Huludao

Huludao 葫芦岛市 Hulutao
Prefecture-level city
The new district of Huludao
Location of Huludao City jurisdiction in Liaoning
Huludao Location of the city centre in Liaoning
Coordinates (Huludao municipal government): 40°42′40″N 120°50′13″E / 40.711°N 120.837°E / 40.711; 120.837
Country	People's Republic of China
Province	Liaoning
Municipal seat	Longgang District
Districts and Counties	List Longgang District Lianshan District Nanpiao District Xingcheng City Suizhong County Jianchang County
Government
• CPC Party Secretary	Chen Xiaokun
• Mayor	Liu Tengfei
Area [1]
• Prefecture-level city	10,582 km2 (4,086 sq mi)
• Urban	2,365.7 km2 (913.4 sq mi)
Population  (2020 census)[2]
• Prefecture-level city	2,434,194
• Density	230/km2 (600/sq mi)
• Urban	944,495
• Urban density	400/km2 (1,000/sq mi)
• Metro	1,252,660
GDP[3]
• Prefecture-level city	CN¥ 72 billion US$ 11.6 billion
• Per capita	CN¥ 28,071 US$ 4,507
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code	125000
Area code	429
ISO 3166 code	CN-LN-14
Licence plates	辽P
Administrative division code	211400
Website	www.hld.gov.cn

Huludao (simplified Chinese: 葫芦岛; traditional Chinese: 葫蘆島; pinyin: Húludǎo), formerly known as Jinxi (锦西) until 1994, is a coastal prefecture-level city in southwestern Liaoning province, People's Republic of China. Its name literally means "Gourd Island", referring to the fiddle-shaped contour of the peninsula ("half-island" in Chinese), which resembles a bottle gourd, at the city's Longgang District. It has a total area of 10,582 km² (4,086 sq mi) and as of the 2020 census a population of 2,434,194 of whom 1,252,660 inhabitants lived in the built-up (or metro) area made of the 2 urban districts and Xingcheng City largely being conurbated.^[2]

Located on the northwestern shore of the Liaodong Bay, Huludao is one of the three principal cities (along with Jinzhou and Hebei province's Qinhuangdao) in the Liaoxi Corridor, and is Northeast China's gateway through the Shanhai Pass into North China. It borders Jinzhou to the northeast, Chaoyang to the north, and Qinhuangdao to the southwest, as well as sharing maritime boundaries with Yingkou and Dalian to the east and southeast across the bay.