Pingdu () is the largest
county-level city
A county-level city () is a County-level divisions of China, county-level administrative division of the China, People's Republic of China. County-level cities have judiciary, judicial but no legislature, legislative rights over their own local or ...
of
Qingdao sub-provincial city
Strictly speaking, China's legal system neither recognizes the concept of "sub-provincial administrative divisions" () or "sub-provincial cities" () nor provides specific legislation for such designations, and these categories are absent from off ...
,
Shandong
Shandong is a coastal Provinces of China, province in East China. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilization along the lower reaches of the Yellow River. It has served as a pivotal cultural ...
Province, China.
It is located in the east of the
Shandong Peninsula (Jiaodong Peninsula), the heart of peninsula. It borders
Yantai and
Weifang
Weifang ( zh, s=潍坊, t=濰坊, p=Wéifāng) is a prefecture-level city in central Shandong province, People's Republic of China. The city borders Dongying to the northwest, Zibo to the west, Linyi to the southwest, Rizhao to the south, Qingdao ...
, and it has an area of and a population of 1,191,348 people in 2020.
Administration
The administrative divisions of Pingdu have undergone a relatively large number of changes in the past thirty years. , Pingdu had five
subdistricts, 12
towns and one other area:
As of 2016, this city is divided to 5 subdistricts, 12 towns and 1 other.
;Subdistricts
;Towns
;Others
*Pingdu Export-oriented Industrial Processing Zone ()
Sports
The
Pingdu Olympic Sports Centre Stadium, which has a capacity of 15,000, is the largest sports venue by capacity in Pingdu.
Transportation
Pingdu West railway station opened in 2015 on the
Haitian−Qingdao railway. There are two departures and two arrivals per day.
A second station,
Pingdu railway station, opened with the
Weifang–Laixi high-speed railway in 2020.
Climate
See also
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Pingdu Campaign
*
Pingdu mine
References
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Cities in Shandong
County-level divisions of Shandong
Geography of Qingdao