Heze
菏泽市 Hotseh | |
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Coordinates (Heze municipal government): 35°14′03″N 115°28′47″E / 35.2343°N 115.4796°E | |
Country | People's Republic of China |
Province | Shandong |
County-level divisions | 9 |
Township-level divisions | 158 |
Municipal seat | Mudan District |
Government | |
• Mayor | Sun Aijun (孙爱军) |
Area | |
• Prefecture-level city | 12,256 km2 (4,732 sq mi) |
• Urban | 1,416 km2 (547 sq mi) |
• Metro | 1,416 km2 (547 sq mi) |
Population (2010 census)[2] | |
• Prefecture-level city | 8,287,693 |
• Density | 680/km2 (1,800/sq mi) |
• Urban | 1,346,717 |
• Urban density | 950/km2 (2,500/sq mi) |
• Metro | 1,346,717 |
• Metro density | 950/km2 (2,500/sq mi) |
GDP[3] | |
• Prefecture-level city | CN¥ 307 billion US$ 46.5 billion |
• Per capita | CN¥ 35,184 US$ 5,317 |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
Postal code | 274000 |
Area code | 0530 |
ISO 3166 code | CN-SD-17 |
Licence plate prefixes | 鲁R |
Heze | |||||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 菏澤 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 菏泽 | ||||||||||
Literal meaning | He Marsh | ||||||||||
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Former names | |||||||||
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Caozhou | |||||||||
Chinese | 曹州 | ||||||||
Postal | Tsaochow | ||||||||
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Heze (Chinese: 菏泽; Chinese: 菏澤; pinyin: Hé Zé), formerly known as Caozhou, is the westernmost prefecture-level city in Shandong province, China, bordering Jining to the east and the provinces of Henan and Anhui to the west and south respectively.