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Huludao
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Huludao is a coastal prefecture-level city in southwestern Liaoning province, China, with a population of 2,434,194 at the 2020 census and 1,252,660 in its metropolitan area. Its name means Gourd Island, after a fiddle-shaped peninsula in Longgang District shaped like a bottle gourd, and the city was formerly known as Jinxi until it was renamed in 1994. Covering 10,582 square kilometers with a 237-kilometer coastline, Huludao is a major industrial center home to Asia's largest zinc smelter and the Bohai Shipyard, where China builds nuclear submarines.
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