Pingdu () is the largest
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 ...
of
Qingdao sub-provincial city,
Shandong Province, China.
It is located in the east of the
Shandong Peninsula (Jiaodong Peninsula), the heart of peninsula. It borders
Yantai
Yantai, formerly known as Chefoo, is a coastal prefecture-level city on the Shandong Peninsula in northeastern Shandong province of People's Republic of China. Lying on the southern coast of the Bohai Strait, Yantai borders Qingdao on the ...
and
Weifang
Weifang () 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 to the east, and looks out to the ...
, and it has an area of and a population of people.
Administration
The administrative divisions of Pingdu have undergone a relatively large number of changes in the past thirty years. , Pingdu had five
subdistricts A subdistrict or sub-district is an administrative division that is generally smaller than a district.
Equivalents
* Administrative posts of East Timor, formerly Portuguese-language
* Kelurahan, in Indonesia
* Mukim, a township in Brunei, Indon ...
, 12
towns
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
and one other area:
As 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
Pingdu () is the largest county-level city of Qingdao sub-provincial city, Shandong Province, China.
It is located in the east of the Shandong Peninsula (Jiaodong Peninsula), the heart of peninsula. It borders Yantai and Weifang, and it has a ...
, 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
Weifang–Laixi high-speed railway is a high-speed railway in China. It opened on 26 November 2020.
The line is long and has a design speed of , though initially services are running at .
History
The final set of rails were installed on 9 May ...
in 2020.
Climate
See also
*
Pingdu Campaign
The Pingdu Campaign (平度战役) was a 1945 campaign fought between the communists and the former nationalists turned Japanese puppet regime force who rejoined the nationalists after World War II. The battle was one of the Chinese Civil War in ...
*
Pingdu mine
The Pingdu mine is one of the largest graphite
Graphite () is a crystalline form of the element carbon. It consists of stacked layers of graphene. Graphite occurs naturally and is the most stable form of carbon under standard conditions. Sy ...
References
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Cities in Shandong
County-level divisions of Shandong
Geography of Qingdao