How big is Tangshan?

Tangshan is a coastal heavy industry city with a history of one hundred years. Tangshan is located in the center of Bohai Bay, bordering Bohai Sea in the south, Yanshan Mountain in the north, Qinhuangdao City in the east and Beijing and Tianjin in the west. It is a throat area and an extremely important corridor connecting North China and Northeast China.

Tangshan is the economic center of Hebei Province and the city with the best development prospect in the future. Tangshan is an important part of Beijing-Tianjin-Tangshan metropolitan area in China. It is also an important high-tech industrial base in China, a central city in the Bohai Rim region, one of the shipping centers in China and an important city in Northeast Asia. It is a famous modern ecological city and a modern international port city, and is known as Shenzhen in the north!

It governs 2 cities, 6 counties, 6 districts and 6 development zones (administrative zones, industrial zones and parks), with a total area of 13472 square kilometers and a population of 729.4 10000 (2008). The urban area is 3,874 square kilometers and the population is about 365,438+10,000. In 2008, the urban built-up area in Tangshan area (including the county seat) was about 420 square kilometers (the urban built-up area in Tangshan area could reach 750-800 square kilometers in ten years), the urban population in Tangshan area in 2008 was 3 million (it could reach about 5.5 million in 2020), and the built-up area of Tangshan central city in 2020 was 130 square kilometers. Tangshan is a developed, affluent and vibrant metropolis in China, and also the frontier of scientific development in China! In 2008, Tangshan ranked fifth in the selection of figures and experts in China's most happy cities (among the top ten), and Tangshan was also rated as a national garden city, a national health city and a national civilized city for many times!