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Cities of Northeast China

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Anda, Heilongjiang

Anda (安达市) is a county-level city under Suihua, Heilongjiang, on the Songnen Plain near Daqing; 3,586 km², 13 towns and 1 township, 2025 GDP 20.01 billion yuan, known for dairy farming and sheepgrass grassland.

Baicheng, Jilin

Baicheng (白城) is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Jilin, China, at the junction of Jilin, Heilongjiang, and Inner Mongolia. Population about 2.03 million, area 25,758.73 km², known for the Xianghai and Momoge wetlands and cranes.

Baishan

Baishan is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Jilin province, China, on the western side of the Changbai Mountains, bordering North Korea across the Yalu River.

Beipiao

Beipiao (北票市) is a county-level city under Chaoyang, Liaoning, on the Daling River; a former coal-mining center with major gold and iron deposits and the Sihetun Jehol Biota fossil site of Sinosauropteryx and Confuciusornis.

Benxi

Benxi (本溪) is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Liaoning, China, named after Benxi Lake. An old steel-industrial base (Bengang, merged with Ansteel 2021), it is also the 'Maple Leaf Capital' with 76.31% forest coverage and 10.812 billion tonnes of iron ore reserves.

Chaoyang, Liaoning

Chaoyang (朝阳市), formerly Longcheng, is a prefecture-level city in northwest Liaoning with 19,699 km², 2 districts, 3 counties, 2 county-level cities, the Three Yan ancient capital, Niuheliang Hongshan site, and a Beijing–Shenyang high-speed rail corridor.

Dandong

Dandong (丹东), formerly Andong until 1965, is Liaoning's largest border prefecture-level city on the Yalu River opposite Sinuiju, North Korea; a 1906 treaty port handling most China-North Korea trade, with a 2024 World Heritage Yalu River estuary wetland.

Fengcheng, Liaoning

Fengcheng (凤城市) is a county-level city under Dandong, Liaoning, China, named for Ming Phoenix Castle at Phoenix Mountain. Majority Manchu (75.1%), 2024 GDP 21.19 billion yuan, Dwa climate, Fenghuang Mountain scenic area.

Gongzhuling

Gongzhuling (公主岭市), county-level city in Changchun, Jilin, China; formerly Huaide County, named for Princess Hejing's tomb. Major corn producer, "Hometown of Corn in China", transferred from Siping to Changchun in 2020.

Haicheng

Haicheng (海城市) is a county-level city under Anshan, Liaoning, China, a magnesite industry center called the world magnesium capital, site of the predicted 1975 M7.3 earthquake, distinct from Haicheng District, Beihai, Guangxi.

Hegang

Hegang (鹤岗市) is a prefecture-level coal city in northeastern Heilongjiang, China, near the Russian border. A shrinking, resource-exhausted city with 2.6 billion tons of proven coal, 935,000 registered residents in 2023, and China's cheapest housing.

Huludao

Huludao (葫芦岛), formerly Jinxi, is Liaoning's newest prefecture-level city on Liaodong Bay: 10,400 km², 2.43 million people, 261 km ice-free coastline, petrochemical and swimwear industries, Jiumenkou Great Wall.

Jinzhou, Liaoning (chinchow)

Jinzhou (锦州, historically romanized Chinchow), a prefecture-level city in western Liaoning, China; founded in the Liao dynasty, named for the Xiao Ling River; 10,081 km², 2.668 million people, regional central city and Liaoshen Campaign site.

Jiutai

Jiutai (九台区) is a district of Changchun, the capital of Jilin Province in northeastern China, named for the ninth beacon platform on the seventeenth-century Willow Palisade.

Jixi

Jixi (鸡西) is a prefecture-level coal city in southeastern Heilongjiang, China, bordering Russia; one of the province's four coal cities and China's 'Graphite Capital', with 1.61 million residents and a graphite-based transition economy.

Lingyuan

Lingyuan (凌源市) is a county-level city of Chaoyang, Liaoning, at the Liaoning–Hebei–Inner Mongolia junction; 3,278 km², 602,000 people, steel and glass industry, flower farming, Niuheliang Hongshan culture site.

Mudanjiang

Mudanjiang (牡丹江) is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Heilongjiang, China, bordering Russia; a transport hub with 4 national ports, 2.29 million residents (2020 census), and 25.8% of the province's Russia trade.

Panjin

Panjin (盘锦市) is a prefecture-level city in southwest Liaoning, China, at the center of the Liaohe Delta, established 1984. Known for the Liaohe oilfield, vast coastal wetlands, and the Red Beach seepweed flats.

Qitaihe

Qitaihe (七台河市) is a prefecture-level coal city in eastern Heilongjiang, China; a designated resource-exhausted city and major coking coal base, also famed as a short track speed skating champion training hub.

Shuangyashan

Shuangyashan (双鸭山) is a coal-mining prefecture-level city in eastern Heilongjiang, China, on the Sanjiang Plain facing Russia across the Wusuli River; 4 districts, 4 counties, 11.7 billion tons of coal reserves, 2024 GDP 55.74 billion yuan.

Siping

Siping (四平) is a prefecture-level railway hub city in central Jilin province, Northeast China; formerly the village Sipingjie, it grew after the 1902 railway and is known for the Four Battles of Siping (1946–1948).

Suihua

Suihua (绥化) is a prefecture-level city in central Heilongjiang, China, on the Songnen Plain's Hulan River basin; established 1885, prefecture-level city 1999; 3.394 million residents (2025), grain-producing economy, GDP 124.4 billion yuan (2024).

Tieling

Tieling (铁岭) is a prefecture-level city in northern Liaoning, China, on the Songliao Plain. A coal-and-grain rust-belt city of 2.39 million (2020 census), 18 minutes by high-speed rail from Shenyang, known for skit comedy and population shrinkage.

Tonghua

Tonghua (通化) is a prefecture-level city in southeast Jilin province, China, on the Yalu River border with North Korea. Known for ginseng, wine, pharmaceuticals, and revolutionary history; GDP 592.14 billion yuan in 2025.

Wafangdian

Wafangdian (瓦房店市) is a county-level city of Dalian, Liaoning, on the Liaodong Peninsula; birthplace of China's bearing industry (ZWZ, founded 1938), 3,793 km², 905,082 residents (2020 census), 2023 GDP 113.56 billion yuan.

Wuliancheng Site

五连城城址 (Wuliancheng site), a Lower Xiajiadian culture stone-walled settlement in Jianping County, Chaoyang, Liaoning, dating Xia to Shang; five linked hilltop towns, largest 18,000 m², seventh-batch national heritage site.

Xinmin, Liaoning

Xinmin (新民市) is the only county-level city of Shenyang, Liaoning, on the Liao River plain. Named after Qing-era Xinmintun, made a prefecture in 1902 and a city in 1993; GDP 34.56 billion yuan in 2025, a major vegetable, sauerkraut, and grain producer.

Yanji

Yanji (延吉市) is the county-level seat of Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, eastern Jilin, China, near the North Korean and Russian borders. A Korean-Chinese cultural center and 'little Seoul', it became a wanghong tourism boom city from 2023.

Yingkou (city)

Yingkou (营口市) is a prefecture-level port city in Liaoning, China, at the Liao River mouth on Liaodong Bay; the first Northeast treaty port (1861), with 2.33 million people, 156 billion yuan GDP, and a 220-million-ton port.

Zhuanghe

Zhuanghe (庄河市) is a county-level city under Dalian, Liaoning, on the north Yellow Sea coast of the Liaodong Peninsula; 3,739 km² land, 742,000 residents, port city, sole Chinese breeding site of the black-faced spoonbill.