county-level city prefecture-level city, Jinzhong central Shanxi (province) China (country).
Origin
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 介休 ("Jie's Ji Chong'er, the Wen Duke of Jin, in his remorse for having killed his loyal subject Jie Zhitui and Jie's mother with an intentional forest fire in the region.
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