Shuangliao () is a city in western

Jilin Jilin (; Postal romanization, alternately romanized as Kirin or Chilin) is one of the three Provinces of China, provinces of Northeast China. Its capital and largest city is Changchun. Jilin borders North Korea (Rasŏn, North Hamgyong, R ...

, People's Republic of China, bordering

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and

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. It is under the administration of

Siping City Siping (), formerly Ssupingkai (), is a prefecture-level city in the west of Jilin province, People's Republic of China. Located in the middle of the Songliao Plain and at the intersection of Jilin, Liaoning and Inner Mongolia, Siping covers an ...

and was previously the ''

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'' capital of the defunct

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Province.

Administrative divisions

Subdistricts: * Zhengjiatun Subdistrict (), Liaodong Subdistrict (), Liaonan Subdistrict (), Liaoxi Subdistrict (), Liaobei Subdistrict (), Hongqi Subdistrict () Towns: * (), Shuangshan (), Wohu (), Fuxian (), Wangben (), Bolishan (), Xinglong (),

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() Townships: * Liutiao Township (), Xinli Township (), Xiangyang Township (), Yongjia Township (), Namusi Mongol Ethnic Township ()

Geography and climate

Shuangliao is located at the confluence of the western and eastern branches of the

Liao River The Liao River () is the principal river in southern Northeast China, and one of the seven main river systems in China. Its name derived from the Liao region, a historical name for southern Manchuria, from which the Liaoning province, Liaodong ...

as well as the Songliao Plain with the Horqin Grasslands (). It borders Changtu County (

) and Lishu County to the south, Gongzhuling to the east,

Changling County Changling County () is a county in the northwest of Jilin province, China, bordering Inner Mongolia to the west. It is the southernmost and westernmost county-level division of the prefecture-level city of Songyuan, with a population of 640,000 re ...

to the north, and the Horqin Left Middle and

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banners of

. The administrative area reaches in north-south extent and in east-west width, covering an area of . Shuangliao has a four-season, monsoon-influenced,

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( Köppen ''Dwa''). Winters are long (lasting from November to March), cold, and windy, but dry, with a January 24-hour average temperature of . Spring and fall are somewhat short transitional periods, with some precipitation, but are usually dry and windy. Summers are hot and humid, with a July average of . Over two-thirds of the annual precipitation of occurs from June to August. The annual mean temperature is , while the frost-free period averages 145 days and annual sunshine duration lasts 2,714.9 hours.

References

External links

County-level divisions of Jilin {{Jilin-geo-stub