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 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
Dezhou () is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Shandong province, People's Republic of China. It borders the provincial capital of Jinan to the southeast, Liaocheng to the southwest, Binzhou to the northeast, and the province of Hebei ...
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
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