Jilin City (Chinese: 吉林市; pinyin: Jílín Shì) is a prefecture-level city in Jilin Province in China. It has a population of 1,985,000 (metropolitan 4,514,000) and a metropolitan area of 27,120 km². Jilin is the only major city with a homologous name to the province which it is located.
Jilin City is also called River City (Chinese: 江城), which was originated from one sentence, "Chinese: 连樯接舰屯江城", of a poem written by Kangxi Emperor when he was visiting Jilin City in 1682. The alias name is also because of the Songhua River surrounding almost the whole city.
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