Lianyungang
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Lianyungang 连云港市 |
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View of seaside area in Xilian Island
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| Coordinates: 34°36′N 119°10′E / 34.600°N 119.167°ECoordinates: 34°36′N 119°10′E / 34.600°N 119.167°E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Jiangsu |
| Government | |
| • Type | Prefecture-level city |
| • CPC secretary | Yang Xingshi (杨省世) |
| • Mayor | Xiang Xuelong (项雪龙) |
| Area | |
| • Prefecture-level city | 7,444 km2 (2,874 sq mi) |
| • Urban | 880 km2 (340 sq mi) |
| Population (2015) | |
| • Prefecture-level city | 4,474,000 |
| • Urban | 2,010,000 |
| Time zone | China Standard (UTC+8) |
| Postal code | 222000 (Urban center) 222100-222300, 222500 (Other areas) |
| Area code(s) | 518 |
| GDP | ¥216.064 billion (2015) |
| GDP per capita | ¥48,416 (2015) |
| Major Nationalities | Han |
| County-level divisions | 7 |
| License Plate | 苏G |
| City Tree | Ginkgo |
| City Flower | Magnolia |
| Website | http://www.lyg.gov.cn/ |
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"Lianyungang" in Simplified (top) and Traditional (bottom) Chinese
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| Simplified Chinese | 连云港 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 連雲港 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hanyu Pinyin | Liányúngǎng | ||||||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | the port connected to the clouds | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Liányúngǎng |
| Wu | |
| Romanization | lie平yiuin平kaon上 |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Jyutping | lin4wan4gong2 |
| Southern Min | |
| Hokkien POJ | Liânhûnkáng |
Lianyungang (simplified Chinese: 连云港; traditional Chinese: 連雲港; pinyin: Liányúngǎng) is a prefecture-level city in northeastern Jiangsu province, China. It borders Yancheng to its southeast, Huai'an and Suqian to its south, Xuzhou to its southwest, and the province of Shandong to its north. Its name derives from Lian Island (formally Dongxilian Island) the largest island in Jiangsu Province which lies off its coastline, and Yuntai Mountain (Jiangsu), the highest peak in Jiangsu Province, a few miles from its town center, and the fact that it is a port.
Lianyungang (as Yuntai Mountain) was known in the West as Haichow (Wade–Giles romanization). Haichow was voluntarily opened to foreign trade by the Qing imperial government in 1905.
Lianyungang is situated between 118°24' and 119°48' east longitude and 34°11' and 35°07' north latitude. Lianyungang covers an area of 7,777 km2 (3,003 sq mi).
The temperature in Lianyungang can reach average highs of 30 °C in the summer and drop to as low as -4 °C in the winter. The vast majority of precipitation occurs between June and August, where it can measure up to 278mm of rainfall on average. Winter precipitation is quite low, making snowfall both rare and short-lived.
Lianyungang is the eastern end of the Longhai Railway (formerly the Lunghai Railway), connecting it with Lanzhou in central China. It is now the eastern terminus of the New Eurasian Land Bridge and the proposed Northern East West Freight Corridor. The Chinese government counts it among the first 14 Chinese coastal cities opening to the outside world and a rising center of industry, foreign trade, and tourism in east China.
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