"Kaifeng" in Simplified (top) and Traditional (bottom) Chinese characters
Simplified Chinese
开封
Traditional Chinese
開封
Literal meaning
"Opening the Border"
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Kāifēng
Bopomofo
ㄎㄞ¯ㄈㄥ¯
Gwoyeu Romatzyh
Kaifeng
Wade–Giles
K'ai1-feng1
IPA
[kʰaɪ.fə́ŋ]
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization
Hōi-fūng
Jyutping
Hoi1-fung1
IPA
[hɔːi˥.foŋ˥]
Southern Min
Tâi-lô
Khui-pang
Kaifeng (Chinese: 开封; pinyin: Kāifēng) is a prefecture-level city in east-central Henan province, China. It is one of the Eight Ancient Capitals of China, having been the capital eight times in history, and is most known for having been the Chinese capital during the Northern Song dynasty.
As of the 2020 census, 4,824,016 people lived in Kaifeng's Prefecture, of whom 1,735,581 lived in the metropolitan area consisting of Xiangfu, Longting, Shunhe Hui, Gulou and Yuwantai Districts. Located along the Yellow River's southern bank, it borders the provincial capital of Zhengzhou to the west, Xinxiang to the northwest, Shangqiu to the east, Zhoukou to the southeast, Xuchang to the southwest, and Heze of Shandong to the northeast.
Kaifeng is a major city for scientific research, appearing among the world's top 200 cities by scientific output as tracked by the Nature Index.[5] The city is home to a campus of Henan University, one of the national key universities in the Double First Class University Plan.
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^河南省统计局、国家统计局河南调查总队 (November 2017). 《河南统计年鉴－2017》. 中国统计出版社. ISBN 978-7-5037-8268-8. Archived from the original on 2018-11-15. Retrieved 2018-12-03.
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