden Lion).