Siping (city)

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Siping 四平
—  Prefecture-level city  —
Chinese transliteration(s)
- Simplified	四平
- Traditional	四平
- Pinyin	Sìpíng
Siping in Jilin Province
Country	China
Province	Jilin
Time zone	China Standard (UTC+8)

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.

[edit] Notable people

• Jia Hongsheng, Chinese actor (1967-)

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Coordinates: 43°09′48″N, 124°22′07″E