Qingdao

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??Qingdao, Shandong

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Abbreviation: ? (pinyin: Ji?o) or ? (Qing)

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Origin of Name? - Natural blue? - Island

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Seat of Government Shinan District

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Area

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10,654 km?

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Population  - Total (2002)  - Density Ranked 1st 7.105 Million 666.88/km?

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GDP in RMB?  - Total (2003)  - per capita Ranked 1st 177.35 billion ? 26961 ?

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info pending

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Administration Type Sub-provincial city

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CPC Qingdao Committee SecretaryDu Shicheng

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MayorXia Geng

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County-level divisions12

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Township-level divisions?

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Postal Code266000-266400

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Area Code532

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License Plate Prefix?B

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Qingdao (; Postal System Pinyin: Tsingtao) is a port sub-provincial city in the Shandong province of China, a naval base, and a major industrial city located at the southern tip of the Shandong Peninsula, in Jiaozhou Bay, facing the Yellow Sea, at 119?30?-121?00?E;35?35?-37?09?N. In 2002 the population of the prefecture-level city jurisdiction area was around 7.1 million.

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Abbreviation: Abbreviation (from Latin brevis "short") is strictly a shortening, but more particularly, an abbreviation is a letter or group of letters, taken from a word or words, and employed to represent them for the sake of brevity. For example, the word 'abbreviation' can be abbreviated with 'abbr'....

Pinyin: Pinyin (??, p?ny?n) literally means "join (together) sounds" (a less literal translation being "phoneticize", "spell" or "transcription") in Chinese and usually refers to H?ny? P?ny?n (????, literal meaning: "Han language pinyin"), which is a system of romanization (phonemic notation and transcripti...

Seat of Government: The seat of government is the location of the government for a political entity. The seat of government is usually located in the capital....