Liaoyang

This article is about the prefecture-level city of Liaoyang (in L) in Liaoning Province, China. For the Liaoyang (辽阳 县) district of the same name, located in its area, see Liaoyang (district) . For the Liaoyang (辽阳 镇) community in Zuoquan County, Shanxi, see Liaoyang (Zuoquan) .

Location Liaoyang in Liaoning Province

Bai Ta ("White Pagoda"): the tomb of the mother of Emperor Shizong ( Wanyan Yong). The 71 m high tower was built between 1161 and 1173 AD.

Liaoyang ( 辽阳 市 , Liáoyáng Shì ) is a prefecture-level city in northeast China 's Liaoning Province . It has an area of ​​4,741 km² and 1,835,000 inhabitants (2010). In 1904 the Battle of Liaoyang in the Russo-Japanese War took place here, which the Russian army lost to the Japanese army . Liaoyang is an important location for Northeast China's heavy industry.

Administratively, Liaoyang is made up of five districts , one urban district and one district. These are:

• Baita district (白塔 区), 24 km², 210,000 inhabitants;
• Wensheng District (文 圣 区), 38 km², 180,000 inhabitants;
• Hongwei District (宏伟 区), 59 km², 110,000 inhabitants;
• Gongchangling District (弓 长岭 区), 288 km², 90,000 inhabitants;
• Taizihe district (太子 河 区), 148 km², 120,000 inhabitants;
• City of Dengta (灯塔 市), 1,331 km², 510,000 inhabitants;
• Liaoyang County (辽阳 县), 2,853 km², 590,000 inhabitants, capital: Shoushan Township (首 山镇).

sons and daughters of the town

• Toshiko Akiyoshi (jazz pianist)

Web links

• Liaoyang - travelogue
• Link to the social situation and the workers' uprisings in Daquing and Liaoyang (older information)
• English-language article from the Encyclopaedia Britannica on the history of Liaoyang

Coordinates: 41 ° 16 '  N , 123 ° 11'  E