Jiaozuo

Jiaozuo 焦作市 Tsiaotso
Prefecture-level city
Jiaozuo railway station Jinjiang King16 Central Line of South–North Water Transfer Minzhu Nanlu bus stop Wangfujing Department Store
Jiaozuo in Henan
Jiaozuo Location on the North China Plain Show map of Northern China Jiaozuo Jiaozuo (China) Show map of China
Coordinates (Jiaozuo municipal government): 35°12′57″N 113°14′31″E / 35.2157°N 113.2419°E / 35.2157; 113.2419
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Henan
Municipal seat	Jiefang District
Area
• Prefecture-level city	4,000.9 km2 (1,544.8 sq mi)
• Urban	413.8 km2 (159.8 sq mi)
• Metro	896.3 km2 (346.1 sq mi)
Elevation	139 m (456 ft)
Population  (2018 estimation)
• Prefecture-level city	3,590,700[1]
• Urban	1,044,400
• Urban density	2,500/km2 (6,500/sq mi)
• Metro	1,424,500
• Metro density	1,600/km2 (4,100/sq mi)
GDP[2][3]
• Prefecture-level city	CN¥ 209.5 billion US$ 31.5 billion
• Per capita	CN¥ 59,183 US$ 8,910
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code	454000
Area code	0391
ISO 3166 code	CN-HA-08
Major Nationalities	Han, Hui
County-level divisions	10
Township-level divisions	116
License plate prefixes	豫H
Website	link

Jiaozuo (Chinese: 焦作; pinyin: Jiāozuò [tɕjáʊ.tswô]; postal: Tsiaotso) is a prefecture-level city in the northwest of Henan province, China. Sitting on the northern bank of the Yellow River, it borders the provincial capital of Zhengzhou to the south, Xinxiang to the east, Jiyuan to the west, Luoyang to the southwest, and the province of Shanxi to the north. Jiaozuo is one of the core cities of the Central Plains urban agglomeration and a regional central city along the Shanxi–Henan border area.^[4]

Its population was 3,590,700 as of the 2018 estimate whom 1,424,500 lived in the built-up area made of 4 urban districts (Jiefang, Shanyang, Zhongzhan and Macun) and Bo'ai County largely being urbanized.