Luda

Lüda ( Chinese 旅大 , Pinyin Lǚdà , W.-G. Lü-ta ) is the historical name for a port city in the Chinese province of Liaoning on the southwest tip of the Liaodong Peninsula.

Climate diagram of Lüda

The city was created in 1950 from the amalgamation of the cities of Lüshun (= Port Arthur ), Dalian and Jinzhou , whereby the name was formed from the initial syllables of the two largest of these cities.

The metropolis, which had grown together to form a metropolis of over a million, was of great strategic importance due to its location, as it controlled the entrance to the northern Chinese Gulf of Bohai . In 1981 it was decided again to administratively separate the cities from one another. In the meantime, all three of the original cities have been combined to form the prefecture-level city of Dalian .