Fengjie County (奉节县) is a
county of
Chongqing Municipality in
China. It is on the
Yangtze River, near the
Three Gorges Dam. It has an area of 4099Km2 and a population of 1.02 million. Due to the building of the dam, the town has to be relocated to a new location at higher altitude. The old town was completely demolished and its site is now under water. The scale of population relocation in Fengjie County resulted from Dam caused flooding was the largest among all counties in the reservoir area of the Three Gorges Dam.
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