Jinghai, Tianjin
district of Tianjin, China
Jinghai District (simplified Chinese: 静海区; traditional Chinese: 靜海區; pinyin: Jìnghǎi Qū) is a district of the municipality of Tianjin, People's Republic of China, located in the southwest portion of the municipality, bordering Hebei province to the south and west, Xiqing District to the north and northeast, and Binhai to the east. It is the birthplace of Huo Yuanjia.
“Jinghai, Tianjin” enters the record as district of Tianjin, China. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jinghai, Tianjin and district can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Jinghai, Tianjin” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Jinghai, Tianjin and district provides the most credible route into that argument.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1362013. VIAF identifies the subject as 132960370. The Library of Congress control number is nr91004936. Authority coordinates are 38.939, 116.916. 2 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.
Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.
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This entry incorporates text from “Jinghai, Tianjin” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.