Laoling (), often mispronounced as Leling, is a

county-level city A county-level municipality (), county-level city or county city, formerly known as prefecture-controlled city (1949–1970: ; 1970–1983: ), is a county-level administrative division of the People's Republic of China. County-level ...

in the northwest of

Shandong Shandong ( , ; ; Chinese postal romanization, alternately romanized as Shantung) is a coastal Provinces of China, province of the China, People's Republic of China and is part of the East China region. Shandong has played a major role in His ...

province, China, bordering

Hebei Hebei or , (; alternately Hopeh) is a northern province of China. Hebei is China's sixth most populous province, with over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. The province is 96% Han Chinese, 3% Manchu, 0.8% Hui, and ...

province to the north. Laoling has more than 640,000 inhabitants (1999) and is under the jurisdiction of Dezhou City.

Administrative divisions

As 2012, this City is divided to 4 subdistricts, 8 towns and 4 townships. ;Subdistricts ;Towns ;Townships

Climate

Food

File:楽陵金糸小棗.jpg, Chinese date from Laoling File:黄面鸡.jpg, HuangMianJi Laoling is famous for Chinese date. Also Boiled Fried Chicken(HuangMianJi, 黄面鸡) is the local cuisine that often offers during the Spring Festival.

References

External links

Laoling official website
Cities in Shandong County-level divisions of Shandong Dezhou {{Shandong-geo-stub