Jining

Jining
济宁市
Tsining
Jining City
From top left: Jining city skyline, Weishan Lake, Taibai Lou
Nickname(s): 
Hometown of Confucius and Mencius (孔孟之乡)
Map
Location of Jining in Shandong
Location of Jining in Shandong
Coordinates (Jining municipal government): 35°24′54″N 116°35′14″E / 35.4151°N 116.5871°E / 35.4151; 116.5871
CountryPeople's Republic of China
ProvinceShandong
County-level divisions12
Municipal seatShizhong District
Government
 • MayorFu Mingxian (傅明先)
Area
 • Prefecture-level city11,186.97 km2 (4,319.31 sq mi)
 • Urban
1,534.2 km2 (592.4 sq mi)
 • Metro
884 km2 (341 sq mi)
Population
 (2010 census)
 • Prefecture-level city8,081,905
 • Density720/km2 (1,900/sq mi)
 • Urban
1,859,406
 • Urban density1,200/km2 (3,100/sq mi)
 • Metro
1,518,000
 • Metro density1,700/km2 (4,400/sq mi)
GDP[1]
 • Prefecture-level cityCN¥ 493 billion
US$ 74.5 billion
 • Per capitaCN¥ 58,972
US$ 8,912
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Area code0537
ISO 3166 codeCN-SD-08
License Plate Prefix鲁H

Jining (simplified Chinese: 济宁; traditional Chinese: 濟寧 / 濟寗; pinyin: Jǐníng) is a former capital of Shandong.[2] 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 (Chinese: ; pinyin: Nányáng Hú), 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 884 km2 (341 sq mi), Yanzhou district not being totally conurbated yet.

  1. ^ "Shandong Statistical Yearbook-2016". www.stats-sd.gov.cn.
  2. ^ Zhang, Xiang Yang (25 October 2021). "曲阜鲁国故城,历经3000年风雨的周公封地" [en:The Former City of the State of Lu in Qufu, the Fiefdom of the Duke of Zhou after 3,000 years of wind and rain]. zh:百度 (in Simplified Chinese). Retrieved 23 November 2023.