Tangshan is located in the center of Bohai Bay, in the east of Hebei Province, in the northeast of North China Plain, with Qinhuangdao 125km in the east, Bohai Sea 40km in the south, Tianjin 108km in the southwest, Shijiazhuang, the provincial capital, 366km in the northwest and Beijing 154km in the northwest.
Located between east longitude11731'-19' and north latitude 38 55'-40 28', it is about 130 km long from east to west and about 65440 km wide from north to south. It has jurisdiction over 7 municipal districts, 4 counties and 3 county-level cities.
Tangshan was named after Emperor Taizong's eastward expedition to Koguryo, Li Shimin, and is known as the "northern porcelain capital". The first mechanized coal mine, the first standard gauge railway, the first steam locomotive and the first barrel of machine-made cement in China were born here. Tangshan is the birthplace of China Pingju, known as "Three Flowers in East Hebei", with shadow play, Pingju and Laoting drums, which is a national intangible cultural heritage.
At the end of 20 18, the resident population of Tangshan was 7,935,800, an increase of 38,800 or 0.5% over the previous year. Among them, the urban resident population was 50 1.65438+ 10,000, an increase of 1.433 million, an increase of 2.9%; The rural resident population was 2,924,800, a decrease of10,450, or 3.4%. The urbanization rate of permanent residents was 63. 14%, an increase of 1.5% over the previous year.