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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.

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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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8.0 µg/m³
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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
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yes
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7
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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

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
big city
Official name
济宁市
Country
China
Contains
Zoucheng
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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twinned administrative body
Jyväskylä
Commons category
Jining
topic's main category
Category:Jining
postal code
272000
different from
Jining District
hashtag
Jining
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Encyclopedic overview

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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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