Laiwu

Laiwu
莱芜市
Prefecture-level city of China
1992–2019

Area 
• 
2,246.21 km2 (867.27 sq mi)
History 
• Established
1992
• Disestablished
2019
Succeeded by
Gangcheng District
Laiwu District
Today part ofJinan, Shandong
Laiwu
Traditional Chinese萊蕪
Simplified Chinese莱芜
PostalLaiwu
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinLáiwú
Bopomofoㄌㄞˊ   ㄨˊ
Wade–GilesLai2-wu2
IPA[lǎɪ.ǔ]

Laiwu (simplified Chinese: 莱芜; traditional Chinese: 萊蕪; pinyin: Láiwú) was a prefecture-level city in central Shandong Province, China. Bordered the provincial capital of Jinan to the north, Zibo to the east and Tai'an to the southwest, it was the smallest prefecture-level city in the province. It had a population of 1,298,529 as of the 2010 census, all living in the built-up (or metro) area made of 2 urban Districts and became part of Jinan in 2019[1] and 907,839 living in urban area.

  1. ^ "国务院批复同意山东省调整济南市莱芜市行政区划". Xinhua News Agency (in Chinese). Archived from the original on January 23, 2019.