Lianyungang

Lianyungang 连云港市 Lienyunkang
Prefecture-level city
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Coordinates (Lianyungang municipal government): 34°35′48″N 119°13′17″E / 34.5966°N 119.2214°E / 34.5966; 119.2214
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Jiangsu
Municipal seat	Haizhou District
Government
• Type	Prefecture-level city
• CPC secretary	Yang Xingshi (杨省世)
• Mayor	Xiang Xuelong (项雪龙)
Area
• Prefecture-level city	7,154 km2 (2,762 sq mi)
• Land	7,444 km2 (2,874 sq mi)
• Urban	2,252 km2 (870 sq mi)
• Metro	738 km2 (285 sq mi)
Population  (2020 census)[1]
• Prefecture-level city	4,599,360
• Density	640/km2 (1,700/sq mi)
• Urban	2,214,611
• Urban density	980/km2 (2,500/sq mi)
• Metro	1,210,767
• Metro density	1,600/km2 (4,200/sq mi)
GDP[2]
• Prefecture-level city	CN¥ 277 billion US$ 42 billion
• Per capita	CN¥ 61,332 US$ 9,286
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code	222000 (Urban center) 222100-222300, 222500 (Other areas)
Area code	518
ISO 3166 code	CN-JS-07
Major Nationalities	Han
County-level divisions	7
License Plate	苏G
City Tree	Ginkgo
City Flower	Magnolia
Website	www.lyg.gov.cn

Lianyungang (simplified Chinese: 连云港; traditional Chinese: 連雲港; pinyin: Liányúngǎng) is a prefecture-level city in northeastern Jiangsu province, China. It borders Yancheng to its southeast, Huai'an and Suqian to its south, Xuzhou to its southwest, and the province of Shandong to its north. Its name derives from Lian Island, the largest island in Jiangsu which lies off its coastline, and Yuntai Mountain, the highest peak in Jiangsu, a few miles from the city center, and the fact that it is a port. The name can be literally translated as the Port Connecting the Clouds.

Lianyungang was home to 4.65 million inhabitants as of the 2020 census whom 1,210,767 lived in the built-up (or metro) area made of Haizhou and Lianyun counties. Lianyungang was known in the West as Haichow (Postal romanization), which means the City of Sea. Haichow was opened to foreign trade by the Qing imperial government in 1905.^{[citation needed]}