What cities are included in the Lunan region?

Lunan is the southern region of Shandong Province. In a narrow sense, Lunan includes Jining City, Linyi City, and Zaozhuang City. In a broad sense, it includes five prefecture-level cities: Rizhao, Linyi, Zaozhuang, Jining, and Heze. It covers an area of ??50,500 square kilometers, accounting for nearly one-third of Shandong.

1. Rizhao

Rizhao City is located on the coast of the Yellow Sea in the southeastern part of Shandong Province. It borders the Yellow Sea to the east, Linyi City to the west, Lianyungang City of Jiangsu Province to the south, and Qingdao City to the north. It borders Weifang City. It is about 82 kilometers long from north to south and 90 kilometers wide from east to west, with a total area of ??5358.57 square kilometers. Rizhao is a coastal ecological, livable, touristic, modern port city and port-facing industrial base.

2. Linyi

Linyi is located in the southeast of Shandong Province, near the sea and the port, and adjacent to northern Jiangsu to the south. Linyi is the central city in Shandong Province, the largest central city in the southern Shandong economic circle, and the central city in southeastern Shandong. It is a modern industrial and trade city with waterfront characteristics, a famous commercial city and a logistics capital. It is an important logistics turnover center and commercial wholesale center in the country.

3. Zaozhuang

Zaozhuang City is located in the south of Shandong Province, bordering Pingyi County, Fei County and Lanling County of Linyi City to the east, and Tongshan County of Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province to the south. , Jiawang District and Pizhou City are adjacent to Weishan Lake in the west and Zoucheng City in Jining City in the north. The maximum width from east to west is 56 kilometers, and the maximum width from north to south is 96 kilometers. The total area is 4564 square kilometers, accounting for 2.97% of the total area of ??the province. Zaozhuang is one of the central cities in southern Shandong Province. It is an important modern coal chemical industry, energy, building materials and machinery manufacturing base and an emerging science and technology innovation base in Shandong Province.

4. Jining

Jining City is located in the southwest of Shandong Province. It is the famous "Hometown of Confucius and Mencius and the City of Canals". As of 2021, it governs Rencheng, Yanzhou, and Qufu , Zoucheng, Weishan, Liangshan and other 11 counties and cities, covering an area of ??11,000 square kilometers. Jining is one of the central cities in the Huaihai Economic Zone. It is a famous historical and cultural city and a waterfront eco-tourism city.

5. Heze

Heze City is located in the southwest of Shandong Province, bordering Jiangsu, Henan, and Anhui provinces. As of 2021, it governs Mudan District, Dingtao District, Cao County, and Chengwu District. , Shanxian, Juye, Yuncheng, Juancheng and Dongming are two districts and seven counties, covering an area of ??12,239 square kilometers. Heze is the peony capital of China and a nationally famous home of peonies, calligraphy and painting, opera, martial arts and folk art.