Puning, officially Puning City, is a county-level city in eastern Guangdong, China, under the administration of Jieyang, although its administrative power in economic matters is comparable to that of prefecture-level cities. It lies on the west rim of the Chaoshan Plain, and 90 percent of its territory is south of the Tropic of Cancer. Its household-registered population of 2.5089 million is the largest of any county-level city in China, while its resident population is 1.9986 million. Textile, apparel and medicine industries are local pillars, and it was upgraded from a county to a city in 1993.
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Elevation (m) Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Puning (Wikipedia)
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the entire city's resident population of 1.9986 million
2. Opentopodata (SRTM, ASTER, EU-DEM elevation API): SRTM 90 m elevation at 23.298, 116.166
Opentopodata (SRTM, ASTER, EU-DEM elevation API)Elevation result for the city coordinatesQuote, Elevation result for the city coordinates
"elevation": 16.0
3. Koppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koppen-Geiger climate classification updated (ASCII data)
Koppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Grid cell 23.25 N 116.25 E containing the city coordinatesQuote, Grid cell 23.25 N 116.25 E containing the city coordinates
23.25 116.25 Cwa
4. IANA Time Zone Database: IANA Time Zone Database, asia zone file
IANA Time Zone DatabaseChina section, report quoted from the US Naval ObservatoryQuote, China section, report quoted from the US Naval Observatory
CHINA 8 H AHEAD OF UTC ALL OF CHINA, INCL TAIWAN
China (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationOn Continent: Asia, Lead of the article on China, the country containing this cityQuote, On Continent: Asia, Lead of the article on China, the country containing this city
is a country in East Asia
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