Jining
Sign in to saveJining () is a prefecture-level city in southwestern Shandong province. It borders Heze to the southwest, Zaozhuang to the southeast, Tai'an to the northeast, and the provinces of Henan and Jiangsu to the northwest and south respectively. Jining, which is located directly to the north of Lake Nanyang (), is today the northernmost city reachable by navigation on the Grand Canal of China making it an important inland port.
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Place details
- Locality
- 任城区
- Region
- 山东省
- Country
- 中国
- Population
- 1,241,012
- Timezone
- Asia/Shanghai
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Jining
- Settlement.official_name
- Jining City
- Settlement.other_name
- Tsining
- Settlement.native_name
- 济宁市
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- zh-Hans
- Settlement.nickname
- Hometown of Confucius and Mencius ()
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Prefecture-level city
- Settlement.mapframe
- yes
- Settlement.mapframe zoom
- 7
- Settlement.mapframe point
- none
- Settlement.image_map1
- ChinaShandongJining.png
- Settlement.map_caption1
- Location of Jining in Shandong
- Settlement.coor_pinpoint
- Jining municipal government
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- People's Republic of China
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Shandong
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- County-level divisions
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Official website
济宁市人民政府
jining.gov.cn →Link to the official site · 36,601 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- big city
- Official name
- 济宁市
- Country
- China
- Contains
- Zoucheng
- Capital
- Rencheng District
- Population
- 8357897
- Area
- 11186.98
- Time zone
- UTC+08:00
- Shares border with
- Xuzhou
- Official website
- www.jining.gov.cn
- Image
- 济宁市, 中国 Dec 07, 2020 15-57-16.jpeg
- Dialing code
- 537
- Licence plate code
- 鲁H
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- Jyväskylä
- Commons category
- Jining
- topic's main category
- Category:Jining
- postal code
- 272000
- different from
- Jining District
- hashtag
- Jining
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Jining () is a prefecture-level city in southwestern Shandong province. It borders Heze to the southwest, Zaozhuang to the southeast, Tai'an to the northeast, and the provinces of Henan and Jiangsu to the northwest and south respectively. Jining, which is located directly to the north of Lake Nanyang (), is today the northernmost city reachable by navigation on the Grand Canal of China making it an important inland port.
Its population was 8,081,905 at the 2010 census, of whom 1,518,000 lived in the built-up (or metro) area made up of Rencheng urban district on , Yanzhou district not being totally conurbated yet.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jining” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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