丰都县
Fengdu Xian

Administration Type	County
County seat County seat A county seat is an administrative center, or seat of government, for a county or civil parish. The term is primarily used in the United States....	Sanhe Town
Area Area Area is a quantity that expresses the extent of a two-dimensional surface or shape in the plane. Area can be understood as the amount of material with a given thickness that would be necessary to fashion a model of the shape, or the amount of paint necessary to cover the surface with a single coat...	2896 km²
Population Population A population is all the organisms that both belong to the same group or species and live in the same geographical area. The area that is used to define a sexual population is such that inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with individuals...	800,000 (2006)
Township-level divisions	33
Postal code	408200
Official website	fd.cq.gov.cn/

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Pinyin

Pinyin is the official system to transcribe Chinese characters into the Roman alphabet in China, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan. It is also often used to teach Mandarin Chinese and spell Chinese names in foreign publications and used as an input method to enter Chinese characters into...

) is a county located in Chongqing

Chongqing

Chongqing is a major city in Southwest China and one of the five national central cities of China. Administratively, it is one of the PRC's four direct-controlled municipalities , and the only such municipality in inland China.The municipality was created on 14 March 1997, succeeding the...

 Municipality, People's Republic of China.

Fengdu

There is a necropolis

Necropolis

A necropolis is a large cemetery or burial ground, usually including structural tombs. The word comes from the Greek νεκρόπολις - nekropolis, literally meaning "city of the dead"...

 called Fengdu modelled after the Chinese Hell

Di Yu

Diyu is the realm of the dead or "hell" in Chinese mythology. It is loosely based on a combination of the Buddhist concept of Naraka, traditional Chinese beliefs about the afterlife and a variety of popular expansions and re-interpretations of these two traditions.Diyu is typically depicted as an...

 in Taoist mythology, built over 1800 years ago. The famous ghost town will become an island once the Three Gorges Dam

Three Gorges Dam

The Three Gorges Dam is a hydroelectric dam that spans the Yangtze River by the town of Sandouping, located in the Yiling District of Yichang, in Hubei province, China...

project is completed. Specifically, part of the ghost town of Fengdu will be submerged, but scenery above the "Door of Hell" will remain.

External links

• Godchecker entry on Feng Du
• Pictures of Feng Du Necropolis (Chinese)
• Fengdu - The Ghost City information
• Victoria Cruises press release details changes to Fengdu ghost town
• China's ghost town vanishes
• Fengdu