Siping (city)

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Siping (Chinese: 四平; pinyin: Sìpíng), formerly Ssupingkai (Chinese: 四平街; pinyin: Sìpíngjiē), is a city in Jilin province in Northeast China. The percentage of Han Chinese is at 91%, and there are Manchu, Mongolian and Korean minorities.

Siping is the seat of an apostolic Vicariate of the Roman Catholic Church.


[edit] Geography

Siping has several hundreds of thousands of residents. The urban area is 407 km². Annual precipitation is 600 mm.

Siping prefecture includes two districts, two counties and two cities.