Wulian County () is a county of the

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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 Wulian County () is a county of the prefecture-level city of Rizhao, Shandong. The county is known for and named after its eponymous Wulian Mountain. It borders Zhucheng to the north, Donggang District to the south, Ju County to the west and Xihai' ...

. 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 Ju County or Juxian () is a county of Rizhao City, in the south of Shandong Province, People's Republic of China. As of the end of 2021, the total registered population of Ju County was 1.167 million. It covers an area of . The Fulaishan Scenic A ...

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

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Geography

Administrative divisions

Wulian County administers one subdistrict, nine

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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

References

External links

Counties of Shandong Rizhao {{Shandong-geo-stub