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Jintan  Jintan (simplified Chinese: 金坛; traditional Chinese: 金壇;
pinyin: Jīntán) is a county-level city within Changzhou in
Jiangsu province of the People's Republic of China.   Jintan, is
located in Jiangsu province in the south, surrounded by
Shanghai, Hangzhou and Nanjing. The name Jintan developed from
Jinshan county, which continued to be used up to now (on
November 10, 1993 Jintan was removed from county and became
officially a city). In 1987, the county had 22 towns, the county
government located in Jincheng town, it belonged to Changzhou,
Jiangsu province. Jintan has a total area of 976.7 square
kilometres (377.1 sq mi). Among them land area covers 781.27
square kilometres (301.65 sq mi), and water covers an area of
194.22 square kilometres (74.99 sq mi). Because of such
proportion, Jintan is commonly known as the "two mountain two
water six points field". As of 2010, it has a perm