Jingmen 荆门市

Jingmen (simplified Chinese:荆门; traditional Chinese:荆门; pinyin:Jīngmén) is a prefecture-level city in central Hubei province, People's *****************. Jingmen is within an area where cotton and oil crops are planted. The population of the prefecture is 2,873,687 (2010 population census). The urban area of Jingmen City has a population of about 400,000. Jingmen is so named as in ancient times it was the gateway to Jingzhou, one of the Nine Provinces and means literally Gateway to Jingzhou.