Chaoyang, Liaoning

This article is about the prefecture-level city in Liaoning. For other places with the same name, see Chaoyang.
Chaoyang
朝阳市
Prefecture-level city
An ancient street in Chaoyang.
An ancient street in Chaoyang.
Location of Chaoyang City jurisdiction in Liaoning
Location of Chaoyang City jurisdiction in Liaoning
Chaoyang is located in Liaoning
Chaoyang
Chaoyang
Location of the city centre in Liaoning
Coordinates (Chaoyang People's Park): 41°34′16″N 120°27′11″E / 41.571°N 120.453°E / 41.571; 120.453
CountryPeople's Republic of China
ProvinceLiaoning
Municipal seatShuangta District
Districts and Counties
List
  • Shuangta District
  • Longcheng District
  • Beipiao City
  • Lingyuan City
  • Chaoyang County
  • Jianping County
  • Harqin Left Mongol Autonomous County
Government
 • CPC ChiefChen Tiexin
 • MayorZhang Tiemin
Area
[1]
19,698 km2 (7,605 sq mi)
 • Urban
 (2017)[2]
570.00 km2 (220.08 sq mi)
 • Districts[2]1,170.5 km2 (451.9 sq mi)
Elevation
170 m (560 ft)
Population
 (2010)[3]
3,044,641
 • Density150/km2 (400/sq mi)
 • Urban
 (2017)[2]
537,800
 • Districts[2]
639,000
GDP[4]
 • Prefecture-level cityCN¥ 85.5 billion
US$ 13.7 billion
 • Per capitaCN¥ 28,852
US$ 4,632
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code
122000
Area code0421
ISO 3166 codeCN-LN-13
Licence plate prefixes辽N
Administrative division code211300
Websitezgcy.gov.cn
Chaoyang, Liaoning
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese朝陽
Simplified Chinese朝阳
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinCháoyáng
Mongolian name
Mongolian scriptᠴᠤᠤᠶᠠᠩ

Chaoyang (simplified Chinese: 朝阳; traditional Chinese: 朝陽; pinyin: Cháoyáng) is a prefecture-level city in western Liaoning province, People's Republic of China.

With a vast land area of almost 20,000 square kilometres (7,700 sq mi), it is by area the largest prefecture-level city in Liaoning, and borders on Hebei province and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region to the west.

The area under Chaoyang's jurisdictional control is split up into two counties (Jianping, Chaoyang), two urban districts (Longcheng, Shuangta), two county-level cities (Beipiao, Lingyuan), and the Harqin Left Wing Mongolian Autonomous County. The total regional population is 3 million, while the urban centre where the government office is located has a population of 430,000 and forms the core of Chaoyang.

Known as China's 'fossil city', many important paleontological discoveries have been made in Chaoyang, and the Harqin region is the oldest currently known prehistoric site in northern China. Two of the most remarkable Early Cretaceous birds known to date were recovered in the vicinity of the Jiufotang Formation rocks and named Longipteryx chaoyangensis and Sapeornis chaoyangensis in reference to the city.

  1. ^ "Chaoyang geographical location". Chaoyang Government. Archived from the original on 2010-04-16. Retrieved 2010-01-15.
  2. ^ a b c d Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, ed. (2019). China Urban Construction Statistical Yearbook 2017. Beijing: China Statistics Press. p. 50. Archived from the original on 18 June 2019. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
  3. ^ "Chaoyang i Liaoning". NAtional Bureau of Statistics China. Archived from the original on 2012-05-22. Retrieved 2012-07-13.
  4. ^ 辽宁省统计局、国家统计局辽宁调查总队 (October 2016). 《辽宁统计年鉴－2016》. 中国统计出版社. ISBN 978-7-5037-7900-8. Archived from the original on 2017-06-05. Retrieved 2017-06-05.