The Yangtze River Delta or Yangtze Delta, also called Chang Jiang Delta, or the Golden Triangle of the Yangtze (
Simplified Chinese: 长江三角洲;
Traditional Chinese: 長江三角洲;
Hanyu Pinyin: ), generally comprises the triangular-shaped territory of
Shanghai, southern
Jiangsu province and northern
Zhejiang province of
China. The area lies at the heart of the region traditionally called
Jiangnan (literally, "south of the
Yangtze River"). The Yangtze river drains into the
East China Sea. In modern times the area is home to an economy the size of a medium-sized
developed country, encompassing a
GDP (when measured to
purchasing power parity) of some $2 Trillion US, which is 21% of the national economy. The urban build-up in the area has given rise to the Yangtze Delta Metropolitan Area, the largest metropolitan area in China, with an area of 99600 km2, it is home to over 90 million people as of
2007, of which an estimated 50 million are urban.
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