a district town of China, province of Chekiang, at the mouth of the Yung-kiang river, 12 miles N.E. of Ningpo, N. Lat. 25. 58., E. Long. 121. 35. It lies at the foot of a hill on a tongue of land, and is partly protected from the sea on the N. by a dike about 3 miles long, composed entirely of large blocks of hewn granite. The walls are 20 feet high and 3 miles in circumference, but suburbs extend along the shore for the convenience of the shipping. The defences consist of two batteries on the river side, and a well built citadel on a precipitous cliff, 250 feet high at the extremity of the tongue of land on which the town is built. In the neighbourhood an engagement took place between the English and Chinese in October 1841.