Rizhao
Rizhao ( Chinese 日照 市 , Pinyin Rìzhào Shì ) is a district-free city in the east Chinese province of Shandong with approx. 2.90 million inhabitants (end of 2016) on an area of 5,310 km². 902,272 people live in the actual urban settlement area of Rizhao (2010 census). It is located on the southern half of the Shandong Peninsula, southwest of the port city of Qingdao .
Standard Chinese is spoken in Rizhao .
Administrative structure
At the county level, Rizhao is made up of two city districts and two counties. These are:
- Donggang district (东港区), 1,507 km², 840,000 inhabitants, center, seat of the city government;
- Lanshan District (岚山 区), 408 km², 270,000 inhabitants;
- Wulian district (五莲 县), 1,443 km², 510,000 inhabitants, main town: Hongning municipality (洪 凝 镇);
- Ju district (莒县), 1,952 km², 1.1 million inhabitants, capital: Chengyang municipality (城 阳镇).
Web links
- Official website of the city of Rizhao ( Memento of April 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 35 ° 25 ' N , 119 ° 26' E