Wulian County () is a county of the

prefecture-level city A prefecture-level city () or prefectural city is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China (PRC), ranking below a province and above a county in China's administrative structure. During the Republican era, many of China ...

Rizhao Rizhao (), alternatively romanized as Jihchao, is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Shandong province, China. It is situated on the coastline along the Yellow Sea, and features a major seaport. It borders Qingdao to the northeast, Weifang t ...

, Shandong. The county is known for and named after its eponymous Wulian Mountain. It borders

Zhucheng Zhucheng () is a county-level city in the southeast of Shandong province, People's Republic of China. It is under the administration of Weifang city and had at the 2010 census a population of 1,086,222 even though its built-up (''or metro'') area ...

to the north,

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to the south, Ju County to the west and

Xihai'an Huangdao District () and Xihai'an New Area (), also known as Qingdao West Coast is a district and a state-level new area of Qingdao, Shandong, China, located southwest and west of the main urban area of the city on the western shore of Jiaozhou ...

to the east. Wulian is the birthplace of noted poet Wang Fugang.

Geography

Administrative divisions

Wulian County administers one subdistrict, nine towns and two

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: In 2002, Wulian County administered nine towns and three townships: *Towns: Hongning, Jietou, Yuli, Xumeng , Chaohe, Wanghu, Kouguan, Zhongzhi, Gaoze. *Townships: Shichang, Hubu, Songbai.

Climate

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Counties of Shandong Rizhao {{Shandong-geo-stub