Shennongjia
Shennongjia
神农架林区 | |||||||||
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Muyu Town in Shennongjia | |||||||||
Location of Shennongjia in Hubei | |||||||||
| Coordinates (Shennongjia government): 31°44′41″N 110°40′33″E / 31.7447°N 110.6759°E | |||||||||
| Country | People's Republic of China | ||||||||
| Province | Hubei | ||||||||
| Seat | Songbai | ||||||||
| Government | |||||||||
| • Mayor | Zhou Senfeng (周森锋) | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
• Total | 3,253 km2 (1,256 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population (2020) | |||||||||
• Total | 66,571 | ||||||||
| • Density | 20/km2 (53/sq mi) | ||||||||
| GDP | |||||||||
| • Total | CN¥ 2.1 billion US$ 0.3 billion | ||||||||
| • Per capita | CN¥ 27,298 US$ 4,383 | ||||||||
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) | ||||||||
| Administrative division code | 429021 | ||||||||
| Website | www | ||||||||
| Official name | Hubei Shennongjia | ||||||||
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| Criteria | Natural: (ix), (x) | ||||||||
| Reference | 1509 | ||||||||
| Inscription | 2016 (40th Session) | ||||||||
| Area | 73,318 ha (181,170 acres) | ||||||||
| Buffer zone | 41,536 ha (102,640 acres) | ||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 神农架林区 | ||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 神農架林區 | ||||||||
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| Alternative Chinese name | |||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 神农架 | ||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 神農架 | ||||||||
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Shennongjia Forestry District (Chinese: 神农架林区; pinyin: Shénnóngjià Línqū) is a county-level administrative unit (a "forestry district") in northwestern Hubei province, People's Republic of China, directly subordinated to the provincial government. It occupies 3,253 square kilometres (1,256 sq mi) in western Hubei, and, as of 2007 had the resident population estimated at 74,000 (with the registered population of 79,976). On July 17, 2016, Hubei Shennongjia was listed as a World Heritage Site, the 50th World Heritage Site in China, because of its exceptional floral and faunal biodiversity and its protection of many rare, endangered, and endemic species.
The population is predominantly (95%) Han Chinese, the remaining 5% being mostly Tujia.